Kampar Waterfall

22-February-2007

The weather is burning hot in the afternoon time. As pass year did, I spent the first few days in slow and lazy mood, with occasional headache troubling me too. I think this is because the body was adapting to the rapid change of temperature from cold to hot.

One afternoon, having nothing much to do, my sister suggested to go to Kampar Waterfall. That's a brilliant idea. We agreed instantly. In fact, we wanted to go to this place when we were back for CNY last year. I've forgotten why we didn't make it anyway. So, we really wanted to go there this time. Furthermore, I heard the place had changed a lot. First, it's not as remote as it used to be. Secondly, there got a small road to enable the visitors to drive up there, no more walking. How convenient.

After a 5 min bumpy-road drive, we reached the Kampar Waterfall. It's quite a big one, bigger than I remember. After so many years, I would say this place is still considered under-development. Yet, it remains its natural beauty. This is the view in front of me.

This is the view behind me.

The gang was consist of 2 families, with 9 person all together. That 2 little boys who look like enemy to each other are Jia Yang and William. William is 1 month older than Jian Yang.

My sister and her family. We normally get to see one another once in a year. As years pass, we drifted apart. But, she remains my dearest sister.

The sisters - Jia Ling (9 yr old) & Jia Wei (6 yr old). They are good kids, smart and obidient.

I wanted to see if this site is safe enough to let the kids to play slide on it. It's very slippy, better not.

Wherever we go, William would grab every chance to want me to pamper him.

Although assistance was highly needed, William was not afraid to move around the slippy stones and gaps. His counterpart - Jia Yang was the contrary. He refused to stand on the ground by himself. Thus, my brother-in-law got to carry him all the way and because of that, he could only stand at the same spot most of the time.

As for Vincent, he is quite independant now. He enjoyed himself very much with this big stick he found somewhere. I guess the stick had given him some sort of comfort too.

After 30 mins playing there, the weather turned bad and we got to trasport all the children to the safe place. We choose this path.

Ok, they all have made it to the other side of the river safely. If it wasn't because of the heavy rain, we would love to stay there a little bit longer.

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This waterfall had claimed several life....

1. Many years ago, one of my school-mate's sister was flushed away and died when the place was suddenly flooded in a heavy rain. People said it's because of the collapse of the water dam that was built up there.

2. Just recently, a couple had committed suicide in the deepest pond there. The saddest thing was they took their 2 younger childen to die with them too.

Here, I wish the deceased would rest in peace.