Adventure Geocaching in Malaysia

The HP planets aligned last week to arrange for Andy and myself to both be in Kuala Lumpur on Friday, and no need to be back in Singapore until Monday.  With the twins and kids all in Australia we decided to stay on in KL for a boys weekend.  While it was rather tame by some measures (no drinking or partying, back at the hotel by 11 each night) we managed to find some adventure in the jungle surrounding KL.  On Saturday we set off to find My River Cache.  Hidden in November it had yet to be found which was a big attraction to us.  We rented a car from the airport and headed off.  The cache location was north of the city, past a dam and along a beautiful river with jungle on either side.  We walked down from road past some falls to what is obviously a popular swimming spot.  Walking upstream it didn't take long for us to leave civilization (and any semblance of a path) behind.  We leaped over boulders, pushed through vines, fought off giant leeches and made our way to the cache location which we found after a bit of searching.  It was really great fun pushing our way up river with no-one else around and being the first to find this cache.  I managed to defeat all the leeches that were climbing my shoes and jeans.  Andy had to remove one from his ankle during the walk and then a second from his toe that was discovered back at the hotel!

If you follow the link to the cache above and scroll down you can read our accounts of what went in to making the find.

On saturday night we met up with friends of ours for dinner, Glenn and Paquita, and Lauren, Ethan and Noah, who live in KL.  We enjoyed some good conversation over a dinner of Vietnamese food, finished off by gelati and coffee at an Italian restaurant.  It was good to see another part of the city that I hadn't been to before.

Sunday morning and it was time for another adventure cache: The Kanching Falls.  This one was located at the top of some very high falls in the mountains north of KL.  At levels 1 and 2 of the falls there were many people swimming and picnicking in the waterholes.  When we reached the cache location at the top of level 7 we were the only ones there.  The path was reasonably well marked but got progressively steeper as we climbed and it was very hot going.  Finding this cache took a little while as it was buried under some tree roots - it had last been found 7 months ago and a lot of mud and leaf litter had built up.  We then enjoyed a dip in the small pool at the top of the falls before journeying back down.  On the way down we met some engineering students from Libya who were very friendly and shared food and drink with us.