Kuala Lumpur: ATV Adventure Park Kampung Kemensah Part 2

I first tried this ATV Adventure Park in February and made arrangement with my friends to come back to do a slightly harder route. After about 4 months, we finally made it back to Kampung Kemensah for Package C, up to "Sofea Jane Waterfall" (actual name is Kubang Gajah Waterfall, I think). The waterfall got its name "Sofea Jane" waterfall as Malaysian actress Sofea Jane shot a movie scene there in the 90s.The trail took about 1 hour to get in and another 1 hour to get out via ATV.

As per the previous trip, me and my friends met at the ATV Adventure Park at Kampung Kemensah, at about 8.30am. We signed an indemnity form each, to relieve the company of any responsibility should anything happen to us during the ride. Again, they arranged for us to crowd around a demo ATV, and they explained the controls on the ATV. This took about 15 minutes and was a good refresher.

Everyone then grabbed a helmet and headed towards the ATV for a test drive on their circular loop. The crowd that day was huge, there was even a group of 16 people going on the same route as us! Thankfully, our group of 3 pax was grouped with another family of 3, and it was a good comfortable number. 

They even had Owen Wilson as a celebrity guest on the Package E (hardest route) who came around March 2012. I remember seeing an article in the newspaper showing that he did the ATV but I didn't know that it was with this company. After our package C route, my friends and I thought we'd try the Package E, just cause Owen Wilson also experienced it.

Back to our Package C route. The ride started with an uphill climb before heading into the forest. The difference between Package B and Package C was the while both the routes were off road, Package C's routes were not even, not level and has lots of bumps, holes and rocks. My friend estimated that it was about 50% tougher to ride than the Package B route. There were times when the ATV tipped 45 degrees side ways and there a lot of rocky uphills and downhills on route. During the downhill section, you have to grip the brakes VERY tightly -in my experience even if you grip the brakes extremely tightly, the ATV keeps going and going!

However, after trying out the Package B, everyone was a lot more comfortable on the ATVs than their first times.

After about 1 hour we reached the waterfall, we parked our ATV vehicles and we took a 30 minute break to take a picture of the waterfall and relax our arms. They also provided a free mineral water bottle to us which was really great.

The ride back to the basecamp was a lot faster as the guides were more comfortable with our technical ability this time round. I returned to the basecamp satisfied but a little tired from gripping the brakes tightly. Bathrooms, a shallow dipping pool, and a washing pipe was available at the basecamp for public use. They also sold some soda drinks for all the participants.

All in all, I will probably return again with the same group of friends to do Package E, but will give a rest before trying it again. I think we have had enough of ATV for a while - we might be back but we'll give it a few months.

For instructions on how to get there please refer to this post.

Attraction Website:
http://www.atvadventurepark.com/