Rainforest Resort Pahang

... children such as a pre-historic area.
For a botanical garden (not a theme park) it would rival anything in Europe.
Went back to the hotel, used swimming pool again, this time in the rain so we got wet! (A silly Greg joke).

The next day we left for K. L, a two hour drive.
This was in our Proton 1.5 automatic "go slow", it was ok but a bit annoying to pull over all the time to let the rickshaws overtake BUT it had Air Con.

I got directions ...

... tigers, presupposing the later eponymously titled Thai Restaurant, thought he looked like a tasty lunch (although at 60 + years I can't imagine he was too tender). My favourite theory is that he stumbled into one of the Aborigine tribes (yes they are called that and no they are not the dark australian type) tiger traps and when they found him, fearing the consequences of killing a white man, they preferred ...

... t cheap! Alcohol and non-halal food is not allowed in the hotel as they are muslim. I took most of my clothes to be laundered and grabbed some food at one of the floating restaurants on the river running between Kuala Tahan and Taman Negara. I had to go to the tour company's restauarant on the river to pick up my license for the National Park and enquire after treks and as the lady was flicking through the licensesI saw the name Tom Blanning... and ...

... dug out all the thorns. I know this is gross, but I ended up having to pull most of the top layers of skin completely off with tweezers to get the thorns deep inside my finger. We both almost threw up several times... but I got them all out, "which is nice." And, the saltwater proved to be the best thing for it. We also enjoyed going snorkeling one day at Coral Island and Monkey Bay ...

... that most of the tourists will stopped by the tea shop as it is very convenient and have ample parking space.The is fresh and the atmosphere is refreshing and cool.The temperature is about 28 degrees centigrade in the day time and at night is about 26 degrees centigrade. StevenNg

... to a Malay woman who works there and had a go at firing some blow darts at a target board. Moved on to the Elephant Sanctuary. Walked through the museum and information boards on elephants and then had lunch at the sanctuary. Our guide took us down to where the adult elephants were kept and we fed them some peanuts until the elephant bathing and feeding began. The baby elephants all filed into the river and people got to go in and wash the elephants ...

... jungle of Malaysia , the descending staircase appeared to be made of standard platform iron sheets, the stuff with the diamond-shaped treads. Our guide told us to step on the board only in the center, directly over the underlying wooden beams. At first it was not clear why this was important - surely I had not grown so fat that I could plunge through a quarter-inch sheet of plate steel? Closer inspection revealed that ...

... and treat ourselves to pancakes for pudding at a different restaurant before going back to our dorm room. There we meet 3 people who are travelling together and one comes from leeds so we spent the rest of the evening chatting. The next day we set out fairly late again and go across the river where we head the opposite direction to the day before. We don't see as much wildlife this time but we enjoy the walk through the jungle and eventually we make it ...