Sunday, December 27, 2009

Great Hiking Experience

On the 21st of December 2009, I went hiking with a bunch of friends at Bukit Melawati/Bukit Tabur. My sister asked me one day whether I would like to go hiking. Then I gave it a thought and think that it is not such a bad idea to occupy my long term sem break with such adventurous sport. Furthermore I love adventurous activities, hence I thought, why not give it a try??

Well, I started asking a few of my friends and they agreed to come along. I got so excited and I was looking forward to this. We changed the hiking date quite a number of times to cope up with everyone's tight schedule. The ones involved were:

1. Mong
2. Tammy jie jie
3. Mellissa
4. DG
5. Ah Wen
6. Wei Di
7. ME

Actually before asking them and getting them to agree on this trip, I was a little not so confident on getting them to come as not all are from KL except me and sis. But, they were all very sporting and are willing to come along with me on this trip and I bet they did not regret on this too as it was really a LIFE YEARNING EXPERIENCE!!

Firstly, we got up as early as 5.00am in the morning to get prepared for everything and departed home (cheryl's hse) at 6.30am..

We drove to 7-11 and get some necessary items and go on with our journey towards bukit melawati. I am the driver of course!! *proud to be one* =p

We reached the foothill and parked somewhere at the cornering of the road. Initially we wanted to park nearer to the entrance, but a tree branch fell off and blocked 3/4 of the road. Only a kancil can passby. Therefore we need to walk up further to reach the entrance. Well is ok..take it as warming up before climbing the hill =)
walking towards the entrance

Then our journey up the hill began.. It is about a 45minute - 1 hour walk up the hill.

Hmm we havent even start climbing any hills yet, and it was so tiring already..so we took our first break before starting the adventurous part climbing up the hill.

sis felt a little drowsy ady so had to stop for chocolate break =)

After munching on a few pieces of chocolate, we were ready to continue our jouney.


UP, UP, UP we went!!

And here we were at our first peak! =)

So happy to be at the peak, thinking that we were close to finishing already, but little did we knew that there were actually many other peaks more to go... fuhh.... Well...no worries GOGOGO!! the spirit is still high up withing ourselves~~


Hiking up like a spiderwoman!! hehehe =p


Wei Di fell in love with the rocks =D well, trully a Geologist

posting for pictures at almost every peak

We were actually climbing a hill which separates the city and the jungle. Therefore we were in the middle =) How to be in the city and the jungle at the same time? check this out!!

This is the city on my right

and this is part of the jungle on my left

We experienced such beautiful sceneries and many marvelous and breathtaking views along the hike. It was almost unbelievable that we were up there seeing all those =) I just can't believe my eyes


Is us..conquering every part of the hill!! =)

The most challenging part of the hike!! We got to use the help of the rope to get down.. Is like abseiling =)

WEEEeeeeee....down i come!! =)

The 2nd most challenging part of the hike =) Have to hug the big rock up there which shaped like a cone to get over. Fuh..really not a very good suggestion for acrophobics =p


I am on the top of the world!!! =) woohooo

Lying on the cliff...once turn our body or accidentally shift a little, then is bye bye...down we go rolling......

This should be the highest peak of all as there are soft moss all over the ground.

It felt so like in avatar and you will never feel as though that this is actually KL. The soft and slightly moist/cooling moss was soo comfortable after a long and rough hike up the hill..It was so comforting sitting on it just like sitting on the best quality carpet one can ever get =p


Coming down the mountain was more to jungle trekking. It was not so much fun as going up which is the opposite of what I thought so at first.

FINALLY!! here we are at the end of the hill...We DID IT!! we successfully hike the mountain in like almost 5hours =p haha

YES....this is the hill we conquered...Yup we went from peak to peak and down we came =)

The mighty ladies present on that day: Mel, Me, Tammy

The armstrong guys present that day: DG, Wei Di, Ah Wen, Mong


Overall, our hike was actually 1/4 brisk walking up the hill, 1/4 rock climbing, 1/4 abseiling, 1/4 jungle trekking =p


Dun play play, we uni students can do more than just studying!! =)

It was really a fun and memorable hike!! Through this trip, I even had a closer bond with my uni mates as we gone through hardship, tough times and laughter together =) I really did the right thing by inviting them along as I really had a WONDERFUL time!! ^^ I hope they too had as much fun as me =D


After a long and tired hike, we went and celebrate our victory by treating ourselves a scrumptious seafood meal with cooling coconut water at Air Panas ^^

And that is all on our hike!! =) TQ for all those who were present on that day and thanks for making my day =) Love you all lotzz!!!

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