Blogs from Taman Negara National Park, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 13

Hello everyone again. Well it’s time for another update this time it is for the little place called Taman Negara which is Malaysia’s oldest rainforest to be precise it is 130 million years old. This is now a National Park. We got to the national park after a very long bus journey and a very long boat trip down the river 2 hrs and 45 minutes on the boat to be precise we were court in a massive down pour and all of us got soaked. When we got on the boat we met an Australian guy called Brad. Who we have now been traveling with for a week. He’s a great laugh and can drink more then Owen anyway. So he’s a good drinking partner for Charlie after Owen has passed out after 2. Once ... read more

After leaving Cameron Highlands at 9am, we arrived in Kuala Tahan, Taman Negara National Park at 5pm. It was a long mini bus ride but worth it to see the scenery. We arrived at Kuala Tahan and saw that it was nothing more than a street with some hostels/guesthouses overlooking floating restaurants on the Tembeling river. It was low season and hardly anyone around. It was hard to find people to do activities and is why we were only able to do a 4hour hike and the canopy walkway. Halfway through our tour, our guide finds a leech and shows everyone what it looks like and goes on to explain about the foot long leech in Malaysia. But not to worry it only feeds on the metre long earthworm in Borneo he reassures us. Everything's bigger ... read more

Well we decided to do yet another jungle trek. This one was a lot harder. I think its more to do with the humidity and a lot more walking on rough terrain. We were in a group of 11 this time with 2 tour guides. We stopped off at a cave half way and went in it was full of bats pretty amazing and VERY smelly. On the way we saw a tiger print which was from the day before but didnt see any tigers! WE got to the camp at about 5ish. Well i say camp it was another cave. Lit a fire and 3 hours later had tea! WE had a roll mat to sllep on. I actually slept quite well considering i was on the end and there were apparently rats and bats ... read more

Well it was a bit of a mision today. Tried to make our own way to National Park. We went to 3 bus stations in KL before we manged to get bus to Jerantut. When we did find one it didnt leave for 3 hours! So we went to find an art museum which was close by to find that was closed! Got the bus which took about 3 hours to Jerantut where we planned to sort out a trek toTaman Negara. Found a nice hostel but the town was abit like a ghost town. Sorted the bus and boat to National Park and will book rest tomorrow as we need to find more people to do trek as it will be very expensive otherwise. ... read more

Well......little did we realise that the transfer onto mainland would be quite so torturous!!! First up, after much deliberation, and thanks largely to a brewing tropical storm....we decided to leave paradise on the 7.30am ferry! BIG mistake...the storm a-brewing meant that it was somewhat choppy on the open seas and ERROR of all errors we managed to sit ourselves directly beneath the AC outlet...bbbrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! We arrived on the mainland basically as blocks of ice and for once it was a huge relief to go outside into the humidity...... to a place called Kuantan, where we would have an overnight stop before heading into deepest darkest Jungle territory! Kuantan was good, not a great deal to see but enough for an overnight stop........ The morning dawned to a city full of closed shops.......Simon you know you mentioned ... read more