Day 224 (Fri 16 Feb) - Jerantut / Taman Negara (Kuala Tahan)
Up at a leisurely hour and picked up our tickets. Our bus leaves at 1pm so we had plenty of time to kill.
Done a little blogging then waited to board our bus at 1pm. The bus took us to a boat jetty some 45minutes away. The jetty was sited alongside the banks of a mighty brown river and from where we were dropped off was some 30 odd metres below us.
We walked down with all our bags to the jetty and boarded a thin uncomfortable boat for the 3 hour journey that would take us to Kuala Tahan. As we traveled we could see the jungle on either side of the banks of the river. Beautiful.
Arrived at Kuala Tahan and got off at a cafe where we were given a bit of spiel about the jungle and how we could book tours and walks. We sat impatiently through this as we had to find some lodgings. Eventually the guy piped down and we set off, struggling up the steep banks into the small town itself.
Found a cheap room but weren't too happy with it. Basically it was a shack, no mozzie nets, and the roof didn't quite meet the walls! Decided to give it a go though.
Decided to walk round the town for a bit and ended up having an indian dinner at one of the floating cafes. Not the best dinner we've had by a long, long way!
We carried on walking round and soon found a flash looking hotel complex, Woodlands, where they served beer and shandies! Whilst Sarb sipped a cold one Jo went off and asked how much rooms were per night. Worked out that it was double what we were paying at our shack so decided to book ourselves in for the next 3 nights.
Wandered back to our lodgings and, after setting up two electric mozzie repellants and spraying the room with mozzie killer, slept quite well ie. no bites.
Done a little blogging then waited to board our bus at 1pm. The bus took us to a boat jetty some 45minutes away. The jetty was sited alongside the banks of a mighty brown river and from where we were dropped off was some 30 odd metres below us.
We walked down with all our bags to the jetty and boarded a thin uncomfortable boat for the 3 hour journey that would take us to Kuala Tahan. As we traveled we could see the jungle on either side of the banks of the river. Beautiful.
Arrived at Kuala Tahan and got off at a cafe where we were given a bit of spiel about the jungle and how we could book tours and walks. We sat impatiently through this as we had to find some lodgings. Eventually the guy piped down and we set off, struggling up the steep banks into the small town itself.
Found a cheap room but weren't too happy with it. Basically it was a shack, no mozzie nets, and the roof didn't quite meet the walls! Decided to give it a go though.
Decided to walk round the town for a bit and ended up having an indian dinner at one of the floating cafes. Not the best dinner we've had by a long, long way!
We carried on walking round and soon found a flash looking hotel complex, Woodlands, where they served beer and shandies! Whilst Sarb sipped a cold one Jo went off and asked how much rooms were per night. Worked out that it was double what we were paying at our shack so decided to book ourselves in for the next 3 nights.
Wandered back to our lodgings and, after setting up two electric mozzie repellants and spraying the room with mozzie killer, slept quite well ie. no bites.
1 Comments:
This is very much on our list of places to go so we're eager to hear all the details , trip there doesn't sound too good but the pics along the river were lovely
By Anonymous, At 4:50 pm
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