Published on Jun, 2024
What an experience! This trek is really challenging but our guide Chu was so patient and encouraging we all made it to the top - to our delight we got medals. On the way up we were in forest with streams, flowers and spice plants that Chu pointed out. We climbed up natural rock ladders, steps and fixed metal ladders, it was wet and we were in a cloud most of the time but that did not matter as it was us verus the mountain. The last couple 1km is surreal, after 10km of mountain trekking emerge at cable car station and rest of trek up steps with all the people who are very clean and well dressed after coming up the cable car. I took the cable car down with are 2 younger children age 11 & 14 - technically you must be 16 to climb up through the national park but after much discussion our guide sorted a wavier where we agreed the recommendation was everyone should be 16 and we took complete responsibility for those under 16. My husband and eldest son climbed down - they both felt it was nearly harder going down than up - we strongly recommended anyone with bad knees take the cable car down. This will definitely be a lasting family memory.