I'VE CONQUERED THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN SOUTH EAST ASIA!
Last weekend saw me and eight others of my collaegues flying into Sabah for our long awaited hike:- the mount kinabalu. it was a 4 days 3 nights trip. we started off in pg, flying to kl, then from kl to kk and the same way back. took air asia. the flight over to kk was smmoth, everything was in time and in fact too early, hahaha. when we reach kk, the first thing we did was to go seafood, we ended up in the most expensive seafood restaurant in town (as i was told), spent almost RM700 for the seafood, but the buttered cheese lobsters were heavenly. then it was a 2 1/2 hour drive up to kk park, it was raining all the way since we touched down at kk aitport. one of my colleague vomitted all the seadfood on the way up, what a waste, she should have gulp it back in, hahaha.
The next day we started out our journey to laban rata which is 6 km from KK park, well, the 6km is a never ending trail from timpohon gate. i was 'tah pau-ed' at after 1KM, nearly fainted and died on the spot, then i decided to gave my 7kg bag to the potter. those guys are amazing, they can carry up to 70kg, you'll have to see to believe it. after almost 3 hours we reached laban rata, had our light lunch and went straight to bed at pengunting hut which is 200 meter above laban rata. early morning on sunday, we started our journey to conquer the peak at 2.30am, the hike up was amazing, dark and the best thing is you see a trail of lights all the way from the peak to the bottom emitted by the headlights that hikers carried. somehow me and my other guy colleague got off track and we were stuck in the middle of no where before we got rescued by our guide. also, not only us, we were surprised that they were two more girls that was lost like us too, but they were worst because it's their third time there and yet they got lost.
I reached the Low's Peak before 7am after sunrise, but nevertheless, i'm happy to have conquered it, i cried when i huged onto the sign as i was too happy, then after that it was hell of a hike down to laban rata then another 6 km down to timpohon gate with rain pouring over me.
FYI, the whole journey up to the peak is 8.5KM, we stayed at mersilau on the last night, a very nice resort which happen to be another route for mt. kk. then the next day we were stuck at kk airport because of air asia, engine leak, and, DAMN IT, delayed, as usual, and i came out with a tagline for them, "Now Everyone Can WAIT, then Fly", because of that we had to spent on RM7 for the most expensive instant noodle i've ever had, but i've managed to con 3 cups of water from them through persuasive sweet talk to the air stewardess, forgot her name, but she's quite HOT.
Final Verdict:- It's a chance of a life time, its either you go for it or you forget about it!
The next day we started out our journey to laban rata which is 6 km from KK park, well, the 6km is a never ending trail from timpohon gate. i was 'tah pau-ed' at after 1KM, nearly fainted and died on the spot, then i decided to gave my 7kg bag to the potter. those guys are amazing, they can carry up to 70kg, you'll have to see to believe it. after almost 3 hours we reached laban rata, had our light lunch and went straight to bed at pengunting hut which is 200 meter above laban rata. early morning on sunday, we started our journey to conquer the peak at 2.30am, the hike up was amazing, dark and the best thing is you see a trail of lights all the way from the peak to the bottom emitted by the headlights that hikers carried. somehow me and my other guy colleague got off track and we were stuck in the middle of no where before we got rescued by our guide. also, not only us, we were surprised that they were two more girls that was lost like us too, but they were worst because it's their third time there and yet they got lost.
I reached the Low's Peak before 7am after sunrise, but nevertheless, i'm happy to have conquered it, i cried when i huged onto the sign as i was too happy, then after that it was hell of a hike down to laban rata then another 6 km down to timpohon gate with rain pouring over me.
FYI, the whole journey up to the peak is 8.5KM, we stayed at mersilau on the last night, a very nice resort which happen to be another route for mt. kk. then the next day we were stuck at kk airport because of air asia, engine leak, and, DAMN IT, delayed, as usual, and i came out with a tagline for them, "Now Everyone Can WAIT, then Fly", because of that we had to spent on RM7 for the most expensive instant noodle i've ever had, but i've managed to con 3 cups of water from them through persuasive sweet talk to the air stewardess, forgot her name, but she's quite HOT.
Final Verdict:- It's a chance of a life time, its either you go for it or you forget about it!
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