Morning walk with our dog Sox at Kota Damansara Community Forest Park

Sox and Meun walking past a pile of leaves

One of the hardest things for us is to find a place close to KL that would be dog friendly. Kota Damansara Community Forest Park is one of the few places that we were told to be dog ‘friendly’. We have our doubts but decided to give it a shot. Whenever Sox walks with us, she would always be on a leash and when we start our walk as early as 7am, the chances are we will be the only ones around!

It was a cloudy morning that day. Rain clouds scattered above us as we approach the park entrance. It is obvious that it has been raining…probably the night before. The ground was wet and puddles of water on the road.

The entrance, being in front of a school is never free from rubbish. I have visited the park on a few occasions and it is always the same. Rubbish everywhere.

There’s always litter here at the entrance just opposite the school

Luckily…not so much rubbish can be seen inside the park. There are many trails in the park. I even got a booklet about the trails and some of the ‘attractions’ within the park itself. We decided to just walk and see where we end up at.

Meun of course had the responsibility of holding on to Sox. I kept an eye out for interesting things to see and hopefully, take some pics as well.

A nice sculpture I reckon

Some unusual flowers and plants we saw along the trail

The cloudy day and early mornings did not help with my picture taking. My flash camera’s built in flash just doesn’t cut it. But one thing I saw and really interest me were these fruits strewn on the ground at this particular spot. I looked up to find the tree but there wasn’t anyone that stood out with the fruits. The weird thing about the fruits is that they are almost palm size and shape almost identical to the ‘Genuak’ or ‘Kerdas’ fruit . I used my parang to split one of the fruits open, looks very much like the Kerdas but without the smell.

Some really oversized Kerdas?

The trails at the park are clearly mark. Some groups, obviously ‘dog’ related has been on the trail recently. We know this because we come across many of the little pieces of paper markers with dog paw printed.

We saw many of such markers on the trail

We decided to follow the markers. It let us around the park, to a small lake and through some pretty nice obstacle. We can tell Sox is having a ball coz she is like a 2 year old on sugar diet. She was ecstatic and just charged up to continue exploring the park.

Sox has a fascination with flowing water

Sox taking in the beauty of the lake

We found out a few things about Sox during this walk. Sox is fascinated but somehow very scared of water. Probably because she is not exposed to water bodies from a young age despite the fact that dogs are natural swimmers (well, that is what my vet told me). The other thing is that Sox is an acrobat! We came across this fallen tree trunk and had to go over it. Sox was hesitant but once Meun crossed over, Sox followed suit. Sox stood on the tree trunk and went up and down the log, sniffing and looking out like a watch guard on duty. She kept herself on the tree trunk for quite some time….until yours sincerely lost patience.

Sox seems to enjoy being on ‘high’ places

We walked our Sox a good 1 hour that day at the Kota Damansara Community Forest Park. We were glad we did not come across anybody that day. It is a nice park with nice trails and we would probably come back again.