The (Non Stop) Road To Fraser's Hill

I was going to get up pretty early this morning, even after being out last night at this new bar called The Hill in Bangsar (was OK, but weirdly no music was playing and was host to several Hen Nights) as I'd agreed to drive out to Fraser’s Hill today with Arif.

Anyway I don’t get up till about 10am, and I am little hungover and so we are a little late leaving for, what I think is, a chance for another outdoor hike in the fresh air. Alas, it’s not. It’s a 70km drive about an hour and a half out of KL, through Rawang and to the higher ground passed the Hulu Yam dam and, basically, you can’t get out of your car for the whole journey until you reach Fraser’s Hill, as the road  twists and turns and is virtually single track. 

This is a real shame as the scenery along the way is breathtaking! I had to make do with committing the scenes to memory instead. 

The road to the Fraser's Hill summit is even more winding, narrow and steep, so there is a system of allowing cars up between a certain time, and down again at certain other times, so we check the internet on the way to find that we are probably going to be in time for the “up at 1300 hrs” slot, but when we get to the gate, at 1230, it’s open with no-one visibly looking after the car entry. Hmm… So we just go ahead hoping that cars are not allowed down, otherwise we’d have been screwed. All along the way were these warning signs telling you that it was forbidden to stop and look at the scenery.

It would have been more fun had I been able to go faster up the hill, but I was behind someone most of the way, plus the fact Arif looked like he’d throw up if I did go any faster round the bends!