From Kajang to Seri Menanti by LEKAS highway

Peace be upon you all. On to some travelling did last weekend starting Friday 16th September 2011.

Noon, after spending the night at a family house in Kajang, me, wife and our 23-month old son Al-Rasyid took the LEKAS highway accesible just behind the house or so.

While we have taken this highway many times to move to the south and back, most of the time it was at night.

And as far as I could remember I've never went further than Seremban (on the southward or rather south then eastern route) in bright day light.

So this journey made on Friday is a first as I could see how the highway rise and cuts through some highland area towards Seremban before veering east towards Peninsular Malaysia's main mountain range, the Banjaran Titiwangsa.

By the way the highway extends to a route towards Kuala Pilah. I wanted to get to Seri Menanti first and it is on the same route. As I reached the junction that separates the sub-urbs of Seremban from the part of the highway to Kuala Pilah it started to rain.

Now, this is a part which I really really wanted to see in daylight as it cuts through the main mountain range.


See the pointed hill in the picture? Before, everyone must take the twisting and winding road climbing up the hill before going down to get to the eastern parts of the state of Negeri Sembilan from its capital Seremban.

Now with the highway present the road is much straighter although still veering at parts as it cuts through the heights of the range. Shown here is where the highway rejoins the old part of the eastward route, a small distance after going down the hill mentioned on the previous paragraph.