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The visuals are beautiful. It changes a lot from sheer green from mystic enchanted forest world
to cute bonsai trees with pleasing white fl owers, dandelions (not a Malaysian native but thrown
by some Aussie traveller. They add a lovely yellow to the scenery but always referred to as
foreign fl owers (in the background we still have our big boulder steps waiting to be tackled
to keep our thoughts very grounded) .A few hours of unrest rest and then we begin a wee
hour climb to the Summit after we tackle humongous, barren, grey merciless mountains with
no fl owers or birds. There’s silence here, they leave no energy for the hikers for any casual
banter. Only thing you might hear from a jovial soul is ‘just a little more and it’ll be worth
it ‘.... Those words are gospel for himself and the listener as we carry on climbing endlessly!
We hit a spot to have a peek into a slice of heaven at dawn, we stand gazing with wide eyes
fi lled with amazement witnessing the sheer grandeur of the Sun getting dressed to shine bright,
and get greedy to see more with energy repumped made of sheer greed and we have a little
bounce on the next few steps till the altitude puts a human in its place but we move on.... To the

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