Taman Negara, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Taman Negara National Park - The jungle!
May 2, 2009 (48 photos)

... , the weeks, you rarely know what bloomin' month it is. Turns out, it's mayday bank holiday. And so, when we arrived at Taman Negara there were scores of coaches and cars lining the long road leading to the park. Not to worry, I thought. We called in at ...

Huffing and puffing through the oldest rainforest
Aug 18, 2005 (3 photos)

... of mice in the roof above us! On Wednesday, we decided to take things easy. We visited the canopy walkway, Taman Negara's showcase attraction. This simply constructed suspension bridge, slung from tree to tree about 25 metres above the ground, is about ...

Walking on Tree Tops
Oct 21, 2006 (6 photos)

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
Oct 20, 2006 (3 photos)

... I was prodded awake by my requested wake up call to get the bus to Gua Musang to start the indirect journey towards Taman Negara National Park. There was only one other person making the journey today, Janet from New Zealand meaning we had more than ...

Day 139
Feb 1, 2007 (5 photos)

We all woke around 10am and prepared to leave the hide. The light was already illuminating the hide since there were no windows you could close just the viewing gaps. Breakfast was some rolls and then we were off to our next destination - a hut! The hut ...

Firestarter
Oct 21, 2006 (5 photos)

... 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 ...

The Jungle Train and a trek
Mar 23, 2005 (5 photos)

... stay and went to watch the Malaysian Grand Prix. The following morning we jumped onto a boat and headed up river into the Taman Negara National Park, one of the oldest rainforest jungles in the world, 130 million years old. We were told that there had ...

Rainforest Experience
Oct 15, 2005 (11 photos)

Taman Negara is an enormous tract of virgin rainforest located in the middle of the Malaysian peninsula. To get there we take a huge Mercedes Benz bus from KL to the boat jetty in Tembeling village. From here its a 2hr journey by sampan, a long narrow ...

Hurdling Workout in Taman Negara
Jan 5, 2006 (5 photos)

After yesterday's 6 hour trek through Taman Negara's Keniam Trail, I was beginning to feel the effects. However, after a few exercises and a hearty breakfast of 2 minute noodles I was ready to go again. I was rearing to go... but the other 4 were quite ...

Day 140
Feb 1, 2007 (5 photos)

We woke a bit earlier today given that we slept on concrete with no walls to separate us with the rain forest and all its creepy crawlies! Breakfast was rice pudding though the utensils and plates were still stinking of curry but never mind! We had ...

Rumble In The Jungle
Nov 6, 2004 (14 photos)

... 're beautiful animals, but that appeal would've been lost had one leapt on us and tore us to shreds, obviously. That night in Taman Negara, we'd booked a jungle safari on a 4WD jeep, no more walking in jungles for us. It was fun, although we didnt see ...

A Cultural Insight
Jan 6, 2006 (5 photos)

... old... pretty impressive. Even though this trek was physically demanding, I loved it. It was great to experience the 'real'Taman Negara with a great group of people and energetic guide. Integrating a cultural element made it so much more special, ...

Taman Negara Rain Forest
Jul 18, 2006 (9 photos)

Snake eating Lizzard Pics

Day 138
Jan 31, 2007 (6 photos)

... bus ride to Jerantut's jetty and then a very enjoyable 2.5 hour boat trip up river to Kuala Tahan (the headquarters town of Taman Negara National Park). I'd seen some maps of Kuala Tahan and had been fooled into thinking that it was a decent size place ...

Jungle Massive
Aug 18, 2005 (1 photos)

Not another river crossing!
Jan 4, 2006 (5 photos)

... ! After about 3 hours, we arrived at Kuala Trenggan: the starting point for our 6 hour trek through a very difficult Taman Negara rainforest. After about 1 hour of mud, water and beautiful rainforest, we arrived at a run down hut with broken floor ...

Taman Negara - Ancient Rainforest
Nov 30, 2008 (18 photos)

Where can you find a rain forest over 130 million years old that is accessible? Taman Negara in Malaysia is where, and this is to be our final very exciting part of our 2008 travels. To get there involved a journey by bus from KL then travelling in ...

River deep, tree high
Aug 19, 2005 (7 photos)

Caveman Davey
Sep 16, 2007 (28 photos)

Arrived in Taman Negara too late to do anything significant except find out info on what to do for the next few days, so i went to the park office to do just that. Watched the Parks video about all the great stuff you could (but never will) see whilst ...

Jungle Fever
Oct 28, 2005 (8 photos)

... had travelled all the way from Kota Bharu to Taman Negara in the same day thanks to some organized guest house in Jerantut. Taman Negara is awesome, the stuff of legends. A mass of primary jungle over 130 million years old, the park sprawls 4343sq km ...

Taman Negara National Park
Nov 22, 2004 (3 photos)

Wow, what a hot and sweaty few days we have had. We ventured into Malaysia's largest national park Taman Negara (reputedly the oldest rainforest in the world) after the bus left us at what it probably the worst cafe in Malaysia. I won't disgust you with ...

Brown water rafting in the jungle
Feb 28, 2003

28th Feb - An early start saw us catch a bus from Kuala Lumpur to the center of Malaysia and the national park of Tamen Negara. On the way we stopped for refreshments - one of those strange occurrences where you order a banana and get two cups of coffee ...

Crossing cultures
Mar 3, 2003

2nd March - Set off on yet another jungle trek. This one was 3.3km over flattish ground and we passed through a sort of village. This was even smaller than where we live at home - only one house! People live here temporarily to collect oil for the ...

Tarzan and Jayne
Mar 28, 2006 (16 photos)

Taman Negara. During our search for things to do in Malaysia we were told that no matter what we should not miss Taman Negara. Being pretty easy going folks thats usually all it takes to send us off in any given direction. Once we started looking into the ...

Into the jungle!!!
Mar 29, 2005 (3 photos)

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 ...

Map pin
Jun 15, 2004

Just a map tag

Breaking news!
Jan 13, 2009 (46 photos)

... & wild animals. The four, all male, thought to be in their mid to late twenties were last seen wandering into Taman Negara national park with in-adequate supplies, inappropriately dressed & clutching a map which appeared to have been drawn by a ...

Taman Negara
Mar 1, 2007 (62 photos)

... ride over who decided to join our fun for the next few days. We arrived at Kuala Tahan which is the base camp for Taman Negara. It covered with floating barge restaurants, small fishing boats/water taxis, and guides ready to take you on an adventure. ...

Taman Negara
Mar 10, 2009 (18 photos)

... will go for another trek in the jungle. 13/03/09:The lepresean feels better so we decided for a walk in the dense jungle of Taman Negara.. we wanted to do the canopy walk, but on our way we met a guide who told us that it was closed for the afternoon: ...

Rainforest
Jan 31, 2008

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 ...