Experience to Caving, Water Rafting and Abseiling

Last weekend, follow my friends go Gopeng, Adeling house play play. That's a great experience, my friends who know me well, was very shocked when knowing that i'm going for this extreme activities. haha, and now i'm sick at home..:p
by the way, sorry, there is no photo sharing in this blog, cz i din bring along my camera!

Day 1: 23/01/2010
8:30am
Start our journey from Penang, heading towards to Ipoh 老黄芽菜鸡 as our lunch. The taste can consider not bad, especially the 芽菜 and the koay teow. The koay teow you can order wet or dry type. Personally i ordered dry type, and it taste good :) One of my friend from Melbourne, they took 2/3 bowl of koay teow!! After our lunch we continue our journey to Gopeng. It took us about 30 minutes to reach there from Ipoh.

12:00pm
At last reach Adeline House. I have been heard for this place quite long time ago, as last time my friend also ask me to come, but i rejected. So this time, I'm here! saw Adeline in person! just like the photo.. hahaha. When we arrive, we need to register ourself with the counter, and then we bring all our bags to a chalet (i think is called chalet)haha. I think we occupied the biggest chalet there, 2 storey, downstairs have 4 room for couple, then upstairs will be a big room for all! Since all of the couple room being occupied, so we just go upstairs :) but actually sharing with many ppl is fun and have more communication with others. There is still few friends from KL yet to arrive, so we decided to have our fun there started first. Guys were busy gambling, playing poker at one side. Some of the gals went to take nap, and me was playing Congkak with Tammy and Siew Nee. Is Fun! Long time never touch on Congkak since last time went to Pulau Jerejak with another gang of friends.

2:30pm
Everyone arrived! Time to go Caving!! excited for me, cause it is my first time :) the instructor is 1 guy and 1 gal. The gal is very very pretty!! I like her! Her name is Vanessa, so if you are there at Adeline house, i think mostly will meet her! Before go for caving, we need to sign some safety letter, then we prepare with our sports wear.. Let's go! We did not bring enough torch light, as we thought it is provided. So we end up just go in the cave with candle lights up! The cave is totally dark inside, and it is raining at that time, so the way is very slippery. Some of us fall down when climb over the rock, cause in there is really dark and when all lights off, not even you can see your own finger! In there, you can see bats, crystal forming, well form rock, etc. We also need to climb up a 2/3 levels high wall from down to up using single rope. so, this is my first time again! wow, for me it is not so difficult yet not so easy too. After caving for a while, my leg is shaking already. haha this is the impact of not being well train before go adventure! This cave approximately took us about 2 hours to reach the way out, believe me, when you see the way out, you feel that the air is very very fresh, cz inside the cave is very dusty! Luckily the rain stopped when we are out from cave, but yet, the road is very slippery, some gal fall when climb down. So remember to wear proper shoe to go!

6:30pm Reach Adeline house, everyone is busy go for bath and hungry for food~~ we are having bbq dinner tonight, we have Rice, Chickent Wing, Sausage, Vegetables, Sambal, Satay, Lamb... and Bambooo Soup. Soup is very nice!
After dinner, we sit down and play game. after play a few rounds of game, everyone almost full of beer in stomach. around 11pm most of the people go on bed. but yet some is still playing. I cannot have a good sleep, not too sure is due to what reason too! the whether is cool, no mosquitoes.. or maybe i not drink enough.. hahahaaa..

Day 2: 24/01/2010
8:30am
Wake up and have our breakfast, Nasi Lemak or Fried Maggie Mee, White Coffee or Boh tea.

9:30am
We walk to the river near by, Sungai Kampar. Vanessa brief us about the water rafting skills and some safety tips. I was very scared because I'm kind of scared of water. But then, I wanted to try it once in my life. At first, we need to do Body Rafting, means, only with our life jacket, we need to raft to another side. wow, it being scary for me, when I go down to a slope, believe me, you wont see anything for 1 or 2 seconds, and then after that, you need to swim to the spot. Hahaa, even you know how to swim, is very hard to swim over to that spot. very chuan... luckily i still able to swim over there.....of course, drink alot of water.. hahahaa...After everyone is ready, vanessa again brief us the rules and techniques when do water rafting, teach us how to paddle and what to do when listen to some of the command. So, we start our Water rafting happily~~~~ First slope, Siew Nee fall out...:p dono why... 2nd Slope, Ronan fall out, and Vanessa very hard to pull him up, cz he too heavy!!! hahaa.. and the 3rd Slope was a very dangerous one.. so we Hold on to our boat, and we manage to go over there! those rapid got their own names, and i forget! hahaa.. everyone is having fun there.. not too difficult for water rafting... if you din fall into water... :p Water rafting took us about 2 to 3 hours. After that, we take Lorry again, heading to do our Abseiling!

1:00pm
Reach waterfall, and this is the challenge I most scared of. We took our lunch there at waterfall. Then 3 Malays guy brief us about how to abseil down from water fall. ops, before that, we climb up the rock, near to waterfall and try on the splash - waterfall massage. The water is extremely cold to me at that time (shaking shaking). After we ready with our equipment, we climb up to the top of waterfall, ready to abseil down. I was so so so so so scared and nervous at that moment. hand shake, leg shake, heart shake. It is uncontrolltable! so first time when I on top just wanted to abseil down, oh no, tears come out without control! i was terrible frightened at that moment, so i request to stop. After that I cool down a bit, and request the instructor go down together with me. Cause i know if i alone, I will be scared! so, Second time abseiling~ wow, is cool... if you know the techniques on how to handle it, then shouldn't be a problem to u! I'm glad that at last i tried and do my best... but yet, paiseh to those worry on me. :)
So, after abseling, when i was resting and play with water, my leg kena bite by "ba ki" dono how it called in english. haha... a few time! end up my fren use his urine to settle it. we then faster ask the driver drive us back to chalet to take bath and prepare to go home!

5:30pm
Packed everything, Start out way back to Penang.. and end of the trip to Gopeng.

What an experience to me, I'm proud of myself being so brave, take this decision to go for this trip. And thanks to the organizer. I enjoyed the trip and happy for the whole journey with scared feel.. hahahaa... it is a tiring trip too... everyone is tired after extreme activities. Have a good rest my friend!