PART ii ~ chill in chilling kkb

April 11 2008... a time to be chilled.

Yoohoo~my 2nd monthly meeting with Raleigh !! Once again, meeting up with the Raleigh-ians at KL CENtral. This time, we were going to Kuala Kubu Bharu. Isolated from the urban city of KL, it's located farther away from Rawang and near Batang Kali. Waiting at kl central, i met up with a few new faces i never met before at the last monthly meeting. This time there were more people. We got on adrian's car and vroom-ed towards kkb.

It took us at about 20minutes before we were really out from KL. After a 40minutes drive, we stopped by an amazing place, a big dam, which adrian called it the "damn dam". But, it was really a damn dam with damn beautiful scene, where you could see the long horizon, the reflection of the morning sky in greyish purple, and the warm sun showering us all, it just took your breath away....well. that's my first impression, i wondered if the second visit would still make me feel the same way.

After 20minutes break, we continued and reached KKB in another 10minutes. Registered, packed up, we started our jungle trekking. Which i thought it started.... Walking farther after 5minutes, there was a big space and a hut in front. There was where we stopped by and had a brief and intro. We played a game too. This time we were grouped into four according to our initials. !person from each group was chosen to be introduced by he or her group members. Obviosly, we were all exageratting on the chosen members' features, creating huge jokes on them. hahaha !!

After the rest, the trekking started for real at last. We were told that we needed to cross 6river before we reached our destination, le grande waterfall, haha !!

It just started, and soon we were all required to cross the first river before we really started trekking. We stopped in the river a while, briefed by our "ranger" with the walkie talkie, sir adrian yeo on how to test a river. We must faced the opposite direction of the flow and bend our knees to reduce the impact while crossing river. An important info for everyone.

The trek this time round was much tougher than the last one, Rivers after rivers, climbing steep hills, when i said steep, it was really steep, its like when you were up there and you looked back, your body started to wobble... We reached a spot where we could take a glance at a fast and strong flowed waterfall (not the destination i mentioned, just taking a look on it and took pictures). Then we proceeded to the real waterfall we wanted to go. It took us 10minutes to reach the real destination.

Hurray !!!! chilled by the dampiness of the air once we exited from the forest and saw the waterfall.

No hesitation, everyone became a hungry tiger for the waterfall, roaring and tearing off their shirt (i meant the guys...dont get me wrong), as if the waterfall was their prey they had longed for !! However, they were some hungry tiger eagering for food instead of the waterfall. There were for-lab-use-shaped stoves on a corner, ignited. Then, a big pot was put on top of it. "Maggi's" provided to be cooked. Howver, we must be careful when managing the disposals. Rubbish were collected in plastic bags and the leftover was to throw far away from the water source. Protecting while having fun with the environment were the Raleigh goals, not only Raleigh, it's actually should be everyone's goal....

Water splashing everywhere, "monkeys" jumping from the rocks into the water and climbing on and off the rocks, the commotion might attract some real monkeys else where. hahaha !!

There's a lil surprise for Terry, the birthday boy. We "pakat" and sang burthday song to him. He looked shocked and surprised. Perhaps i saw some shining light from his less than 1cm eyes.

The fun, the food, ended after an hour at the waterfall. Lastly, we took a picture with the flag before we left.

Well, i left in a hurry because adrian needed to catch up with his gf for canoeing.


That's all. Still, anticipating for the next monthly meeting...