Today, we wake up unusually early compare to the other day, as we need to ready ourselves to be picked up by Mt. hiking agent. 7am we need to be at Borneo One to wait for the van to pick us up.
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| Proper hiking shoes, with 1 pair "kampung adidas" |
From the agent, we know that there are in 6 person under him for the group, including 4 of us + 2 travelers from Hong Kong.
With agent, everything can be arranged properly, however, different agent may charged differently. For our package, it cost about RM 550 which included:
Entrance fees, hiking fees, tour guide fees, Laban Rata lodges charges,
All the meals - Day 1 lunch (bring along while hiking, pack in tupperware), D1 dinner, D1 supper, D2 breakfast and D2 lunch, all buffet style.
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| Stop by at the Kinabalu park for registration |
The contact of agent: Ah Han --> +6019-8608211.
It took about 3 hours for us to reach at the National Park entrance. We need to register ourselves before start climbing, due to the will and from there, we chose a walking stick each, to assist us to have a better hiking journey. It cost about RM 3 each stick. At here, we meet our tour guide too, there are 2 of them, and they are brother, who partner with Ah Han.
Due to we chose the longer trail to hike - Mesilau trail, thus we need to travel for another half an hour to the trail entrance. Although take longer time to reach the rest point, which called Laban Rata, (as it is 2KM longer than Timpohon trail), however this trail will take you through a beautiful trek of montane forest, pass streams and ridges, which make you worth to do so.
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| Extract from http://www.trailofasia.com |
And, we started our hiking journey around 9.30am after some briefing given by the tour guide. 1 of them will walk with the first person and the other will follow the last person in the group. The tour guide is great, they will ask you don't rush, walk slowly, and most importantly, you can make it! They will advise us, don't simply give up, unless you feel that you really not able to continue the journey. Or else, they will walk with you to the destination. In our group, non of us hire
There are different types of road condition you may encounter in this trail, sometimes is smooth and easy to walk on, sometimes we need to climb the stairs, sometimes we need to climb the big rock.
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| After rest, continue the journey |
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| Nice scenery all the way up |
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| Due to cold weather and high latitude, most of the tree has no leaves |
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| Easier to walk on this kind of path |
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| Challenging hiking path just started |
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| Looking up to where we are heading to |
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| Challenging path |
Finally, we reach the resting point around 5.30pm, after 8 hours hiking. However, the scenery make us forget our tiredness
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| Sun is peaking at us |
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| Beautiful scenery |
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| Tour guide looking at the friends who play "sepak takraw" |
At here, we rest and take our light dinner, although is buffet style, but tiredness make us not really eating much. Afterwards, we need to walk for another 10 minutes to our room, which called: Gunting Lagadang Hut. The location of this lodge is higher than Laban Rata resthouse.
Then, we not really take bath because it was freezing cold there and there is not heater available in the room. So we just make some simple clean up, then prepare to sleep. I thought that I can't fall asleep at 7pm, however, it was so fast to fall asleep...
To be continued in part 4..
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