Blurb's: Genting Sempah Ride!

Last weekend ride to Genting Sempah was amazing!

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Route : Hospital Orang Asli -> Genting Sempah -> Hospital Orang Asli
Distance : 34KM

Overall, the ride itself wasn't all too easy since the first half of the journey is all uphill which is nice since it's pretty boring if its just flat roads. For those worrying they couldnt make the hill, fret not since the climb isn't that steep.

We started off at Hospital Orang Asli (Hospital Jheoa) and as usual, we were late and only began the 17KM UPHILL ride @8.40AM+. Along the way up to Genting Sempah, we came across other cyclists but all of them were on road bikes! They might be wondering why aren't we on MTB's doing off-roads, hah. Well aside that, we too saw monkeys on the way up which was quite scary since they all look like they are waiting to rob a lonely cyclist...haha

The ride up takes us on less travelled roads which occasionally a vehicle or two will pass us by. In fact I never knew this road existed. When I first heard about the ride to Genting Sempah I imagined the ride will take us on Karak highway but I was so wrong. This is so much better! For most of the parts, its canopied. At some spots midway through, we could manage to catch a glimpse of Karak highway which was very well below us. Not to mentioned, it was chilly throughout the ride!

We finally reached Genting Sempah only after 3 long hours (probably due to the countless stops we made) which we then happilly had McDonalds. It's just too bad we werent' able to make it for breakfast =( Well, i believe next time we shall start earlier and ride faster and harder for that BigBreakfast set!

It was pouring rain when we were making our 17KM ride downhill! Water was splashing and kept going into my eyes! Many times over I had wipe them off as I find it hard to see till I got so fed up and put on my sunnies. BUT even still, water was still sipping through. Anyhow the rain dint stop us from making it all the way down in just 30 minutes it just made it more enjoyable! The air was already cold, add on top of that with raindrops and wind...I was freeezing.

Anyhow; here's are some of the pics from my ride! I'll probably upload them to flickr.