Kuala Tahan, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Taman Negara
May 20, 2008 (8 photos)

... from Cameron highlands to here is exhausting with a number of bus transfers. You have to get back down to Jerantut and then up to Kuala Tahan. It takes all day so be prepared. The next day we got a river boat 30 mins up the river and hiked a 13km track ...

Tamen Negara
Oct 24, 2008 (27 photos)

... said, 'it comes with aircon'...!), opting for a colorfully painted guest house on the edge of the tiny village of Kuala Tahan, a river crossing from the rain forest reserve. Ali could barely hide her excitement en route as she promised herself to tackle ...

Jungle trekking, snakes and the canopy walkway!
Feb 26, 2008 (28 photos)

... towed back to land and take another boat - luckily it didn't happen when we were halfway down the river!! Upon reaching Kuala Tahan, we were excited to find that our hostel was the most colourfully decorated place in the world and also probably the ...

Taman Negara
Feb 13, 2009 (33 photos)

... talking the entire time (I missed seeing a anteater on the side of the river thanks to him). We were all staying in Kuala Tahan, where the park headquarters is located, in addition to a small village on the opposite side of the river. Numerous tiny ...

Taman Negara (Kuala Tahan), Malaysia
Feb 15, 2008 (16 photos)

... se menee metsan lapi. Lopuks saavuttiin Jerantutiin missa meita odotti uus minivan ja jatkettiin ruuan ja auton vaihdon jalkeen Kuala Tahan mika on yks kansallispuiston neljasta "sisaankaynti" kylasta. Se oli viela pienempi kun edellinen ja niin hiljanen ...

Taman Negara
May 4, 2008 (21 photos)

... past vast palm tree plantations slowly changing to tall trees of every variety.  We arrived at the floating restaurants of Kuala Tahan, a town that has grown to accommodate the large numbers of tourists that have come to see the jungle.  Most ...

oh my god this town is dry !!!!!! :o
Aug 5, 2006 (10 photos)

We had to overnight in Jerantut(the last big town before the NP), before catching the local bus out to Taman Negara National Park.Before getting to Jerantut we didnt even know there was a local bus out to the NP....no one mentioned it, not even LP...it ...

Im tieftsten malaysischen Dschungel - Taman Negara
Sep 15, 2009 (9 photos)

Als wir nach einer den ganzen Tag dauernden Reise endlich in dem kleinen Dorf am Eingang zum Taman Negara Dschungel (aeltester der Welt) ankamen mussten wir feststellen das unser Zimmer nicht so moskitodicht war wie erwartet. Nachdem wir die Tuer ...

Petrol towers, haggling and Argentine steaks
Jun 29, 2009

... two, I visited the Petronas towers and stroled through KL's CBD, stopping for a delicous Argentine steak lunch and a well needed beer! Overall, Malaysia was an interesting venure, not as lively as the rest of SE however. For me it was more of a casaual ...

Taman Negara
Apr 6, 2008 (59 photos)

... to be back in the jungle but Jonty's Jungle felt like a playground compared to this! We stayed in a little town called Kuala Tahan which is the parks headquarters and the easiest place to enter the oldest part of the jungle. On the first night we ...

Taman Negara
Mar 3, 2008 (51 photos)

Taman Negara national park

Jungle trekking road trip!!
Apr 12, 2007 (5 photos)

... !  The debate still goes on over who was responsible.... the journey was a good laugh!  Once we arrived in Kuala Tahan, via Jerantut, we checked all the accommodation out, got a pretty nice but cheap room, and grabbed some local food before ...

Taman Negara, the rain forest
Jul 19, 2009 (16 photos)

Nous restons sur notre lancée, toujours à trouver le moyen de dépenser le moins possible. Il est vrai que pour les touristes venant directement d’Europe, l’Asie ne semble pas bien cher mais pour nous, certains prix qui peuvent sembler dérisoires ...

Taman Negara Day 139 (6th Oct)
Oct 6, 2009 (27 photos)

... friendly and me and Mo have a similar sense of humour so we had a good laugh and chat. They were both on holiday in Malaysia for a couple of weeks and were also travelling to Pulau Perhentian. When we arrived at the jetty it was a slow 3hr long boat to ...

Taman Negara Day 140 (7th Oct)
Oct 7, 2009

Today I awoke from my pit, chatted to my German room mate Philip and decided after breakfast (toast and tea for me) to keep each other company in the exotic surroundings of Taman Negara. We crossed the river (paying RM1) on one of the river boats and ...

Taman Negara, first experience in the jungle
Dec 7, 2006 (28 photos)

... par notre guide de voyage. Nous prenons donc le bus jusqu'a Jerantut ou l'on peut remonter la riviere en bateau, jusqu'a Kuala Tahan, ville d'entree du parc. C'est a Jerantut que nous gouterons pour la premiere fois les fameux  roti canais( ...

Tama Negara the jungle
Feb 14, 2005 (19 photos)

Hi Eveyone So we made it out of the jungle, we are now safely back in Kuala Lumpur. We had an awesome 4 nights in the jungle. We met an NZ girl on thw way up who was very helpful and we ended up sharing a very colourful guesthouse with lots of ...

Jungle Fun and Rain in the Rainforest
Jul 8, 2007

Hey guys :o) So im actually writting this a couple of days late, internet in the jungle wasn't great! (unsurprisingly...) The second day in the jungle was really fun. I joined up again with the guys from Brasenose and we booked a guide to take us on a ...

Taman Negara
Jun 26, 2008 (5 photos)

After 3 hours bus and 3 hours boat, I arrived in Kuala Tahan, main village at the Taman Negara National Park. The site is stunning: it is the oldest rainforest in the world. The vegetation is obviously very dense, it is obviously very hot ...

Lions, and Elephants, and LEECHES, oh my!
Sep 13, 2007 (22 photos)

... as it had earlier.  So we decided to head out of the park the next day and continue the journey through the rest of Malaysia. The next morning, we took a longboat ride 2 hours down the river to the town of Kuala Tembeling.  The boatride was a ...

Taman Negara
Jul 3, 2009 (5 photos)

After three hour bus ride from Kuala Lumpur to Jerantut, then a  30 minute taxi to the jetty at Kuala Tembeling  and a three hour boat ride we arrive in Taman Negara and cannot find a triple room. We finally found one of the last one's ...

Rain(ed-off) Forrest
Dec 7, 2008

... in through the open window which I closed and then again 2 hours after the start of the journey when we arrived in Kuala Tahan, the nearest village to the national park entrance. Sleeping in the park is expensive, all accommodation is owned by one company ...

Taman Negara tropical forest
Oct 7, 2008 (129 photos)

... Tahan, uma pequena vila que é a base de onde explorar Taman Negara. A viagem de barco demora 3 horas e é bastante agradável. Kuala Tahan fica mesmo junto à entrada do parque nacional, mas do outro lado do rio, pequenos barcos fazem constantemente a travessia ...

Natureza, ilhas, mergulho e mais cha'
Jul 13, 2006

... e se as janelas do trem nao estivessem tao sujas, daria pra apreciar melhor a natureza - hehehe. De Jerantut onibus publico para Kuala Tahan, cidade onde situa-se o mais importanmte parque nacional da Malasia: Taman Negara. Diz-se que e' a floresta mais ...

Tenko revisited
Jan 10, 2009 (3 photos)

Travelled up from Kuala Lumpur in style! Arrived after a long day in Kuala Tahan which is the village at the entrance to the Taman Negara National Park which contains some of the oldest rainforest in the world. Our chalet wouldn't have looked out of place ...

Taman Negara National Park
Nov 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... to put some of my geographical knowledge (accquired at school) into practice, identifying oxbow lakes and such! Arriving at Kuala Tahan, I checked into a dorm with 2 Germans guys I'd just met, and because accomodation is located on the opposite side of ...

Taman Negara
Dec 12, 2008

... only westerners on the train. Managed to finish my book Shantaram -which is excellent by the way. The bs from Jerantut to Kuala Tehan took nearly 2 hours and when we got there we checked into the Liana hostel which was basic but comfortable. The staff ...

Malaysian Jungle
Mar 28, 2008 (2 photos)

... bus terminal was a frenzy. Lots of great food stalls including a lot of fruits I haven't seen since Vanuatu. A lot of Malaysia reminds me of Vanuatu - the women are covered up even though it's like 90 and humid (sweating constantly but it makes those ...

Jungle-train to Taman Negara
Jun 23, 2006 (26 photos)

... und zu ein soerfi, um den Schweiss abzuschuetteln, grins.. Endlich in Jerantut, nehmen wir die letzte Etappe per Bus nach Kuala Tahan in Angriff. Wir beschliessen die naechste Nacht in einem Hide zu pennen, das sind Wildbeobachtposten im nirgendwo des ...

Taman Negara
Jan 29, 2009

Our next stop after KL was Taman Negara, literally 'National Park', Malaysia's first and most famous national park. We got there via a 4 hour bus ride and 3 hour boat ride. The bus ride gave us an interesting first look at the Malaysia countryside. Once we ...