Extreme Jungle Trek in Indonesia 🇮🇩

We escaped the big city of Jakarta in ‪@BuleBolang‬ 's car and headed south to Mount Salak for a jungle adventure.

There's a tiny village near to where we started our trek, so that was a good opportunity to pick up some extra fresh supplies, including ingredients for a traditional Indonesian dish called sayur asam, or sour vegetable soup, that we planned to cook in the jungle.

We also bought some tempeh, a fermented soy product that's very popular in Indonesia.

With huge backpacks full of gear, we were well prepared for several days in the wilderness. The initial plan was to spend 3 days living in the jungle.

I've never trekked with a backpack that heavy before, and I don't think you can imagine how much harder it makes it just to walk on flat ground, never mind up a steep hill. And steep it certainly was. We were taking the most extreme route up Gunung Salak.

It was a slow and steady grind up the mountain with all the weight our equipment on our backs, but as Ryan says "It's better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it."

It wasn't easy but we made it to Post 3, our planned campsite, just before dusk. We were all looking forward to reaching Post 3 as we were told there was a tap there with fresh water, but no such thing existed. So we had to be conservative with our water supply and cooked food mostly using oil rather than boiling.

Ryan's porter Bang Sam is a master chef in the jungle and cooked up some beautiful cassava that he bought from a farmer at the start of the trek. Some good carbs to replenish our energy. We enjoyed that along with some chicken nuggets and french fries we picked up at Indomaret before we started the trek.

With some delicious dinner inside us it was time to sleep. But I just couldn't. I was sharing a tent with 2 other guys, on hard bumpy ground, and I just couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep. So I just lay awake all night, with the occasional wander around in the jungle in the pitch dark, using just a head torch.

Day 2 started off a bit rough for me, as you can imagine after a sleepless night. However, I was soon freshened up by swimming in the beautiful rock pool that we trekked down to. The water was freezing cold but getting in it with aching muscles, it strangely felt good.

When we got out the water we were treated to the "sayur asam" soup that Sammy was able to cook, as we now had a fresh water supply. We enjoyed that with some "tempeh goreng". Sammy had sliced the tempeh and covered it with a batter and fried it. Delicious!

That's as much as we did on this adventure. Our plans for the full 3 day trek had to change due to a landslide making our planned route impossible. I was kind of glad about that because I couldn't take a 2nd sleepless night in a row.

Next time I go trekking overnight I'm hiring 2 porters to carry a Tempur-Pedic mattress for me. Only joking. Or am I?

0:00 Getting Prepared
9:56 Welcome to the Jungle
15:23 Gunung Salak Base Camp
26:29 Meeting Fellow Trekkers (Post 1)
32:46 Litter Problem (Post 2)
36:36 Jungle Survival Techniques
44:45 We Made it to Post 3
48:03 Camping in the Jungle
1:03:38 Breakfast in the Jungle
1:09:55 Slippy Downhill Trek
1:16:31 Nature's Swimming Pool
1:20:06 Sayur Asam and Tempeh Goreng

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