The park headquarter will arrange a boat for you to go to any where you like. They will record where you are going. Boats to Lata Berkoh with 2 operators cost RM80. The boat can carry 4 persons in it. It's much cheaper if you can find people to share the boat with you. It take 20 minutes to reach Lata Berkoh cascade waterfall, which is a beautiful picnic spot.

The boat ride along Tahan river was so amazing. The river bank is cover with green canopy. It's so peaceful here. I like putting my hand into the cool rushing fresh water. Tahan river is different from Tembeling river. It's quite shallow with rocks and pebbles. The water is so icy cold because it flows directly from the Tahan Mountain. The water is black in colour, red in some places. This is due to the colours of the rocks at the bottom of the river.

I can't stop myself from taking photographs of the scenery. It's so beautiful. It's also a great place for fishing.

The boat stop some where, then we have to continue by foot. It's about 700 meters along the  jungle trail to the cascade waterfall. It took us 15 minutes to reach there. If it's raining in the mountain area, the water level can raise up to the trail area! Must be a great river. There were already many people when we reach the waterfall. The current is very strong. I can't swim very well so I stay near to the bank, but I can feel the current pulling me away! There are many beautiful green and yellow butterflies flying around. They seems to be licking the wet rock surface.

We spent 2 hours there and it's time to go back. The journey back is fun too. You got to pay the boatman when you get back to Kuala Tahan and they will give you a receipt.

At about 1.30pm, we already back to our room. As I was eating my tuna sandwiches outside our room, I was approached by a dark, really dark guy name Hassan. We started chit chat and he asked me whether I want to join him and his friends for rubber tubing up the Tembeling river for RM20 per person. I should have said no because he is a stranger, but some how I agreed with him. Maybe it's because his 2 other friends look like a decent person and they are "uncle-uncle" already, besides one of them is a Chinese guy, so I thought it would be safe to join them. Another guy, a licensed tour guide name Man also join in. So at 3pm the 6 of us, me, Ah Lin, Hassan, Ah Keong (the Chinese guy), Halim and Man off to do rubber tubing. Only 5 person went in the water, while Halim driving the boat.

We wear life jacket, this is a must even though you know how to swim. You sit yourself into a big rubber tire tube and let yourself flow down stream through the rapids. You used your hand to paddle and control the direction your going. Sometimes it hard to control it. Man is taking care of Ah Lin and Ah Keong while Hassan with me. Hassan seems to attached to me too much, I can't get him off me! Jerk! But nothing happen, he just afraid that I might drown or something, so he stay very close to me. The fun part begin when you when through the rapids. Wow....... big wave coming!

When all that is over, it's time to get into the boat and head back to Kuala Tahan. Then a funny thing happen, they found out that both of us are Chinese and they can't believe their eyes, because we both looks like Malay girl! Ah Keong was so surprise and happy to know that we are Chinese so that he can speak mandarin with us, he had tough time converse in Malay with the rest of the gang I guess. Later I found out that there's only a few Chinese population in Kuala Tahan. That night, he invited us to join him for dinner at Lia's restaurant which is run by Man. We also found out that Man is a Chinese Muslim. Encik Halim and Encik Satar (another friend of Uncle Ah Keong I met during dinner)  both are Wildlife Department officers. We also met Ah Seong, Man's nephew who also the restaurant main chef. While Uncle Ah Keong is a businessman and he is here to built a chalet, it's a join venture project with Encik Satar and Encik Halim. He's been here for one week now and is going back the next day.

That night we have a lot to talk about. Everybody was so curious to find out who are we. It's a small village and everybody knows everybody, and I think everybody knows that we are Chinese girl that looks like Malay girl already by that time. After dinner we join them to a night safari ride in a Ford Ranger pick up truck into the oil palm plantation nearby. Usually it cost RM25 per person for a ride, however Ah Keong knew the truck driver (opps.. I forgot his name) and he is willing to take all of us for a ride for free. So kind of him :) Before going into the plantation, we stop by a logging quarters, they are going to pick up some beers. Both of us should not be in this place! I must be crazy to follow a bunch of guys into the jungle at night! Mum's gonna kill me when she finds out about this!

The truck has a very powerful spotlight. We are trying to look for creatures that come out to find their food at night. The chance to see animals at night depends on your luck, the bright lights will temporary blinds them and stop them from moving for a while. That night we saw a civet cat, a mongoose and a bird sleeping on the leafs of the oil palm tree. Oh yeah... and a herd of water buffaloes. It's almost midnight when we head back to Kuala Tahan. We are not so lucky that night, not much to see but I had a wonderful time, great experience.

Picture 1: That's us in the boat to Lata Berkoh.
Picture 2: The great Tahan river.

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