A brief excursion to Gunung Ledang

 Peace be upon you all. Presenting something more recent...

Last Saturday, 1st August 2020 me and family headed towards the mountain called Gunung Ledang from the town of Bukit Gambir.

We had spent the previous nights at my parents place in Muar, Johor. On the way back towards our own home to the north we decided to make a stop at the famous mountain and found this entrance...

Being originally a native of the district of Muar I have been to Gunung Ledang a number of times. But it has been some time since I've set foot anywhere around here. And this was the first time I used this particular route to get to the mountain.

What is interesting is how wide the vistas were around here.

As far as I could remember normally the views around were blocked by rows and rows of palm oil tree.

But this time it seems older palm oil trees have been cleared to make way for replanting...

For comparison look at how the tall old trees could obscure views as we got closer to the foot of the mountain.

Anyway we soon found out this route leads to the National Park here. However it was closed due to the MCO (Movement Control Order) to curb the spread of Covid-19 virus.

Otherwise one could climb up the 1,276-metres tall (from sea level) mountain from here...

 

Actually I took the route as I thought it could connect to another one leading to some waterfalls down the mountain. As it turned out it does not connect. So I had to return to the main road outside and proceed further to the north.

There. Entrance to the route I'm familiar with.

However we could only get to the car park. The rest of the route was closed due to the MCO. So no going to the waterfalls.