1/1/2011, first day of new year... FC club had organized to hike mount Angsi on the opening of new year. Welcome new members, Kai Ching (Lee Hoong's friend) and Hsin Ser to join us. ^ ^ Mount Angsi, which is the highest peak in Negeri Sembilan, situated at the Ulu Bendul Park, Kuala Pilah. Mount Angsi is also well known for dehydrating people, be sure you have bring lots of water that sufficient for your journey. Besides that, some snacks, packed food for lunch is necessary, you may need more energy to descending from the summit. A pair of good hiking shoes is necessary for hiking as you will step on some muddy soil, mossy rocks, slippery steps and many exposed roots, kampung adidas is highly recommend. :D From source that we found, the trail may take 4 hours time to trek and hike 4.5 kilometres along the Batang Terachi River. From the peak of the mount, we may see Mount Telapak Buruh, Mount Berembun, Mount Datuk, and Mount Tampin. The height is 825 meters / 2702 feet. And YES.. this time we planned to conquer this hill.. yeah.. we are coming ~~~ ^ ^
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From 8am, after taken our breakfast, 6 ppl of us drove from Shah Alam to the Senawang tol to meet Hsin Ser from Malacca. around 9.15am we have meet him there, and he took 45 minutes to drive from Malacca. 9.45am we reached Ulu Bendol Recreational Park, there have a tall landmark which have written the name of Hutan Lipur Ulu Bendul. There have a lot of parking lots, chalets, campsite, river, basic facilities.. toilet need to pay.
Around 10am we start our hike, but before hike we have to register in the office, entrance fee RM5 per person. You have to register before 12pm and back before 5pm. Better get the contact number from the PIC when register. Ketua Unit Hutan Lipur Ulu Bendul (Mr. Roslan B. Malek - 013-3749933); Assistant (Mr. Roslan B. Ismail - 017 - 2435307). You may contact them if you lost your trail or any help is needed.
After register in the Forest ranger office, from the Recreational Park, we past rubber estate, cross a streams, then follow old water pipeline is along the river. All the way is follow the river and the sign mark that already marked at the tree. It is quite obvious can be seen on the trail.
For the initial part, the trail is consider simple and easy, until we reach a camp site which have written " Kem Tangga Batu". After this site, we reached a streams which is quite strong current, then cross one more small stream, the hardest part is began..... whole the way is steep steep steep.. many exposed roots at the steep trail, require more energy and stamina to continue the journey.. Jensen whole leg have start cramp since that time.. Poor Jensen.
When reach a exposed steep red soil trek, the place was sandy, and few ropes were ready to help hiker to get up to the hill. It was a new experience for us to climb, like playing abseiling. ^ ^ Helping each other is necessary, once you climb up the hill, the distance to the hill is left than half an hour, but this is also depend on individual stamina.
We took around 3 hour plus to reach at the peak, we 7 ppl reach at the peak before 1.30pm. Before we reached the peak, there is another 2 big groups had reached the peak, that is 92 ppl in a group and 42 ppl in a group.... huyoo.. such a huge hiking group.. :D
The summit were surrounded by hilly series of mountains. At the west side, it is Kuala Pilah Town. There is flat space land on the peak, and some of the blog said that the summit is not suitable for camping as the place easily strike by the lightning at this exposed land. After rest for a while and photo shooting, is time to descending. We depart on 2.30pm.
Descending is much more easier than ascending, around 5pm, i n fai had reached at the river side which have the food stall that selling soft drink, burger, junk food.....etc.. we were starving and thirsty.. junk food and 100 plus is our savior.. a while more, Jensen is reached too. but unfortunately, SY leg is sprain when almost reached the end trail, but luckily it is not serious, and is recover now.. :D
After tiring hiking journey, we took bath at the toilet and decided to go Malacca Portuguese Settlement to have our dinner, that time is around 7pm. We reached there at 8pm, due to Christmas, the decorations at the house area was look nice, so impressed by the nice decorations there. But one thing spoiled our mood was the dinner. That time was so many ppl, and due to holiday, many tourists were visited to this place, and many restaurants were full house. we choose restaurant No. 3, which they told us only have to wait 4 tables, so.. we chose this restaurant and waiting for order. but the captain just put down the book and walk away to entertain others customer, he is totally forgot our existence. OMG.. after taken our order, we waiting for our drink again, wait for another half an hour. That time we are totally starving, so we go to buy lok lok at the road side to fill up our stomach first. OMG again.. the lok lok is so so expensive.. if no mistaken, we just bought less than 15 sticks of the lok lok and these cost us RM37?!? so ridiculous... after that, wait for our meal again.. =.=" wait for another 15 minutes after finished our lok lok. Conclusion, holiday eat at restaurant.. eat have to wait .. food not nice.. service no good... all black face.. =.=""
But what we were satisfy is we had conquered Mount Angsi and the beautiful decoration at the Malacca Portuguese Settlement, is worth to go there.. :D
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Continue with another mount.. coming up soon...
