Peace be upon you all. Something from the recent weekend...
Friday afternoon 13th April 2018. Me and family left home to get to Yan, Kedah over 400 km away for a function. As we wanted to make a stop at Teluk Intan, Perak we took this route. It is a road from Sungkai on to a place called Ladang Bikam.
I don't know when this route was opened. It has to be quite recent as as far as I could remember it never showed on Google Map in my previous visits to Teluk Intan.
Previously one has to go a few kilometres northwards heading for Bidor before cutting into a road which then meets the Bidor-Teluk Intan trunk road.
Before that one has to go all the way to Bidor before heading to Teluk Intan. The route mentioned cuts the journey by 8 km.
This new route which meets the Bidor-Teluk Intan route at Ladang Bikam cuts the journey by another 8 km...
Actually I have contempleted using this route many many years ago. But it was then still largely a red earth and gravel route connecting places pass old tin mines...