Blogs from Taman Negara National Park, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 12

We were picked up at the respectable hour of 10.30am to begin our journey to the world's oldest rainforest. We were the only two in the minibus so we had the added luxury of being able to stretch out. All luxurious until we pulled up to get our rainforest passes, and the heavens opened - Rob got wet! We arrived at about 5.30pm and found a guesthouse to check-in. The place is very small, and it didn't take very long to explore at all. There are a number of floating restaurants and we went and had a drink (non-alcoholic as this place is dry!), and bumped into the two drowned rats from day 1 in the Cameron Highlands - It would be difficult to miss people in a place so small. We had one of our ... read more

Taman Negara is a National Park protecting one of the most ancient rainforests in the world. It was aptly named as it rained on and off all three days we were there. Still, it was an amazing experience. We had to take a 3 hour boat ride to get there in these narrow, long wooden boats. We had most of our meals at little open air restaurants that were floating on the water. It really felt like you were far from civilization. Our first day we went on two tours. The first one was to a cave system called Gua Tellinga. It was really narrow in parts and full of water, but really neat. The best part was when we got to the center and there were hundreds of fruit bats sleeping from the roof and ... read more

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The travel party left downtown Malaysia early in the morning on a sequence of bus rides into the ancient forested region of Malaysia called Tamma Negara National Park. The trip began with a small trot to the rapid transit station about 5 blocks from our Hostel that took us to the bus station, where a bus took us to Temerloh for a brief pause. While I don’t exactly have kind words for the Temerloh bus station, the shopping mart there offered us all kinds of road snacks we tucked away for our next ride to Jerantut. Finally, from Jerantut a final minivan took us first to the local grocery store and second to the town which resides on a large sloth of a river that runs gently through the park. The floating restaurants and other amenities ... read more

Guest Blog: Abi Knight (Rider) Tommy and Laura have entrusted me with the care of the almighty blog for this installment. I'm deeply proud. Our next pit stop was in Taman Negara National Park, the main jungle area in peninsula Malaysia, where we bedded down in Nusa Camp - the lodging located furthest down the river and thus furthest into the jungle. Though there have been tiger, leopard and elephant sightings here, we would have needed to trek for several days into the jungle for a glimpse so instead we contented ourselves with the staples of the Nusa Camp experience. It's rare that I find myself paying good money to walk into a pitch-black jungle actively searching for poisonous insects, but that's precisely what we did on our first night at Nusa. Decked out like a ... read more