boon's log 1904.03: Muka Head

boonspot's revival and re-construction is still on-going. As you can see, most of the images on the main page has been re-stored.

recognition:
Many thanks to Q, who has generously offered some help with his abundant storage space! Most excellent, dude!

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Well, from my previoius blog, it was really a great stretch of holidays last weekend - perhaps the longest ever for a very long time... the last one that I remembered must have been when Chinese New Year clashed with Hari Raya Puasa (Muslim celebration to mark the end of the month of Ramadhan). It was excellent, totally! (Yeah, I re-watched "Finding Nemo" again last weekend - if you can tell...) Totally, dude! ;)

Hiked up Muka Head on Monday with my home cell group members. The hike was excellent! (occurence of the word "excellent"= 3). All in all, it took us about 2hrs to reach Muka Head from the starting point.

DID YOU KNOW...
that Muka Head has been declared as Penang's National Park?



... well, neither did I.

Anyways, the hike was interesting indeed. It was quite some hike and here are some quick pointers:
1. not really recommended for those that are faint at heart
2. if this is your first time hiking, you might want to take someone who has hiked before with you
3. and of course, don't hike alone

There are some parts of the hike which are quite physical (i.e. climbing and repelling)

Here are some photographs of some interesting sights during the hike, worth sharing.


Reflections at Muka Head


I want the beach minus the Sun, please


Moss-ed bridge


Splashing dudes


"Do Not Dirty Our Beaches"

There are actually two routes to get to Muka Head - 1. Hike and 2. Boat ride. You can still enoy the beauty of Muka Head without endearing the 1.5hrs to 2.0hrs of tiresome, blood-donation(mosquito) hike. We took the boat back to starting point, named "End of the World" - a name not unknown to the locals.

Had a great time, don't mind doing it again...

boon out...