Broga Temple Trail 22 Nov 2009

Trekking up the hill besides the Broga Stone Temple could be described as easy. Starting at 8.15 a.m. the trek to the open hill top took only about 30 minutes. That morning the weather was simply beautiful and cloudy. We took our time to admire the scenic surrounding especially the mist moving about the Broga Hills.

On returning to the Temple at about 10 a.m, we proceeded to hike the opposite hill following the G7 paper trail. The trail passed through the most challenging slopes. The terrain was steep and slippery and we had to grab onto branches and tree trunks to climb uphill. At 323m asl, we decided to make a U turning instead of proceeding up another hill (for another 1 hour) as we were unprepared for such a challenging climb. The downhill trail was drier and thus easier to navigate. It took us a total of 3.5 hours to climb up to 323m asl and to return to base. The hike can be described as vigorous and exhausting.

Trekking buddies: SeeToh (Leader), Ting, Ben, Murugiah, Kachana, Randy, Choo & Elsie.

For the photographs, please refer to http://happytrekker.shutterfly.com/pictures/6861.

Broga Hills 16 Mar 2008

After parking our cars along the Semenyih-Broga road, we made our way in the dark to the trail head by walking about 10 minutes along the dirt road of the oil palm estate facing the Rabbit Farm. The climb to the rest place at 385m altitude took us another 30 minutes. The hilltop was treeless and pleasantly windy. The views from the hills were also lovely. At 7.20 a.m. after noting that there was no sun in sight we proceeded to the next hill by following a clear path cutting through the lalang covered hills. Fortunately, we met a friendly regular there who kindly guided us downhill using another trail through the jungle and rubber estate which took about 1:15 hr. We visited the Broga Stone Temple, the Semenyih Dam and Look Out Point at Hulu Langat enroute home.

For the photographs, please refer to http://happytrekker.shutterfly.com/pictures/2833.