Save Our Waterfalls Campaign 25th October 2009 - Kanching Waterfalls

Waterfall Survivors – a social group on Facebook, the most popular social online network, will be organizing a clean up campaign and a Eco Awareness Talk at Kanching Waterfalls in Rawang, Selangor.

We have selected this event venue and date to commemorate Sir Gerald Templer’s contributions to our country and the dire need to preserve the cleanliness of this waterfall to revive its identity as an enjoyable and well-known place of interest. This event will also mark Waterfall Survivors' achievements in exploring numerous waterfalls in Malaysia and your effort in eco-awareness and advocacy for community and corporate/personal social responsibility.

The event is aimed to create awareness among the public on the importance of preserving our natural heritage for our children. The SOW campaign will be the group’s main public event, which will be held at any other waterfalls in the country.

To add value to this campaign, we are also taking part in the International Day of Climate Action which is to create awareness on the Global Warming. Check out http://www.350.org

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Besides cleaning up target to collect 350 bottles and form a 350 to Support this Cause.

The campaign details are as follow :

Event : Save Our Waterfalls (SOW)
Date and Time : 25th October 2009
Venue : Kanching Falls, near Rawang
Registration Fee: RM20

What do you get?

-EARLY BIRDS REGISTRATIONS: FIRST 100 PARTICIPANTS will receive a SPECIAL GIFT.
-Goodies Bag with T-shirt and other gift worth more than RM50 (limited to first 350 participants only)
-Food and drink provided on campaign day. (Breakfast, Tea Break & Lunch)
-A certificate of participation
-Personal Accident Coverage for 1 day please refer to http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=9667&uid=17696439707#/topic.php?uid=17696439707&topic=9667

Guest of Honour: TBA


Itinerary:

6.30 AM - Meet Up at Meeting Points to CARPOOL

1) Tesco Ampang
2) Subang Jaya SS17 Petronas (next to Police Station)
3) Mcdonald’s Taman Connaught (Next to Giant Hypermarket)
4) Tesco Mutiara Damansara
5) Old Klang Road- Central Hypermarket Entrance
6) Mcdonald’s Rawang
7) Templer’s Park Car Park (7.30am)

7.30AM- Registration & Breakfast (Food Provided)
8.00AM-Speech by our Founder and Chairperson
8.10AM- Speech by our Honorable Guest 1
8.20AM- Speech by our Honorable Guest 2
8.30AM- Safety Briefing
8.40AM- Get to know your group members
8.45AM- Group Picture Session
9.00AM- Talk on Eco- Awareness
9.30AM-Start Cleaning Up
10.30AM- 15 mins Break (cakes provided)
10.45AM- Continue Cleaning Up
12.30PM- Lunch Break (Food provided)
1.30PM- Continue Cleaning up
2.30PM- Start Human Chain and bring rubbish down
3.30PM- Tea Break (Food provided)
4.00PM- FINISH


HOW TO REGISTER:

Cut & Paste
Name:
NRIC No.:
Contact No.:
T-Shirt Size:

send to saveourwaterfalls@gmail.com

T-SHIRT COLLECTION:
Date:September 2009 (TBA)
Venue: TBA

NOTE: IF YOU HAVE OLD CLOTHINGS OR ITEMS THAT U DO NOT WANT, PLEASE BRING ALONG. WE HAVE A COUNTER TO COLLECT OLD ITEMS FOR ORANG ASLIS. THANK YOU.

For further information, please contact:

Joe Yap - 019-6787460
Dominic Koo- 016-3230230
Cindy Ho - 016-3758235


Official Sponsors:
KEEN Footwear - http://keenfootwear.com
SIGG- http://www.livingwing.com.my/
World of Sports
BROS- http://bros.com.my

Official Support:
Tourism Selangor Sdn Bhd



Things to bring
1. Extra set of clothes
2. Gardening gloves
3. Shower size towel
4. Small backpack/sling bag/waist pouch to keep your personal belongings i.e. handphone, wallet. Please do not bring valuables or handbags (ladies). There will be no facility/service to safekeep your belongings. We shall not be responsible for any loss or damage.

Things that we provide.
1. Food (breakfast, lunch and tea)
2. Drinking water
3. Trash bags
4. Insurance coverage for campaign (ages 16-70 only)
5. First aid
6. Goodie bags (limited to first 350 REGISTERED participants only)

Attire
1. Trekking shoes/sandals (for upper falls)
2. Sports shoes / trekking shoes (for middle and lower falls)
3. Sports pants/shorts
4. Campaign t-shirts will be provided to all participants
5. Cap/hat and socks (optional)
6. Medication for personal ailments/allergies (if necessary)

Waterfall Survivors @ Warisan Taiping - Waterfalls and Eat Eat Eat....

Today, we went to Taiping to proceed to Air Hitam Waterfalls. First stopped by at Taiping for breakfast. Passing by the town that is full of history. Mun Tip who's originally from Taiping told us lots of stories about Taiping. The first Railway Station.... A Town that was once in consideration for Malaysia's Capitall... A town that has the most rain in the country... and so many many more that I cannot finish telling here. The drive around Taiping was so so nice as there's so many rain trees in this area. Really beautiful and scenic.

Then proceeded to our trail head in Batu Kurau, Perak. We took less than 30 mins to reach the waterfalls. This round there's quite a number of leeches. We scrambled down from the stream and reach the waterfalls. WOW.. really beautiful... and it's looks ferocious too. Due to strong volume of water and the weather is not promising, we left after we took our group pic.

Later we proceeded to Bkt Jana falls for a dip. We will come back to this place again during dry season. For sure. We had great fun at the small pool in a small little waterfall. Small but the water was so clear.. and so cold.. Posing with all sorts of funny pose at the pool. Today's group is real real FUN and CRAZY...

Group Pic at Bukit Jana Falls

After dipping, everyone was so so hungry. Mun Tip suggested us to a place call Kuala Sepetang. Wow... a real nice fisherman's village. We went to this restaurant which is at the side of the sea. From far we could see an island full of mangroves. A lot of fisherman's boat coming back with their catch.

 Fisherman with their catch of the day... Fresh fresh fresh...

We all had a great meal. Crabs, prawns, squids, clams.. all fresh from the sea. Full Full Full... real satisfactions to the max.

It's a real nice place for photography. We all took the opportunity to grab some nice pics. Check out our album on our Facebook

 just by using a point and shoot.. If a DSLR it will be great effect.. :)

Then we proceeded to Ipoh to get some Salted Chicken and Pamelo of course which is the local specialties of Ipoh.

We are going to plan for another trip to this place.. doing some waterfall hunt, food hunt and photography.

A real nice trip that all of us enjoyed so so much.

 
 

Waterfalls around Pahang

Today, as a usual weekend, WS goes for our weekly expeditions. Today instead of going to our planned destination Lata Meraung, we changed our plans to Chamang Waterfalls and Sg Dua Waterfalls both nearby Bentong.

The ferocious Chamang Falls

We started our day with our breakfast in Bentong. Then headed to Chamang Waterfalls. As early birds, we enjoyed the nice waterfall views by ourselves. Tooks lots of pictures. The waterfall is really ferocious. I remembered when I was there last year, the death poll has not been any changes for many years. But this round, I saw there's 1 incident this year. Well... proven that this place is really dangerous as it has under current. Of course non of us wanted to swim here as we take safety precautions very seriously.

 The fall and I

While we were taking pictures, a swallow fell right infront of Loo Sin. Then she pick it up on the hands. The baby swallow was learning to fly. I took a picture with this baby swallow too... Then Dom took this baby and put it at a safe place at the side to make sure no one will step on it.

 Me and the little Swallow

 Group Pic at Chamang Falls.

After taking pictures, we decided to continue our journey to Sg Dua Waterfalls near Karak.

Sg Dua Waterfalls a.k.a. Lata Khong

We had a nice swim at Sg Dua Waterfalls. Dominic pulled a rope and bring all in the cave behind the falls. Still as chilling and cool as before. 

Group pic at Sg Dua Waterfalls

We had a great time having this fall alone which is usually packed during weekends. After the nice dip we were all hungry and headed to Bukit Tinggi for lunch.

Our Lunch at Bukit Tinggi.

After lunch we left Bukit Tinggi and head back to Kuala Lumpur. A nice day with a group of great people. Like Sifu always say.. Small is beautiful :)