Natiojal Park, Malaysia
Sunday, May 14th, 2006Taman Negara is always a place I wanna go..finally, my dream comes true..
3 days 2 nites Taman Negara, Pahang
Our trip started in the early morning, 9/5/06.
Traveled 3 hrs to Jerantut..
and traveled 1 1/2hrs to reach Kuala Tahan entrance..
The timber road is bad and everyone is stiffed in the car. The sir con didn’t really on. Finally, we reached Ekoton (our resort) at 2.30pm. And met our tour guide- Mat Kayuh (Nazri).
After preparing everything (pasted mosquitoes repeller, applying sun block,
lip balm, poured d salt…) we went to our first activity in Tmn Negara-
Explore d Gua Telinga.. So wat we got?!: a rooms of bats, flying in and out,
the giant toad, a insect (i forget wat it calls), a hibernated snake (it wasn’t moving)..
the cave is steep and slippery, every step have to think twice..Luckily,
the cooperation of friendship’s hand n the order from our guide.
there is a river (Sg. Yong in the forest and the orang Asli is lived beside the river). Nobody got hurt, except d japaneses guy- Sashi..but i think he is tough..
so even hurt o pain, he just remained calm. and i shouldn’t forget that Nazri
got the kissed from leeches…..
someboD kiled the leeches…(by putting salt on it!!
Sydney did it…
the murderer..)
after exploring the cave, we had our dinner at Wan floating restaurant..
tis restaurant is opened by a malay family… and they are really friendly.
the weather start getting dark..and we gusses the night activity will be brought
forward.. However, the rain stop and
we had our night juggle walk traveled to Mutiara resort by boat.
After a multimedia presentation, Nazri brought us to a hide. From the hide
We saw deers.. So, i know deers are also active at night.
Then we got the chance to see lots of different species of spiders, stick insect. when we walked back, we saw a blind boar is looking for food.
This night jungle walk had closer my relationship we mother nature.
The next day activities are well packed and everyone playing likes hell.
we had a jungle trekking and canopy walk in the morning. The scene from the canopy walk is enough to take my breath away. From the canopy, the trees are below our foot and k hear and admire the view. Somehow, u may see squirrels are besides U. But i not so lucky, cos there are to many people on the bridge, therefore,chances to see any animals is smaller)
At here, i would like to thanks Angie (a chinese female tour guide for taking care my bag!)
Then, Nazri brought us to 2 viewpoints. We had a long trek walked.
Along the trekking, we spot Tualang (the biggest and tallest tree), Liana (wat tarzan alwiZ grab,
a fragrant tree which is one of the ingredients to make Sasi- the carbonated drink, a very big Petai tree,
a small durian tree….)
Finally we reached Bukit teresek. Tahan Mount is just opposite the bukit Teresek.
Due to the weather, we only can see blur Tahan Mount.
After lunch, we had rapid shooting activities and Village orang Asli visiting.
we should be going village before rapid shooting. However, rain had started before we arrived. It seemed like telling us: ‘Go to get wet before landing to tis village”.
therefore, we went for rapid shooting. A screaming session is on…
we had a water splashing in somewhere middle of Sg Tembeling.
Everyone started getting crazy and playing fool around.
So i got my first leech’s kissed…i, myself stil k not believe it.
it isn’t pain o hurt. i got the mark on my leg.
We visited orang Asli village with a wet body but everyone still energetic.
This is because we ever been met orang Asli before.
Badeq is d orang asli we visited. There are 48 people in that area. Mostly are
in the middle age. Lee, a representative from the village had demonstrated
to us how to start fired with a rattan and bamboo..
then, Lee taught us how to hunt animal by blow pipe..
everyone got the chance to blow. i success blew in the third time. It isn’t hard at all. then we had a drink. the drink is from a wood..but i just cannot remember wat the wood called. the water come from the wood is crystal clear.
Then again, the sky getting dark..everyone dashed out the village and run to the boat…
It was a heavy rained. Everyone is soaked. Of course we had our dinner late. The rain still going on. Therefore, we just sit there and gossiping around. There shared a lot with us. I even know that BBQ the “Chilopoda” (lipan) can cure the asthma. They said is a traditional way. KongKang (a very cute monkey) is wat we always wanted to spot in Taman Negara. So, the local told us that the active hours for Kongkang are around 8pm-5am. Something interesting is kongkang usually spotted around the resort. So, we started planning our early morning trekking- to spot the lovely kongkang.
So, vou, yong, ling , chiuhau n me really got up early in the morning. We din manage to spot kongkang. However, we did spot d owl, birds and cock. We also did admire the diamond sky. So, really experience wat we sing “twinkle little stars like a diamond in the sky”. yong n I also saw a meteor star.
Because of heavy rain, the way to restaurant is flood. Luckily the kindly boss n his crews build a temporarily bridge for us.
After taking breakfast, we go back to the tembeling jetty by boat.
So there are many N.G sessions:
I catch yong’s foot in the cave because it was to dark and slippery. She thought that is something else.
We met a group of young KTAR Student. There are guided by Angie.
We had a splashing session in the river. Soak and wet but memorable.
Leech kissed my leg. A love mark…
There is water crisis on the first night of stay. Water flow normally after complaining. Complaint really works out!
7 of us gained popular in the resort and the restaurant. Y?? 7 dwarfs guided by a dark prince.
Importance quote: “everywhere is Toilet”. It is impossible to find concrete and brick toilet in the middle of forest. Therefore, go where u wants.
Modern orang asli use mobile phone and smoking. They can communicate in their own language and Malay. There are really friendly. So next time k try to spend a day with them.
Sockhuey got a mad session during the canopy walk.
Sydney really can play hard.
Angie is a chinese lady guide. A forest n nature lover. She wants her group tp conserve the nature n love the forest. She supposed to guide us. But due to the KTAR student, so Nazri guide us.
Nazri, a dark malay guide. He has a dimple and very cute when smiling. He Likes to wear sunglasses.
A nice and quite place to near the nature. Let’s treasure and experiences once.
