blurpenguin

U know Tmn Melawati has a hill... i've personally climbed it less then "1 hand" time, there is also Bukit Tabur... the mountain range in Tmn. Melawati itself... (never climbed before)... and i've stayed in Tmn. Melawati for the past what... 12 years??

Anyways, not far away from my present place... is Bukit Pelindung. Lots of people climb up this hill for exercise.... so last Sunday, we with julie's collegues decided to hike it... prior to this... it had been raining for the past 36 hours nonstop... i kid u not... so the break in weather was a pleasant thing.

We parked at the base of the hill, and started our walk up... the first leg, before reaching the sign (pix above) was like super steep... i was already like... whoa... is this going to be like that? all the way to the top?



Yep... it was steep all the way... with some ... some flatter areas... but the forest was nice... cooling... so Thank God! for the weather, cloudy and windy. They also had many benches (to rest) and exercise stations all the way up.


At the top, u come to the radio towers for the telcos around... lousy view... just towers... yeah... anticlimax... but nevertheless... a breather and off we go down a different route down.


U can climb up Bukit Pelindung either using the paved road... or a jungle trail from Pantai Telok Chempedak. So today we climbed up the paved way and were going down the jungle trail to the beach... one of Julie's collegue had left his car on the beach so we got transport back.


it was quite a while to climb down... with the kids and the trail was longer also... but we could hear the waves crashing on the rocks as we neared the beach.



All in all a very nice hike... took us longer than i anticipated... 2hours plus! of course we did have drinks at the beach, yummy coconut & iced jelly drinks... so refreshing after a climb....