Location: Johore Malaysia
29 – 30 March 2013
Itinerary
Day 1 – March 29 (Friday)
0630 Meet-up
at Woodlands Bus Interchange
0700 Depart
from Woodlands Bus Interchange to Woodlands Train Station
0800 Depart
from Woodlands Train Station
1030 ETA
at Bekok Railway station
1100 Registration
at Park HQ at Bekok
1130 Proceed
by 4WD through logging trek by four wheel drive, to Lubok Merekek campsite. Set
up tents.
1230 Lunch
1300
After a short briefing, we will begin our journey to Takah Tinggi more than 500
feet span from the lake below to the top of the waterfalls. Most of the way will be
undulating low hills along the river side except for the last 10 minutes where
it will be a short hill climb. The guides (one of them will
be an aborigine) will identify and explain the use of certain herbs and plants.
Much of the medicinal cure for ailments for the
aborigine are from the roots of plants. After one hour, begin decent to base
camp.
1900 Dinner
Break
2100 Night
walk provided there is no rain and along the 4 wheel drive trek. Look out for
foxes, porcupines, wild cats, mouse deer, snakes etc. We will also visit
the Aborigine cultural center and the arboretum.
2200 Campfire
Night
Day 2 – March 30 (Saturday)
0630 Wake-up
call / Prepare for breakfast
0800 Breakfast
0900 Trekking
to Takah Pandan. The journey starts on a flat path along the river side but
after that it will be a steep climb over a hill.. The rest of the journey are
much easier but maybe become difficult if there is rain as the slope will be
become slippery. On arrival, spent time to enjoy and take
photographs. The falls is more than 100 feet high over a vertical rock wall.
1100 Return
to based camp. The trek back is much easier as we will follow the river back to
main trek leading to the base camp.
1300 Lunch
1400 Prepare
for river rafting with rubber tubes, a one or two hours activity. For safety
reason we will break the group into two sessions.
1700 Return
to Bekok Train station
1830 ETD
at Bekok
2130 ETA
at Singapore
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