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Thursday I took the bus from Bangkok Bank at 10.30 and by 11.26 I was standing next to the first waterfalls at The Kanching Falls Park
. It's billed as a chain of 7 waterfalls. But none are huge and mostly it's river running at a steep 90 degree angle. Most people go to swim at falls 3 and 4. There are also a lot of picnic shelters all over.
You can also bathe further up, but there'are a lot of steps to climb (more than Batu).
I decided to follow the trail at the end of the steps through secondary forest to the top. At one point there is a red ribbon trail to the right, but ignore that (as after 30 minutes it went nowhere) and continue along the side of the falls. (You can tell that is the popular trail as it has 100 times more garbage.) It's quite steep and rough. After clambouring over some rocks I reached the top where a guy stays, I guess hunting or gold panning. There the scenary changes it's like a valley scene; it's flat and the stream calm. You can see across to other hills, but nothing spectacular.
There didn't seem to be any further trails. I came down the other side, but would recommend it the trails quickly disappeared and there were no views of the waterfalls.
Practicalities - Coming from KL it’s on the rightside, the turn off after Templer Resort It's difficult to spot as there is no sign and they have built a new bridge which obscures the entrance. The bus stop is just past this bridge. It's 13Km south of Rawang so I guess from some places in KL it would be easier to take the KTM kommuter train to Rawang and pickup the 43 coming back into KL. The charge is 1Rm and there are foodstalls.
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Templer's Park is 2Km back towards the city : it has river swimming and a hidden waterfall more info
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.. but I didn't stop off there.
Hotsprings On the way there just at the last apartment building as the countryside opened up and 4Km before Kanching I saw a sign saying "Selayang Air Panas". So on the way back I stopped off. It's very simple, but not as simple as Setapak. There's one pool you can immerse you body in and 2 others which are too hot so people use the water to mandi with.
There are toilets and foodstalls.
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