Week- 11 (Big Trees)

About the trekking:

On 25th october 2009, we had a trip to kota batu area which were known as big trees. For this week trip i choosed my position as the first-aider. For this position i need to bring along a bag of first-aid materials such as bandages,plasters and many others. Here i need to take care of my other friends safety and need to take care of injuries that might happend during our trekking. However there were no injuries reported and everyone is in good condition untill the trip is over.

In this trip i were along with Syahir group where he was our leader and Azri as our sweeper, Keem and Azmey were also in the group. For this trip it was really tiring because on the first part of the trackroute was stared by climbing up a hill and its really hard due to nothing can be hold to support us to climb up the hill so teamwork is needed.

As we enter deep into the jungle there were many other beaytiful sites such as small waterfall, huge and tall tress and there were also many giant rock. All of these big tree is probably aged about 100 years old or even more. There were also many beutiful flora and fauna such as 'sumboi-sumboi' and many others.

Small plant grow on the trunk of the tree

Tall and big tree with huge root.

This trip was really hard but yet it is still interesting because there were many unique kind of plants, big tress and beautiful views that i never seen before. I were told that the trackroute was like a lolipop which started by moving up the stick then round along the lolipop and back to the stick. In the middle of the treckroute our group were on the wrong routeway which we were going anti-clockwise and strait to the view instead. So Syahir wanted to move back and try to go the right way because we miss alot of beutiful sites such as waterfall.

Our group do manage to cope back to the right track route however we just know that the last group were taking out the marks off so we didn't get the marks again. So this will cause us hard to get back. We get lost and i try to called Dr.Irene and she was really helping us where she at last do find us and lead us back to the right trckroute.

Learning Aspect:

1.I learnt alot of new plants such as wild Ixora, resam ferns, spike vines, tarap trees and etc 'Tongkat Ali', ixora, 'Kelamunting', orchid, and 'sumbui-sumbui'. This were something new i just learnt from the trekking.

2. Teamwork is important in a team. When the team faced a problem and all of the teammates need to face it as a team and don't be panic and just calm down and stay as a group do not break away because it will be harder for people to find us.

3. Preparation and focus is important aswell because as a leader he need to be all prepared and need to remembered all the checkpoint that were told during their recce.

4. I just know that the environtment and surrounding were different from the other trekking route we had before because for this big trees area the plant were just small shurbs and short grass could be find due to lack of sunlight that were block by those big tress and lastly i also discovered that along the trunks of those big tree there were small plant growing on it where there shared mineral of the tress. There were many steep slope.