ULu Muda Kedah

I decided to head up north again recently.
The intention was to go look for some tigers or perhaps a rhino.
I do not think i could get any of those in where i am now, but then again
i wasnt looking for them here.

The boat trip into the campsite made me scorched and rear sore. In the spirit of supporting the local
fishermen communities, our host decide to engage a sampan without a top cover
and had wooden planks for seats. We started at the jetty and cross the Ulu Muda dam before narrowing

Chill water 24/7

up stream towards our cabin. 45 minutes of plentiful warm malaysia sunshine at 2 in the afternoon.

But the organiser Hymeir did good work in organising and had the right footwork, to come this far
in a short period of time. True entrepreneur, could have been that Pashtun gunpowder blood that
course through him,from his mothers's side.

That late evening, we were plunging into bloody darkness until Hymeir and his boys managed to get
the generator set alive. Resourceful local boys, the sampan man, was also our chef,guide,housekeeping,plumber and wireman. Quite a jack.

Gua Labua

For me, i thought the highlight was the caves and not the visit to the saltlicks, camera traps or un-motored river cruise. When i went into the caves, i couldnt help thinking, the caves are here even before the dinosaurs. They kept to themselves while the rest of the earth continue to mortality. When
i see a doline in a cave, i realized it took 500 million years to get that hole in the roof for the sunlight to come through. Is a good place to stand in the past and reflect on our own insignificance, when in a cave.

Well, the nights were cold, i slept alone in a cabin without electricity as vandalism has
severed the connecting cables to our cabin. I had to get up around 2 in the morning to wear socks
before going back to sleep.

It was a good trip, had a hard time lowering my ass and back into the river though,quite a chill the water is.

The leech stockings couldnt save all of us