Run-site: Bundoora estate (near Hulu Yam Baru)
Travel Time: 1:10 to 1:20, depending on starting point
Date: Sunday 7th April, 2019
Registration: 1:15 – 1:45 pm
Run Starts at: 2:00 pm
Hares: Becker family
Co-Hare: Rob Scourse
This is our Easter run, with an Easter Egg Hunt after the run, for all the kids – we hope everyone likes chocolate!
There will also be other special activities, including a colouring contest, if you can keep your kids out of the water.
As usual, we will have cold drinks on sale, plus a full supply of hot dogs (with Victoria Crest sausages).
All are welcome, including non-members (‘guests’), who can just turn up and go to our registration desk, to sign in and pay the guest fee of RM10 per kid.
It’s essential for everyone (members and guests) to sign in before the run and sign out after the run, so we know that nobody is lost.
Directions
As with most run-sites, it’s easy to get there if you let Waze or Google Maps help you navigate. And the road is definitely easier than last month’s – a little bit of mud, but no hills or big pot-holes to worry about.
On Sunday morning, there’s a bike race on the Batang Kali – Genting road, so we advise driving via Ulu Yam Baru instead of via Batang Kali.
If you click one of these icons, it will direct you into Bundoora Estate and then you can follow hash signs to the run-site:
If you follow these instructions, you should find it easily, but we’ll have our usual bunny signs as you get close.
Option #1: SCENIC ROUTE VIA BATU CAVES (fastest from Eastern/Central KL)
To start:
EITHER
(a) Get onto Jalan Kuching North from KL, and take the 3 o’clock exit Batu at the Batu Caves/Kepong Roundabout;
OR
(b) Get onto the MRR2 from Sungai Buloh, etc. and head towards Batu Caves. Watch out for the junction with Jalan Kuching, with signs for Ipoh
Trip meter when going roumd/past junction of MRR2 and Jalan Kuching / old highway 1 to Ipoh.
Then:
km 0.5 Exit left on the first exit after the roundabout/junction, as you approach Batu Caves (big golden statue, etc.)
km 1.2 turn left again, and get into right hand lane.
km 1.9 Turn right at the traffic lights with the Mosque on your right, and head straight through Selayang town,
km 6.0 Go past the Petronas on the left and then
km 6.5 Turn right onto old reservoir road (B57), following signs to Ulu Yam.
Proceed about 21km until you come to a bridge and a T-junction
Cross a bridge, and turn LEFT at T-junction, into Ulu Yam Baru town
go slowly into Ulu Yam town, turn RIGHT after 7-11, signposted towards “Genting Highlands” (B113)
after about 500 meters, pass Police Station on left.
immediately look for right turn, amd turn RIGHT at sign “Amber Stone Resort” (also signs for other resorts, and hopefully a KLJHHH sign).
This is Jalan Kampung Ulu Kalong.
drive about 1.5km slowly through Kampung Ulu Kalong (many children, dogs, frogs, chickens etc playing)
Look for Bundoora Sdn Bhd Sign, and turn Left to Bundoora.
Cross bridge, enter Bundoora Ranch, Keep Right
Follow KLJHHH signs for at least 1km of estate track (suitable for all vehicles), past the old ranch, to the parking area in the shady palm trees, near a hot spring
Option #2: VIA NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAY
Get onto the N-S highway, via either:
the NKVE, from PJ/Damansara
or
Jalan Duta, from KL or Mont Kiara
Head North and take exit 117, for Sungei Buaya (this is the new-ish exit between Rawang R&R and Bukit Beruntung)
After the toll, turn left at the traffic lights
Go straight (windy road) for just over 2km until you reach traffic lights
Turn right at the lights, towards Serendah/Rawang
Drive straight for about 3km, passing the Perodua factory, until you hit the old highway 1 at Sungei Choh
Keep in the far left lane (there is usually a queue to turn right) and turn left towards Serendah / KKB / Ipoh
Drive for about 10km until you see a traffic-light junction with colourful new (mostly empty) shop-lots on your left
Get into the right-hand lane, and turn right at the lights, into Antara Gapi
Drive all the way along Persiaran Antara Gapi (about 5km)
At the t-junction with the Ulu-Yam – Batu Caves road, turn left
Proceed a few km until you cross a bridge and come to a T-junction
Cross a bridge, and turn LEFT at T-junction, into Ulu Yam Baru town
go slowly into Ulu Yam town, turn RIGHT after 7-11, signposted towards “Genting Highlands” (B113)
after about 500 meters, pass Police Station on left.
immediately look for right turn, amd turn RIGHT at sign “Amber Stone Resort” (also signs for other resorts, and hopefully a KLJHHH sign).
This is Jalan Kampung Ulu Kalong.
drive about 1.5km slowly through Kampung Ulu Kalong (many children, dogs, frogs, chickens etc playing)
Look for Bundoora Sdn Bhd Sign, and turn Left to Bundoora.
Cross bridge, enter Bundoora Ranch, Keep Right
Follow KLJHHH signs for at least 1km of estate track (suitable for all vehicles), past the old ranch, to the parking area in the shady palm trees, near a hot spring
On On!
