A trip to Broga Hill

05 December 2012 - We made the first visit to one of the famous landmark and hiking hill in Selangor, The Broga Hill. The location of the hill is just around 5 minutes drive from the University of Nottingham in Semenyih.

Broga is the small town that's sit on border Selangor and Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia. It's situated around 50 km from Kuala Lumpur. It's not tough to hike and it takes roughly 45 to 60 minutes for the whole distance. There are four peaks to face up. Each peak have slightly different view and the further you go up, you'll see a fabulous landscape created. Although the hike is not too high, you may be surprised with the amazing view and if you climb at a dawn, sunrise is waiting to give you great scenery. 

We reached the entrance of Broga Hill around 06:00AM. The journey begins after parked our car in a farm opposite of the rabbit farm. Around 30 minutes we have reached at the first peak. Climbing in the dark is quite interesting because all the light you have is only from the torch light and probably moonlight.

We rested for a while then we moved forward to another peak. After 15 minutes we have reached another peak (not too sure if this is second or third peak). The scenery and view were really nice. Our main objective to climb in the dark was to see the sunrise. Although the sky was bright but we couldn't see the rising sun, probably it was blocked by numbers of cloud.

Everyone is busy capturing the scenery photo with their smart phone and camera. Especially when tried out the “Panorama” camera feature, it was so fun to see that everyone is busy moving around for the purpose of having few different pose in one panorama photo.

It was indeed a great, fun and challenging activity. Also it was totally worth it to sacrifice a sleep for such great activity.

Things to remember / bring:

-          Good and comfortable hiking shoes with good grip

-          A torch light if you climb in the dark

-          Insect repellent

-          Water

-          Snacks / Food. ( Thanks to Crystal for prepared such a healthy breakfast )

-          A Camera / Smart phone with good camera feature.

Here some photo to make you feel great at there.