Distance: 7.5km
Elevation Gain: 450m
Rated: 3.0/10
As continuation from the previous entry, Tabur Hill (West Entrance), the story here will be similar.
Tabur Hill offer nice hiking and rock climbing experience for anyone who scale this hill. Tabur Hill, even with all the accident reports, I would still consider this side of the hill (west side) to be very safe as long as the hiker know his or her limit and know what he or she is doing. Do note, I would not recommend this hill to be the first hiking trip for any new hiker but go ahead if only you feel confident and would also not encourage hiking on the mountain while raining or right after the rain as the rock will be slippery.
To get to the path of the hike, one can use the following destination, "Jalan Taman Zooview, Kampung Kemensah" or [3°13'19.564"N 101°46'43.265"E]. You can park your car at the side of the road, just make sure it is not blocking the road as the road can be narrow. Just like the west and east entrance, there is no public facilities provided here.
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| A map to the entrance of Tabur Hill Extreme from Monash University Malaysia |
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Turn left here at the fishing pond, drive a bit more. The first entrance will appear on the left (dirt road)
To get to the start of the path, right after turning left at the fishing pond, the first dirt road / ATV off road on your left is the starting point of Tabur Hill Extreme. Do take note, this part of the Tabur Hill is rarely visited by your everyday regular hiker so the forest can be quite virgin with overgrown bush making navigation through the mountain tougher. I do recommend to bring "parang" for this hiking trip with long pant.
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Tabur Extreme for me has the best view among the other two Tabur Hill, West and East, though, this hiking trail is rarely touch by hiker which mean the forest can be rather virgin. Overgrown bushes that almost cover the trail. Thorn and thorn that scratches your leg. Moreover, there quite a fair bit of fork road here but using common sense, the hiking path is quite obvious. However, I would say this hill does not have a lot of rock climbing like West and East and I do find this place safer compare to the other two. The view up here is worth the climb. We even spotted Genting Highland at the horizon.
Once at the end, you can even see the whole Tabur range from Tabur Far East all the way to Tabur West, hiker at Tabur East can even be spotted but of course with the use of binocular. We took around 1.5 to 2 hours up to an elevation of around 330m +-. It could have been faster if not for all the low overgrown bush that I was busy clearing off ...
The "main entrance" of the Tabur Hill start after roughly 30mins+ of hiking through the ATV trail and from there onward are all hiking trail. There are a few fork road before reaching the "main entrance" though. Below are the way to avoid getting lost in Tabur Extreme.
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| 1st fork road: Turn Right here at the hut |
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| 2nd fork road: up left to Tabur Extreme "main entrance" |
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| Hiking toward the "false peak" |
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| Hiking toward the "false peak" |
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| The "false peak" |
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| The "false peak" |
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| Hiking toward Tabur Extreme |
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| The overgrown low bushes blocking the path |
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| Genting Highland at the horizon (nearing Tabur Extreme peak) |
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| On top of Tabur Extreme, overlooking Tabur West (at furthest end peak) to Tabur Far East (the closest peak) |
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| On top of Tabur Extreme |
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| On top of Tabur Extreme |
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| On top of Tabur Extreme |
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| On top of Tabur Extreme |
This is Tabur Extreme, a hill rarely touched by hiker. It quite easy to get lost here but the view up here is much spectacular than all my Tabur hike to a point where I am not planing to go toward Tabur Far East. (note: Tabur Far East trail is much more virgin than Extreme trail). Definitely a place to go if you want something different from your usual hike in Tabur Hill.
On the side notes: Before reaching this peak, there were two failed hike. The first is we were not able to find the entrance from "Sunway Ridgeway" area since this area construction has done it best to destroy a lot of thing.....
Second failed hike was two wrong turn which ended us up running out of sunlight to reach the peak (we started our hike at 2pm), only able to reach the "false peak"
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| 2nd failed trip toward the peak of Tabur Extreme. (we took straight at the 4th fork road which ended up almost at the bottom of the hill and took left at the 5th fork road which ended up at the "false peak" |
Last edited: 14/10/2014
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