Gunung Ledang— An Unforgettable Trip

The next day (15 September 2012) when I woke up, it was just an hour before breaking dawn. An icy but refreshing cold bath, the same lime green shirt, breathing in the fresh morning air and I carried on to have bread and butter for breakfast downstairs.

   All of us were asked to gather in front of the cafeteria for some short lectures about what we have to remember during the hike and what to do if we were lost. The lectures took about thirty minutes and right after that we began our journey to the top of the highest mountain in Johor.

   We went up and down for several timers. Although it's pretty tiring, I was still feeling great as there were some "scary" but funny experiences. There were 8 checkpoints all together and it took about 6 hours to reach the top of the hill.

   There's a rather long distance of trail that was really challenging to climb after the 6th checkpoint (if I'm not mistaken). The trail had a great gradient of 60 to 70 degree. Every movement had to be ultra careful otherwise we would be sliding down from the place which had the height of a few hundreds metres.

Nice things always come after the bad things. After the frightening trails we came to a place where I called it "The Romantic Forest Of Country Style" as it gave me a "country" feeling. I could feel calm and relaxed in the cool air there. It took only 10 to 20 minutes to reach the 8th checkpoint
from there.

And at long last, I'd reached the top of the hill. Scenery of hills covered in the long white clouds made me feel that I didn't waste any of my time and effort in making my journey up to a height of 1,276 metres. ^ - ^

By,

Euan Thum.

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