Blogs from Taman Negara National Park, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 11

It’s nearing the end of my time here in SE Asia and although there are still hundreds of places I would like to see, I only have time for a few short trips. One of the places left to visit is Taman Negara, the world’s oldest rainforest located in the Malaysian province of Pahang. This area of the world has never been affected by an ice age nor does it have any active volcanoes. This has allowed Taman Negara to survive and continue to be one of the most pristine primary rainforest still standing (at an age of 130 million years old). I have been planning a trip to Taman Negara for quite some time and when I finally found a time to do it, no one else from my school could come. Never the ... read more

Hiya guys, I know, another blog already but somehow we've managed to fit in another country in the last few weeks so thought you'd just love to be updated, trust me the more frequently I do it the shorter they are and unltimately the better it is for you!! Anyways..... Last time I ws sitting waiting for a bus to the Taman Negara rainforest after spending a couple of days in Kuala Lumpur. KL was good, though didn't really do much apart from the obligatory trip to the Petronas Towers, which they seem to love over there, you have to watch a whole video explaining how wonderful they are, and there's a whole load of stuff going on, even a worship room which we think they use to force their employees to worship the towers! After ... read more

On Saturday we spent the entire day on a bus, which had the worst air conditioning you could imagine. We arrived in Taman Negara about 6.30pm feeling hot and tired. We had a bit of trouble finding somewhere to stay as it is the school holidays here and everywhere was fully booked. Eventually we found a room for two people but the owner put a mattress on the floor for Rich. We met Gorlo and Ingrid from Germany on the bus and happened to be eating at the same place as them in the evening. We arranged to hire a boat the following day to visit a cave with them. Erica, Rich and I then walked to the Woodland resort where they sold expensive beer and had a really bad Internet connection. Rich left before us ... read more

Friday 18th August So after leaving the relative safety of the cave it was time for the final leg of our treck. Unfortunately it had rained in the night and that meant one thing plenty of leeches for everyone. After walking for about 5 minutes Amean our guide pointed out something to me on the floor, i had no idea what it was until he told me it was a leech, and it truly was disgusting, i had only ever seen one fat and full of blood never skinny and hairy and when u get close to it it rears up and senses where your feet are and tries to suck on to you. So to keep the little blighters away from me i doused my feet and legs in 90% deet and headed off, probably ... read more

Monday 14th August Well we left Khota Baru at another rediculously early time of something like 4:30 to catch the jungle train which i was looking forward to as it sounded exotic and like something out of a victorian novel where they travel the congo. Unfortunately it wasnt so and my only recolection of the train was talking to a english girl who was originally from Sri Lanka and two old smelly Malaysian ladies throwing cigurettte butts out of the window into the jungle, obviously no one told them about fire safety. Also some of the food they were eating looked and smelt extremely bad. The train journey lasted aroud about 12 hours and was rather uncomfortable and hot. We finally arrived in a place called jerantut and checked into a hostel. Paul decided to go ... read more