Bukit Changkat Asa — Attraction in Selangor

A good place to have a short but moderately challenging hike. Estimated around 1 hour to 1.5 hours to reach the Bukit Changkat Asa peak, depending on your stamina.

On the 1st section of the hike, you will pass through a small bridge crossing Sungai Bernam, before passing a small bush trail beside a durian orchard. The bush trail are mostly shaded and mostly moist and wet especially after rain. There are several areas where you need to climb via ropes. After passing through the bush trail, you will enter the 2nd section of the hike, which is the "Red Forest" area. Before this "Red Forest" area, you can see the limited view of Bandar Tanjung Malim.

Once you reached the "Red Forest" area, the trail are mostly shaded by Pokok Kelat Gelam and some Pokok Bertam. Beware that the trail can get slippery due to dried leaves and steep trail. There are some ropes tied along the route to assist you. In overall, this section is moderately challenging hike due to quite steep elevation.

Recommended to bring insect repellents due to lots of mosquitos if you are hiking in...

Just one hour to react the peak of changkat asa hill.. just 234meter.. to go there, you need to get thru at Kampung Lambak 4 near the west side of ktm train station (very close to short cut road before the bridge rail) and across the 4 bridges also rubber farm.. recommended hiking during early morning, if raining yesterday night, if you lucky, you can see carpet cloud at the view peak (in normal day, when reach at view peak, about 10pm the view is good because not to bright sunlight to take selfie) and go down from hill before afternoon, because no more people at that time.. be careful because there a group of monkeys/mosquitoes at the beginning first check point bridge.. the view is amazing and panoramic but the cons is difficult for you guys to take selfie handphone because the strong sun light come direct to the hill which make your face shadow very bad and background over expose (try use DSLR with pop flash or with DSLR + speed light to take the selfie picture possible without problem and avoid bad shadow...

Easy hike from the KTM station, walked passed the village and the brige (the view is spectacular, feels like in different countries except the weather is really hot). Walked pass through the abandoned rubber estate and ferns forest. Total hike is less than 1 hour and it's easy hike, there some part you need to climb the ropes.

The Red forest (gelam merah) is so magical. From the roots to the branch, everything is red. The three bark is so soft, feels like touching tissues paper. However, the dried leaves on the ground is very slippery to walk on, I had to bare foot most of the time. Some area have wild palm with thorns, be careful. There's 2 checkpoint, the first one is the viewpoint, it can be a camping ground here, the other checkpoint it roughly 10-15 minutes away from the first one. There's nothing much on the last checkpoint but you can take photos with the sign board.

Again, the experience in this red forest is magical. Definitely not the first and last visit. Will...