Blogs from Kuala Tahan, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 5

Dreaming of an adventure like ours? Find out how we did it at JulieAndDariansWorldTourGuide.com We left KL in search of an adventure on a trip to Taman Negara National Park with one of the two backpacker-style tour companies that operate out of Kuala Tahan, the park's remote 'gateway' resort village. Although we only stayed there 2 nights (14-15 Dec), there was lot to talk about. Taman Negara is Malaysia's largest National Park and is in the mountainous centre of the Malaysian Penninsula. To get to Kuala Tahan we took a bus from KL for 4 hours, followed by a 3 hour longboat ride (against the raging current). Here we spent the time doing organised activities with our tour company, which cost all up around AUD$140 each. The village was very basic but had all the essentials, ... read more

Hello there my lovely people, as you can see i am now in the lovely land of the Malaysian people and am in one of their national parks called Taman Nagara, this is a wonderful jungle from many years ago...the locals says that the jungle date back from over one million years ago and are the oldest rain forest in the world...either way it is very impressive...i got got the cheep Air Asia flight over from Hanoi to Bangkok, was sad to be saying goodbye to Eliza and Kristen who went to Sapa and then China!!! and are now getting a train into Tibet!~!! Where is the justice there??? I want to be getting a train to Tibet, but BKK was great i managed to find Ms Sara H are arrivals and we both had to ... read more

After decending the hills of the Cameron Highlands and taking off a few layers, we were back in the heat of Malaysia. After a day of travelling we reached Tamara Negara, which has the world's oldest tropical rainforest. It covers 1,677 square miles of jungle and the park contains lots of different animals, insects and plant communities (Mark was not very interested in the latter!) As we arrived at the park quite late a lot of the accommodation was full but we eventually managed to find somewhere to stay even though it was quite expensive and had the worst designed bathroom ever, who builds a shower over the toilet? Oh well at least it killed two birds with one stone! The night we arrived we decided to do a night safari with two really nice people ... read more

Nothing better to start the day then a long stroll through the humid rainforest. Encountering insects and birds in abundance around the dense vegetation. Our guide for the day gave a very naturist view of the forest from flora and fauna unique to Malaysia alone to the seasonal affects that bearly change all year round. First task was to climb up to Bukit Teresik about 344m up to see some spectacular views of the forest afar. Then proceeded to the canopy walk, which made me tremble to just to imagine being that high up. Low and behold in the sweaty state I was in I climb the tower to the start, the first bridge all good only 10m max up, then began the second this time almost 50m.... To think all that was standing between me ... read more

The guesthouse , Zeck Traveller's, we had planned to meet Sharon at in Kota Bahru turned out to be full. We had chosen it because the Lonely Planet guide book had said the owner was a mine of information and very helpful. He pointed us in the direction of a very expensive looking hotel 100 yards across the road. We decided to give it a try as we were anxious to get settled somewhere and then e-mail Sharon so she would know where we were. At that moment in time she was travelling on the overnight train from Bangkok (or at least we hoped she was!) To our suprise the hotel wasn't too expensive at all and it turned out that it had only opened that day and we were the very first customers.(Where was the ... read more