{"id":11246,"date":"2017-05-17T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T11:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=11246"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T12:42:39","slug":"the-upper-ampang-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=11246","title":{"rendered":"The Upper Ampang Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first visit of the Sg Ampang waterfalls was in December 2004 when my friend Khong took me to the Kemensah fall<\/a>. According to Khong there were more waterfalls upstream, the Lower Quartz Ridge Fall<\/a> and the\u00a0Upper Quartz Ridge Fall<\/a>\u00a0(the links refer to his original webpages, have a look!). So the same month I came back with my Dutch friend Paul, we took a trail parallel to the river and found another waterfall. Here is the report:\u00a0Kemensah Revisited<\/a>. \u00a0Comparison with Khong’s webpages showed that this was the\u00a0Upper Quartz Ridge fall.<\/p>\n

Where was the Lower Fall? In January 2005 I went again with Paul. This time we decided to river trek upstream from the Kemensah Fall and found the Lower Fall, actually quite close to the Upper one. This is the report:\u00a0Kemensah Finale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I had studied the topo map and discovered that these three waterfalls have nothing to do with the Sg Kemensah, as I first thought, but are waterfalls in the Sg Ampang. I published the falls on my Waterfalls of Malaysia website under the name Sg Ampang falls<\/a> .<\/p>\n

I had never been back to these falls, so when my friend Peter told me that he and some friends were planning to go to the Upper Fall, I decided to join. Much development had taken place during the past decade and destroyed the remote\u00a0atmosphere. We had parked far away from the trail head,\u00a0and\u00a0started our walk along the tar road, passing several places where people where enjoying their weekend<\/p>\n

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So-called development is still\u00a0going on..:-(<\/p>\n

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We passed an ATV park, very popular and one reason we parked so far away, because my friends told me that the ATV “gang” can be unfriendly and even aggressive to people who park there without using their services. Notice the encroaching civilisation of Sierra Ukay in the right picture<\/p>\n

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There was also a paintball place. With a special offer for ATV customers!<\/p>\n

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When we arrived at the trail, I discovered that the once overgrown single-track trail had changed into an ATV-highway. Where of course we had to give way to these noisy monsters.<\/p>\n

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