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- Kuala Lumpur
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Kuala Tahan Slideshow
Kuala Tahan
Travel Blogs from Kuala Tahan, Malaysia
Earthquake rattles Singapore and thousands flee!!!
This is a top pick! ... to pray was impressive. Certainly gives Christian faiths a run for their money as far as devotion goes. Taking a bus out of Singapore into Malaysia was boring but eventful. On the bus, off the bus. On the bus off the bus. The boarder crossing is easy, ...
Huffing and puffing through the oldest rainforest
This is a top pick! ... river in a small wooden boat, hitting a few unexpected rapids along the way! Three hours later, at midday, we arrived at Kuala Tahan, the small village opposite the Taman Negara Park headquarters. We were keen to try and arrange an overnight stay in ...
Walking on Tree Tops
This is a top pick! With national park permit in hand I crossed over the river by the little boats shuttling people back and forth and set out into the 130 million year old rainforest in search of it's innumerable wildlife and creepy-crawlies. Actually I won't mind missing ...
Jungle Train
This is a top pick! ... bar the moldy pillows to keep out the mozzies. The next place I checked out was a bright and cheery place called Tahan guesthouse where almost every surface, including the toilet, had been painted with bright rainforest scenes and animals although the ...
Firestarter
This is a top pick! ... would be quite a touristy visit to one of the Orang Asli villages near here who are the indigenous minority peoples of Peninsular Malaysia with the name meaning 'original peoples' in Malay. Being talked into it by Janet I went along with almost writing it ...
No cash, lets dash
This is a top pick! ... us another 2 hours to reach Jerantut where we had to purchase our permits for the park and then another 90 minutes to get to Kuala Tahan where we were due to stay. With less money than we really would like we had no choice but to take the 10 ...
The Jungle Train and a trek
This is a top pick! I'd just finished this entry and somehow managed to lose it all, so here goes again. It was another very early start to go and catch the jungle train. The first hour was quite a novelty riding through the dense jungle and watching the sun rise and ...
Tree huggers of the world unite
This is a top pick! ... and bats shitting on your head, which we didn’t have the time for or the inclination, we would take a detour to Kuala Lumpur for a few days before we descended on Cheryl and Siong. We considered the options whilst the kindly man from the ...
Having a well earned rest
This is a top pick! After yesterdays exertions I was knackered so I allowed myself a lazy day to relax and recover. Enjoyed another quality roti breakfast (really like those roti's!) before getting down to some serious diary writing and finished off writing about Thailand, ...
Taman Negara
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
To The Rainforest
This is a top pick! ... ) which was dirt cheap and delicious! Back on a really funky looking bus for yet another hours travel before we finally arrived at Kuala Tahan in Taman Negara. The second we arrived some woman jumped on the bus and tried to get us to all check into the ...
Caveman Davey
This is a top pick! ... concentrating on your footsteps (or de-leaching your shoes), as if you don't you'd end up flat on your face every 2 steps. Got back to Kuala tahan about 6, showered, got on the 7 bus to Jerantut, then got on the 12:30 train to ...
Jungle Trekking and Lots of Sweating!
This is a top pick! ... about 2km's through the jungle until we reached the rooftop canopy walk. The canopy walk is a major focal point of the Malaysia "Truly Asia" advertising campaign and rightfully so. An Indian Jones style rope bridge suspended 25 metres above ground and I ...
Tarzan and Jayne
This is a top pick! ... the 'park' stretches over 4343 sq km. The jungle is over 130 million years old and it is located almost in the center of Malaysia. Having never been logged or cleared, it remains a virgin jungle to this day. The journey there took all day, starting with a ...
Into the jungle!!!
This is a top pick! On the road again bright and early, we started the long trek across central Malaysia to the Taman Negara National Park made even longer as we hit the school run which meant we stopped every 100m or so! Excellent! Our tummies had been nicely gratified ...
Canopy Walkway.
After checking into our dorm we met the legendary jungle guide Suleiman or "Slow-man" as he called himself, a guide for over 16 years he has since gone into semi-retirement and now runs a book exchange and offers advice on trips to take. He quickly ...
Taman Negara
... the dry season but we are just entering the dry season, so the leeches were definitely an unwelcome guest. When arrived back to Kuala Tahan we had a celebratory feed at a restaurant and spent the rest of the day and night recuperating back at the Durian ...
Teman Negara
... the main town outside Taman Nagara, Jerantut, so that we could obtain permits to the National Park. The village we stayed in, Kuala Tahan, was very remote and the only words really to describe it would be small and basic. The accomodation was expensive ...
Rainforest
We get to the Rainforest and are checked straight into a hostel. We then go down to one of the floating restaurants to pick up our passes to go into the rainforest and have dinner. As the place gets dark all the insects come out, including the very noisy ...
Tamen Negara
... landlord 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 ...
Its a jungle out there...
... 15 camera wielding tourists soon scared the beasts away. Finally we arrived at the park headquarters based around the tiny village of Kuala Tahan, were we moored at one of several floating restaurants along the shore of the river. We scrambled out of ...
Traveling to Taman Negara
... hour then we were joined by two German girls, Katharina and Corinna. We enjoyed the ride chatting and resting. Once we were at Kuala Tahan (after 8-9 hours), all four of us started our hunt for a place to stay. We started with our first picks but no ...
The Oldest Rainforest in the World
... boat to the main town with all of our stuff, again. I am so glad none of us fell in! We walked straight to the Tahan Guest House which was the cutest place ever! It's a very colorfully decorated guesthouse that looks just like a pre-school so I felt ...
Jungle Bound
... outing although this is getting less. Leeches were bad when we fist got there but because it hasnt really rained since i got to malaysia theyve all but dissappeared ive not had one for over a week which is nice. Its lovely in the day time to ...
The Oldest and the Longest
... in search of the canopy walkway, a short 20 minute walk through the jungle. Unfortunately for us it appeared that the whole of Malaysia was having a team building day and we had to wait behind hundreds of locals as they climbed up four at a time. We ...
Taman Nagara
... with springs sticking in your backside & it was 10 hours long, but the scenary was pretty amazing. Then we got a mini van to Kuala Tahan the little village in the rainforest. We checked into a little wooden chalet, basic but what would you expect in the ...