Kuala Tahan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

This morning was a bit hectic, I left at 5:45am, got to the train station at 6am, but the main entrance was closed. So I had to cross a couple of main roads and climb over some barriers to cross the roads. I rushed to the station and found out I had to wait 25 minutes for my train from Mid Valley to KL Sentral station. I passed the time by chatt...

Als wir nach einer den ganzen Tag dauernden Reise endlich in dem kleinen Dorf am Eingang zum Taman Negara Dschungel (aeltester der Welt) ankamen mussten wir feststellen das unser Zimmer nicht so moskitodicht war wie erwartet. Nachdem wir die Tuer notduerftig mit einem Handtuch abdichteten entschlossen wir uns am naechsten morgen in die naechste ...

After three hour bus ride from Kuala Lumpur to Jerantut, then a 30 minute taxi to the jetty at Kuala Tembeling and a three hour boat ride we arrive in Taman Negara and cannot find a triple room. We finally found one of the last one's hidden somewhere at the end of a footpath. It was actually very decent and the owners were very friendly. It prob...

August 31st (Malaysian Independence Day): 7 girls, 6 boys, and 3 of us teachers started off in a 4* hotel in Kuala Lumpur! The visit to the monkey forest, dinner (Chinese feast!) on a floating restaurant, and a magical sampan ride down the river to see the fireflies, constituted our 1st day.
The next day was unfortunately raining, but we stil...

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 G...

We left Jerantut about 8:30 by coach and got to a small town called Kuala Tembeling about 20 minutes later. From Tembeling we jumped on a thin, two seat wide, 15ft long wooden boat with an outboard on the back. It reminded me of the racing 'snake' boats we had seen in India. It sat really low in the water which really added to its racing feel. W...

So yesterday morning at 9am Lindsay, Catie, Katie and I set off into the Taman Negara jungle with our guide named Mee, about 8kg of water, some snacks and a roll mat each. Our destination was a hide overlooking a salt lick about 12km into the jungle. The hide was a small hut on the top of stilts of about 10 meters, with an opening overlooking th...

Our next stop after KL was Taman Negara, literally 'National Park', Malaysia's first and most famous national park. We got there via a 4 hour bus ride and 3 hour boat ride. The bus ride gave us an interesting first look at the Malaysia countryside. Once we got past KL we were mainly travelling through bush and palm plantations. The boat ride was...

The bus journey from KL took about 3 hours on very good roads to reach Jerantut a small town, recommended as a stop over if you need laundry doing as they have a real drier here!, where we had lunch before getting a 3 hour boat ride upstream along the Sungai Tembeling to the village of Kuala tahan, opposite the entrance to the Jungle national Pa...

Travelled up from Kuala Lumpur in style! Arrived after a long day in Kuala Tahan which is the village at the entrance to the Taman Negara National Park which contains some of the oldest rainforest in the world. Our chalet wouldn't have looked out of place in Changi (prison camp), cold water showers, no bedding and toads in the toilet. Location c...