8.9.07
Berkelah II
Finally the blog is back to normal. (You all might not have notice, but I redid the background and so its a different sunset now) So now that everything is back to normal, i shall continue with my previous post, and taking advice from Weili I shall put less words and more pictures this time round.
Campsite & Dinner
As previously mentioned we reached the start of the trek rather late so end up didn't take much photos along the way till we reached our camp site.
Dusk approaching even before we had time to explore the campsiteAfter the tent is up, the rest started to prepare dinner while I began to search for firewood to build a fire. (The rest was like quite stun cause they seldom have a fire when they go trek) Guess it rained the day before so it kind of hard to get real good firewood and given my rusty skill, I was glad that I didn't "malu" in front of them.
Trying desperately to blow some life into the fire
Finally the fire is up ( but quite a baby. keep having to feed it with fire wood if not it keeps threatening to go off )1. Heat source for the cold night
2. A cozy corner to sit down after dinner to chit chat
3. Smoke generator to generate smoke to keep off mosquitoes
Dinner was outstanding! (Less a couple of big praying mantis that keep disturbing us and the constant creepy crawlies that found their way into our food) Lesson #1 for outdoor cooking
1. Bring a non-stick frying pan. It do wonders.
2. Bring disposable bowls. Super useful.
3. Never melt chocolate over mess tin, use a water bath instead.
4. Can satay chicken goes darn well with maggie mee.
5. Peanut soup serves as a good desert to any good dinner.
Shooting Stars
For the first time in my life I saw shooting stars! Note* its starS not star. Saw 3 that night, lucky me. But didn't really utilise it for wishing casue too excited to see it and hence kept forgetting to make the wish. Stars wasn't a plenty but the shootings stars makes up for everything.
ok...I googled this picture. Don't tell me for a moment you thought I manage to catch it on camera??Just pictures of some food we had for breakfast. (See the non-stick frying pan doing its wonders)
Pancakes with marshmallow. No its not prata. Somehow the top surface of the pancake is not even so when flipped it cooks unevenly on the underside. Any idea how to prevent that?
Cook and egg beater
Trek upIn short, not a very tough trek but can be quite an eye opener for those new into trekking. Reason being its a mixture of forest trail and rocky paths ( mostly rocky paths). So for some part of the trek you might need to carry out spider-man-alike moves. Some swear by going barefoot for the rocky parts but after I took off my sanddles, I slipped within the next 10m? So i shall swear by having footwear.
Misc photosFinally the waterfall. It was much bigger than i expected cause the last one I went at Kota Tinggi is quite disappointing. Once there nothing to do other than cam-whoring and monkeying around in the extremely cold water. (Its freaking cold! *brrr* think 20deg C ? Anyway take my word, I wasn't "gu niang" , its really cold)
Very clear water. (No don't need to guess, my legs not one of them. Too hairless to be mine haha)
Homeward bound is not without drama too! We set off late from the campsite so ended up late at the bus terminal. Well not exactly late cause on the arrival trip we waited for a good 15mins after the stipulated time before the bus uncle came strolling to the bus. BUT! this bugger of a bus uncle decide to drive off at exactly 3pm sharp! ( FYI its the last bus out of Kuantan to JB for the day. Miss that = stranded in Kuantan) Geri actually have to run after the bus and intercept it to make it stop *clap clap* Its not over. When we finally caught up with the bus we realised that one of us is missing! ( Wei Guang went to buy lunch for us but we didn't know where he went). And so started this frenzy search for him in a place where no one speaks english/chinese and hand phones do not work. Geri pulled off another stun by asking a passerby in Malay! I was like "how in the world you know Malay !". (Found out she took a Malay module in school before. Now I'm tempted to take the same module next semester) Fast forward >>> finally all board the bus and the bus uncle obviously wasn't please but "boh chap".
Travel Tip
Things to do when you are stuck in a traffic jam at the causeway ( which we did).
1.Look at the driver of the car that is behind the car you are in.
2.Try to get his attention, preferably if he is alone in the car.
3.Once you get his attention, give him the " OMG! what is behind in you back seat!" look.
4.Observe interesting results.
This concludes my coverage of my trip to Berkelah. Miss going for treks already. *sigh* have to wait for the semester to be over before I can go for another.
p.s. Thanks to people like John, Wei Chuan, Wei Guang, June for making me feel so comfortable with you guys even though I didn't know you all before the trip =)
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