Welcome and I’m glad that I finally had some time to put most of my precious moments at Broga Hill on this post. It’s been almost a week since the event took place. I’d still have a bunch of picture on the journey yet to be edited, which talks about the entire journey in the morning at 5 A.M. to the place itself.
While I’ll be coming back to this post on more pics, I’ll have some posted that is off my memory and what I can remember to better equip yourself before going there. Personally, I felt the best route and most memorable way to go there is through the SILK (SKVE) Highway through the LDP highway.
I’d hope the map would be sufficient and clear enough to get you there without much trouble, since there’s actually only 3 toll to go through, the LDP’s 2 R.M. 1.60 and another SILK (SKVE) toll. I own no rights to the pictures inside the map, so if you feel it’s helpful, share it with your friend 
Few of the pointers below to avoid running into the wrong way :
- If you are going by KESAS, or Sunway Pyramid, you will eventually bump into IOI Mall, Puchong
- And after few minutes, naturally TESCO on your right side
- and Giant Hypermarket (not really obvious) on your left side
- Go straight and use the route towards Putrajaya, it should be pretty obvious, the only way you will realize you went the wrong way is when you are heading towards (a) HICOM Shah Alam (b) KLIA
- As you pay the R.M. 1.60 again, not long after that, there should be an exit towards Serdang, look out for signs that points to Kajang/Semenyih/Serdang
- At this point onward, go forward without exiting to any exit at all, of course, unless you need a leak.
- Go towards the end until you see an exit to Jalan Semenyih (EXIT 1), it should be after you passed Kajang.
- If there is something that you need to take note on, you will be heading towards the Semenyih town, which is you are on the wrong direction, you will most likely to end up in Kajang.
- Once you are in the Semenyih town (very small town), just go ahead until you will actually make a left turn into (a) Taman Tasik Semenyih (b) University of Nottingham Malaysia (c) Kampung Broga
- Take note that there should be a petrol station (PETRONAS) at the right side of you when you are about to make the turn, and the petrol station should be behind (right side) you.
- Go straight and you will reach to a point that there is a RABBIT FARM on the right side of the road. Stop there.
- Congratulations! You’ve reached. What you need to do, is to walk towards inside the path along the palm oil estate.
What you’ll need?
- Your camera
- A towel
- Extra shirt, you can put this on your car and change it when you are about to go back
- Water, one bottle of 1.5Litre should be sufficient
- Try not to eat too much in the morning before going up the mountain
- Torchlight (you’ll really need it)
- Shoe that will not easily let you slip through the slopes
- Enjoy the trip!
Well, that’s pretty a lot of points above, but I will definitely come back with more descriptive picture on some of the pointers. Enjoy the pictures below!
Arriving at the peak does really give one (you) a different type of satisfaction than sitting down in front of the computer deciphering codes and programs. It gave me a totally different perspective on what we value in life. Perhaps I finally understand my friends that took up the challenge at Mount K.K. I’m definitely looking forward at that.
This is how it’s supposed to look like at the “peak” of the hill itself, which the entire journey up doesn’t really fascinate you with anything except you have to be vary of your surrounding and not to slip and fall down. If you have good stamina and frequently work out, this place wouldn’t take you more than 30 minutes to reach the top, on an average, it would be from 1 hour to 2 hour. Coming down the hill is definitely easier though as I can stress again, to be careful and not to slip.
It’s even amazing that there is this many people are actually up there. And some were already at the top since 5 A.M. in the morning. It does sounds reasonably crazy, but being there early in the morning might enable to capture some cool moments that you wouldn’t see usually.
As you walk around you will notice you are actually surrounded by this massive grasses lying all around the hill. Some did say that there’s only approximately 25% of such landscape left around this area.
On the other hand, it’s also suprising that there’s a small amount of parents actually training their children, even as young as 8 years old (or even younger!) to go up the hill.
The wind is strong and cold right at that moment. Definitely different feeling you get from visiting Genting Highlands.
It would come out as a surprise to see a lot of students group pay their visit to this place since there is one University of Nottingham, Malaysia situated not far away from this place.
It would appear to me the locals would pay a visit here every weekend frequently.
Cameras and Bazookas
While it even seems like Digital SLR is almost a norm on this place, but it appears that most photography enthusiast definitely would like pay a visit to this place. Heck, I’ve even spotted several Lowepro Fastrack 250 owners!
The textures
It appeared to me as something really since this kind of texture for the rock actually are identical to what we usually see on the highway’s road, the tar?
If you’d walk around, you can actually see across several small suburb towns and cities.
And I’m definitely interested know how would the night scene look like.
The hill is actually quite big in terms of the size, probably around the size of Sunway Pyramid ? or bigger? like Mid Valley?
And there is actually an open-path towards the other opposite hill. But from what the locals said, that there is actually 2 different path that leads towards the top of the hill.
It seems there’s a big green spot right in the middle of the field, or could it be that it’s unexplored, or untouched?
The road’s pretty narrow as we tried to go across the hill.
The faunas
I would be expecting big huge flower to exist on such area, but it appeared to me the flowers grown here are mostly very subtle and mild.
I’m wondering how does it looks like when it blooms.
This is when it’s past its prime time. Looks like Coco-crunch to me.
Solid landscape
Though most of the landscape here are pretty scenic, but I’m wondering if there’s anyone actually takes wedding picture top here?
It feels like that this might be a good location, looks somewhat foreign to me.
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I was browsing for some really helpful articles about Bukit Broga until I stumbled upon your blog. Thank you for writting a GOOD & IMPRESSIVE review about your hiking trip there. Love those pictures!!!!
Simply love the scenery – SUPERB. The map in your blog really helpful. I’m going there via LDP highway – hope to capture some really nice photos to put into my blog!
Once again, congrats for a really good piece of writting there!
Cheers!
mylo
I was Googling for Broga hill, and I found out your article is exactly what I need. The exact location of Broga Hill and how to get there. If its not raining today, I’m going there !
nice place & photo here..maybe my next detination..lol.
We would very much like to visit Broga Hill, for obvious reasons. Could you please contact me so that we could get some experienced travel advice. Thanks, Larry Broga
Hi there Sir,
Sent you a reply on your email
Well that’s what I thought as well, the road up the hill is pretty steep, and challenging at least to me, but once you are up there, there is nothing money can buy, I’d think those that went to even more adventurous mountain hiking experience would know. But this place is a real beauty.
i was really amazed that selangor actually has such hill with beautiful view. found your entry while googling for Broga Hill.
so near yet i have never been there before!!
thanks for sharing!
This is a nice place.
Plan to go there in coming labour day… but unsure where is the starting point…(didn’t notice this when i go to the temple last time). Need some advise
Are we stop at the Rabbit Farm? or is a sign board of Rabbit farm?
Walk toward the pail oil trail, which direction, is opposite side of the rabbit farm? or the side where the rabbit farm locate?
Is there any trail lead us the way?
Walking distance to the top and how may resting / look up point?
Hi there ming,
I’m sure you’ll enjoy being there at the top of the hill. To answer your question
1. Yes, you can park beside the rabbit farm entrance, but don’t block their entrance (lol), it’ll be pretty obvious on the right hand side of the road and the palm oil estate on the left.
2. Walk towards INSIDE the palm oil trail. There’s a pretty obvious trail made along the road, you’ll even notice people wrapping plastic strips made of plastic bags on the branches of tree to guide you the way.
3. There isn’t anything much to see until you reach towards the peak (the plains where they have a lot of the beautiful grass), not too sure about the distance but for first timer, an average person would take around 1-1 1/2 hour to reach to the peak (non athletic like me)
thanks for you reply…
Can’t wait to see the sunrise
hi..man meng…
ur info very useful…
i have been there last weekend..
there really is a beautiful place..
but something make me very mad n sad…
some of de people throw de empty bottle n rubbish there…
“Leave your footprint but not rubbish”
thanks…
hi there may may,
glad you enjoyed your time there
it’s always been a pleasure to share this info. Yeah, hope that everyone would preserve this beautiful place as the % left on the earth of Selangor is not much anymore, if this gone, then I think we’ll end up need to go other people’s country to see such beautiful scenery.
But on the same time, there’s thing that makes me happy and worried at the same time that one day this place would be commercialized, i.e. paying ticket go inside -_-
Hi Meng, looking at those beautiful photos you took brought back fond memories of broga hill, we went sometimes ago. Your framing of the photos made them look so attractive. Thanks for sharing
what the suitable time to go there?
Nice place, will visit as soon as I got free time. haha
Anyway, I believe you mean flora instead of fauna?
The purple flower plant is the Senduduk, while the grasses there seem to be mainly lalang and elephant grass.
Sorry for being nerdy.
your pictures are simply too nice.
Assuming that you are departing from Kuala Lumpur, It’s best that you,
-wake up around 4am
-prepare everything in 30 mins
-go out at 4.30am
-drive around approx 1 hour (if you drift, even faster:P)
-reach aroaund 5-5.30am
-climb up around 1hour or less (bring torchlight!)
-6-6.30am (wait for sunrise!)
and enjoy!
hahaha hi there alex,
opps my bad, thanks for informing me on that hahahaha. Was going rusty in my vocab. Wow, you know lots about those species of plants. No worries man, I’m glad you like the pictures as well. Yeah, at least once in a lifetime you should go there
whoaa.. it is not that ez to go up there… you should share the difficulty of climbing up
by looking at your pix i thought i can bring along my 6mo baby… in the end, failed to go up…
Awesome!
Very informative! prolly the best blog entry on Broga i could find!
Thanks man, glad you enjoy the post here. Do keep notified, will be posting more different logs on other type of travel
u r the 1 i search for!!perfect sharing!!thq so much…
Just discover your blog by chance, as I was googling for map to broga. I have been there once, in a friend’s car. so not too sure of the place plus my sense of direction is poor. I must say your map is most details. I think I should have not problem locating the place again. (fingers crossed) thanks for sharing.
Me and my mates are planning to go here next weekend. I went there once already but didn’t get to climb up until the 3rd hill. Will try to make it up there hopefully. Good article though! =)
hey.. your infos is very useful. Im going there tomorrow am..
like your blog so so much … the layout is so clear and the content is nicely present. thanks for providing such detail info on Broga hill… planned to visit that wonderful hill. thanks for the post!
Hi there…
thanks for u share..nice blog..
wanna ask..recently raining..if saturday nite rain will it dangerous to go up on sunday morning???
i nvr been there…some fren say might dangerous if go after rainy day…pls giv some advise for those who been there b4..
thanks alot…
@ally – thanks a lot for the compliment, will work harder on newer article
. glad you enjoyed the post.
@wing – i think you should be extra cautious if you decide to go there after a rainy day, even the roads are slippery on a hot sunny day because it’s not a proper path, and made of sands and hill rocks. Basically you just need to wear proper footwear that has a lot of traction, where you won’t slip so easily.
you have almost a complete guide to Broga Hill, awesome! nice photos too..
Wow thanks a lot! Your map and direction is really very useful!
thanks for the info… was a great help to us… we went up yesterday morning… and i would like to stress that torch light is really needed if going up early in the morning…
hi there, may i know how to go to broga from serdang?
i live very near to serdang. Also, how many hills are there? is it 3? normally where is the sunrise location? is it convenient to bring my small dog there?
@uner : thanks for the compliment
@charmaine : no problem on that, hope you really enjoy the trip.
@donn : yeah, it’s pitch black in the morning, so those walking in front and the last one best to have torchlight equipped, especially those bright-white led ones.
@cecilia : hi there, you can use the balakong/mines highway to reach broga hill though. If i’m not mistaken, there’s probably 3? As you walk up (the usual hard path), the sunrise will be on your right-side. Hmm…there’s people did brought their pet there, but you should be more careful with the track up the hill.
Hi all..I m going to Broga Hill tomorrow, to catch the 1st sunrise in 2010. Hope everything would be fine, and I shall manage to snap some nice pics.
Happy New Year.
Hey there,
Enjoy your trip there and do take extra precaution as the roads might be slippery due to the weather are prone to rain this few week. Have fun!
wow…that place is really amazing.i’m planning to go there withmy friends this coming weekends.Your maps and info was really helpfull for me haa!! Can’t wait to be there.And also nice pics.
hey..thanx so much 4 da info…especially da map..i’m going with my siblings in half n hour time..no kidding man…thanx again..by the way its 4am now…
very helpful info you got here, especially the map.
i will go there with my bunch of shutter bugs too.
will not be that early hopefully 2molo early morning 4AM to start our journey.
nice series of pics you got there ya~ ^__^
@firdaus : you’re most welcome bro, share your pics yeah, and most of all, enjoy the trip!
@nash : hahaha, i can feel your excitement boiling.
@alpha : thanks a lot for your compliment. enjoy shooting!