Sunday.
Normally sunday is the day that i would never see the sunrise. Being the only off day in my current work, i always opt to go out on Saturday night. Sometimes i come home early, sometimes i come home early in the morning. Thus, my Sunday would be spend by sleeping the whole morning.
Outdoor and Nature
Being at KK last week, my interest for hiking back arised. How i love to hike in the nature. Where my focus is to reach the peak. Not in hurry, just easy going, while watching the nature in their places. Thus, i opt to go hike here at Kuching, Sarawak. Already been here for 8 months and never go for hiking at Kuching yet.
I just thinking to go hiking around Thursday this week. Actual plan is to go hike on Saturday but one of my work colleague wanna follow but already going for camping on friday and asked me to postpone to Sunday. I also got instructed by my Boss to be the company site representative on Saturday so it's ok to postpone.
Alarm and Snooze
As normal do, awaken at 6am of my alarm. But, Sunday, another five minutes, snooze button it is. My second awakening only at 6:50am.
Raining. heavy rain on sunday. gloomy as it is, me and my friend still going. Just giving it a try while hoping the rain subsided when we reach the hiking area. Picked up my friend and straight go our planned hiking area.
Haji Baki Hiking Trail. Seems like its just like a park. But its good coz not everybody fit to go hiking to some high difficulty hiking trail. We reach there around 8pm but oh wow, it's raining cat and dog at that time. A bit dissapointed. We just go back because the rain doesnt seem to stop anytime soon.
Breakfast and planning
Cold and Hungry. I was looking to have my breakfast at flyover restaurant. The Mee Ayam with pickle vegetable is nice there. But, i did forget that it is CNY holiday. Sunday some more. It was closed. The other restaurant, Sepinang Sari is open but as usual, the crowd queuing to this restaurant is too much. Thus we change our breakfast location to King Laksa at Icom Square.
The rain started to subsided while we are taking our breakfast. But as it is, i was thinking to go to more challenging trail. With the help of Google, "Kuching Hiking Places", decided to go to Bukit Lasak at Muara Tebas. Around 1/2 Hour from our breakfast location and reach there around 9am in the morning.
Kampung Muara Tebas
Its a village at the end of the Bako Road where the locals are normally fisherman and farmer. But they also have a few government agency office there thus there are also government servant in the village. Besides that, there is a Buddhist temple located at this village where i've been informed that it is build for more than 200 years before. Chinese New Year and Buddhist Temple. The villager has already setup for the CNY event where all the temple visitor car need to pay entry fee and park somewhere they have set up.
At first they expect me is one of the temple visitor (Oi! Malay Face 101 also u think i'm chinese ka?) but after a informing them that i am going to bukit lasak, they just give me free entry. But parking tho, i still park at where they set up. Its just that i go hike up compare to the temple visitor going somewhere to inside the village.
Hiking up to chinese cemetry?
Ok. Im lost actually. Seems like hiking places at Sarawak is kinda different from Sabah. At Sabah, the trail is always been marked by some kind of gate or signboard. Bukit Lasak? Maybe its not a popular hiking spot here, no marking nor signboard. I did find a pole marked with a bottle when i walk at the small road but due to there are no marking, i just walk straight ahead.
End of the road, we found that there are some construction , maybe some new stair in which i did find some old stair has been removed. Me and my friend, curious with the condition, and the sea far ahead, we just go down the hill following the new construction. Halfway, we found out it is the route for a cemetery, a Chinese cemetery.
Did try to walk through the cemetry, but it is a dead end. We cannot go to the hill peak at the other side of the cemetery and there are also no route to go the sea. Just go back to the tarmac trail that we come from and i try to go to the trail, the one marked by the wooden pole and bottle
Bukit Lasak Hiking trail
The trail started around 1km from the car park area. In which we need to walk uphill on a tarmac road. As I mentioned before, it is marked with a wooden pole with a plastic bottle on top the pole.
Wooden pole marking. Curiosity kill the cats right? But fortunately i’m not a cat, just a humble hikers. We first descend a bit, where we are welcomed by the typical rainforest scene. Canopy tree, small vegetation, and goldish brown ground where the colour come from the dead leaves falling to the ground.
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There are two trails and the bottom of the valley where we descend. To the right. We choose the right trail for our adventure. Upon walking around few hundrend meters from the bottle of the valley, it is a small water pond and there are no trail beyond the pond. While i am a kinda adventurous person, but to cross the water pond is not my thing. Too risky to proceed. Thus, we revert back to the bottom of the valley and proceed with the trail that is going ascending the hill.
The hills has trail
Not as clear as trail at Sabah hiking area. But there is a trail. It’s just that it is blocked by some fallen wood, dead leaves, and the ground itselves. Maybe due to not a lot of hiking activities has been done here. Why? Not being promoted, not enough facilities, no proper trail, i think. But, we still gone through the trail as it was our backyard.
Pill box? Temple? Armoury?
Upon hiking uphill, there are branches of the trail, where on the right, i found some traces of concrete/cement there. It’s a stair, it seems. The stair is only around 25 steps. Not that high, not that easy due to the height of the steps is higher than normal stair. At thus peak, we found a building, kinda small, with some kind of balcony, stretch around 1 meter from the entrance of the building.
The building itself not that big. But to construct this kind of building, at the side of the hill, in the greenery, and with some kind of small pond aside, its a marvel. I thought it was a japanese pill box. But seeing some kind of chinese word at the entrance (just consider it chinese, not like i can differentiate between chinese writing and japanese), i thought it was some kind of buddhist temple.
The concrete floor in front of the building kinda cracking due to the filler inside subside. Not daring to walk upon it, we go back to the hiking trail. To the peak. From this point, it is a ascending hill straight to the peak. Maybe around 50-80 meters.
Its not wall climbing but its a bit high slope. As for me, it is still ok with my hr around 150++. The friend of mine kinda struggle a bit maybe due to long time didnt go for hike.
Reach the peak safely. The weather at that time is good. But the fog still surrounding the hill. We just chill there a while. Around 20-30 minutes then we started to descending
Reach back at the car park area safely while the saying hi to the villager that was taking care of the car park. They did mention that the trail seldomly people come hiking there. And they also suggest to us to hike at Bukit Selabat. Better view and higher but need to have guide. Get the phone contact of the guide and we make a move back as the hour is noon already at that time.
Overall, it’s a nice trip. The next trip shall invite my PE and boss if they want.
- few days to write this up. At my room, at bistro, at office.
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