Wilson Chin Gunung Gading Camping and Hiking Exploration, Borneo

 

A very nice place for camping, have all the facilities. Washroom, barbecue pit, nice camp site. I like it very much.

 Me and Sui Chin stop for a while to enjoy the gift from nature.

Amorphophallus Hewittii (bunga keladi / 魔芋花 )

The Rafflesia Flower

The Borneo Explorer Wilson Chin (Me) reach the summit of Mount Gading.

My record on going up to the summit.

Adventure trip to Chin Swee Cave Temple at Genting Highland with Wilson Chin

Went to Genting Highland for a 3 days 2 night trip, and one of the place I found very interesting is the Chin Swee Cave Temple, situated near the Genting Highland resort. You can use the free shutter bus from the first world hotel to reach there.

The Chin Swee translate to Chinese means clear water. The view are breathtaking, cause its situated on the top of the highland.
 

Many magnificent sculpture on the temple wall.
 

The godes of mercy

 

I read the story of The Journey to the West since I was little, and I like the story very much. I was born in the year of Monkey, so today I escort my master and protect him, and assist by two brothers to the Journey of the West to get the sutera. :P
 

My next destination, the tall Pagoda...
 

The highest are Level 9, ran up there, need to slowdown to catch my breath. But I did it!!!
 

Very nice view look above from Level 9 :)
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Santubong Camping Adventure with Wilson Chin and friend

Had a wonderful camping trip at Santubong campsite over the weekend, just 10 minutes walk from the park ranger office we reach this open space area with flat ground, and a ready barbecue pit. There is a nice river next to our campsite, and its very important cause we can get life saving water from the stream.

There are total of 8 person, and the food we had was bamboo chicken, bamboo rice, fish, pork, and as for desert, we have soft drink, chips, and jelly. I was extremely full after all these food, my belly cannot handle all the food. 

It was a hot day, and after night fall, i got bitten by a few sand-flies, so quickly jumps into my tent and sleep. Overall, wonderful trip, next trip plan to camp at waterfall area. 

Check out the 3D view created by Microsoft Photosynth, will do more of these in the future.

Mount Hosanna Chapel with Wilson Chin, Borneo Sarawak

This is the Mount Hosanna Chapel, while on my way back from Sri Aman, I drop by this place, and it is located about 157 KM from Kuching city (near Seri Aman), Malaysian Borneo. You can see this chapel just beside the Kuching - Sri Aman highway.

What interesting about this place first is the design of the chapel, and second will be the story behind it, and it goes like where God spoke to the philanthropist who funded the church construction and healed his wife which is diagnose with critical illness.

When I meet one of the chapel members there, and asked about this, he deny this. And told me that this is not true, and it was the priest himself who raise the fund to build this chapel.

So I walk up to the chapel, and visit the place. Saw a priest is currently blessing the members.
The building looks like three big candles,  it means Trinity. In Christian doctrine, the Trinity is the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead

The scenery are nice up here, and this reminds me of mount Singai and mount Sentah which a church was build on the mount also

Borneo, Sri Aman (Simanggang) Trip with Wilson Chin

I visited Sri Aman is also called Bandar Sri Aman, and was formerly known as Simanggang. Sri Aman means "town of peace" in the Malay language. Located on the Lupar River, it is 193 kilometers, I use 2 hours to drive from Kuching.



There will be a big welcome sign upon entering the Sri Aman town, I always wanted to come here, and finally I have the chance. Something very special is it Sri Aman...

Saw a very big golden monkey statue when I reach the town, and I am born in the year of the monkey, so I have to take picture with my buddy.

The special thing about this town is this river, its called the Lupar River. This river is famous for the benak, or tidal bore. The tidal bore comes in from the river mouth and fills up the river very rapidly in the course of about 10 minutes. The wave crest at Sri Aman is up to 2 to 3 metres high. This is one of approximately 400 rivers and estuaries in the world where this phenomenon happens.

I asked a few guys who are fishing there, why there is no tidal bore? They told me to come back again on April, where the big one will come. And the town people will treat it as a festive, many people will come here to witness this rare phenomena.

The Borneo Crocodile Hunter Wilson Chin (me)

This museum is called the Fort Alice, it was situated just next to the wharf. It was built in 1864, is the oldest heritage building in Sri Aman, constructed following the victory of Rajah Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, over Rentap, the last of the major Iban chieftains, in 186.

The Fort was named after Charles Brooke's wife, Margaret Alice Lili de Windt. It served as a defensive structure controlling the Lupar River.

A lot of complain had been made about the restoration of this fort, and now from my observation I believe the work had been done. Its not open to the public yet, the guard told me that the district officer will get a suitable date to declare the opening of this museum to the public in future. 

Mount Singai with Wilson Chin and Friends

Boring life in the office, now in a modern days like this, most of us are facing the lifeless boring computer everyday. This machine occupied most of our time in life :( I always feel sleepy when I'm with my computer, and tired too.

To spice up my weekend, I join my team to a hike at the Batu Kawa-Bau area. We hike the mount Singai, and this is the first hike in 2015 after Chinese New year.

This hike I used around 2 hours, where as on my last hike I used 1 1/2 hours. I felt really exhausted, and this is not good. Have to keep pushing myself to hike more.

The breathtaking view on the summit of Mount Singai.

My hiking team

Camp Permai Nature Pool

#Borneo Explorer's record. The Permai rainforest resort, 45min car drive from the Kuching city, situated next to Damai Resort, and that place has a very nice natural swimming pool, the fresh water flows from the mountain into the pool, and also a simple 1 hour hiking trail surrounding the Permai resort. There is a #waterfall on that trail! Very beautiful place for hiking and get close to nature.

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Mount Kanyi 3 days 2 night Exploration with Wilson Chin 刊亦山三天两夜登山冒险记

The guide (middle) who lead our team up, his name is Nelson.
中间的那位是我们的向导，叫尼尔森。

Wilson Chin (me) and the Sarawak/Indonesia border stone
我站在砂劳越与印尼的边界石旁

Borneo Hunter!!!
婆罗洲猎人

Our base camp, stayed here for 2 night. Heavy downpour cause the water to flow forwards my tent, and wet. Can't really sleep at night, one my tent is wet, second very cold. The temp is around 20 degree, and we can see vapor sometime when we talk.

这是我们的大本营，我们在这里住了三天两夜。一直下大雨，我的帐篷内都进水了，潮湿并且冷。两晚都没睡好。当时的气温大概廿度，讲话时可以看见气温喷出来😧💨

THE WHOLE JOURNEY TOOK 3 DAYS
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Day 1, hike from village to basecamp, 4 hour. We build camp there, and start to cook for dinner.

Day 2, hike from base camp to Kanyi summit, 2 hours 45mins to reach the summit, temp around 19 degree.1574 m above sea level. Stayed there for 1/2 hour and decent again.

Day 3, Pack our stuff, and hike about 3hours 30mins to reach the village, and go back Kuching.

AFTER THE HIKE

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Mount Kanyi is the tallest peak in western Sarawak, above 1500m elevation. And the mount I climed is called the Berumput Mount range.

During my decent, I'm carrying the same amount of stuff, my clothes, and tent. But it add in more weight because all the stuff are wet. So due to the heavy backpack, my left knee are extremely painful, and I hope its not a permanent injury, cause still a lot of mount waiting for me to concur. 

Over I had fun in this trip, a lot of leach bites, nearly bitten by poison snake, wet and chilling weather, vapor from pee and breath, what a jorney. My dear reader, please stay tune for my next adventure, until then see you in my next post. 

Cheers :)

三天两夜的登山冒险记

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第一天：四小时，从村庄步行到大本营。我们在那里扎营过夜，吃晚餐。
第二天：两小时四十五分，大本营到攻顶。山顶气温十九度。海拔1574米。我们大概待了半个小时，就开始下山了。
第三天：开始收拾，然后步行三小时回到起点。

后记
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刊亦山峰是砂劳越西部最高点，海拔1500米。位于草山山脉的其中一个山峰。当我下山时，我的行李比我上山时重了一些，因为这俩天的连夜雨把行李都弄湿了。

就是背了这样的重量，我的右膝盖非常的痛，我希望这不是永久性的伤，我还有很多山要爬的。

这里也是被很多的山蛭咬，伤口到处都是。也差点被毒蛇咬 😦
天气很潮湿，很冷。开口说话可以有蒸汽，小便也是有蒸汽。。哈哈哈。很难忘的探险活动。