As we walked up wider and wider vistas began to open up.
It was the first time I brought the wife and kids up this particular hill.
It is the tallest hwithin 600 metres radius or so from the riverside place.
A view from the top. A check with Google Earth shows while the surrounding flatland is situated at an average 1,450 feet above sea level this hilltop is situated 150 feet higher. That is equivalent to climbung up a 15 floor building.
This is of course nothing to regular mountain-climbers. But it is something to my wife. In fact it is something to me too although I have climbed a number of mountains including the 13,455 feet high Mount Kinabalu in Sabah. You see I have been out of shape for years. Climbing small hills once in a while feels like a feat.
From the hilltop we found a route going down to a flat area to the south. It's not that I haven't been here before. But it was like more than 10 years ago and there was no open route then, just a hillside full of trees I had to negotiate.
Next we decide to go on up a bigger and higher hill. We were surprised to find rows of terrace house being built.
You see Janda Baik mainly have bungalows or single units of kampung houses on kampung or agricultural lands.
Terrace houses is a new development which we learned was started to be built just over a year ago.
A check with Google Earth shows the highest terrace house is situated at 1,622 feet above sea level.
This is already more than 20 feet higher than the hilltop we previously climbed..
Still we went on climbing higher and higher. At this juncture we have walked some 2.3 km after leaving our lodging place for breakfast. And that is without considering the gradients of climbs and descends. Google Earth shows this picture was taken at an elevation of 1,687 feet from sea level...
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