Navigating through the hills of Kampung Ladoi can be quite a challenge, but the view from above is worth the hike. — FAIHAN GHANI/The Star
Are we there yet?” I ask in Malay between gasping breaths, while looking for a flat surface to take a breather. The Orang Asli guide in front turns around, flashes a bemused grin and shakes his head.
The elderly man, whom we call Pak Cik Syam, is insanely fit and filled with sinewy muscles. He leaps through exposed roots on the ground like an Olympian. The sight of a twenty-something city boy struggling to hike a hill might have been laughable to him.
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