Diplomat Resident Jungle Trekking at Kg. Sungai Akar.

18th October 2009, the third trekking at Diplomat Resident, Kampong Sungai Akar. My post in this week is The Trek Organizer along with Asri Haji Mohammad. Our jobs is to organize the group, divided the group and keep the group save in and out. As we all are ready, we divided into four group. We started trekking a bit late because of some problem occurred with the bus.

obstruction from falling trees...


We start our trekking at 6.40 am. The structure of the trek is very challenging because of many obstruction from falling trees, slippery condition and the confusion of the mark. I felt like the trek is more and more challenging but the teamwork of our BEACA group have shown making me more highly spirits, enthusiasm, cheerfulness and energetic.

About an hour and 15 minutes trekking through the trek, I felt like we are almost at the end of the trek but the truth is we are not even half way through the jungle. At some point we were lost indeed because of too much enjoying the nature but managed to get back on track, at this moment every step that I took is torturing my stamina but somehow I have to keep up my courage to finish the trek. We notice that the first group was lost due to following the wrong mark but managed to get back with the help from Dr. Irene and Azmey. This is one of the most important lesson that we learnt today.

termites nest.... beautiful...


Along the trek, I saw weird and wonderful things that can be found in the jungle such as termites nest. Termites, build their nests out of mud and clay. They use the tree or stump as a support for their nest, and then move down the tree to find their favorite food: decomposing wood on the forest floor. How wonderful the nature is, we should preserve the jungle, it's a home for thousand of animal even termite has their own home...

After about an hour and 30 minutes of trekking through the jungle from where we lost, finally we managed to finished the trek at 9.30am. After hours of tired and exhausted, I think this is the day where my physical and mental is forcing to the limit, but in the end it is worth, we learnt a valuable lesson today. Teamwork is the key and we share our success in the end... as the trek organizer for this week, i think we have successfully accomplish our jobs, all of us are safe and sound, no one was injured... so in the future, i would like to organize another trek adventure for my family, colleague in the office and maybe for tourist to promote the nature of our country, to appreciate it, to enjoy it and to preserve it...