Travelling to Kuala Tahan national park

It was 12th April 2012, we started off our journey by car at 11pm. I spent some time after work to pack up every thing into my car; lucky that it is a MPV-type vehicle, so i don't have trouble too just sumbat everything inside including few boxes of stuffs that i never look into them properly. Well, as long as everything i need is inside like medicines, outdoor gears and camping-related items, a simple of campak and sumbat inside the car will do the job. We intend to go off as early as possible so that we can reach Kuala Tahan town while local folks are still awake. However, since we took time to stop by at giant to shop last minute and have our dinner; worried that there won't be anything to eat once we arrive at Kuala Tahan, at last we were official on the move at 11pm.

Journey by car from KL to Taman Negara Kuala Tahan took roughly 4 hours; starting from 11pm and arrived at 3am. The route from Jerantut to Kuala Tahan town is bengkang bengkok and hilly. not to mention here that right after we passed Jerantut & heading towards Kuala Tahan, the only single route accessing the place was filled up with thick morning mist, thus worsened our visibility to less than 10 metres. because of this trouble & apart of struggling like crazy to wake up and being driving alert, there were so many cows preventing us from driving fast. those animals were like welcoming us along the road, and few considered idiots still cat-walked crossing the road while we were flashing high beam towards them. memang nak kena langgar betol la korang niii.

We passed by an area called Gajah Mati; there were some rumours saying that some night drivers encountered elephant crossing the roads ahead of them and some saw elephants in a group. they claimed those were not actually living elephants but ghost instead. Anyway our journey passing the road was good. Nothing happened & we never saw anything strange.

When we arrived at Kuala Tahan town, it was obvious that it was already a dead town; everybody was in deep sleep. Looks like we have to find this chalet that my girlfren have made arrangement earlier over the phone by ourselves. The chalet manager has obviously turned off his phone but anyway have left a message that he purposedly unlock one chalet in particular reserved for us with keys inside. Well, i can only say 'memang mangkuk la engko Azli! kata 24jam orang hidup kat bandar. Haram satu ekor pon takde, semur dah tidoo'. Anyway, after 1 hour crusing around every corner of the town, we finally found this Aki chalet. But before go on further, let me give you a good advice on Aki chalet. Never ever ever ever take this shit chalet. It was full of bug, kutu and pijat katil. menggaruk2 satu malam aku tido kat tempat barua nih! Dah la mahal!



As the room chalet is equipped with all basic facilities plus an old aircond but still works, we didn't stay awake long enough. You know what happened next, we doze off in no time. zzzzzzzzzzz
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