I always thought that traveling overseas is an eye -opener, learning new cultures, meet people, see the breath taking sceneries there, eat their food. The allure of what I see in the telly was so great, watching Samantha Brown having the time of her life traveling from one exotic place to another. I want to do ALL of that! ALAS reality kept me grounded, c'mon it takes a whole lot of money to go globe- trekking, money that I should save aside for the future.
But when my company gave an option to the staff where they would like to go for their company trip, I leap at the chance to go to National Park. (literally!) National Park was one of the places in my bucket list that I have never got a chance to go (which was a lie, being the procrastinator that I am , I always make excuses).
You can find history and facts about the Pahang National Park at this website :
http://www.taman-negara.com/
(Hehe I'm a procrastinator number one signs of it is that they always find the easier way instead of the long way. But you have to give me points that I found the website :))
We stayed at the Rainforest Resort , which is a walking distance from the the Jetty to go to the National Park. It's surrounded by hills and forests. This picture was on the first day of our trip. Sorry but do to confidential reasons and death stares from my friends which could easily stop your heartbeat :) I was unable to to post our pictures.
We started early in the morning, the hills was so serene with mists dropping down on them like curtains.
This is the jetty. It's actully very near the Park itself!(see the stairs at the other side? That leads to the National Park!) But we're not going their directly , we were going for the rapid shoots!)
What the heck is a rapid shoot?! See the long boat in the picture? Their equip with high powered motor engines! We head to some water rapids not far from there and we were racing (of course we weren't the one manning the boat:)) against each other, bumping up and down on small rapids and getting us all wet :) !
We stopped for a while to meet up with a few "Orang Asli" (Aborigines)
Here's the kiddies, their all shy and giggly.
This is their hut but their nomads so they move around in the jungle. I saw a school when we were walking to the Jetty so hopefully they stay in school there.
Blow pipe demonstration :) I tried my hand at it but the needle when off the target :)
Second day : Hiking in National Park :) So cool!!!! but for those who's squirmy, it is infested with leeches !! So be WARNED
We were unlucky as it rained the night before, so it was all wet and muddy that morning. I hiked my socks well above my ankle and rub some salt on my shoes and track shoes.
Oh I love the haning bridge!. Sadly we didn't go on the highest one as it was under repairs at that time. But it was thrilling to see the small trees below you like your walking on air and
you could see squirrels and birds. (We didn't see tigers though, drat, the guide keep saying they saw one a few days ago)
We rest and had lunch at this nice spot.
Colorful butterflies!!
River cruise inside the National Park
It was relaxing, you just lay back and enjoy your surroundings.
I actually got sunburned from this river cruise. My work mates were like, 'Oooh why is your face burned? You didn't go to the beach ....... how can you get sunburned in a jungle ?"
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