I first came to Mulu in 2010 and I was so amazed by the caves. Mulu is probably the only place in Malaysia that fascinates me more than Mount Kinabalu and both of them are on the UNESCO Sites list. Mount Kinabalu for me is too showy. It stands tall for everybody to see. Mulu on the other hand prefers to stay humble and mysterious, and it requires people to go underground to explore what it has to offer. I…
We woke up at about 1pm for a simple breakfast (we boiled rice the night before) and pushed for the peak at about 2.30am. That was when the hell began. I’ve been to so many mountains and going to the peak was always the most challenging. But this one was extra challenging. The trail was so heavy with undergrowth and the trees were interlocking with each other by the roots and branches! In fact there were times when our feet…
So I went to Mount Tahan last week, as part of my mission to tick at least something off my bucketlist before end of this year. I had always wanted to conquer the mountain, which is the highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia but conquering it required more than a week back then – which was quite too long for me – and it also was not cheap. Thanks to the new trail (but I later learned that it was not…