Berjaya Hills ( Colmar Tropicale ) Bentung

... rainforest for palm oil? We will never use palm oil products again! But of course that's rather missing the point. The rainforests have been getting cut down for agricultural purposes for centuries just as we cut down our own forests in the UK. Palm oil is simply the new crop replacing cocoa, rubber, etc. And as a crop it is actually very good. It has an incredibly high yield, it is used for animal feed, it is used for biofuel, it is good for ...

... Lumpa.
Things not going well,
We were thinking of devising a plan B that would keep us in JB until Monday.
But, girl in Avis had still been trying to get us a car and had found one with another company but it was at the airport so we took a taxi to pick it up.
Things going well now, although running a bit late.
We exchanged text messages with Claire as she had access to the internet to look for a hotel for us in Melaka.
Things not going well ...

... cruise but never the less it was good fun .. up river we went .. and then they threw us out of the boat and told us the cascades were just 700 meters up river .. well we knew how all there other measurements were well off but off we went anyway ... after about half an hours walk we made it ... and it was very disappointing and had big signs saying dangerous to swim even though we had been told ...

... war wirklich sehenswert bei der Rueckfahrt fuhr der Bus leider zu frueh los und Stefan musste noch einige Zeit in der recht oeden Stadt verbringen waehrend ich (Guti) den Bus erwischte und in den Dschungel zurueckkehrte. Also machte ich auch am Abend eine Nachtsafari mit einem ziemlich vollgepackten Jeep alleine. Diese fuehrte uns zwar nicht in den Dschungel aber durch die angrenzenden Palmenplantagen und unser Guide konnte ...

... learnt and practised. The conditions and lifestyle of these aboriginals was an eye-opener to them all and a sobering social lesson. Then it was THE favourite activity - riding the rapids! Basically it was an excuse to rock the boat and get swamped and make sure that the other boat got even swamped-er! We alighted onto a beach where the highlight of the trip was a trapeze/swing rope affair which launched you high over the river for ...

... 6h !) je vous laisse imaginer l’arnaque. On se rassure il est possible de randonner par soi même sur d’autres sentiers généralement bien balisés. Nous partons a la découverte de cette jungle qui regorge de vies. Ici rien n’est de taille normale. Tout est soi plus petit ou alors énormément plus grand ! Les fourmies mesurent jusqu'à 2cm, les arbres plus de 30m et certaines de leurs feuilles sont plus grosses que ...

Hello guys! You all better get comfortable and nicely settled in as this is a long one! Teman Negara! Simply translated as 'National Park' in Malay, it is one of the oldest rainforests in the world (estimated at 130 million years apparently!). Visiting and exploring it had been something I had really looked forward to for quite a while. Day One: After taking a bus from Jerantut, we arrived in Kuala Tahan - a small town on the outskirts of the national park separated ...

We departed KL early in the morning and boarded a bus for a trip to the jungle preserve of Taman Negara. To reach the preserve we first took a bus to Jerantut, then a minivan to the river dock, and finally a river longboat up to the Taman Negara. The river portion of the trip was relaxing and something different from the usual round of busses and trains. We arrived at a resturant which was floating on plastic barrrels, tied to the riverbank ...

Nach einem letzten schoenen Abend in Singapore ging es am Montag seeehr frueh auf das letzte Teilstueck uns**** Reise. Um 4Uhr riss uns d** Weck** aus dem Schlaf, um rechtzeitig am Bahnhof zu sein. Denn heute sollten wir die weiteste Strecke uns**es Trips hint** uns bringen. D** "Jungle Train" fuehrte von Singapore ueb** Johor Baru, Kluang und Gemas nach J**antut. Leid** hatten wir uns schon in SIN eine gut 30-minuetige V**spaetung eingehandelt und so stand zu befu**chten ...

We took the train from Kota Balu at 6.30am, which involved getting up at 4.30 so we were very tired. The train is called the Jungle Railway because it goes right through the jungle, so we were surrounded by trees for the whole of the 9 hour ride. It was quite hot on the train but the time passed reasonably quickly. We arrived in Jerantut and found a hotel. That night we had lots of lovely curry and murtabak for dinner and I had a chocolate roti canai. We love Malaysia food! That ...