** Warning : lotsa picture ahead **
For the past few weeks, all of sudd, like there is a trend. I start seeing "Broga Hills" picture and hearing ppl talking bout it .. So out of curiosity start Google it, and start amire at the wonderful scenary that everyone been there tat taken those pic. Wondering - got so nice or not wor .. and somehow the name - Broga Hill does not sounds like a moutain that is somewhere in M'sia .. if u compare to Gunung Tahan, Mount Kinabalu, Bukit Cahaya, Bukit Kiara those names .. Broga Hills do stand out. But yean, IT IS in Malaysia and is not that far from Selangor.
So .. after 2 weeks of planning and trying to get ppl to go .. and .. Oh! did I mention we went on Monday? Yeah .. we went on Monday, nope, no typo. IS MONDAY. The only time I got my rest day :) Met up in Cheras at 4.30am like dat, and off we go!
Reason go off so early is only 1 ---- Sunrise!
According to all those info from other ppl's blog, we do noe that Broga Hill is after Nottingham Trent U, and further down .. and the entrace is opposite of a Rabbit farm, which is on our right hand side. Here is a lil tips for those plan to go .. dun trust so much on ur GPS navigator ... The entrace of Broga Hill is exactly right opposite of the Rabbit farm that is suppose on ur right hand side.
We stopped by at the 1st time, and really have doubts in our head, wondering "are u sure?" what we saw tat time was - Pitch black, basically at 5am in the morning u see nothing but pitch black forest like. Even we point our torch light we still barely see a thing .. so we travel further down, trusting the GPS and realise it leads us to Broga Town .. so turn back and stopped at the road side (Which u actually can stop at the entrance). Get our bags and torch light ready and off we go.
5 of us, walking with our torch light in the palm oil farm .. follow the track .. Our experience is more diff that what we been reading. Simply because ppl normally come on weekends which is quite alot of ppl. But for us .. we are the one and only group that time. Without able to follow anyone, we just have to trust ourselves. At that time the only light source is from our very own torch light and we see no sign board no nothing .. So we just walked and walked ..
We came to our 1st diversion in the palm oil farm and we took the left .. later on we come to another diversion .. and we looking at the diversion, the one on left is easier path, the one on right looks like quite hard and lead u to nowhere .. and based on the stuff we read that the trekking is rated as "Easy" so we just cont take the left diversion (which later found out the right path is the actual path) .. and walk and walk .. around 30 min later when we come to another diversion and realise we are lost .. back track to the very 1st diversion. Which we took the left to easy path, instead of the right that looks leads us nowhere.
After wasting 30 over min at the wrong road or we called it the warm up session .. we kinda used up alot of energy .. and finding a lil hard to climbing up .. there is quite a number of 45 degree steps and there is some place that we have to hold on the rope ..
But anyway .. we missed the sunrise .. but we do make it to the top. There is 3 peaks all together. The only way to go to the highest peak is go thru the first 2 peaks. Is just one and another along the road.
The view up there is beautiful! and very windy .. :) Here is some of the pictures. Enjoy :)
But before that .. Here is some tips if u plan to go.
Things to bring :
1. Torch light (if u plan to see sunrise, torchlight is a must)
2. Towel
3. Water (around 1.5l the best)
4. Walking stick (quite useful, tho we never use any of it)
5. Camera
6. Tripod (if u have and want to take a group pic)
7. A good and comfy shoe.
Trekking up to Broga Hills tips :
1. Sunrise on the day we went is around 6.30am
2. There should be ONLY 2 diversions - 1st diverson - when u in palm oil farm, take the left. 2nd diversion - after palm oil farm u see a diversion which the path on ur right clearly leads u uphill.
3. Watch ur steps .. is quite unevent ground and sometimes there is water pile or even holes.
4. Alwiz help one and another
5. Have fun :)
For the past few weeks, all of sudd, like there is a trend. I start seeing "Broga Hills" picture and hearing ppl talking bout it .. So out of curiosity start Google it, and start amire at the wonderful scenary that everyone been there tat taken those pic. Wondering - got so nice or not wor .. and somehow the name - Broga Hill does not sounds like a moutain that is somewhere in M'sia .. if u compare to Gunung Tahan, Mount Kinabalu, Bukit Cahaya, Bukit Kiara those names .. Broga Hills do stand out. But yean, IT IS in Malaysia and is not that far from Selangor.
So .. after 2 weeks of planning and trying to get ppl to go .. and .. Oh! did I mention we went on Monday? Yeah .. we went on Monday, nope, no typo. IS MONDAY. The only time I got my rest day :) Met up in Cheras at 4.30am like dat, and off we go!
Reason go off so early is only 1 ---- Sunrise!
According to all those info from other ppl's blog, we do noe that Broga Hill is after Nottingham Trent U, and further down .. and the entrace is opposite of a Rabbit farm, which is on our right hand side. Here is a lil tips for those plan to go .. dun trust so much on ur GPS navigator ... The entrace of Broga Hill is exactly right opposite of the Rabbit farm that is suppose on ur right hand side.
We stopped by at the 1st time, and really have doubts in our head, wondering "are u sure?" what we saw tat time was - Pitch black, basically at 5am in the morning u see nothing but pitch black forest like. Even we point our torch light we still barely see a thing .. so we travel further down, trusting the GPS and realise it leads us to Broga Town .. so turn back and stopped at the road side (Which u actually can stop at the entrance). Get our bags and torch light ready and off we go.
5 of us, walking with our torch light in the palm oil farm .. follow the track .. Our experience is more diff that what we been reading. Simply because ppl normally come on weekends which is quite alot of ppl. But for us .. we are the one and only group that time. Without able to follow anyone, we just have to trust ourselves. At that time the only light source is from our very own torch light and we see no sign board no nothing .. So we just walked and walked ..
We came to our 1st diversion in the palm oil farm and we took the left .. later on we come to another diversion .. and we looking at the diversion, the one on left is easier path, the one on right looks like quite hard and lead u to nowhere .. and based on the stuff we read that the trekking is rated as "Easy" so we just cont take the left diversion (which later found out the right path is the actual path) .. and walk and walk .. around 30 min later when we come to another diversion and realise we are lost .. back track to the very 1st diversion. Which we took the left to easy path, instead of the right that looks leads us nowhere.
After wasting 30 over min at the wrong road or we called it the warm up session .. we kinda used up alot of energy .. and finding a lil hard to climbing up .. there is quite a number of 45 degree steps and there is some place that we have to hold on the rope ..
But anyway .. we missed the sunrise .. but we do make it to the top. There is 3 peaks all together. The only way to go to the highest peak is go thru the first 2 peaks. Is just one and another along the road.
The view up there is beautiful! and very windy .. :) Here is some of the pictures. Enjoy :)
But before that .. Here is some tips if u plan to go.
Things to bring :
1. Torch light (if u plan to see sunrise, torchlight is a must)
2. Towel
3. Water (around 1.5l the best)
4. Walking stick (quite useful, tho we never use any of it)
5. Camera
6. Tripod (if u have and want to take a group pic)
7. A good and comfy shoe.
Trekking up to Broga Hills tips :
1. Sunrise on the day we went is around 6.30am
2. There should be ONLY 2 diversions - 1st diverson - when u in palm oil farm, take the left. 2nd diversion - after palm oil farm u see a diversion which the path on ur right clearly leads u uphill.
3. Watch ur steps .. is quite unevent ground and sometimes there is water pile or even holes.
4. Alwiz help one and another
5. Have fun :)

it was a paper that leads us to the correct way ..