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Popular Warnings or Dangers | Miscellaneous Warnings or Dangers Tips | All Tips (7) Beware of leeches if you go for trekking, especially after rainy day.
Get some salt from the restaurant nearby, they will be more than willing to help you on this. If any part of your body suck by leech, dont pull them, else your blood will spill. Put some salt on the leech. It will then dehydrate and drop aumomatically. Leave a Comment
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Always bring a windbreaker along as the temperature may drop quite a bit in the evening, night and early morning. Leave a Comment
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Beware of leeches when you walk on the trails. There are abundant of leeches. Trekkers are advised to wear non-leech socks when trekking, especially on the more challenging and muddy trails. Leave a Comment
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There are lots of forest trails in Fraser's Hill (Pahang, Malaysia) and while it is fun and challenging to trek on one, it pays to :
1)Stick closely to the path
2)Go with a guide if you're not used to treking or underaged.
In case you haven' t heard , 4 young Singaporean boys ventured into Bishop's Trail without a chaperone and was lost for a few days. Well, they would have stayed there forever if not for the kindness of the Sultan of Pahang!
Well, after hearing the awful news, the compassionate Sultan took the trouble to hire the best orang asli trekker (local tribesman) to find the boys. And true enough, the trekker found them in just one day when the others took days.
All's well that ends well but if truth be told, the boys weren't the first ones to lose their way. A few months before them, a British botanist got lost and in 1900, Mr. Louis James Fraser, Fraser's hill own namesake disappeared and never returned!
Note: My group attempted the Bishop's trail ourselves and would have gotten lost if not for our ornithologist. There were fallen logs everywhere and it was a bloody challenge hoisting ourselves over those logs. Plus, there were thousands of leeches so each of us wondered how those boys could have survived for days in the cold forest! Also, what were their parents thinking when they allowed the boys to wander into the trail ala Hansel and Gretal? Leave a Comment
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Please take note there are no fuel/gas station or ATM machine.
Bring cash as credit card may not be accepted. Leave a Comment
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