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Mount Belumut ( ms, Gunung Belumut), standing at , is a mountain located in
File:entrance to gunung belumut.jpg, Entrance to the mountain.
File:stream @ foot of gunung belumut.jpg, Stream at the foot of the mountain.
File:view from gunung belumut summit.jpg, View from summit.
File:20140817T180028_Lat_2_4_8.13000000_N_Long_103_30_53.68320000_E.jpg, Mount Belumut covered in vegetation
File:20140817T103623_Lat_2_3_29.03299204_N_Long_103_32_34.27674024_E.jpg, Scorpion along the trail
Mount Belumut ( ms, Gunung Belumut), standing at , is a mountain located in Kluang District
The Kluang District () is a district in Johor, Malaysia. Its district capital is Kluang Town. Kluang district is one of the three landlocked districts in Johor, the other being Segamat and Kulai.
Geography
Kluang District is 2,851.64 km ...
, Johor
Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...
, Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
. For the average climber, the climb to the summit takes four to six hours and the return to the foot (by the same route) takes three to four hours.
Before reaching the summit of Gunung Belumut, climbers will first pass by a 'false summit', where overnight camping is possible in fair weather conditions. From the 'false summit', it's about half-an-hour's trek to the summit. A huge boulder, named the Crown Rock, sits on the summit. The boulder got its name because it looks like a giant crown.
Due to its popularity, some parts of the trail have been badly eroded by tourists. The campsite is also a bit dirty, as some climbers have left litter behind.
To get to Gunung Belumut, one has to get to Kluang
Kluang ( Jawi: كلواڠ), formerly Keluang, is a town in Kluang District, Johor, Malaysia. Kluang was founded in 1915 as the administrative capital of central Johor by the British. It is located in the centre of the state and is within 90 min ...
, and take a cab from the bus terminal to Belumut (or Gunung Lumut as it is known locally).
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See also
*Geography of Malaysia
The geography of Malaysia includes both the physical and the human geography of Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country made up of two major landmasses separated by water—Peninsular Malaysia to the west and East Malaysia to the east—and numerou ...
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