Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Bukit Tabur @ Taman Melawati


It was an idea by my colleague - Alvin to climb the Bukit Tabur on last weekend in order to boast up ourselves for the coming Bali trip which included an itinery to climb the volcano. Bukit Tabur is located at Taman Melawati, or Gombak Forest Reserve as shown in the GPS. It will definitely able to pump up your adrenaline if you love hill climbing and enjoy in embracing the mother nature.

Bukit Tabur is famous with its spectacular view of KL city and Klang Gate Dam from the hill. Besides, it is also the longest cyrstal quart outcrop in the world! huiyo, geng ler? No wonder I can spot so many beautiful crystal quarts formations along the trail, making it a special hiking experience for me.

This hill climbing session was quite challenging as the hill is steep and the trek is very near to the edge of it. Too bad we only able to conqueur 3 peaks out of the 7, but it already took us more than 2 hours to reach the 3rd peaks, then another 1 hour plus to came down from the hill. It was a wonderful experience and I don't mind to come back again to conqueuer the 7 peaks!

The breathtaking view of the Klang Gate Dam

The KL city view. Try to spot the KLCC and KL tower at the right of this photo

This is just the first peak. Both me and Danny still with the fresh look. It was raining in the morning, that's why it was foggy but luckily the trail wasn't slippery.

Not to mention, this is a good place for bird watching. See the eagle? By this time, the sun was already hanging high up in the sky and it starts getting really hot. The rocky mountain even worsen it.

everyone with the dead fish look. Wahahaha.

The caption of this picture is "Neh~ that's the dam lo...". Haha. This is the 3rd peaks and we really cannot stand the hot weather, so we decided to off the hill after camwhoring.

2 comments:

Eunice Foo said...

nice view !! seems so san fu ..hehe ..

chrys said...

wah... so healthy.... ;D