My journey: Mountain climbing

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Friday, July 9, 2010

MT Rijanni, Lombok Part 2

Salam to all again

We are now in the month of Rejab, Hijri calendar. Muslims around the world are preparing themselves for the blessed month of Ramadhan. Increase our iman and amal, Insyaallah.

AllahuAkhbar...Allah is the greatest...My journey to the base of Mt. Rijanni was a moment of reflecting the One's power and the One's creations. Name it, from the
undulating landscapes, the volcanic crater, the lake and the fantastic views from the mountain top and the vegetation cover were the proofs of Allah's greatness...

The first part of the journey was long and required my mental strength...since I was the weakest in the group. The first 45 minutes I experienced a 'kind of high latitude sickness'. My breakfast energy went astray...I vomited and was forced to rest for more than 1 hour. I was about to go back to the homestay at Sembalun with the guide, suddenly a surge of energy came back(after drinking about 750ml of 100 plus)..So I decided to continue the climbing..well I took 10 hours and 20 minutes to arrive at the camping ground..the rest only took 8 plus hours..Hakim and Andre (the guide) had to bare with my slow phase and frequent stops...

All in about 7 mountains within Mt. Rijanni. The locals called them "7 Bukit penyesalan"..because it looked a never ending climbing...

Wassallam
p/s Enjoy the views...

Puziah

Thursday, July 1, 2010

MT Rijanni, Lombok

Salam to all..

I started the journey reluctantly at first, because I suffered a week of heavy flu. A week before that we entertained the children by bringing them to Cherating for the weekend.

Anyhow...we left LCCT at 8.30p.m on 11th (Friday) of June 2010. Originally there were 13 members in the group, 5 withdrew due to job and family commitment. Only 8 of us continued the trip. It was planned last year. Like me, I just prayed that the trip did not clash with my oral examination.

The schedule of our trip ;
1.11th June left LCCT for Bali..Stayed over night. 9.00 a.m left for Matarram (City of Lombok) by Merpati Air. Only took 15 minutes. Then proceeded to land journey in a van to the Sembalu National Park. It took around 4 hours to arrive there. Awesome scenery with fresh veges and fruits. The strawberries were cheap and sweet. A packet of strawberries cost only RM1.90...so I ate 4 packets..
2. All the pictures showed the first part of the journey..

Enjoy the view...
Puziah

Saturday, June 19, 2010

LCCT-Bali-Lombok-Matarram-Rinjanni

Salam semua..

Seminggu yang sibuk..dengan pendakian yang mencabar....mencapekkan mental dan fizikal..
Perkara yang Puziah perlu lakukan sebelum lutut longgar dan kaki menggeletar...
Ceritanya kemudian ya!...Ada perkara penting yang perlu diselesaikan....

Wassallam
Puziah

Saturday, January 3, 2009

MOUNT MARAPI PART 2

Salam to all again...Special doas for the Palestinians..May Allah protect them from the agresor and indeed "victory" awaiting for them ... Just to share, I joined Malaysian protesters against the Israeli terror and cruelty with my son Nurrudddin on the 30th December 2008.. published in BH and other local dailies...our pictures were on BH 31/12/2008, page 37-Dunia Section

SECOND PART OF THE EXPEDITION

The ascending mission started where Toyota Innova stopped. There were three parts of the journey..1) from the dropping off zone to the bammboo areas-fresh water collection; 2) camping based level 3) volcanoe area

First level: The farmers on the highland were very approachable.."Mahu mendaki bu..hati-hati ya" the usual statement when encountered them on the way...Minang fellow climbers would say" Assalmualaikum bu, pak , jalan dulu ya" not one person but each member in the group greeted us.. It would be nicer to meet fellow youngsters in Malaysia to greet us like that..

While walking we saw a nice view of prime agricultural land and lots of vegetables left by the roadside..e.g tomotaoes. We could actually ate the tomotoes for free..but no taking home policy.

After two hours of walking and resting..the guide said"jauh lagi ni bu"....We met Canadians and English couples while ascending...The thick vegetation showed that indeed it was still a long walk to accomplish... Steps after steps..trees and more trees...and in between take five and may be fifteen minutes of breaks..the vegetation changed with slighty smaller and less denser as it was before..We knew that we were at the second level..after two hours of walk..

Second level : "Tak lama Bu, mungkin 45 minit, kita sampai kawasan bermalam" the guide gave some motivation... In actual fact we had to ascended another two hours to the camping base. 6 o'clock in the evening, but here in the forest it was darker...as expected we arrived at the base around six local time ..maghrib time..after almost six hours of journey..the rain welcomed us..it was cold..we quickly set up our tent..took about 1/2 hour. I jumped into the tent as soon as it stood still..cold beb..needed to changed wet clothes..temperature around 12 degrees may be so at night below ten I guessed. Rosman and my husband still finetuned the tent....Alhamdulilah the coleman tent was wind-proof so I felt warm inside and ate my dinner of chicken and rice..I did not feel to heat up the dishes just in my tummy...Hakim joined later..cold even to brush my teeth I felt ...argh...

I slept may be not yet 9.00 p.m due to exhaustion.. well ...at 12 mid night I heard some kind of commotion..A group of youngsters climbed up to the top..the locals like to ascend during maghrib time and straight to the top crater/caldron...and early morning started descending...

Third level .. to the sumit : "Setengah lima kita naik..lihat matahari terbit.." Ferri(the guide) told us.. at 4 a.m.... I heard Ferri was cooking and ...I did not hear any responses from the two guys..I thought "setengah lima" means half past 5...not 4.30...then Fajr...the sun could be seen already... We only started climbing around 7.00 a.m to the top.. After two hours of waliking on the volcanoe gravel and sand..we heard gushing of sulfuric water like a water fall...we arrived at the volcanic crater...Subhanallah beautiful scenery on the top... not clouds but gaseous of volcanic sulfur came out but it did not smell like"rotten eggs"(as in Lake Rotoroa, New Zealand).

Photo session...and more photo sessions.. to the two football field(flat area on the volcanoe), we proceeded to the top...Ferri and my husband walked as fast as they could to the top..I took my own phase..Rosman and Naim took more photos...a bit behind......THEN WE reached the summit...ALHAMDULLILLAH to the Creator of this Universe...majestic creation....human civilization could not be near par with what we saw...see pictures

The pictures are not sequenced properly...part 1(ascending), part two(level two and based camp). part 3(the tops) and part four (villages of Bukit Tinggi and look out of Lake Meninjau) ..Enjoy the scenery...

PART FOUR