It seems the Malaysian government/tourist board/whoever had an off day when naming Taman Negara National Park. You see, Taman Negara is Malaysian for... yup, you guessed it, National Park. Very uninventive. If this was in Singapore, you can guarantee it would have been called the Tigelephant National Park (with Tigers and Elephants apparently roaming around, not that I saw hide nor hair of them). Basically, Taman Negara is one of the oldest rainforests in the world, and people come here to go for a bit of wandering around in it. I'm a person, so was coming here for some wandering around. I was to do said wandering with a chap called Chris, whom I met when our bus there broke down. The driver of this bus then buggered off and hitched himself a lift on the
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