• Daddy
• Cik W.n
• Mum
• Cik D.h
• Cik Min
• Granny Ton
• Myself
• Ika
• Asum
• Sha
• Hayzl

Daddy had to attend to an alarm at the office so we started the day late. All geared up with water packs and extra clothings.. we jus had to wait for his call and then we were off. Experience from the last 2 treks, we decided not to bring any food except for some salty crackers, energy bars and raisins. More would weigh us down.

The start of the trek on a Labour Day, is but a crowded one. So many families and training hikers with their full packs. Without dilly dallying, we took route 3 and 4 reviewed to be the mild and hard routes. Everyone set off with a spray of insect reppellent and left Daddy behind [he says he's admiring the beauty of nature.] HAH! My mum forbade him to touch the Nikon D70 and instructed me to be the photographer instead and commanded Daddy to march faster. Hahahahahaha.. he was excused from NS, he's paying for it now. So I was trigger happy as always, gets left behind often cos it took some time to adjust the Manual Mode and still catch up with the leaders.

Even with my condition, I managed to trek with a 3kg pack, a camera and still beat Daddy who's huffing and puffing along the trail. hehe I pity him. The trail was quite uneventful.. Not much to see and explore cos the caves are blocked with gates. Shucks.. I really wanted to go through the caves. But there is this small stream. Very cold water. And it has a brick wall along it.

[See pics in Album 3]

Then this is where the hard part comes. The 184. [I only learnt much later what that part of the trail is called.] The trail went uphill and instead of a steep gravel slope we encountered at MacRitchie, this had steep steps about 20 cm high each step and numbers were sprayed on it. And of course, there were 184 steps. 184 freaking steep steps. Not only did it do my heart some good workout, my thighs, my calves and my vertigo had some excercises too.

After that, it was all smooth sailing. Once the 184 is over, you can walk over fire I tell you. [walk over fire at own risk. I have not tried that yet.] We spent trekking for a mere 2 hrs uphill and another half hour walking down a very very steep slope. Then another 2 hours exploring their quarry, interactive playgrounds and watching watercolourists at work..

It was a good day indeed. Topped it off with lunch at Adam Road for some Nasi Lemak and Ice Kacang.. A good day indeed.

So please enjoy the pics..

Next Trek: Bukit Chandu @ Kent Ridge for Vesak Day..