I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

Normally when hike Mount Santubong, we will hike from either the park HQ entrance, or from Bukit Puteri, I joined a few of my hiking friends that day to hike mount Santubong, and this is from the South side, this will be an off trail hike.

The entrance its belongs to a Malay family, and they are kind enough to let us park our vehicle in front of their compound.

The trail start off with a flat ground, and many pitcher plant here and there. Most of them are no more bigger than the palm of my hand.

I think because there are less people here, so there are many mosquito.

A dry river bed, we start to descent.

We saw the national park boundary signboard, we are in Santubong National Park boundary now.

The landscape are getting steeper

Some of the rock face are 90 degree, no way to climb over it. But have to go around it.

Reached a view point, in front of us its the summit 1 of mount Santubong

Any idea this is from what animal?

One part where we are barely have anything to step on, its just on the edge of the cliff.

This is the point where summit 1 meet with summit 2, the big gully between the two peaks.

Last push to reach the summit

And here I am, the usual summit 1 view point of Mount Santubong

We descent by using the official route fix by the national park ranger

Pantai Putery beach.

TRAIL INFORMATION

Distance: 3.85km (one way) Time: 5h 51min Elevation: 774

HIKING VIDEO

Area view of Kampung Bunga, Serian. The highest peak at Kampung Bunga mountain range its 753 meter above sea level.

Kampung Bunga its situated on the Kuching-Serian road, about 10 mins drive from Serian town.

Before we hike, we will need to register all our names with the village community

We are also been given a safety briefing before the hike in case some emergency happen.

And yes, its also the first time that we are given a warn up exercise before hiking 😅

A group photos

Start our hike

The trail head with a signboard and a big green arrow pointing to the left

Pass by farm

There are a lots of bamboos along the trail, some are very big size bamboo.

The trail are well maintain by the village mountain trail community

More bamboos

The trail are mostly ascending, and there are two rest hut.

The last rest hut will be near the summit, if you reach the hut around 10am, you get to enjoy very nice breeze, its constant breeze, just nice to cool you down for the time being.