Worlds Oldest Rainforest
Trip Start
May 15, 2004
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Trip End
Aug 20, 2004
Tamra Negara,
Malaysia
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
From Jerantut, the gateway city to Tamra Negara, by minivan, then a 3 hour river boat ride to TN, which turns out to be some slapped-together river village with floating deck restaurants and guesthouses built into the side of the hills. I took a four bedroom dorm and went down to the river crossing and met a couple from Canada, James and Kate, so we decide to cross together and get some park information and the do the jungle canopy walk, which is this network of suspended rope bridges strung about 25 meters off the jungle floor. Basically it's this thick netting suspended between trees by ropes and they lay these long ladders (horizontally) across the netting and then put planks across the ladders to make the walkway
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. It's really cool, but a bit unnerving at first as the whole structure severely sways as you walk...and the faster you walk the more it sways, so naturally I take off running and jumping my way across the walkway! Anyway, had fun there and then did a short hike to a swimming hole and cooled off from the humidity of the jungle. Later we met Philip, a young guy from England and all decided to go off on a jungle trek of about 13 km and try to catch some wild life. We'll hike into the jungle, then spend the night at a jungle hide, an elevated log cabin supposedly god for viewing night animals, and follow that the next day by hiking to the main river and toobing down the river back to the village.Later that night, we went of a night jungle hike with a guide. We were led around the jungle in the dark by a local guide while we searched for scorpions, spiders, snakes, fluorescent plants, and various types of insects. It was cool and we saw this huge hand-sized spider, glowing mushrooms, a few wild deer, but unfortunately no snakes!
