Some of my favourite pictures, taken in 中国第一水乡—- 周庄.
来点不同的, 为筱清, 为筱清的朋友, 冲冲喜
For the past few postings, everything was about Bukit Tabur, the jungle terrains of Bukit Tabur and how to safely climb at certain spots etc...
Let's have something different from Jungle Trekking & Mountain Climbing , hope the magic bean and how it smiles will bring joy to Siow Ching, recovering fast from the accident.
Magic Bean in The Tin Can
Smiley Magic Bean
We trekked up Bukit Tabur with a team of policemen to the scene where the accident happened.
Stopping at the first rope, the police team wasdoing their investigating work. while they were busy taking photos of the accident scenes, we continued our journey.
5 of us proceeded towards the cliff after the first rope.........
Scaled passed the cliff after the first rope, I noticed one of the boy was wearing saggy baggy hip hop fashionable pants, tactfully telling him the potential dangers
“ why not you tie up the hook of your pants,
“Ya, just now I tripped a few times. ”
I was relieved that he is so receptive, then on the saggy length of the pants,
We continued trekking & joking and having fun.
“ Eric, there are 4 persons who look suspicious to us trekking up Bukit Tabur, I think they might be armed with weapons.…..” Soo Hui called & tipped us off.
Feeling potential danger was lurking. Asked Eric to call to determine where she has seen them.
Soo Hui replied that when both she & the husband saw the suspects were trekking towards the foothill.
being their first time trekking Bukit Tabur, all of them were excited with no certainty on what to expect on the journey ahead.
Guess their adrenalin were still pumping fast after scaling passed down the cliff when they also heard the conversation between Eric & Soo Hui.
Then, I sensed danger was lurking as the suspects were weapon wielding.
Hanging……………… in between the slope………,
Shall we continue ?
Or shall we stop & back-trek ? will it be us encountering a day light robbery ?
Somehow, not wanting to alarm each other, we contained ourselves.
Continued trekking & when; about to scale up a steep slope, to the top of another mountain range, worried that two of their friends who chose not to continue the journey earlier, might be in danger & harm, or the boys be abducted, captured and held as hostages ?
“ It’s better we back-trek so at least we can be with your two friends, may be to rescue them. ”
talking as if we are heroes.
“ Lets stay close together and trek back ”
Actually inside, we perceived danger and were fearful.
The three first timers have little choice but to follow,
TO BE CONTINUED in Pt 2...................
Note : We do not go round checking anybody's attire while they trek, the above illustrations is to help new trekkers understand better the potential danger of some attire that can pose dangers while trekking in Bukit Tabur.
Part 2 : The Trekkers, The Police & The Robbers
From the previous post,
…….then imagination ran wild,
“ Hei, if we were to back-trek, we will meet the robbers face to face, isn’t it more dangerous than we flee from them ? ”
Eric agreed “ OK , better we trek towards the carpet grass direction and we go downhill via the orchard .”
So, all agreed that we should flee from meeting the robbers face to face by trekking to carpet grass & down another route via the orchard.
Also, knowing that Uncle Chong & Eva were on their way back to the foothill,, we kind of decided against our initial idea.
“ I want to drink water, ” Zen took out his hot flask.
In my two years of trekking in Bukit Tabur, this is the first time I see this type of cute looking flask, big & gigantic in size being brought here.
No other intention, I said, “ Wow, you really can drink so much hot water huh !!”
“ Ya, we came prepared to drink coffee up on this mountain this morning, we actually started our journey 6 am for the sunrise…”
“Did you see the sunrise ? ”
“No, we are late ! ”
“OH !! Depending on your trekking speed, normally, if you want to watch the sunrise, better to start your journey 5.15am - 5.30 am. from the Klang Gate foothill. ”
“Ya, we came with this torch, ” he took out a big huge torchlight,
I almost burst out but managed a control.
“ The best torch to use in Bukit Tabur will be a head torch, (like what the rubber tapper is using when they tap rubber trees in the dark), Head torch is used on your head, and your hands are free to grap the rock when you need to. ”
“Oh !!!”
And we continued trekking after the hot sip, & transferred some of the weight in their bags to ours.
“ Melawati police No is 03-41081222, store this number into your sim card just in case anyone of us need to call. ” a good idea indeed.
Pressure build up,
““ I think we take out our memory card from the camera and also keep our sim card separate from our hand phone.”
“ if the robbers want our camera, and our handphone, just hand them over, at least we have the memory card where the photos can still be recovered. ” another supposedly smart idea,
“ If we take out the sim card, how to call ? ” someone asked,
“ Oh ya, not all of us shall take the sim card out la ”
I don’t exactly know who took their sim card out..............,
“ call Soo Hui or Uncle Chong again to check the position of the robbers. " definitely Eric's sim card is still intact in his mobile .
“……………..” no response,
“……………..” no line,
“ Call again, see if we can get the line ? "
“………hullo hullo……”
“………”
“……....” The line went dead
“….…….” No response
".............."
“…….Chong, where are you now ?”
“Chong, can you hear me ? "
" ……Chong, did you see the robbers ? ”
Eric off his phone as there was no line there.
Eric called again when almost reaching the carpet grass.
" Chong, did you see the robbers ? "
"“Robbers ? "
" What robbers ? " Uncle Chong asked ;
" Eric,...... we met two boys, one of them, his hand is cramped, …….?' i am helping him now................” The line fainted off.
“………………”
“……………....”
“……………….”
By then we reached the junction of the carpet grass and the trail to the orchard.
Walking downhill,
“ the slope is steep and slippery, it was raining heavily, let’s be very careful. ”
“ let’s not talk too loudly, may be the robbers will spot us from the top, ”
Breaking his silence,
“ unless they have absailing equipments, absail down & attack us ! ”
“ OK, ok !! ok.……ok, OK ”
“There are two exits through this orchard, one will be right down the orchard, the other will be out to Bukit Mas.”
After being with the Paramedic team and the Police on the day of the accident, I learned a new route of exiting through Bukit Mas.
" Better to go by Bukit Mas way, just in case the robbers gave up the challenging trail in their persuit of us and waited at the exit of the orchard to have an easy way to rob all our belonging, " I cautioned.
" my stomach cramped, " one lamented, looking fatigue & suffered a little shaking on the knees.
We gave him a refill when reached the hut in the orchard, and offered him some banana cake.
" I am alright, it's ok, water will do, I don't want the cake. "
We continue for about 15-20 minutes,
“ I can see the houses from here,”
“Ya, Ya, we are almost there…..”
" Almost there ?…"
' Almost there ! "
Almost …
Eric’s mobile rang, “ Tell the three boys, I am with their two friends, they are OK and we are almost reaching the foothill at the Klang Gate entrance. ” must be Uncle Chong.
It was then, all of them yelled in ectasy !!
“ OMG !!!! OMG !!!!!!! it’s so nice to step on the tar road. ”
“Will you come again ? ”
“Sure !!! ”
At home, Amelia asked, “ Mummy, where is the police ? ”
“Oh………The Police ? ”
" yaaaaaaa, The Police. "
" Oh…. The police, ya, the police ?......ah.....ah..... will be in mummy's next blog posting...........
" Where ???? "
Second Rope Side View Part 2
DISCLAIMER
The information provided herein is purely from the experiences we gathered in trekking Bukit Tabur, we do not claim them as the only way, We WILL NOT BE and CANNOT BE held responsible for any mishaps and/or accidents whatsoever arising from your trekking here.
( click on the picture for clearer view )DISCLAIMER
The information provided herein is purely from the experiences we gathered in trekking Bukit Tabur, we do not claim them as the only way, We WILL NOT BE and CANNOT BE held responsible for any mishaps and/or accidents whatsoever arising from your trekking here.
