Selangor: Chiling Waterfall

Even though Selangor is being considered the most developed state in Malaysia, there are many hidden gems that some people still dont know about.

Take the awesome Chiling Waterfall for example. Until about 2 years back, I never knew such an awesome waterfall actually exist. But when I found out, I knew that I must go there at least once. And once I was there, it was like falling in love at first sight. The beauty of this waterfall is mesmerizing.

The waterfall is actually part of Sg Chiling Fish Sanctuary and it is located not far from the awesome town of Kuala Kubu Baru, on the north-eastern part of Selangor. From Kuala Kubu Baru, one would drive along a winding road towards Bukit Fraser (another post later). But about half way up, one would see the "entrance" to the sanctuary on your right hand.

Park your car along the road and remember to lock it.

You will need to walk for about 5 minutes to the ranger's house to register before you can actually start your journey to the waterfall. Do remember that this sanctuary is only open from Friday until Sunday (8am to 6pm).

The trail to the waterfall is along the awesome Sg. Chiling, thus, making it slightly easier to follow. To make the experience even more awesome, the trail actually need trekkers to cross the river 6 times (including the bridge at the beginning of the trail). The thrill of crossing the river is when you realized that at some point, the water level is actually up to your waist. AWESOME!

The whole trekking from the ranger's house to the waterfall would take an average man about 1 hour to complete. Once you are there, you will be greet by an awesome view of the waterfall.

Chiling Waterfall consisted of 3 levels, with the lower level most popular among those that come for it. There is a large awesome pool on this level, and the water is not too deep, making it suitable for most visitors for swimming and relaxing.

The middle level is inaccessible but one can see the powerful movement of the water from the base or from the trek up to the upper level.

The less popular upper level of the waterfall is actually a beauty of its own. But due to the awesomely hard trail to go up, which is only suitable for the very fit, not many would make the extra effort to go up there. (Another post in the future would explain and show more about the upper level of Chiling Waterfall)

The only way to go back is to backtrack the way in.

Here are some video for you to check on this waterfall:

Sg Chiling Waterfall

Mahseer fishes abundance in Sg Chiling

TSDayOut SE Ulu Kelang - ATV Adventure Park (Part 2)

When we actually reached the real starting point of the trail that we were going to follow, I was surprise.

It was a crazy rocky uphill trail. Some of those in front of me was actually struggling to move up. We lined up and I was sweating abit (from the heat, of couse :P) but knowing that it won't be an easy one, I kept my camera into the bag and get myself ready.

True enough, it was not easy. But getting up there is not hard either. The bike would slide to the side every now and then and one must really focus to get it right.As the saying goes, the first step is the hardest. Soon, I was riding the quadbike (i prefer calling the ATV as quadbike) as though I am born to ride one. The feeling was awesome!

After getting more experience, I start taking out my cameras to take photos. When my quadbike is idle, the 450D would come out. Tough 8010 would be around while I was moving.

Nigel going for a turn, Jess on the trail and awesome view of a grand tree along the trail

My instructor was Wan, the awesome instructor who gave the briefing earlier) and in my "group", there were the awesome trio, Nigel (of Food and Frame), Jenny and Jess (of Jessying). Wan was riding with Jenny and they were far ahead and I couldnt take much of their photo.

The awesome wheel (won me RM250 :P) and more of the trail

I didnt have a watch with me and thus, I didnt know how long it took for us to reach our destination, the Klang Gate Dam. Just before we reach this destination, there is a part of the trail that actually went downhill and it was very steep. Holding onto both brakes doesnt really help. the quadbike would continue to slide down (thanks to gravity) and it was unnvervingly awesome. If you have watched some cars drifting before, then the way you handle the quadbike is actually the same.

Hafeez and Rasyidi on their quad-bike, at our destination

At our destination, we were greeted by an awesome view of Klang Gate Dam. Usually, people would see it from high above, at Bukit Tabur but this view is a beauty of its own.

Click on the photo to see an awesome view of Klang Gate Dam

We took a rest here for about 20 minutes, taking photos with each other and of course, the awesome group photo by Nigel. Check his website if you want to see it.

Awesome group photos and while on the way back

After the rest, we move back to the park and later to the awesome Bread Ties for our late lunch (mine was peri-peri chicken which taste really really awesomely nice) and photo submission. I didnt really take much photo during this time because the ride back involve alot of downhill and I would be holding my two brakes 99% of the time and I was too tired and hungry to go around taking photos at Bread ties. Really sorry for that... 

But I must say thank you to Tourism Selangor for choosing one of my photos as one of the six best photo of this TSDayOut with the theme "Motion-Action". It was super awesome coz this is my first time winning a mini contest.

In the end, the element that make this DayOut super awesome is not just the ride, but the people that I met. Really happy to meet with all of you.

TSDayOut SE Ulu Kelang - ATV Adventure Park (Part 1)

This awesome post, although is the first "travel post" for Awesome Adventurer, is actually long overdue. It supposed to go up somewhere last week but due to awesome technical problem that I was facing, it was being postponed until now.

First thing first. TSDayOut stands for Tourism Selangor DayOut (in case you dont know yet).

The DayOut is the name of the one-day event organized by them for anyone who may be interested. It is very easy join the awesome DayOut. Just like Tourism Selangor on FB (here) or follow them on Twitter (here) and when they announced the DayOut, comment with your name and email address. They would do the selection afterwards and send you an email with more information, once you have been selected. Awesomely easy, right?

* Note to myself. Have to do another post specifically for TS DayOut.

Okay. Back to the original topic. This is actually my second DayOut with the awesome Tourism Selangor. The first one was back in February but that would be another post later. It was awesome too.

For this DayOut, we were given a chance to actually ride an ATV (all terrain vehicle) or what other call it as quadbike. Awesome, right? The event took place in the awesome ATV Adventure Park, Kg Kemensah which is about 4.2 km from our Zoo Negara.

We gathered at surau nearby at about 10am for registration before carpooling to the adventure park. The road was narrow and we have to drive thru the kampung to reach the park. I was riding Alicia's Suzuki Swift and it was awesome. My first time riding one.

Entrance to ATV Adventure Park, the ATVs

When we reach there, we could see alot of ATV around but before we could ride on one, we have to sign an indemnity letter which was followed by a briefing my one of the awesome instructor.

Awesome Wan, giving briefing on how to handle the ATV.

Once we think we got the hang of it, we move to choose our own ATV for the ride. 

As this is a Special Edition DayOut, the awesome Tourism Selangor is very generous to sponsor half of the fee for the DayOut and thus, we only need to pay RM100 for the Package D (pre-determined by Tourism Selangor) which is a three hours ride from the park to the side of Klang Gate Dam and back.

The ATVs

Before we actually move out of the park, we would need to do abit of training indoor first. The park has a n awesome small route that include all possible terrain that we would encounter later (uphill, downhill, turns, water and rocks) and the instructors would actually determine if we are okay to move out or if we need to do more training first.

Once we are ready, we would move out of the park to the real starting point. There are quite many instructors around and each instructors would be taking care of several riders at one time. 

Now, that is where the real fun began.

To be continue.