Hotel Sri Emas Jerantut

... Rock Cafe (sorry Diane, but they did taste good!)<br><br>That day it was a mixture of sun and showers which has been quite common for our time in Asia.<br><br>2nd Day<br>Walked around another area but spent sometime using the hotel's pool, steam, sauna and jacuzzi. <br>That evening Julia phoned using a phone card she had bought as the cost of BT calls is very high. <br><br>Next Day - Moved onto Bali<br>Taxi to airport and took Air Asia flight to Bali costing approx ...

... even more money if I decide to take an overnight trip in the jungle. To change money in a Malaysian bank is quite a procedure. You need to write down all your personal data (including home address), even your mobile phone, if you have one. Than they take your passport and photocopy it. Than they disappear for few minutes (don't know what they do, probably contemplate ...

... their heads, and found it very hard to imagine. For the entire journey we were surrounded by jungle - it feels as if you're passing through untouched lands, until you pass a lonesome house or village. Just as you think you are getting further away from civilization, without any warning we pull up to another station with people sat around drinking cold drinks from plastic bags and others getting on/off the train. The journey was brilliant to see how people ...

... our guide Hasbi introduced us to the headman of the local Batek village. He squatted in front of us to demonstrate some of the tribe's survival skills. First he took a dried length of local wood. Grooves were carved in the bottom, and holes bored through the center of the grooves. He looked around, found a length of vine, then broke a small piece of wood in half and tied it to both ends of the vine to form two ...

... This morning we drank lots of caffeine and met our guide Hasbi for our jungle trek. There is a reason they call it a rain forest. The downpours we experienced during our ride up the river yesterday reduced the jungle path largely to mud. We soldiered onward for more than two hours, amid a rising chorus of complaints from the kids. Jack, who studied Malaysia in the third grade and insisted our world trip include a ...

... celui qu marche loin devant le guide, bouquine dans son coin et ne participe pas a la conversation. Oeil-de-Poisson-Mort a donc etabli le camp dans une immense caverne; le site est superbe je dois bien l'avouer. Ni moi, ni nos chaussures, ni nos vetements trempés par l'orage ne secheront, mon odeur corporelle m'incommode deja, des sangsues couvrent mes jambes, mais ce contexte vaguement aventureux me plait. Et d'ici quelques heures, de gros rats viendront se disputer ...

... a taxi boat accross the river and into the rainforest. We first head towards the canopy walkway, which is meant to be one of the longest canopy walkways in the world. Just after we walk into the forest we spot a monitor lizard crawling into the undergrowth and then we disturb some wildboar and see them running off deeper into the trees. We continue on and it's really good listening to the sounds of the jungle. We know we're getting closer to the canopy ...

... a rather wobbly stumble along a jungle walkway - a load of nets with ladders lying along the bottom strung up in the trees so you can walk through the canopy! It was great to look out over the tree tops...untill you looked in one direction and saw a load of rainforest being dug up for yet more palm trees.....oh i'd stop lecturing hadn't i!! The evenings here were mostly spent dodging cicadas - it is a miracle that neither of us broke an ankle as their were ...

... to try to spot loads of wildlife. It was a good walk but we had a couple of Japanese girls in our group who were way too jumpy. The younger girl got bitten by a termite and jumped into the arms of the other girl and then kept jumping around screaming, we were just laughing and were talking about chucking sticks at her feet to make her jump. Thought it would be a bit harsh so we didn't do it. We saw a lot of bugs though ...

... to the national park where you go on all the treks etc. On the first day there we went on a small trek to the canopy walk which is a walkway through all the tree tops across rope walkways lined with ladders to walk across. The canopy was amazing but i was too scared to really enjoy the experience s i dont like hights. The next day we went on a trek to a swimming area in the river and bumped into a group of wild boar in the path. They were ...