royal belum temenggur trip.

finally i made i way there. It was super trip accompied by other excellent 13 students. Royal belum is located somewhere around between the border of kelantan and perak. we took 4 hours to reach there. the journey was boring as we don't even recognise who is in our van. As a result, our van was super "diam". But, i get to know one of them who likes to read national geographic magazine as me. His ambition is to be a photographer but i wonder why he is taking SAM (bioscience class).

Let me explain what i did in three days time:

Day 1:

we reached there about 11o'clock on the morning. i thought we are going stay in good chalet because they charged us 550 bucks for the trip but my physics teacher said we are going to stay in a campsite. Omg, it was second time staying in a campsite, cannot imagine it. the weather was super hot. the funniest i ever done. guess what happened? i fell down three times in a day due to the slippery down. First, fell down at jeti because the sand there too lembut. 2nd at waterfall because i wanted to soak my leg in ice water, but i fell again in the water, whole thing got wet nothing left. 3rd time, fell when i want to get in the boat. OMg, i think i have faith in falling down in royal belum. i am required to hike the mountain in order to reach to the waterfall, baru sampai kena buat kerja macam ni. haiz. the waterfall there was wonderful and i was accomponied by nice lunch there. i didn't aspect good meal but i got the one better than what i imagined. then, we went hiking again to see obeservation tower where all the researchers stay there and salt lick. In order to get there, i have to cross a swing beridge. Belief me, it was really swinging. guess what, my physics teacher lick sulfur into his mouth but i told him to smell. Then, i told me to bring some back to our campsite for snake prevention. then, we were waiting for the wether to turn better because it was too hot. when the time came, we went back to our campsite but it rains in the way back. eventhough, my boat has roof but the rain come for front and it equals to nothing. By the way, it means that my belongings become wet and my magazines got wet. it took us more than one hour to reach the campsite, can you ever imagine how big is the lake is? do nothing at night because our programme was cancelled because it was raining and our group is too big so it is suitable for animal tracking.

jetty.
our member.
view from banding island's jetty.


nice waterfall but tired of hiking.
fishes.



observation tower.


Obviously, it is not my leg but i got 9 bites from lichers.

Fear-factoring.

Day 2: Went for jungle trekking for 6 and half hours.

could you imagine trekking for 6 and half hours? i really had fun as environment there was super good and trek with a bunch of people whose have the same mission as i am. first, when we reached there, we actually saw a fresh elephant dung. Mr neal a.k.a. activist has actually called us to hold it and no ones actually does that. But since we have paid for that trip, so just do whatever crazy there and i actually hold it. It smells like nothing because elephants are vegetarian. A few steps after that, we saw tiger footprint. There were a lot of "obstacles" for me when i was trekking... uphills ,downhills and so on. actually i found out that there are many natural resources that can be used in daily life in "jungle". to cut the story short, we reached there after few hours later but we do not "yuan" with rafflesia because the rafflesia was partially dead. I almost fall down from the mountain twice. Kalau aku jatuh, matilah aku. Luckily there are gentleman who have helped me from dropping off. Camera can be a disturbance when you go for hiking especially you are wearing pants without pockets. The way went back to the jectty was much easier then because we were using other way. My energy have been used up when the way going up. So, we took a rest in the middle the way of waterfall and jungle. Water keep flowing around my leg and this actually enhanced my energy i had. Had a good lunch: ikan, ikan masin, ayam, sayur and fruit and the most important one is rice. Nothing much happened at evening, we wanted to go to orang asli settlement because our programme was ruined by heavy rain and we started distributing food and baju into packets. By that time, i get to know new friends from other class and we played games together. Finally, we end that day by watching some video clips about how to conserve this world and trip is Ba Kelalan which is located in Sarawak and almost border to Kalimantan. I plan to go there late on this year.

elephant dung, can you see there is a small plant grow on the dung?



Mr. Neal a.k.a activist


Dont care ed, just step on it.

before it turns into rafflesia, it is a cabbage.







gooddy bags for orang asli.






my physics teacher with his sarong.


Day 3:
It is time to go back to reality. By the way, we stopped at orang asli settlement as we planned earlier. There were many rules and regulation to be followed when you are talking to them:
1: do not ask questions that require them to think because they will get angry easily.
2: cannot laugh.
3: cannot simply take picture. (they want $$ from you)

then, we visited them and passed some nesscery stuffs to them. then, we played (sumpit). this is one of their so called machine for them when they want to hunt animals. Say sayonara.







i played this, but there is no evidence for that.

the dog is being tied up because of its hyperactiveness.

last shot.


I feel so depressed when we were on the way back to jetty because i feel like i cannot stay here any longer. I wish i can stay there for longer time eventhough there has no much facilities. we have not generate electricity by using generator, lack of water or even they have that one might be like ice water. I like the place there so much except for trekking. I wish i could go there again and i hope my next destination is in Ba Kelalan with a bunch of people who have the same mission as i am.

I took two weeks to write this post. Finally it is done.

photos were taken by steven a.k.a our photographer.