well, the night before we went to Kedondong Falls, i bought myself a headlamp and a dry tank.
i texted The Boss (whom i also consider is the leader to our trips) if there is anything he needs me to bring along. he said no, and we were actually going to Lata Medang.
so i didnt bring anything extra; and i packed my things and head to our cameraman's house; which was yesterday morning.
when i almost reach there i realized that i have forgotten something.
my poncho.
it is quite cheap so i stopped at a 7 eleven to buy one.
so we depart at about 10am, reached the car park at about 11.30am, started hiking at about 11.45am and we had to cross 2 bridges in the early stage of hiking (the first one was ok, another was already collapse), reached the place where we want to set our 'kitchen' at about 2pm, i guess.
man~ the hiking experience was superb..
we left our bag to some other campers and went further uphill to look for another place; stopped there to take a dip.
we went back to our place and started cooking, fish feeding, swimming & taking pictures.
but then i felt something is wrong.
it was kind of too dark for 4.30pm; but still we played in the water until it started to rain.
so we packed our things and started our journey out of the place at about 5.30pm.
i forgot my poncho in my car.
oh God... why?
it was raining heavily and some of us slipped a few times, including me.
when we finally reached the collapsed bridge at about 7.20pm, i wanted to cheer. because we are very near to the car park.
but when we took a second look, water was actually flowing over the bridge. mixed with mud, high current water.
it was getting really dark; so some of the guys did try to cross the stream by forming human bridge, get to the car to get ropes for the ladies, but the current was too strong.
again.. oh God, why? i left my head lamp in my car.
in the end we had no choice but to call the emergency number. The Firestarter (i think he is an expert in starting fire for us to cook and to prevent mosquito bites) started fire with the fire starters left, fire starter box and a roll of wet tissues.
The Boss said that he did bring torch lights and batteries, aside from the ropes, but he left everything in his car.
we were stranded for about 1 hour and we had been saved by the local people whom asked all of us to form a human bridge to cross the collapsed bridge as the current has slowed down, and there was firefighter on stand by, and the police ready to take our details on our id; and the police said that we should have written a letter addressed to the local police station with a name list of who is going hiking or jungle trekking.
we changed, laugh, talked and drove off to get dinner. i slept on the way to the restaurant by the way. we had dinner, gather at The Cameraman's house later, went straight to our homes afterwards and i reached puchong at about 1am.
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but actually we had a very good laugh and a lot of experience learnt.
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