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| Bukit Batu Putih |
The cape is popular for the Cape Rachado Lighthouse which is facing the Strait of Malacca. It was built between 1528 to 1529 for Portuguese to guide their ships. During 1641, Malacca had switched hands to Dutch and later on 1824 to the British.
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| Cape Rachado Lighthouse |
In 1921, this area had listed as permanent forest reserve with 809,700 sqm under the name of Hutan Simpanan Cape Rachado. However, 161,900 sqm of the area is open for public use during 1969.
Since 1971 till now, the rest of 607,000 has been designated as Important Bird Area and Malaysian Nature Society is actively in promoting conservation in the area.
It takes 1 hour driving from PJ to reach Tanjung Tuan entrance, we depart from PJ at 7am and arrive here at 8am.
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| Tanjung Tuan Entrance |
After got our parking, we pay for entrance RM1 and start our hike. If you had been to Taman Botani Negara Shah Alam, you will found here is just like a "Taman Botani Negara Port Dickson". We enjoy a good 15 minutes walk on tar road and reach the small entrance of Bukit Batu Puteh at our right hand side. You will pass by the Bird Park entrance at your left and before you reach the Lighthouse.
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| Tanjung Tuan Map |
We actually missed the entrance and go directly to the lighthouse. Turning for one round, we follow the other groups of people who queuing at this point.
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| Traffic jam |
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| Traffic Jammed |
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| Felix and Song |
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| another Traffic Jammed |
Since there are so many people waiting here, we turn right to the Cape Rachado beach which is just another 7 minutes from the peak. The route is slight steep hence have to be careful while walking down.
The beach is not clean as it has a lot garbage which dump by the previous campers. We can see many dead corals lying on the sand and a lot seaweeds drift ashore. We only stay for 15 minutes walking around and taking photo and return back the peak to complete our signature photo session.
The beach is not clean as it has a lot garbage which dump by the previous campers. We can see many dead corals lying on the sand and a lot seaweeds drift ashore. We only stay for 15 minutes walking around and taking photo and return back the peak to complete our signature photo session.
0940 - 15 minute from beach, here we are at the top! Nothing much to describe, as shown as in the picture, it is overly crowed but overall is not bad if you are planning for a short hike 30 minutes. P/S: not to come during weekend.
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| Can you see the crowd behind us? |
After our signature photo done, we went back bird park which located at the right from the way back. It is 25 minutes walk from the peak to this campsite. Personally love this side so much! :D
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| Unknown Beach |
Rest for about 15 minutes, we move on to our car and have a BBQ session at the beach side near to the carpark. Unfortunately all of our sweet potatoes become charcoal and most of our potatoes is burnt as well. HAHA. Anyway, still a good trial for our first time BBQ at beach side!
Finish eat and cleaned our place, we walked to the Blue Lagoon beside Tanjung Tuan. James, Song and Felix went for swimming, me and Jai just rest at the Blue Lagoon beach side.
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| Blue Lagoon Beach |
We leave this place at 4.30pm and arrive PJ at 6.00pm. Overall, I will rate Bukit Batu Puteh 3 out of 5. The view I must say originally was good but during our hike is too much people which had totally blocked the good view (imagine moving around is all excuse me like you are in peak hour of LRT). For those who plan to camp or have your lunch/dinner over there, please bring back all your belongings no matter used or unused include BBQ set as well.
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| Cape Rachado Beach |
Watch My Video Here: https://youtu.be/vpKdXmHNq2E
Things to Prepare:
Water
Camera
Any shoes
Extra pair of shirts and pants for changing if you want to swim at the sea side
Starting Coordinates: 2.412412N, 101.855737E
Difficulty: Easy
Average Completion Time: 1 hour (30 minutes uphill and 20 minutes downhill)
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop them at the comment section below. Thank you! :)
If you have any questions, please feel free to drop them at the comment section below. Thank you! :)
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