#318 : Hiking to the road of healthiness

I am now in the process of deleting my health blog. However, there are some posts that I feel "sayang" to remove. So, I post them here instead. The following post is about my experience in June last year, while helping my hubby to supervise the PRYNSA 10, Maktab Sains team.

Hiking can be a great way to escape the monotony of the gym and get a heart-pumping workout.

There are many benefits of hiking. The most common benefits are:

• Weight loss.
• maintain healthy blood pressure
• Helps prevent osteoporosis by improving bone density.
• Relieves back pain.
• It doesn't cost much
• It is a stress buster

This holiday is a hectic one for me. There are so many events that takes place that require my attention directly or indirectly. Yesterday I had another chance to hike in the virgin forest of Andulau. It is a highland Dipterocarp forest, and again this is a forest reserve. I am very honored to be given the opportunity to go into the forest as this area is out of bound to public. Only researchers are allowed to enter and get their sampling done. We went uphill for 30 minutes, supervised the students to do their sampling for another 6 exhausting hours , and hiked back to the roadside for another 30 minutes. I was exhausted, thirsty, hungry, but I enjoyed every minute of it. I went home and cooked "kampong-style" dinner for the family, I guess the hours of running that I did these few months really boost my fitness level...

here goes... #1 The majestic forest


#2: The students are doing their sampling, tedious job for teenagers who are between 13-15 years old (Form 4 students)


#3: Mud covered shoes on a muddy hillside transect


#4 ; There I was , supporting myself on a dead tree trunk, which was about 1 metre in diameter, next to me was a medium size butress root Shorea, which is probably about 60 years old.


#5 A hike back to the main road..., exhausting but enjoyable.... :)