Difficulty: 1/10
Time required: 3/10 (trek in one hour, same route to trek out)
Scenic: 7/10
Accessibility: 7/10 (one hour drive from KL, road condition is good. Sedan car is good to go)
Parking: Open car park or can park at roadside
Cleanliness: 8/10 (except for the public toilets, manage your expectation)
Guide: Not required
Fee: RM1 per entrance. Require to pay deposit depending on how much food/plastics/bottles/cans you're bringing in; this is a control to ensure you won't litter. Refundable when you leave.
Opening hours: Fri - Sat 8.00am to 6.00pm
What's better than having a short road trip to celebrate a long weekend?! Again, organizer, YAR managed to pull bunch of awesome ppl to organize this trip to Chiling Waterfall on this lovely saturday morning. There was another meaningful event which I wish I could go, wish I can contribute to the country by supporting the hope for a better future. I love my country, but i love my parents too; I can't afford to see them got worried of me. Maybe next time, when I'm able to give confidence to them that I'll be fine! Love you Malaysia! Happy independence day! Sun will shine again after the darkest storm. Strongly believe in it.
11 of us, went in 4 cars. I was car pooling with YAR and SKJ, my closest friends from KPMG. It has been years since we last met each other. Although our body sizes changed, our face sagged; they are still cool and fun as usual. That's friendship isn't it? It doesn't matter how often you contact each other or meeting each other, you'll still share the happiness and joy whenever we meet up.
After dim sum breakfast at Aman Suria, we departed at around 8.15am. SKJ, the sleepyhead, has been sleeping non-stop in the car. Me, keeping YAR, the driver entertained throughout the whole journey to Chiling and helping with the map and direction. It took us one hour plus to reach Chiling.
The sun was already hot, we immediately 'let go' using the public toilet to make sure we won't pollute the spring water later. The trek took us another hour to reach level 2 waterfall. The journey was memorable, and so much dramas:
Drama 1: SKJ's slipper that attempted to do waterfall diving. It was accidentally dropped into the stream and the current was so strong, washing it away to the cliff. All of us were stunned, looking at it and thinking it's gonna be flushed away and SKJ gonna walk home with only one slipper later. At this critical moment, an unknown Malay stranger, the HERO ran and jumped into the stream, swam and trying his very best to save this slipper of SKJ. We got so worried because the stream is not deep enough for swimming and there are lots of sharp rocks at river bed. I do not know what gave him the courage and the will to do this, but he made it and we gave him a big round of applause from the deepest of our heart. Again, I can't stop feeling sentimental and relates this to politics and our country. SO MANY friends or strangers I've met from different races, they are all helpful disregards of what skin color that we're having. We all live in harmony and we care, we help. That makes us, true Malaysians. Why let the bad people to divide us!
Drama 2: Chiling waterfall, the slipper murderer, ko-ed AS's slipper as well. With no extra shoes/slippers, AS survived to trek down with bare and injured feet. Salute! Remind me of my first tabur west hike, when WK also hiked the whole trip with bare feet cause his shoes spoiled at the starting point of the hike. Jinx?
Drama 3: NC, the brave. Met him during tabur hike, my impression to him is fit, brave and outgoing person, a macho guy. But now I only know his bravery shrink drastically when he's dealing with water. First, he asked us to lead and walk first when we were playing in the pool, he was afraid that the river bed will suddenly goes very deep. Then, he took more than 5 mins just to prepare himself to jump off from a low cliff (which we've already jumped and assured him that it's safe and the water is not deep). That was pretty epic when he was repeating the action of taking deep breathe, getting ready to jump and backing out. It was looping for five minutes with all the eyes on him and encouraging him to jump. Of course, he didn't let us down and finally he jumped off from the cliff and when he landed into the pool, the water level was just at his chest. He laughed on himself and immediately he started to ask around, "come, let's do it again". What a funny guy! You're still cool and fun even after we get to see this side of you! =D
Drama 4: Persuading AS to take off his top. He was shivering ever since he went into the pool. With a small part of good intention, we advised him to take off of his wet shirt so that he can get warm faster; it also comes with a big part of selfish intention to check out his naked upper body (to clarify, it's the guys' idea! of course, benefiting me as well =P). And after hesitating for a while, he did. I didn't really get to check him out as.. I'm shy la. I just got to know him on the first day, must act like a lady a bit. hahaha. Instead of checking out his abs and body, we 'studied' his tattoo on his arm and shoulder. It's something that he's proud of, a piece of macho art done by his favourite tattoo artist. But we all burst into laughter when NC asked, "why is the samurai sniffing the sakura"? NC just nailed it, from a piece of cool and macho art, he made it sound so sissified.
Drama 5: SKJ, the big eater. He basically finished all of our food! No wonder his tummy grow so much bigger from the last time i saw him.
I had so so so so much fun with this bunch of people. It's a moment when I don't need to get worried of how people will judge or worried of what to say next to keep the conversation going. I can't ask for more. That's why, I'm writing this down. A memory to keep. A blog entry that will make me laugh again in the future. Goodnight!
11 of us, went in 4 cars. I was car pooling with YAR and SKJ, my closest friends from KPMG. It has been years since we last met each other. Although our body sizes changed, our face sagged; they are still cool and fun as usual. That's friendship isn't it? It doesn't matter how often you contact each other or meeting each other, you'll still share the happiness and joy whenever we meet up.
After dim sum breakfast at Aman Suria, we departed at around 8.15am. SKJ, the sleepyhead, has been sleeping non-stop in the car. Me, keeping YAR, the driver entertained throughout the whole journey to Chiling and helping with the map and direction. It took us one hour plus to reach Chiling.
The sun was already hot, we immediately 'let go' using the public toilet to make sure we won't pollute the spring water later. The trek took us another hour to reach level 2 waterfall. The journey was memorable, and so much dramas:
Drama 1: SKJ's slipper that attempted to do waterfall diving. It was accidentally dropped into the stream and the current was so strong, washing it away to the cliff. All of us were stunned, looking at it and thinking it's gonna be flushed away and SKJ gonna walk home with only one slipper later. At this critical moment, an unknown Malay stranger, the HERO ran and jumped into the stream, swam and trying his very best to save this slipper of SKJ. We got so worried because the stream is not deep enough for swimming and there are lots of sharp rocks at river bed. I do not know what gave him the courage and the will to do this, but he made it and we gave him a big round of applause from the deepest of our heart. Again, I can't stop feeling sentimental and relates this to politics and our country. SO MANY friends or strangers I've met from different races, they are all helpful disregards of what skin color that we're having. We all live in harmony and we care, we help. That makes us, true Malaysians. Why let the bad people to divide us!
Drama 2: Chiling waterfall, the slipper murderer, ko-ed AS's slipper as well. With no extra shoes/slippers, AS survived to trek down with bare and injured feet. Salute! Remind me of my first tabur west hike, when WK also hiked the whole trip with bare feet cause his shoes spoiled at the starting point of the hike. Jinx?
Drama 3: NC, the brave. Met him during tabur hike, my impression to him is fit, brave and outgoing person, a macho guy. But now I only know his bravery shrink drastically when he's dealing with water. First, he asked us to lead and walk first when we were playing in the pool, he was afraid that the river bed will suddenly goes very deep. Then, he took more than 5 mins just to prepare himself to jump off from a low cliff (which we've already jumped and assured him that it's safe and the water is not deep). That was pretty epic when he was repeating the action of taking deep breathe, getting ready to jump and backing out. It was looping for five minutes with all the eyes on him and encouraging him to jump. Of course, he didn't let us down and finally he jumped off from the cliff and when he landed into the pool, the water level was just at his chest. He laughed on himself and immediately he started to ask around, "come, let's do it again". What a funny guy! You're still cool and fun even after we get to see this side of you! =D
Drama 4: Persuading AS to take off his top. He was shivering ever since he went into the pool. With a small part of good intention, we advised him to take off of his wet shirt so that he can get warm faster; it also comes with a big part of selfish intention to check out his naked upper body (to clarify, it's the guys' idea! of course, benefiting me as well =P). And after hesitating for a while, he did. I didn't really get to check him out as.. I'm shy la. I just got to know him on the first day, must act like a lady a bit. hahaha. Instead of checking out his abs and body, we 'studied' his tattoo on his arm and shoulder. It's something that he's proud of, a piece of macho art done by his favourite tattoo artist. But we all burst into laughter when NC asked, "why is the samurai sniffing the sakura"? NC just nailed it, from a piece of cool and macho art, he made it sound so sissified.
Drama 5: SKJ, the big eater. He basically finished all of our food! No wonder his tummy grow so much bigger from the last time i saw him.
I had so so so so much fun with this bunch of people. It's a moment when I don't need to get worried of how people will judge or worried of what to say next to keep the conversation going. I can't ask for more. That's why, I'm writing this down. A memory to keep. A blog entry that will make me laugh again in the future. Goodnight!
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