My trekking route captured by miCoach GPS. It is somewhere along the purple route that taught me a lesson in life.

I came about a lesson in life during one of my trekking sessions. Being a regular trekker, I went on to an unfamiliar route in the dense jungle of Shahbandar and ended up sliding down a slippery steep slope leaving me with minor cuts and bruises. But that's not the main story. It happened when I realized I was alone without any other trekkers within my sight, in an unfamiliar route, with low reception on my phone, in the infamous place for mystical myths to occur, and what was a sunny weather outside turned into a dark and gloomy surrounding with trees shaking its leaves from being blown away by strong gust of winds near the small waterfall. What's weird is that it only happened for a few seconds when I pass by that certain route which was calm before, and calm again after I passed the route. I had goosebumps all over the way. I have heard true accounts of trekkers not being able to find their way out because they 'lost' their way when actually the exit point is just around the corner. Legend has it that they are 'blinded' by the unseen residents of the jungle. It was spooky enough of an experience for me that I was worried I would be 'blinded' as well. To be safe, I did send out a text of my whereabouts just in case anything happens.

It might just be my imagination but I knew something was there. So the lesson is to never hike up alone in an unfamiliar route in an odd hour of the day.