Taman Negara
Travel Blogs from Taman Negara, Malaysia
Taman Negara
We have come to the end of our time in the beautiful rainforests of Taman Negara, but it has been fantastic! After being taken there by long wooden boats (similar to that which you would see Ray Mears travelling around the rainforest in) we checked in to ...
Taman Negara
Ok, so we've been too busy travelling and just a little bit lazy! We went here honest, but more on this ...
It's a jungle out there!
Taman Negara is in the heart of Peninsula Malaysia and is said to be the oldest rainforest in the world. After arriving in Jerantut by train from Singapore we had a short taxi ride to a jetty where we caught a narrow boat up to Taman Negara Park. The trip ...
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... to be the world's oldest rainforest. I don't know the truth of these claims, but both jungles did seem rather primeval. Taman Negara doesn't have nearly as much bamboo as Khao Sok, but I noticed a lot more ferns (in many diverse varieties), as ...
Taman Nagara
After an 8 hour bus ride to Taman Negara, that bumped along a dirt path (sending us in the back of the van to repeatedly hit the top of our heads on the ceiling), it dropped us off in what seemed like the middle of nowhere. The small local village of ...
Cry from the jungle
... weather, so we will recommend to everyone to go to these islands during February! Now we have been 3 days in the jungle, in Taman Negara (said to be the oldest rainforest in the world). The ice age never came here, so you find unspoilt vegetation and ...
Stand By Me
... So for the first "scheduled" break from school I headed up to KL (home of the new twin Petronas towers) and then on to Taman Negara (national park) for a 4-day hike and jungle trek. KL: Overall i felt KL was a dirty version of Singapore. As with all ...
Taman Negara
Fuer Montag (24.01.11) hatten wir einen Transfer zum Nationalpark Taman Negara gebucht. Los ging es mit dem Minibus nach Kuala Tembeling (3,5h) und weiter mit dem Boot nach Kuala Tahan (3h) zu den Park Headquarters. Gegen eine Gebuehr von 1 RM (+ 5 RM ...
Impensable.....
Quoi, me direz-vous? et ben moi 2 jours dans la jungle!! c'est vrai ca , c'est pas du tout mon truc, marcher dans la jungle, la plus vieille du monde, en passant, avec un gros sac a dos, la chaleur, les sangsues, mais je l'ai fait!! Epuisant ceci dit, ...
Taman Negara (National Park)
... from Kota Bharu to Taman Jerantut which was very beautiful seeing all the different landscapes as i dont think ive seen a proper Jungle before. Taman Negara is a very hard place to get to so we had to spend a further night in Jerantut. We stayed at a ...
Welcome to the Jungle!
... were a little monotomous. Once we arrived in Jerantut we were approached by a tout asking us if we were going to the Taman Negara and had we somewhere to stay. Usually we'd be disinclined to talk to touts but this guy seemed okay, very friendly and ...
Carrie Moor goes on an adventure of her own!
... that it had been put on a boat with a load of other bags and passengers going back towards Jerantut and away from Taman Negara! I was told that the boatman noticed one was left on the boat once the passengers disembarked but proceeded to leave it ...
Ewwwww I Got Bitten!!!
Well what another great day .... i got up early and met Susie and we went over the river to see if they had a room or else she was going to have to leave as every thing was full .. and they did so we decided to see if we could find a river tour up river ...
Taman Negara – oldest jungle on planet
... started to hate infinitely. Luckily some dorm beds were left. I stayed in Liana Hostel with extremely helpful staff. Taman Negara is a large relatively isolated national park hosting allegedly oldest jungle on planet. The following day along with Eike, ...
Welcome to the jungle, baby!!!
Speaking of, going to the middle of nowhere: "Welcome to the jungle!!!" Now I can cross another fact out of my list of things I've never done. We walked in the middle of the jungle over some huge rope bridges. It reminded me totally on the pictures of ...
Last leg of the trip...
... a place I'd like to come back to someday. Anywhooo I'll let you know what we've been up to in the Jungle!!! We arrived at Taman Negara jungle two nights ago, and we stayed at a cute place called the Durian Chalet. The jungle was on the other side of ...
We decided to do the shortest walk ...
We decided to do the shortest walk available, a 3-hour trail to the Canopy Walkway, followed by Bukit Teresek, a 343m high hill. Within the first hour, we spotted birds, butterflies and a plant that had blue/green irridescent leaves, i.e green from one ...
Into the jungle
... time, it seemed like a good idea to something a bit different. Our next stop was going to be Taman Negara National Park, a rainforest park in inland Malaysia. The reason behind this was pretty weak, we'd read about a canopy walk that you could do there, ...
Tree Top Walk, Vipers and LEECHES!!!!
Well what a couple of days this has been!! I packed up ready for my 7.30am bus leaving the Cameron Highlands yesterday. after 2 hours we had to change off our luxurious air conditioned coach onto a mini bus which was a bit cramped and ...
Taman Negara
... the main streets. Lucky for us!!! Unfortunately I can't remember the name because I would really like to give them a "plug" here. Taman Negara is a national park in the state of Pahang. The reason to come to Taman Negara is to experience the oldest ...
After a 35 hr bus journey from kuantan to ...
... winding roads to Tembling jetty, we made it onto the last boat of the day just in time. The 60 km boat ride into Taman Negara National Park was peaceful and relaxing, but within 2 hrs, our bums started to ache. We were partly sitting and partly lying ...
We caught a boat over to the other side of ...
We caught a boat over to the other side of the river and made our way to Gua Telinga - a limestone cave - this time with three 1.5 litre bottles of water. The bag was heavier but the cold water felt cool against our backs. Despite setting of at 9.40am, ...
Railway to Rainforest
... for his Nasi Goreng Lakna (Fried rice with seafood stuff) for the past 5 days (food poisoning). Got up in the morning and caught a bus to Taman Negara decided to skip the tourist way in mini bus then boat 4 hrs and 30 RM with local bus 1 hr 30 min and 6 ...
Day 100
Nic and I both have a good nights sleep apart from an alarm that never seems to stop starting at 5.30am and then the owner of the alarm slamming doors and banging into beds as i think he's about to start his shift in the place and isn't too happy at ...
Living with the jungle tribes
Taman Negara We stayed in the Taman Negara National Park which protects the jungle which is 130 million years old. We trekked to a hide and heard growing noises on the way. It took ages to get there because we had to wade and sometimes swim across ...
Hunting in the dark
We went to stay with an Orang Asli tribe in the jungle....luckily the beds were better than in the hide! The cheif man was called John and he took us to the caves to see lots of bats. When we went in they all started to fly around! At night he took us ...
The Oldest Jungle In The World
... a three day adventure into the jungle. And following a sugar loaded breakfast on the river we crossed over to enter 'Taman Negara National Park'. And so started a grueling 11km hike through thick, tropical rainforest towards our first nights stay. Just ...

