ck :). The cave was great! Sometimes you could walk, sometimes you had to climb up some stones, and sometimes you had to crawl. Very soon we came to a spot at which we were not so sure whether we should continue our expedition or not. In front of us was a new chamber in which hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of bats were hanging on the stones having decorated the stones below them with bat sh.. :) In the end we agreed to continue, saw more bats, and more bats until we arrived at a point at which we all decided to better turn around. A great experience!!! In the afternoon Uli and I took a boatride up the river to get to our overnight hide where we again wanted to spot some animals. The scenery was very nice and also the 45 minute trek was ok with almost no leeches. The overnight hide is somewhere in the jungle, you get there before dark, make some dinner (Uli and I chose toast with cheese-just keep it simple :) and stay up all night to see if some creature far away is reflecting the light. I went to bed at some point because at that point we haven't seen any animal. But hey, it was fun talking to the other people, trying to get a fire started to cook some water and using the same fire to toast our toast. The next morning we started early to hike all the way back to the headquaters. It was supposed to be a five hour hike but Uli and I were in a hurry because we had to catch the last boat out of the national park and still wanted to do the longest canopy walk in the world. So we just needed four hours, however, this time tons of leeches hanging on to our skin sucking all our blood supplies. Once we arrived we got rid of them and hurried to the canopy walk. Done that in one hour and hurried again to the boat, taking us three hours through a wonderful scenery back to Jerantut were we took the night train to Kuala Lumpur.July 26, 2006
Tama Negara National Park
We took the so called "jungle train" from Kota Bahru in the north to Jerantut - a ten hour train ride (yet a short distance) leading through the jungle. It sounds better than it is because in the end it is just trees passing you by. By then we were luckily some trained travellers - whenever you go to South East Asia be sure to have long sleve pants and shirts with you even though it is 35 degrees outside. Why? Because they tend to try every time how cold the air conditioning can actually be. Well prepared we were still freezing our a.. of. Being overwhelmed by the heat when we got off in Jerantut we had to take another bus for 60 kilometers to get to the national park. This time we were sweating because there were just some windows...Once we arrived we looked for a nice hostel and on our way, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, we met these two in South Korea studying German guys we met on Ko Tao. Big surprise because they wanted to travel some other places. So we hung out with them, yet in another guesthouse because their's was booked out. The same night we did a four-wheel-drive nightsafari trying to spot some animals. I really do not get the point of it: Having a big torch in your hand you wait until you see the light being reflected in an animal's eyes. Being happy about finding one you try to figure out what it is. In the end you never know because they run or fly away...seriously, I am not made for this. But hey, we saw a leopard like looking cat and some birds - congratulations :) The next day we hiked with those two Germans to a cave, took our torches and a lighter to get rid of the annoying leeches (we were used to them by that time and continued the hike - not like in Thailand were we paniced and ran ba
ck :). The cave was great! Sometimes you could walk, sometimes you had to climb up some stones, and sometimes you had to crawl. Very soon we came to a spot at which we were not so sure whether we should continue our expedition or not. In front of us was a new chamber in which hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of bats were hanging on the stones having decorated the stones below them with bat sh.. :) In the end we agreed to continue, saw more bats, and more bats until we arrived at a point at which we all decided to better turn around. A great experience!!! In the afternoon Uli and I took a boatride up the river to get to our overnight hide where we again wanted to spot some animals. The scenery was very nice and also the 45 minute trek was ok with almost no leeches. The overnight hide is somewhere in the jungle, you get there before dark, make some dinner (Uli and I chose toast with cheese-just keep it simple :) and stay up all night to see if some creature far away is reflecting the light. I went to bed at some point because at that point we haven't seen any animal. But hey, it was fun talking to the other people, trying to get a fire started to cook some water and using the same fire to toast our toast. The next morning we started early to hike all the way back to the headquaters. It was supposed to be a five hour hike but Uli and I were in a hurry because we had to catch the last boat out of the national park and still wanted to do the longest canopy walk in the world. So we just needed four hours, however, this time tons of leeches hanging on to our skin sucking all our blood supplies. Once we arrived we got rid of them and hurried to the canopy walk. Done that in one hour and hurried again to the boat, taking us three hours through a wonderful scenery back to Jerantut were we took the night train to Kuala Lumpur.
ck :). The cave was great! Sometimes you could walk, sometimes you had to climb up some stones, and sometimes you had to crawl. Very soon we came to a spot at which we were not so sure whether we should continue our expedition or not. In front of us was a new chamber in which hundreds (and I mean hundreds) of bats were hanging on the stones having decorated the stones below them with bat sh.. :) In the end we agreed to continue, saw more bats, and more bats until we arrived at a point at which we all decided to better turn around. A great experience!!! In the afternoon Uli and I took a boatride up the river to get to our overnight hide where we again wanted to spot some animals. The scenery was very nice and also the 45 minute trek was ok with almost no leeches. The overnight hide is somewhere in the jungle, you get there before dark, make some dinner (Uli and I chose toast with cheese-just keep it simple :) and stay up all night to see if some creature far away is reflecting the light. I went to bed at some point because at that point we haven't seen any animal. But hey, it was fun talking to the other people, trying to get a fire started to cook some water and using the same fire to toast our toast. The next morning we started early to hike all the way back to the headquaters. It was supposed to be a five hour hike but Uli and I were in a hurry because we had to catch the last boat out of the national park and still wanted to do the longest canopy walk in the world. So we just needed four hours, however, this time tons of leeches hanging on to our skin sucking all our blood supplies. Once we arrived we got rid of them and hurried to the canopy walk. Done that in one hour and hurried again to the boat, taking us three hours through a wonderful scenery back to Jerantut were we took the night train to Kuala Lumpur.
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