Rocking in Hakata

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Ok. So this video opens up at the Petronas Towers, obviously. You get two views of the towers at night. Then you see me riding the bus from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Tembeling. At Kuala Tembeling, we hopped off of the bus we’d ridden for 2 hours and got on a boat for 3 hours. It headed upstream into the heart of the rainforest to Taman Negara. You see Kathy and me on the boat with the boatman.

Suddenly we’re in a Jeep-like SUV riding on a dirt road. That’s part of the 8 minute journey from Kuala Tahan to the lodge we stayed in. Just before eating dinner, our newly made friend Sonja spotted a Hornbill in the tree just outside. We watched it making its unique call a few times before being summoned down to dinner.

The next morning sees another boat ride, far heavier this time, across the river to the national park. We did the canopy walk first and then trekked up into the jungle for 2 views. We spotted a few different columns of ants marching frantically through the underbrush. You can see a view of Kuala Tahan from the rainforest side of things at this point in the video. That night, we went on a night safari through some palm plantations and spotted wild pigs, a leopard cat, a flying squirrel, and probably 3 or 4 run of the mill house cats.

Again, we start the day by riding on a boat, past the floating restaurants on the bank of the village. We’re headed to Gua Telinga - “Ear Cave” - for some casual spelunking. We know there are bats. We didn’t realize how much guano there’d be. Afterwards we pulled back up and docked with the same restaurant and headed back inland. We did so just in time, because it started to rain for the first time during our visit to the rainforest. We spent that afternoon planning our departure for Pulau Gemia and the beach…which will be posted tomorrow, if everything goes according to plan.