Out of Norm Travels

Kuala Lumpur or better known as KL has provided the usual activities for me personally i.e. shopping & eating but in my recent trip down to KLr, I was shown a different side to this all too familiar location.  A few hours away from KL city centre (specifically Lata Berembun Kuala Lumpur), there is a lovely waterfall that cascades down into a pool. This welcome sight only comes in after a back breaking and knee jerking an hour's journey on an open-top jeep. I have been on jeeps in the past but never in conditions that involved a trip into potholes & extremely muddy conditions. I consider it a natural roller coaster ride. At the end of the trip, I had sore muscles from all the holding onto the bars (to prevent falling off the 4WD cos one can be easily thrown out of the car as it navigates the terrain) and a new high from breathing in of the fresh air.  Would I do it again? Perhaps so but i have to forget the pain for this trip & only remember the high...

This is a tick of my "to-do" list - Climb the Great Wall of China. There was never a doubt in my mind that I will do this climb & I was fortunate enough to do it again before I turn half century old.  Unlike my recollection of my first trip up along the Great Wall where I had little time to explore the Great Wall, this trip was arranged specially to ensure that I got to travel from one end of the Wall to another. As a result, I got to spend a significant time taking photos of the journey up along the Wall (without the thousands of best friends that would get their head into the picture). I specifically avoided the more popular Badaling section is where hordes of tourists are ferried when it comes to climbing the Great Wall.  This time the climb was carried out at the JingShanLing section of the Wall - where the old section of the Wall is still standing. This meant that in most areas my group of 3 was very much walking up along the Wall on our own with not many other t...