Taman Negara
Travel Blogs from Taman Negara, Malaysia
In the depths of the jungle!!
Taman Negara, the oldest rainforest in the world...it took us at least 7 hours on various buses to get there...but in the end we made it and found a nice little deserted chalet where you really feel like you're in the middle of the jungle with trees and ...
Tapirs, Leaches and lots of Jungle!
took a boat then bus from Perhentians to Taman Negara. Steve and Lou were already there and had reserved us a room which was good so were able to check straight in and have a nice meal with them. 13th we did the canopy walkway which is basically a rope ...
Animals Galore
... soaked. It was so much fun, especially in such extreme heats. We then stopped at a local settlement where natives to Taman Negara live. They don’t stay in the same settlements for long periods of time so we were very privileged to ...
Mud & Blood In Taman Negara
... of palm oil plantations lining the route. Jerantut is the nearest train stop to the peninsula’s major national park, Taman Negara. A four hour wait and a ninety minute rickety minibus ride took me to the village of Kuala Tahan that sits ...
Kuala Lumpur and Taman Negara National Park
... to the Indians we have met so far! The next day we were undecided on whether to go to the Cameron Highlands or the Taman Negara NP, on a whim decided on the National Park. It was a 4 hour bus trip us to a town called Jererntut and then loaded our ...
Leeches, tapier and TIGER oh my!!!
Staying across the national park was an amazing experience. Trekking it for six hours and staying in a hide was an even more incredible experience! The hike was extremly sweatty and having a wildlife biologist along for the experience was great but since ...
Taman Negara - It cant be reality??
... its always loud but never noisy a place where you can kick it with nomadic bush tribes and feel welcome. That’s Taman Negara. The accommodation is cheap and the locals second to none. Awaking in KL knowing that I was setting off for the ...
Taman Negara
Hey everone, Yesterday we took the bus to Taman Negara early in the morning. The bus brought us to Jerantut where we had lunch and from where we started with a boat to the oldest rainforest in the world. The three hours boat trip was quite long but also ...
entering Taman Negara rainforest
we left the big cities behind us and entered the realms of an almost unntouched rainforest. it was an incredible experience. i would say life changing, lol. a 2 hour boat ride down the river took us to our little hostel, which was a group of small huts ...
da jungle
after such a long trip in the train....hungry, thirsty and hot....we arrived in the biggest jungle we have ever seen...taman ...
steamy jungle adventure
We are now in the jungle in Malaysia but internet access is still slow and expensive. I guess that's the problem of generally avoiding staying in cities. Today we went on the worlds's longest jungle canopy walk and then after a long walk through the ...
A mother’s day with Mother Nature
Taman Negara is what every backpacker talks about in Malaysia so we had to find out what the fuss was about. After our trek in Thailand was a tame one, we were eager to see what the rainforest had to offer. We turned up at the entrance to small run down ...
Batman and Anni
... noses and we tried to put on as much as we could... At around 4pm we finally arrived in Jerantut, the jumping off point to Taman Negara jungle, an infantile 130 000 000 year-old adventure. We made our way there on a longboat up the river, passing cows ...
Taman Negara
... there. They even got our train ticket for our next place for us without taking any commission for their troubles!! We got to Taman Negara, the National Park, by boat on Sunday morning. It was a very leisurely ride up the river with us looking out ...
Taman Negara
... squirrels stole our gazes from the sight before us and we wondered what would have been different 120,000 years ago. Perhaps nothing. Taman Negara is rare idyllic beauty, a unique area free of the hands of developers and we felt lucky to have visited the ...
Viidakkoa
Eli Taman Negara oli seuraava paikka minne menna. Se on sellainen luonnon puisto eli viidakko. Sinne mentiin bussilla ja sellaisella veneella joka oli ihan kanootin nakoinen jossa oli moottori. siihen meni noin 12 ihmista (2 aina rinnakkain) eli oli tama ...
Cold showers...get used to them!
... we were given! We’re greeted by a German guy in our room that only had negative things to say about his time at Taman Negara! Because of him, our expectations really weren’t very high so it made our stay here great as everything surpassed our ...
Rain rain go away come again another day
The following day we woke up and decided in the afternoon we were going to do a river rapid boat trip and visit to an Orang Asli village (Malaysian nomadic tribe which are the only ones allowed to live off jungle resources). Overnight the river had risen ...
Time to climb a mountain
This blog is specifically for those of you who still have a job to go to and think that all we are doing is swanning around relaxing at every turn... They recommend getting a good nights rest before climbing a mountain. The Germans in the ...
"It's only fun when they're in their underwear..."
Our trip to the Malaysian jungle went well. We took the 'jungle train' (which was nice but basically a train that we could see lots of green out the windows) to Jerantut then a bus to the jungle. The next morning we got up early to get a head start on ...
Nuestra primera jungla...jungle,jungle!!
Taman Negara, a 28-29-30 de Enero de 2012 Nos levantamos muy pronto porque una furgo nos recoge para llevarnos al punto de la agencia de donde salimos todos, y allí están también dos australianas, nuestro primer contacto con el inglés a saco! Nos ...
Taman Negara
... saved it to have for my birthday breakfast. After a few hours we arrived at a jetty in order to catch a boat to Taman Negara Rainforest/National Park. The boats, however, were smaller than I imagined so I had illusions of me falling face ...
Jungle Disappointments
... . I was not a happy lady! Upon arrival to Kuala Tembling we took the 3 hour boat trip to Kuala Tahan (the entrance to Taman Negara) as its touted as a must see in Taman Negara and again I saw nothing spectacular about it, again I'd seen better ...
Back to the jungle
Taman Negara is Malaysia’s biggest national park and one of the most heavily promoted tourist attractions in the country. It made for a perfect stopping point on our way north towards Thailand. Somehow, not through lack of desire, we have ...
Of rainforest walks, waterfalls and hot springs.
Breakfast with a clear view of the mountain and clear blue skies then off to the rainforest walk and a walk across the elevated walkway above the tree canopy 41 metres up. Not for the faint-hearted or those unsteady on their feet. Liz mastered it ...
Taman Negara
Taman Negara er en av verdens eldste regnskoger, grovt regnet 130 millioner aar (visstnok), og teeeemmelig svaer. Rundt 4300 kvadratkilometer eller noe, uten at vi skal komme med noen garantier. Vi hadde hoert at det absolutt var en fantastisk opplevelse ...

