Located at the tail end of Titiwangsa Range, Gunung Besar Hantu is the highest mountain in Negeri Sembilan with the height of 1462m (4797 ft). Dubbed the Titiwangsa Arch, the mountain marks the border between Pahang and Negeri Sembilan. During the Malayan Emergency (Zaman Darurat), the communists were believed to have used a ‘rat trail’ at the foot...
About a year ago, I first step foot in the dense rainforest of Gunung Berembun Jelebu, the burial site of the crashed WWII aircraft. Having taken the reverse route from Telapak Buruk, my friends and I had done a very leisure Trans from Telapak Buruk to Gunung Berembun and out from Kampung Pantai trail head. Little did I...
Somewhere in the dense rainforested mountaintop in Negeri Sembilan is a burial site of a half-century-old plane wreckage from World War II. Lies 1193m above sea level is Gunung Telapak Buruk of Negeri Sembilan, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator crashed and killed all eight members of its crew. The fate of the bomber and its eight crew...
I’ve retired from hiking This is what I used to tell people when they asked why I’ve not been hiking for some time. It’s meant as a joke of course, as there’s no such thing as a retirement from a hobby. I’m not a hiker by profession, so how could I possibly retire from a career I do...
Located about 15km away (about 15min drive) from Tampin town, Gua Batu Maloi is a water cave located in Hutan Lipur Gua Batu Maloi. Neither formed by dissolution of limestone or other geological process, Gua Batu Maloi is not a “real cave”. Made up of congregation of huge boulders and rock formation, two rivers, one from Gunung Tampin...
Gunung Datuk, or Mount Datuk, is a mountain in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan, with an elevation of 884m. About 100km from Kuala Lumpur and 50km from Melaka, it’s a popular one-day hiking destination for KL-ite and Malaccans due it is proximity from these cities. ...
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December 31, 2020. 10pm. 2 hours to the end of 2020. 2 hours 1 second to the year 2021. Before the clock strikes 12, it's time of the y...
