Mount Serapi, situated at the Kubah National Park, multiple wooden shelters are located along the trail to the summit, oh and don't worry, there is only one trail to summit you will not get lost. The trail passes through dipterocarp forest and links the various trails of the park. One of the trail that I like is the Rayu Trail which link to the Matang Wildlife Center, and it takes 3 - 4 hours one way.
6 persons at one time. This Viewing Tower was built in 1997 and made of Belian wood (aka Borneo ironwood). According to the notice board it can only accommodate 6 persons at one time. I lost count on how many times I've been there, but this is the first time to take a picture from a drone.
I visited the Spak River, which is situated at about 15km away from the Betong Petronas Gas Station. Its has a road sign "Spak Clearwater River Adventure". I came here after finished hike the Bukit Sadok.
My friends and I had join an expedition which organised by the Kelab Aktiviti Lasak Kenyalang, they wanted to get into the Malaysia Book of Record for the most participant in a camping using hammock. In the end which they did, as there are about 500 plus of hammock on the summit.
We start our journey on a Friday night at about 8pm, and reach Betong town at about 12 midnight, then another hour drive to Sk St John, Jalan Ulu Layar, at Nanga Tiga. After our registration we slept at about 3am, woke up at 5am the next day. After breakfast, we start our descent at about 9.30am.
We were now at the bottom of the actual trail to the summit, all my friends wear their orange "Book of Record" t-shirt, as for me, I don't like to get sunburn so I will stick with my long sleeve hiking shirt.
这是山脚下,我的战友们都穿上举办当局给的橙色衣服。我怕晒黑,所以还是穿这自己的长袖衣。
The jungle track brings us mainly through pepper gardens, pineapple gardens, and other type of crops. The trail ascends to the mountain are quite sharply, there is one part of the mountain where they lay a foundation of concert on the trail which makes it danger to navigate on a raining day. Which I personally think they should build it in a staircase shape, instead just lay it flat.
We sometime will asked ourselves the age old question which is asked by all people climbing mountains: “so why exactly am I doing this?” I just enjoy embarrassing nature.
Saw this man in his 60's with one leg, slowly hiking up the 7km summit. Now do you still dare to say you can't reach the summit?! He's slow, but he manages to join us at the summit, which I have no idea how he did it. He told us that he climbed mount Santubong a few times already. In the end he did reach the summit, as I saw him with my own eyes, a lot of people took picture with him, and even interview him.
I know that its going to be a long climb, so we just go by maintain a speed, not too fast, not too slow. I can see a vast field of pepper plantation at the slop, along the way I didn't see any river. Where do they get all the water for all these plants?
There are many turns along the way, good thing that the organiser had marked clearly where to go next. If not we can easily go to the wrong trail, as I heard that Charles Brook took three days to get to the top while it took us about 3 hours. 😆😋
In this expedition, there are about 500+ who manage to reach the summit. Most of them are new to hiking, as I can see some the hiking bag are still very new, one of them even still have the price tag on.
And some are the expert, like this friend here, which he use to walk inside the jungle, carrying a basket of heavy stuff is like nothing for him.
I finally reach the main summit. Here we have one shelter, and the other was a small memorial hut built nearby with a copy of the Timpang Brang cannon placed in it and with several signboards giving the gist of what happened on the mountain, but is in Iban language.
There was a stone slab there with a quot from the bible, according to the local, this was placed there by an Iban priest who was trying to insult the Ibans who go to the top to perform non christian ceremonies.
This is the replica of Rentap's one armed cannon standing on top of the mountain. And a plate with a story about Rentap that goes like this...
The Rentap's town at bukit Sadoh. wait, it means like his house or fort made with belian wood as thick as 2 ft. Basically, after he was defeated by the white Rajah of Sarawak James Brook in 1854 in Sungai Lang, Ulu Skrang.
Actually James Brook never came to the mountain himself, his forces were led by his nephew Charles Brook, Rentap made a new place for him and his people to live and became king of that area.
And then the rajah has tried to attack him a few more times and only on the 3rd try he managed to get into that kuta with the use of a 12 pound cannon, (then some story about how they use magic and so on to make the defense weak etc) when rajah managed to get in, he found that Rentap has ran away, and was never captured by the Brooke forces, and finally on the 28 Oct 1861 the rajah burn down the Kuta.
At sunset I could even see the sunlight penetrate over the clouds surface and shine on the mountain range far in the distance, the view was truly amazing.
在夕阳的时候,我看到阳光穿过云层表面,在山脉上发光,这个景色真是太棒了。
As an experience camper, we manage to setup our hammock very quickly. And we still have time to build a dinning table, chairs, a place to hang our backpacks and a lamppost. After that we have nothing to do, but to look at the others struggling to setup tent and hammock around us.
There was a heavy downpour at about 7pm, and ends at about 4am the next day. We are lucky that our heavy duty hammock manage to kept us dry, but for most of the others, they have to sleep in a wet and cold condition.
Bukit Sadok is a historical place where the Iban warrior Rentap builded build fortifications to protect themselves from the attacks of Charles Brooke. The height of the mountain is 872 meters above sea level. At the peak of Bukit Sadok is a replica the one armed cannon name the Bachelor Lame Beaver (Timpang Brang Meriam). The cannon was used by Rentap to resist the invaders which is the Brooke army that led by Charles Brooke. The original cannon was placed in Betong District Office building in Bukit Bangun.
Borneo is a tropical island, its hot all year round, and cold weather for us is a blessing. Every time when I explore to places with cold weather, I tent to get very exited! But in the same time, I will easily get running nose.
See through my camera lens on how is the life in the Kinabalu Mountain Range looks like.
On my way up to Laban Rata, I'm not alone. On one of the rest stop, there are these cute squirrel welcome me. I let them eat some biscuit.
登山的路程不孤单,其中一个休息站有可爱的松鼠来陪你。这些松鼠不怕生,我把我的饼干给一点它们吃。
5th June 2015, 07.15am local time. A powerful magnitude 6.0 earthquake has struck Mount Kinabalu (54 kilometers from the state capital of Kota Kinabalu), cracking roads and buildings in the region and injuring climbers on the peak area.
The force of the tremor was so strong that it snapped off one of the two "Donkey's Ear" rock outcroppings that form a distinctive part of the mountain's peak.
Laban Rata Base Camp, at 3272 meter above sea level
拉班拉达大本营,海拔三千两百七十二米。
Guys, look at the sunset behind me, isn't it amazing!!! This is the first time I get to see sunset in such a high altitude.
大家看我背后的夕阳,这是我第一次在高原看夕阳 😃💓👍。温柔的阳光照耀整片大地,云海都在我脚下。
Birds gliding in the sky freely.
鸟儿在天空自由自在的滑翔。
The life at the highland of the Kinabalu mountain range are fantastic, Just the way to reach this area will be a bit challenging. Remember to keep the nature clean, take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprint.
So what about the life on the Kinabalu park highland? Click on this article to read more.
Borneo is a tropical island, its hot all year round, and cold weather for us is a blessing. Every time when I explore to places with cold weather, I tent to get very exited! But in the same time, I will easily get running nose.
See through my camera lens on how is the life in the Kinabalu Highland looks like.
Behind me is the highest mountain in Borneo, 4095 meter above sea level.
在我背后的十沙巴的神山,婆罗洲最高的山峰,海拔四千零九十五米
This is the Kinabalu Park, its a resort for visitor to stay and enjoy the highland life. It stands at 1563 meter above sea level.
这里是京那巴鲁公元,海拔一千五百六十三米。这里有提供住宿,游客可以在这里体验高原的生活。
Three hornbill birds flew over.
三只犀鸟在天空高昂的飞翔
The temperature here is in between 25 - 21 degree Celsius.
这里的气候介于廿一至廿五度之间,非常舒服。
This is the Balsam buffet restaurant, the food here are extremely delicious.
京那巴鲁公园的餐厅,这里有很好吃的自助餐,来到这里就尽情的吃吧。
About 5am, the white dots on mount Kinabalu is the hikers who will be reaching the summit.
凌晨五点,远处的灯火是攻顶的登山者头戴的灯火
The highland life here are wonderful, although the sun shine brightly, but I do not feel hot at all. Very admin the life here. So what about the life on top of the mount Kinabalu mountain range? Click on this article to read more.