Taman Negera National Park

After our ferry back from Phi Phi Island we travelled down to Malaysia via Buses and Trains-alot of them at night, one of the trains had lots of armed officers on it because of recent bombings. All we ate was Condensed Milk and Bread. We arrived at Jerantut at 3:00 in the morning and finally got some sleep! The next day we took the bus through the Palm tree plantations to Kuala Tahan - the town across the river from the National Park.

We had a great time in Taman Negera National Park. In the morning we took the boat across the river to the park after a Iced Nescafe, Milos and pancakes for breakfast. Yum! (We also had fresh fruit juice with added MSG. Yuck! )We had to buy a permit to enter the national park. We walked through the rainforest to the canopy walk. It was a big walk in the tree tops. It was very exciting. On the way to thee view point we saw a snake. It was red and small but still gave Thomas quite the fright. While we walked through the jungle we saw alot of wild life including monster ants, pheasants, boars or wild pigs, a bat and lots of butterflies. The pheasants were very common and stunning. Some had blue faces and very long tails. There were lots of blood-sucking leeches which sucked onto Mum and Johanna's feet. On the way back we got lost and had to retrace our steps, which left some of us in tears... We took the boat back over the river had some food and caught a bus to Jeradong which nearly hit a dead cow and got a popped tyre. We drove at snail speed for about ten minutes and then got on another bus. It was a fantastic and tiring day in the rainforest of Taman Negera National Park.