Showing posts with label Malaysia - Pahang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaysia - Pahang. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 September 2020
2D1N Cameron Highlands Weekend Trip - What To Eat, See and Do
One of the thing Malaysians love to do is to escape the city heat and travel to somewhere chill and cold. While we don’t have four seasons in our country, a couple of places does have chiller climate thanks to their high elevation such as Genting Highlands and Cameron Highlands. While Genting Highlands is fairly near to Kuala Lumpur, there aren’t many attractions around besides the casino and theme park whereas Cameron Highlands offers more to see and do.
Saturday, 25 August 2018
Gunung Semangkok Day Hike - An Arduous Day Hike to The Famed 'Death Valley'
About Gunung Semangkok
Gunung Semangkok (elevation 1824m), or some called it Semangkuk or Semangko, is a mountain which lies on the border of Pahang and Selangor. Although literally translated to “One Bowl” from the Malay language (Se = One, Mangkuk = Bowl), this mountain is more commonly referred to as “The Death Valley” by the Chinese hikers due to its difficulty and the fact that the name sounds like Death Valley in Chinese (Semang = Death, Kok = Valley).
Tuesday, 1 August 2017
Pine Tree Trail – A Step Into Enchanted Forest
About Pine Tree Trail
Located in Fraser Hill, Pine Tree Trail is a scenic hiking trail, suitable for beginner and seasoned hikers looking for a leisure hike with chilling temperature. None of us have been there before and we were excited to explore this new gem (at least for us) after reading it online. It's said to be chilling (yes, after being there, i concur) and the entire hike will take approximately 3-4 hrs to the peak and another 3-4hrs to descend. The hike is about 5.5km one way, making it a total 11km for the entire hike.
Friday, 31 March 2017
Extreme Benum Dayhike (via Lata Berembun) in 24 Hours
Assembling a team
If you have not heard of Gunung Benum, I’m sure you have heard of Lata Berembun, the famous waterfall located in Sg. Ruan, Raub. Every year around durian season, KL-ites will visit this waterfall, and some companies and schools even conduct their teambuilding here, due to its proximity from KL/Selangor. After all, it’s less than 2hours drive from Gombak toll. Despite being a Raubian myself, I had yet to visit this waterfall, simply because no one among my friends had ever planned such a trip, and the fact that I couldn’t swim deter me from ever feeling excited about waterfall. But hiking a mountain? Well, that is an entirely different story.
Sunday, 26 March 2017
That Day, I Went On A Road Trip With Strangers I Now Called Friends – East Coast Federal Route 3
Have you been on the road trip with people you barely know, or worse still, people you have never met?
Long before my Johor road trip (read it here), there was another road trip back in March 2016, when I travelled to the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Different from Johor road trip, this was with a bunch of total strangers. So how did this trip happen then?
To begin, back in March 2015, MJ and Richard (together with Arthur and SC) went on a trip to Sauk New Village, where they stayed in Kamo Home, a local homestay. I was supposed to join them for that trip but had to pull out due to work commitments. On the same weekend, the place also hosted three other group of travellers (CK and Mike from Ipoh, Amy and Anna from KL, and Charmaine and Pauline from PJ). What happened when four groups of like-minded travellers bumped into each other? They become bonded over some conversation during their stay and become friends since then. Fast forward to one year after, in March 2016, the same group of people, now we called “Sauk Gang” decided to do a road trip to East Coast together. After some planning, Mike, Pauline, Arthur and SC were not able to join due to conflicting schedule. And to make the trip extra fun, MJ decided to ask me to tag along while Richard invited his high school buddy, Nigel. At the very last minute, I invited Ken to join us as well, making the members for this trip 9 in total.
Remark: This post is a throwback to a trip done a year ago, in commemoration of our one-year friendversary. Hahahaha, pattern more than badminton huh?
Monday, 13 March 2017
A Very Muddy Birthday Hike to Yong Belar
Standing at 2,181m above sea level, Mount Yong Belar is the third highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia and is located at the border of Kelantan and Perak. I've never thought of hiking Yong Belar separately on its own as I previously planned to do Trans V2 Titiwangsa (Yong Belar - Korbu - Gayong - Yong Yap) someday, which would cover four G7s. With that done (if I were to succeed) I’ll only need to do a CUS (Chamah - Ulu Sepat) to complete all G7 (since I've done Tahan [read here] last year.). However, when Night Ranger decided to organise a day hike to Yong Belar, it suddenly sparked my interest to celebrate my birthday up there. How cool is that to celebrate my big day on the summit of the third highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia, right? After all, it was my birthday weekend and I had no plans scheduled yet at that time. I invited MJ to tag along and she agreed to it even though she is not a fan of hiking, just because it was my birthday. Awwwwww! Love you, babe!
There were 49 hikers in total and apart from MJ, I only knew Wills (organiser), Bobby (from Tahan), Sebastian (Johor road trip), Saro (from Tahan) and Chee Jing (from Tahan). Read about my Tahan and Johor road trip [here] and [here].
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
How I Tahan-ed (Endured) Mount Tahan for 4D3N (Merapoh-Merapoh trail)
Mount Tahan, literally translated as Mount of Endurance is technically the highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia and the 6th highest mountain in Malaysia after Kinabalu, Trusmadi, Tambuyukon, Murud and Mulu. It’s been on my bucket list for quite some time since it was known as one of the toughest mountain to hike in Malaysia, being harder than highest Kinabalu. The most commonly hiked trail is the one from Kuala Tahan to Merapoh (also known as Trans Tahan), taking at least 5 to 6 days to complete, but over the years, I’ve heard of another trail frequented by hikers who do not want to spend so many days (and possibly taking so many days off work) to climb this mountain. This trail is the Merapoh-Merapoh trail, where one ascend and descend from the same starting point (Merapoh), which will only take about 3 to 4 days to complete. But taking a short cut doesn’t come without a price, because you ultimately miss out on the very scenic view (from what I heard) if you were to do Trans Tahan), but life’s a give and take and if you can’t take that many days to spend in the mountain, you’d have to make that sacrifice.
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