Tiger Henry Wong in Action
The map showing the location of Taman Negara. , established in year 1939 , and its part of or borders of 3 states ,
Pahang ,
Kelantan ,and
Terengganu.This primary tropical rain forest estimated to be more than 130 million years old. and this
Taman Negara was formerly known as King George V National Park , to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of the British Monarch . and after independence in year 1957 the name was renounced as
Taman Negara.
Taman Negara having a land area of 4343 square kms . and Pahang state has the largest shared area of 2477 sq.kms ( 57 % ) . Kelantan has 1013 sq kms (24 % ) and Terengganu has the remaining of 853 sq.kms ( 19 % )
In total there are 4 entry points to get to the park.
1). Kuala Tahan --- Jerantut ___ Pahang
2). Sungai Relau --- Merapoh --- Pahang
3). Tanjong Mentong --- Kuala Berang--- Terengganu
4). Kuala Koh --- Gua Musng --- Kelantan.
The objective of establishing and protecting Taman Negara clearly stated under section 3 (1) . Taman Negara Enactment .
" the park is hereby dedicated , set aside and reserved in perpetuity in trust for the purpose of the propagation protection and preservation of the indigenous Flora and Fauna of malaysia , and the preservation of objects and places of aesthetic, historical of scientific interest "
we have our earlier breakfast at the Mc D . of Gunung Rapat.....look at the way i warrupt the burger. haaahaaha , no choice i just love burger.
And on 24th 25th of september 2011 a group of friends , who share the same interest, who love to ride motorbike very much have raise and set a ride to Taman Negara via Kuala Koh , entry in Kelantan , at the beginning stage when the suggestion was raised , around 30 bikers from Ipoh wanted to join in the ride, so later when the words was passed around among biker friends, we received response from as far as Damansara, Puchong , and Kelang. And Finally the ride ends up to 45 bikers riding and 5 units of four wheels drive vehicles and 1 myvi saloon car , and the whole group of 61 persons in the parade.
The ride starts at Simpang Pulai town at the roll of shops opposite to the Balai Polis . just before the flag off time our ride captain give us a short and clear briefing on the safety and the ride route. minutes later a loud whistle sound blow off and the ride starts at 7.30 AM sharp. the riders ignite the bike engine and take off one by one.
The journey starts off with a 55 kilometers of climbing to the destiny at blue valley of cameron highland; which take us 90 minutes and we pull in to "Restaurant 88 " , here we stop for a break to have our morning tea and most importantly for the smaller petrol tank bikes to do their refilling of petrol; as we realized for the next part of the road i.e Jalan Gua Musang road cover almost 80 kilometers has got no petrol kiosk and there are no mobile phone services as well
and there isn't any houses or stalls along the road.while we are riding on this road , we hardly see any Orang Asli also.
The support car carry along the petrol for the bikes with smaller petrol tank; just to make sure they have sufficient of petrol to reach the next station.
shown bikers are doing their refilling.....
See, the Mobil Esso man ... Choong kor ; is telling us that petrol is sponsor by Mobil Esso, and his right hand finger is pointing to the logo of "Mobil" at his jacket.
After traveled a distance of 76 km at the Jalan Gua Musang , i.e from blue valley all the way down hill , at the foot hill , we reached a " T " junction, here to go to Gua Musang Town , we got to take a right hand side turn, here the signage showing Gua Musang & Kota Bahru....after turning right this route is D30 road. here we got to traveled another 18 km to come to our destiny Gua Musang Town area. in english which mean (Caves of Fox ); Along the D30 route we can see ample of signage showing the direction to the town. upon reaching the town we can see there are many big petrol stations of differ brand.; and we chosen a petronas petrol station ( because we don't find any mobil esso here ), we stop here to do our refilling again.
Shown the " T " junction at the foot hill , along the Jalan Gua Musang.
The signage showing us to turn right hand side , so to reach our next destiny , the Gua Musang Town.
view of Gua Musang Town
The town trade mark, big hill with lots of caves
de fox cave......by the side there situated the Rail station, with daily train service connected to others city.
This common and simple building is the Railway Station. ..for the last decade where the land road infrastructure was not so well develop , the Rail road play a vital role, the only entry to the town is through train. and the rail connected to other towns and cities.
On reaching the Gua Musang Town , the first thing we do is to stop at a petronas station to top up our bike. and at the same time we wait for all our buddies riders and support vehicles to check-in. 20minutes later , after everybody has refill and chit chating at the petrol station. Our captain look at his wrist watch and shouted " wow!!! already 12.00 noon." at this moment then only we realized, its time for lunch. here our captain again give us a slight brief and lead us to the restaurant, and for the muslim friends, they are being directed to the halal food court and for the non muslim we are being convoy to the chinese restaurant to try the famous river fish dishes. and after 90 minutes we are suppose to come back to regroup at the petrol station again.......so time passes very quickly, after 90 minutes later every riders are back and we continue with our journey.......
one of our support cars. there is a carrier on taut.
one of the many restaurants that served Fresh River Fish Dishes.
this is situated at the Gua Musang chinese new village.
one of the famous motor work shop at G M chinese new village.
In this village , we also noticed there is a Dobi service shop . can you imagine how they hang and dry their washed clothes and to save the water usage they even hang the big water pile to collect the rain water for washing purposes...
here at this kampong baru Gua Musang, in others places or other states it should be only the chinese are living in the new villages but here i noticed there are many residents here are malays and these two races live happily under one shelter.
Dont forget here is Kelantan State, the governance is PAS.
parking lots for the chinese food court.
signage advice by the political parties , on the safety of riding your bike with words :put ON your safety helmet .
and at the entrance to the village, i saw the chinese temple stood side by side to the muslim mosque.....from the picture we can noticed that the Temple are much more elegant than the muslim mosque and yet this is in existence at a islamic state of Kelantan.may be this can tell a bit about PAS are not as you think .
At this township, we come to know that Gua Musang is a town consisting of Bandar Baru ( new town ) , bandar lama ( old town ) and a Kampong Baru (village ), here the majority are malays who lives at the near by kampongs. and the chinese here are mostly hakka.
From here , we take off and heading to route 8; we traveled 42 kilometers away and we reached a small kampong along the road, here we see a road signage written " Jalan Felda Aring " with an arrow pointing to turn right. when only after turning to the right then only we can notice a sign board with KUALA KOH 44 km.
thats why i say we got to be a bit careful here , just in case many of us will miss the turn here and lost our way to the destiny.
when only after taking the right hand side turn , i.e here then only we see the better signage to our destiny.
at last when you see this sign , then you have peace of mind ...saying that you are on the right track.
here stated 44 km to reach kuala koh
here we got to be very cautious , many of our riders went over shoot because they miss this turn and they go up straight , later i heard from them saying they have run another 30 kms over head then only they realize and ask the local folks , they are on the wrong direction which has been over runned., but we can't blame them, when only after you see the photo of how the sign board is being shown. hahahahhahaahahahah............. whose to blame ?
immediately after the right turn there you are , you will see another 100% clear and confident sign board showing there is another 44 kms to go.
Along the road here , we can see ample signage to the directions. and the condition of the road here is very poor, so we got to traveled with extra careful and maintain the speed slow , the road here is narrow and many sharp corners and pot holes, this is the detour road which passes by the Aring Felda Oil Palm Plantation, and this is actually a private road, belongs to felda, so its not like the trunk road which has been well taken care of by JKR. at the total of 44 kms takes us quite a long hour to finish, there is no choice cause we are new here. and also our ride captain have many time sound to us that " brothers !!! please be careful and bear in mind safety first " what a wonderful and care loving captain we have, for this ride.....once again i would like to say " Thankyou " Mr. Ride Captain.
Anyhow, by all means . the group manage to reach the destiny Taman Negara ,Kuala Koh , Kelantan safely in one piece and free from any accident and break down .........with GOD blessed !
some pictures showing the scenic of the road at the Aring Felda Oil palm Plantation.
The palm oil refinery
At the Taman Negara ( The National Park ) , we reached and Mr. Jeffrey is arranging the check- in to the hotel rooms for us. there are 2 variety of rooms that we book ; the air-cond Chalets and the fan'ed hostel and some of us chose to sleep in the camp.we also brought 3 camps and plentiful of food and camping equipment with us.
The big Sign Board at the entrance of the resort
The ample parking space for tourists to park their vehicles here.
This is the so called Hostel /// Asrama in bahasa malaysia.
....the proper word for this is Dorm right ?
she is so happy , for she have a chance to stay in this. the bungalow of Orang Asli. got air cond some more.
the tents that we set up at the camp site.
After checking -in to the rooms , we shower and brushed up ourselves and the next to do is to find out more about the out door activities like jungle trekking and Canopy walk way , which we have been so anxious to know about. so now is the adventurous time ..
just after shower and wash up
the big trunk tree.
De long bridge that separate the Taman and resort area.
after crossing the bridge , is what we call the National Park.
This look stout , you shouldn't any fear that it might break, and fall from here to the river underneath.
this another species of flora found.
The board showing the destiny
The trek.
At 7.30pm, we set this time be our dinner time. we had our dinner at the cafe . the kitchen served rice and 3 dishes at buffet style with fried cabbage , chicken fried with chilly leaves and fish in the spicy sauce, beside that we also have some water-melon as after meal fruits.....
After our dinner the show time of the nite is at the camp site, we have our camp fire jamboree , we served beer and steam boat with tomyam soup, and plenty of meat balls + veggie; sausages + noodles . guitar music and singing........we sang oldies and latest top hits, chinese and english. all rojak came in after a few cans of beers and wine , and blurry i even heard some guys are singing the Hakka songs with classical tune......and the fire burning till mid-night before we call it off........
The fire went off and we dismiss with laughter ,we back to our room to have our rest.
At the dinner table
Every one of us enjoy the food, see the plate is finish.
Sham is enjoyed as well
night view of the cafe
Everyone woke up very early in the next morning, as early as 5.00AM in the morning i heard the shower water dripping sound from the public toilet which is not so far away from my room. I wonder my buddies are the same like me; for me, the night seems very long hour, i just couldn't sleep at all , is not because i am anxious and excited ; most properly due to the sounds ( or should i say the music ) makes by the insects in the primary jungle; they are making sounds like the most wonderful orchestra music in the world. i was just enjoying the sound of music play by them; and if i am not mistaken, they are thousands of kinds of music instruments they are playing; even the owe and the wild boar are taking part in the orchestra, they play marvelous music. and if you really know how to appreciate it , tell you, not even the world academy award winners are comparable to the music they played. Haaaahahahahahahahah
At 8.00AM , the breakfast are ready.
The breakfast is ready.
me and my spouse are having fried mee and siu loong pau as breakfast.
mike and jess, lovely couple. both of them are the strong supporter of the event.
Yap zai and his wife (pui pui ); a very good match.
After our breakfast , we went for River Boating, to see some river view along the river bank.
the jetty to take the long tail motor boat.
This is the long tail boat
River with cool running water, fishes here are sure very healthy.
The river is famous for the Ikan Kelah, which is also angler's favorite.
A fallen logger floating on the river.
The adventure of river boating.
The angler are playing the waiting game.
After the river boating, we went to the Orang Asli settlement, here we found out something interesting to share in the photos.
A newborn baby and his mum......
The blowpipe man, look at his wrist watch; I noticed is not working. and i suspect does he really need this ? and i also wonder does he knows how to read it ?
The batik tribe lady, she is just beautiful.
Youngster are loitering around the jungle, to look for their friends.........their friends are the animals of the jungle.
After the river ride, we came back to the site to check out from the hotel and start off with our journey back home.
Now . as can be seen, we are packing up and are traveling back in the same road as we came, so this time we didn't stop as frequent as we ride here. but we did stop at Gua Musang for lunch, and also we stop at blue valley , at restaurant 88 for a rest due to the heavy rain. Anyhow I reached home safely and I brought back lots of happy moments, fun and joy that I found at the ride.Thanks GOD , Thanks my family, Thanks my friends and my riding buddies, and specially dedicated to the organizer Jeffrey and Yap Zai
Jeffrey
yap zai
last but not least here i ended the story with a video clip
THANKS for reading !!!
