Padas River Rafting

I went rafting with couples of friends on 10th april. Almost 1 month ago and now only i'm blogging bout it :P

We started our journey at 7am meeting at Kingfisher's bus stop. But as usual, there will always someone that comes late :(

Then we leave from the bus stop at around 8am. The rafting company's driver send us up. This picture is when we on the way up in the van. There are 12 of us. Only 11 person is in the picture cos another one is the person taking this picture. hehe!

It's a long way up and the stipness is 19 degree!!! We felt like our van can't even move. But fortunately, the van we sat is Mercedes.

This is when we are half way top. The mountain behind is called "Banjaran Crocker"!!!

This is the time when my slipper can no longer be used cos it tear off :(

but thanks to Joyce(the girl in pink), she borrowed me her slipper :)

We finally reached a village in Tawau. This is when we get down and continue our journey by using trolley. We can use train but it is the best experience ever. The trolley is made up by a strong wood. Rectangular shape where can only fit 4 person and another person known as "driver" for that trolley. But the "driver" have to stand and another 4 is the one sitting.

Below the trolley, is 4 bearing which rolls by the rail way.And another interesting part is, the trolley is open air where we can't grip on anywhere other than our friends. Imagine those cartoon show. in a mine, they will have a trolley and they sit inside. It's the same as this except this is open air.

Quite dangerous but it's fun!!

We finally reached our starting point of rafting. We take a break, ate watermelons, cakes and get some briefing bout our safety during rafting from our guide.

We then choosed our group of 8 cos we have 24 person and we have 3 rafts.

After we are ready, we start our rafting!!!!

The river is a running river where the water flows only one direction with strong current.

There are 4 levels of "fighting current" i'm not very sure bout the name. Level 4 is the highest and crazy-est, followed by level 3,level 2, and level 1.

My group manage to control our raft so that it didn't capsice(not very sure bout the spelling but the meaning is over-turn/terbalik). Other 2 groups over-turned and we have to help them to avoid from flowing in a strong currrent water.

We get to experience Flying-fish(a water game where our raft is about 45 degree or more facing up), Banana boat(got cheated by the guide where he asked us to sit by the side and he push us all into the river), Balancing(all of us have to stand by the side of the raft and balance ourselves). All of us had a "small war" among the 3 rafts where we make others fall into the river. muahaha!! But all this game is played when the current is not strong.

We stopped after 10km of rafting to take our lunch( mee goreng, nasi goreng, hotdog, fried chicken, vegetables, fruits) then we continue rafting for another 9km.

We end our rafting near a train station so we can take the train to Beufort where our transport is waiting for us.

Sorry i don't have the pictures during this time cos none of us brought water-proof camera :(

So sad!

This is the 12 person from UMS joining this rafting activity. The guy that didn't wear t-shirt is our guide known as Kent. The girls said he look like "The Rock from WWF"



This is the 24 people joining this trip. 5 of them are from Singapore and out of that 5, 2 of them are French.

This is outside Beufort Train Station.
We received a certificate. "Certificate of Survival" haha!! It was fun and the money we paid is worth it!

Some of my friends willing to go again next time. For me, i'm satisfied. My cousin wei kwang will be going rafting with his friends after Mount Kinabalu on 25th may. That time i'm on my way back to Klang.

Home-sweet-home!!

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