My team and I went to climb the Mount Santubong over the weekend, and we climbed till dawn, and reached the summit with heavy downpour and cold breeze.
Mount Santubong is one of the most prominent mountain in Kuching, its visible from the town on a clear day. With 810m above sea level, its not an easy mount to climb, very challenging, I urge you to try when you next travel to Kuching.
Pitch black along the way, remember to put a touch light when you go hiking, it will come in handy during emergency.
We tough we hear something in the wood, and use our flash light to look around if we can see anything
The Summit View of Mount Santubong, from here we can see the Semariang Town, and Santubong Bridge
F15 the rest hut at the summit. We camp there that night.
Merarap Hot Spring one of a hidden gem in nortern Sarawak Borneo. Its about 70km away from Lawas town, and only accessible by a 4WD truck.
Here are the 5 things you can do when you visit the Merarap Hot Spring :)
1. Mandi in the hotspring
Hotspring water is piped from a nearby mountain source and dip pools with different water temperature ensure a complete spa experience. Private baths are also available, so there is no way you gonna miss out this one!!! The one behind me consist of cold and hot spring water, so its just nice to dip in the pool..... erm..just beware of leeches :P
2. The Great Trusan River!!!
The Trusan River flows into Brunei Bay, and sits in between the Temburong and Lawas rivers. It's just next to the hotspring lodge. Be aware when you swim here, cause the current are quite strong sometime... but overall its a good place for swim with its cold stream water.
3. Trace the Sources
The pipe connects the water source from the ridge to the lodge's pool, the Merarap owner are bless with this gift of nature. The sources is just a few meter away from where we stay.
4. Food at the Canteen
The Merarap lodge lady owner is really good in cooking, we had buffet dinner with chicken and pork. Look how relax we all are.
5. Merarap Pretty Daughters
After our dinner, all of us look tired right?!! But we are not!!! And all of us still sits at the canteen, where we just want to hangout with the friendly daughters of Merarap... this is how they look like...
Thanks for the pictures Miss Grace, and do say Hi in the comment if you happen to drop by :)
For those of you that missed my earlier post, read here for my Adventure on climbing Mount Murud! Let me know in the comments below will you be friends with them, what are the things you like about hot spring ! Enjoy my video
