During normal weekends, many visitors especially the younger and more energetic ones come to Sg. Lembing to do two things: one is to climb the Panorama Hill to watch sunrise and the other is to visit the Rainbow Waterfall.
We decided against going to see the Rainbow Waterfall after being told that the journey could be a very demanding one: 45-min in a 4WD on rugged road followed by 45-min jungle walk including crossing stream with waist deep water! Mind you, this is the only way!
As we discovered, even the climb to see sunrise turned out to be much more challenging than we had anticipated.
The hotel's manager who is a Vietnamese lady offered to accompany us for the climb. We set our alarm at 4.45am to prepare for the climb starting at 5.30am. Fortunately, our hotel is just a mere 2-min walk from the foothill where the climb commenced.
In full gear for the climb. It turned out we were over-dressed for the climb.
The climb has been made easy by the concrete steps with handrail built almost all the way from the foothill to the top of the hill. Still, the climb was tough. It seemed a never ending climb!
All drenched in sweat by the time we reached the peak.
Exhausted but triumphant once we reached the peak.
With Ah Lan our Vietnamese "guide" .
Sadly, the morning sun failed to appear at the horizon. The thick cloud and bad weather the previous night prevented all the enthusiastic crowd from having a glimpse of the so called magnificent view of the sunrise.
This is what we should have seen if the weather was good that morning!
Still, the view was spectacular!
The descent was much easier.
Happy that we managed to 'conquer' the hill.
3 comments:
Did the climb bring back memories of the time you climb Mt Kinabalu together?
Yes. It did. Judging my condition during the climb, I commented along the climb that I didn't think I would be able to do the Mt. Kinabalu climb again
lol. me neither.
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