Last weekend I went camping with my best friend Bart. We went with a group of friends (who were total strangers at first, but soon we got there, everybody clicked together. Of course, most of them are Bart’s friends..) The destination is Sungai Lembing, Kuantan, Pahang. Saturday 00:00, we departed on a chartered school bus. Though I was so damn tired, I barely got much sleep during the journey.
We reached our first destination – Bukit Panorama (dunno the name is Panaurama or Panorama.. but I feel more comfortable using Panorama.. feel free to correct me :P ) anyway, we reached there at about 5am. There was already a group of elderly people starting the climb. The uncles and aunties and grandpas and grandmas, each of them with a stick and a torch light, fully-equipped with high-spirit began their journey at 5am. And us, after refreshing ourselves – go to toilet, etc, later began our journey. The climb wasn’t hard, but a pretty long one. Hehe we had to pause to catch our breath a few times.. by the time we reached the top, a lot of people already there. Malays, Chinese, Indians are all excited and chatty, waiting for the dramatic appearance of the Sun. Photo shooting began, then we performed Subuh prayer and waited for the sunrise, and more photo shooting. But we were not so lucky. The sun was hidden, maybe by cloud or haze, I’m not sure.. tho we missed the chance to watch the sunrise, I still enjoyed the view. Clouds are everywhere. Hehe reminds me of the adventure at Sky Island by Luffy and the gang. Hehe only One Piece fan knows what the heck I’m talking about.
Then we started trekking down the hill to our bus, went to Sg Lembing town and had breakfast. After our pick up lorry arrived, we started to load the lorry with our bags and whatnot, and also ourselves into the lorry. Whoa I tell you.. it was one hell of a journey~~ really the worst part of the journey. The road was small, rocky, uneven, winding, sloppy and whatnot. And we had to endure it for MORE than one hour!! Whoa my b*tt was aching all over.. huuu… After the hellish journey, we reached our campsite at around 12pm. We set up the camp, had our packed lunch, performed Zohor + Asar prayer, and finally took a loong afternoon nap. After taking our nap only we throw ourselves into the water. Ahh so refreshing. The water is not as I expected though.. but it was still ok..
That night we had BBQ dinner. Grilled lamb, beef and chicken, with nasi.. dunno if it was fried rice.. but it was really delicious. Both sauce for lamb and chicken also were fantastic~~ cayalah K’Jue!! We all had a very satisfying dinner!! Woohoo~~
After done eating, we hang around chatting, drinking coffee, kuaci, more coffee, more laugh, more coffee.. everybody was having a blast!! I stayed until 12, then took my leave..
The next morning, after some light breakfast, we began our journey to rainbow waterfall. We started trekking at around 8.30am and reached the waterfall at around 9.30am. The trekking trail was quite challenging (well, at least for me). We had to trek on rocky track, crossed small stream, hutan, more rocky track.. and walla we’re there!! A lot of people already gathered and in position. Here also people are excited and chatty. Everybody was waiting for Miss Rainbow to show up..
Around 10am (not really sure, maybe earlier) the rainbow showed up. Whoaaa everyobody was so excited and started to take photos. Then I climbed a bit higher to get a better view. And sure it is, the higher, the better view I got. I saw the rainbow very clearly. Subhanallah.. then I joined my group taking shower at the waterfall. The water was not really suitable for swimming.. so we just had a shower.. and there I can see really, really awesome view. I can see a clear mini rainbow in its full shape. err parabola?? hehe dunno how to describe it. if I move my head, the rainbow will follow my gaze. hwaa.... I was so lucky I got to see this view..
satisfied, we started trekking down to our campsite. after that we throw ourselves into the water, had another round of bath, packed everything, then loaded our bags and ourselves onto the pickup lorry. ohh this time, I chose to ride the hillux. hehe it shud be more comfortable than the lorry. or so i guessed... it was more or less the same.. huu the ride still rough. I got sand all over my face, in my mouth, and I started to cough a little, then they told me to go sit in the car. lucky~~~ wahhh it was so comfortable, got air-cond some more. Why din they tell me earlier, if they still got space in the car. Hehe but I enjoyed half the rough journey earlier tho.. chatting and laughing with the rest.
We reached Sg Lembing town at around 2pm I guess, then we hang around, had ABC (air batu campur – a type of ice cream, not sure the name in English), more photo-shooting, and finally at around 4pm we departed to KL.. tired as I was, I wasn’t able to get a nice long sleep. Only dozed off now and then. After having a rest at R&R, as we continued the journey, we began our karaoke session. Haha everybody (I think) was having fun. We reached KL at around 9pm, after a bit chit-chatting and said our goodbyes, we got on our separate ways.
I really had a LOT of fun. And made many new friends. Ureshii~~ (^_^)V
