Skytrex Extreme

On our 10th month anniversary, the boy and I went for Skytrek Extreme in Taman Pertanian Bukit Cahaya with the rest of his friends.

Skytrex Adventure is at Malaysia's first agricultural park (built 1986) and quite possibly the world's largest at 1290 hectares. There're 3 types of Skytrek Challenge available -


(1) BIG THRILL
Duration: 1.5hr - 2hrs
Booking Time slots: 0830 - 1000 - 1130 - 1300 - 1430
Requirements: At least 1.4 meters. Maximum weight 100kg.
There are 23 challenges with names like 'Bermuda Triangle', 'Happy Hopper', 'Wobble Trouble' and 'Wild Revenge' which you may find humourous, that is, until you stand before them. I kid you not, the trail will sure to serve you that fear factor


(2) LITTLE ADVENTURE
Duration: 30-40mins
Booking Time slots: 0830 (9am - 11am), 1030 (11am-1pm) and 1230 (1pm - 3pm). Half an hour allocated for 'gearing up'. Participants have unlimited rounds within 2 hours
Requirements: At least 1.1 meters. Maximum weight 100kg. Participants age below 18 years require indemnity forms signed by a parent/guardian. Children below 12 years will require parent/guardian present and have the indemnity forms completed for them.


(3) EXTREME CHALLENGE
Duration: minimum 2 hours
Booking Time slots: 0900 - 1030 - 1200 - 1330 - 1500
Requirements: 16years above. Physically fit with good upper body strength. At least 1.5 meters. Maximum weight 100kg. * If you have never tried Skytrex, we suggest you take up the Big Thrill. Are you mad enough to do 21 EXTREME challenges? There's not much else we can say.


Of course, we chose the extreme challenge. However, most people I know would go for the Big Thrill first before the Extreme to get the feel. But we're all pro mah no need for testing first ehem wtf.

WARNING: The whole posts are my photos. one and only wtf because I forced the boy to chain the camera to his neck and go before me. So that when I do my challenge he's already done with his and can take my photo from front! huhuhuhhuhuhu I know I am self centered but what to do.


#1 5 of us are late! The boy practically drove like 140 from PJ to Shah Alam and then we RAN all the way in. There's a ticket counter at the front for us to buy the bus ticket that will transport us from the entrance into the park. I was also running hence the blur photo huhuhuhuh


#2 The "bus". Just some lousy truck with a cover and I think 25 people can go on it.


#3 It takes less than 10 minutes from the entrance into the park.


#4 Finally! As you can see, there're wires and stations everywhere for people to climb around and a picnic area right at the middle there.


#5 The kids doing their challenge!


#6 Where the fun in the forest never ends!


#7 This is the Big Thrill adventure first challenge. As you can see, there's a station on top of the tree. So for every challenge, there's a station and it can only hold MAXIMUM OF 4 PEOPLE. Best if you can keep it at max 3 to be safe.


#8 The place at the far left is for people to make their payment for gloves and locker. I can't remember how much it is but I think it's less than RM5 for each. Don't bother bringing the handphone around because there's ZERO signal in the park. If you have a glove, you can bring your own but MAKE SURE THE SURFACE IS LEATHER NOT COTTON. Else you can hold on to the wires and won't be able to balance yourself well. I bought the new glove there which I threw away after one use. THere're also people who bought but did not throw their gloves away, so you can choose to take people's OLD GLOVES for free. BUT YOU REALLY WANNA DO THAT? IT'S SO SWEATY AND GROSS AND YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO USED THAT BEFORE! Tsk..but the boy took the old gloves haha. He didn't mind.


#9 This place is called SkyDeck. You will take your climbing harness and there'll be a person there that will help you gear up.


#10 Before you start your adventure, there'll be a minor training session where the instructor will teach you how to handle your harness because in every station, there'll be NO INSTRUCTOR there to help you. You have to hook on to the wires yourself carefully and if you forgot, sorry you can fall 10 stories down because there's no net below you also. Ehem yah I know what you think, totally no safety net and no instructor to help you wire up. But you're adult man c'mon you can handle that.


#11 This is the training ladder huhuhuhuh. So low.


#12 Hou Tat and Sherry at the first challenge. We have to wait almost an hour to start our 1st challenge because we booked the 3pm slot and even though it's already 3+ but then the 1.30pm slot people haven't even start their 1st challenge!


#13 All of us ~20 people. We finally get to start at 4 something almost 5. THe 1st challenge is to climb the ladder which is almost 3 stories high.


#14 After the climb, it's Flying Fox from 1 tree to the next. You don't see 3 stories like that very easy. But it's the 1st challenge and you're not mentally/physically prepared so it turns out to be REALLY TIRING. I climbed like halfway and my arms start to hurt and I wanted to give up and cry because I have altophobia and it's quite high up. By the time I finished climbing, the boy (who's in front of me) has already flew over to the next tree so I'm ALONE at the station platform and Sherry who's behind me is still climbing the ladders. So I WAS SO SCARED LAH NOBODY SUPPPORT ME AND IT'S SO HIGH HUHUHUHUHUHU I WANNA CRY COZ MY KNEES ARE WEAK AND I WASN'T SURE WHETHER MY WIRES ARE HOOKED CORRECTLY. What if I jumped out and I forgot to hook one of my wires and I fell straight to the ground. I finally did after what seems like 93746 hours and an EXTREMELY LOUD SIGH.


#15 After the flying fox, we have to climb another 3 stories of ladder. The purpose of the first 3 or 4 challenge is just to bring you higher and higher and higher before you start your proper first challenge. The highest platform you will reach is 22 metres off the ground.


#16 Fuh a bit penat. But then my body started to tune back and I can feel myself getting used to the climbs and flying fox and climbs and flying fox.


#17 I think this is 1st challenge. It's not extremely scary even though you're actually 22 metres above ground because below you there's ALOT OF TREES and you can hardly see ground right. Well so you're supposed to step through the round thing all the way to the end WITHOUT holding the wire on top of you. You will hook one of your harness to the wire on top so that when you can't balance, you won't fall flat but will tergantung in the air.


#18 Cheat one la me. Obviously you can see my hand holding the wire on top huhuhuhuh if not I can't balance because if you fall, then someone will reach to your rescue but you won't be able to play the challenge again. They will bring you straight to next station platform. WASTE MONEY LAH LIKE THAT. Else, if you really think you CAN'T do it and you're scared and will pee in your pants if they didn't bring you down, don't worry. There's a chicken lane for you to slide down the ground and skip the challenge. The lane is labelled as AYAM LANE there but not every challenge has the chicken lane. ONly maybe the more difficult ones.


#19 This one is quite fun though and most people take longer time at this. The string that holds the rubber is very long and thin so it sways very easily and when it sways, it hard for you to balance and jump on to next rubber. You may think it's very near in photos, but when you do it yourself, you'll know actually quite tough it is. I did it with no sweat though huhuhuhuhu guess I'm good at balancing can go gymnastics liao!


#20 Don't know his name =( Forgot liao. He's setting up his harness to hook on to the safety wire. As you can see you have to do all that by yourself so you must be very careful as to not tangle your wires or you'll get into deep shit!


#21 Fuh sweat like mad liao. But not tired. Can't feel tired YET. Coz you have to push yourself through a total of 22 challenges and all the challenges are continuous and you practically have NO TIME to stay and feel tired even because if you're slow, the person behind your back will be shouting at you to GO FASTER LAH!


#22 Err this photo is rotated don know why. You should tilt it 90 degrees anti clockwise. Then you can see Hou Tat doing the Monkey Bar. Monkey bar is very tiring. You have nothing to step on to. You can only use your arm strength and it's quite long too! All the girls didn't do this, instead we did the flying fox to the next station.


#23 Wah trying to juggle all the wires around me. Cheat one lah I was holding on to the wire on top but you actually cannot do that. If the instructor (who's hiding don know where) see you do that, they will SHOUT FROM FAR and ask you to LET GO!


#24 Chuan Yuan and don know who and don know who are at 2 stations behind us. By this time it's actually around 6 plus already and it's getting DARK so we had to use flash and you can't tell it's actually dark liao.


#25 Sweating like mad liao. And smile also super fake now /boo. Not tired but my arms start to hurt because I play cheat one lah. If you didn't play cheat, your arms should be fine.


#26 It's V shaped strings. This I think is the easiest. But as you can see, there's more ladder climbing at the end of this challenge! Don't the climbings ever end!!!!


#27 This also quite easy. I think if you're not too fat you should be fine huhuhuhuh really one lah if fat means dimension bigger than harder to balance. I think.


#26 This also another variety of the previous 2 challenges. Also step on 1 string and walk over. Quite dark liao can you see!


#27 Hello Love! I don't think he's looking at the camera hmph and I can tell he's pretty darn tired liao. Take photo also entertain me only huhuhuhuhuh kesian.


#28 Without flash. See, so dark liao you get what I mean. Hou Tat and Sherry behind us. 1 station behind.


#29 All the photos starting now will be extremely blur. First coz it's dark already. 2nd also becoz my poor baby is tired liao! Imagine he has to do the challenge to the next station platform. Then fast fast hook on his wires. Then whip out my camera to prepare take my photo. Haha love you baby! But a bit beh lah all the photos actually reveal my cheating liao lah see my hand tsk. I should PS it out!


#30 Starting to get really grumpy because I start to sweat and I hate hate sweating!


#31 But the boy is very good at cheering me up.


#32 This is the duck walk! You can only step on the wires so when you step 1 feet down on the left, the whole wires will drop to the left and you have to fast fast step on the right to balance the wire back. Hence the duck walk.


#33 HAHA THE BOY IS A DUCK HAHA SO CUTE.


#34 This one you see very easy right. Walk on papan only what so tough. BUT ACTUALLY THIS IS TOUGHER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. When the boy is doing it I summore say FASTER LAH BABY SO EASY ALSO SO SLOW.


#35 But turns out quite tough you know why. Coz when you walk, the wood plank keep moving to front and sway to the front you get what I mean. Aiya pokoknya it's not as easy as it may seem to be lah! So I also took quite long haha.


#36 DARK LIAO and the park rangers came to RESCUE us haha coz it's too dark and I can't see anything at all so how to do challenge that has to depend on eye sight summore! What if I step off the plank and fall tsk. And you can't imagine how dark it is. We're deep in the jungle and there's not even 1 tiny bit of light so if you hold up your hand in front of your eyes also you can't see it.


#37 So we had to do a flying fox pass the challenges (not much left. we missed maybe 2 last challenges only) and then take the AYAM lane to the ground. We then followed the ranger closely out of the jungle back to this shade where we make the payments for the glove and stuff. Sweating until crazy liao. It's almost 8.30pm when we got out of jungle. Quite exciting lah what a different ending to what it's supposed to be! Nice what! Even though we missed last 2 challenges but it's fine. We've already been through 20 challenges. Enough liao la.

I think it's actually quite fun and I would probably go back again if someone invites. Don't worry about boredom and repetitive challenges because every few months, the adventure owners will change and tweak the challenges so that people would keep going back to try out.

It's not very expensive too!

Operation TIme: 0830 to 1800

Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays Only
On weekdays, Skytrex will open with minimum 25 participants
Shuttle Bus will depart from Main Entrance 10minutes before each booking. Please be early and on time or you may lose your slot!

BIG THRILL
RM35 for Adults (12 years and above)
RM25 for Child

EXTREME CHALLENGE
RM40 for Adults (12 years and above)
RM35 for Child

LITTLE ADVENTURE
RM25 per pax (for all ages) Height and Weight Restrictions Apply. Children must be 1.1meter tall to go on their own. If shorter, a personal guide will be needed to assist child.

It's probably cheap because there's no one at each station to guard you and help you. So you're on your own that's why it's only RM40 for 22 challenges. Okay what right?

What a different anniversary the boy and I had! Rather than going for romantic dinners *yawn how boring right dress up nicely go makan what's great about that? NOLA I LIED. Actually both the boy and I forgot that day is our anniversary. When we realized, it's already 1 week after! huhuhuhuhuh.

Skytrek High Element,

Taman Pertanian Malaysia,

Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam,

40000 Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia.

(603) 5510 6922(23)