You’d be surprise to find out the beauty of Malaysia countryside within 30 minutes drive from Kuala Lumpur city centre.
The area around Pekan Batu 18 where we normally park our cars, unload and setup our bikes and start riding. You can drink the best air tebu in the world which taste better than any drinks you’ve ever had especially after a long ride under the sun. It is just delicious.
Located about 8km from Batu 18, Pangsun is where hikers go for climbing up to the peak, Gunung Nuang. It is not as “severe” as Kinabalu but challenging enough to drain your energy from a whole day hiking up and down. I have been up, not quite to the top but high enough. The trail is covered with beautiful rain forest with beautiful stream, rapids and waterfalls along the route. The environment is cooling and very refreshing. I will bring my camera and post some nice pics on the future.
Today, I insisted to ride deep into kampong Kuala Pangsun where they plant sayur manis for commercial production but in a very traditional way. Of course there are durian orchards around it. This 8km ride is a nice warm up before cruising along the kampong road toward Genting Peres, the peak of the road to Kuala Kelawang, which also divides Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. This kampong route, especially during weekends are not quite unlike French countryside where you can see scores of cyclists zoom past through the smells of Malay cooking and rows of kampong coffee shops with pakciks who seem like permanent feature by the roadside seeping their coffee or the tarik. Perhaps they also bitch about current leadership and how much they hope Tun M to leave IJN soon.
Simply breathtaking…
The whole ride is about 60km and you can be done by noon if you start pedaling at 8am.
The best way to cool down after a long ride is to clean the nook and cronies of the bike before soaking ourselves into the Sungai Langat. The finale (perhaps the objective too) is to have late breakfast nasi lemak daun pisang at a particular stall in Sungai Chongkak picnic area.
It would be quite nice to have a little piece of land by the river and build, or relocate a nice old Terengganu house as a weekend home.
climbing up to Genting Peres
Adorable little kitten. she was there before and after the ride. I almost took her home....aaww!!
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