Kepayang Hill

Recently KC and I have taken up a new hobby ie climbing up Kepayang Hill. It's not much of a hill actually but still a got form of exercise. We can see the hill from our kitchen window. People had been talking about....so we thought why not try it out since it's so near our house?

The first time we went up was in the morning. We met many hikers along the way and they were very friendly; greeting us good morning in Cantonese. I find the evening hikers not as friendly and the younger generation definitely not friendly at all.

Up on the hill is a Hindu temple. We were greeted by a lady who called KC by his name. His Form Six classmates (husband and wife). Their children are my students!

Being a king scout, KC is slightly more adventurous. In one of the hike with Dan, he decided to take a different route down. We ended up on a route that was real steep and difficult. After half an hour going downwards and consulting google map on our phones, he decided we would end up far from where we parked our car. So we had to climb up again and returned by the original route. Dan was most upset with the adventure as he had to slide down on his buttock most of the time and it was quite scary for him as he is not so agile.

KC's adventurous spirit would not rest till he tried something new. Another trip; just the two of us...he tried again another route. (There are many many routes; easy and difficult ones). Wow...this route reminded me of the horrible times when I went hiking with the MYFers...my knees would go wobbly but I had no choice those days except to go down with the help of the boys who make a safety chain down.

Well, I had a choice that day. I stood firm on my ground and said NO. So we returned to the original route again and met Dr and Mrs Lim and Uncle Ben on their way down. We joined them and discovered the route by road...which is not so interesting. Anyway Dr Lim invited us to join him on a hike to Gunung Angsi on Malaysia Day!


Going up...it take about 20 minutes to get up.

It's actually a sort of a rubber plantation...there are still rubber trees that are being tapped like this one.


This trail is slightly steeper...it's the last trail before reaching the top. There are ropes tied to this to help hikers up.


The view from the top....lots of development around Seremban. We found a spot where we could actually see our house. It's quite cooling up here.

Hiking up the hill....I definitely enjoy it and hope we will be able to do this for a long time.