Somewhere in 3 places in Malaysia...

We haven't written for a long time. Not because nothing was happening, but we were in places with no internet or mobile access! Yes, such places still exist on this earth:)

After Georgetown we sat for 6 hours in the bus, which took us to the Cameron Highlands. Already by the name you could see that it wasn't a place on the beach, but 1500 meters above sea level. Perfect place for tea plantations, vegetable, strawberries & flower farms. Place, where there is no more than 15 degreese ( I am not complaining), where it rains in the evening and it can get quite foggy! Perfect place to relax, do some hiking, drink lots of tea (the most famous is BOH tea) and to chill out. This is exactly what we have been doing as well. We have stayed in the Father's questhouse, the oldest hostel in Cameron Highlands, after hiking we were drinking tea and were watching films in the common area of the hostel.... For night we packed out our sleeping bags and were enjoying the cold and fresh air.

After two days we have decided that we would like to see more nature and we left to the national park Taman Negara - approximately 8 hours way from Cameron Highlands. Taman Negara, the oldest rain forest in the world ( 130 million years!) was expecting us with all its secrets and strange animals - our quest to see tigers, wild boars, monkeys, bats, tarantulas or scorpions was quite successful. We haven't seen tigers, but we have remembered Calvin & Hobbes by observing strange insects by the night jungle walk. We stayed in the Nusa Camp and for another 3 days we were hiking, trekking, going up and down the tahan river and exploring the forest and the life in it. All the trees which are as tall as 15 floor building and soo green, with lianas hanging from them and the forest so deep that you can't say the difference between trees, were amazing.

The longest canopy walkway in the world (o,5 km), night jungle walk (with scorpions, tarantulas, glowing frogs and bats) and exploring waterfalls - these were not the only adventure in these days. We have decided to explore one of the caves in the national park and we have decided to do it alone -without a quide as the other activities were quite easy! We got our torch and get on our way. The walk to the cave was really nice, passing the orang asli village (village of the locals:). The cave itself was looking quite challenging... not an easy walk and torch was definitely needed as it was completely dark in it, with lots of passages, where we had to crowl in the water or crossing from stone to stone. Of course with our luck the torch went off in the middle of our exploration and did'n't start again! Just in the part where dozen of bats were hanging from the ceiling. Of course they got excited by our conversation what we will do next, as we really couldn't continue and started flying all over the place (this was like a scene from Indiana Jones, when the bugs in the cave start flying - or at least this is how I felt)... Bravely enough we have made our way back as we knew approximately what we can expect. It was still a very long path and probably the biggest adventure we have had in Taman Negara....

This rain forest offers lots of beautiful places, creatures to see and it shows you lots of hidden paths you can wonder along.

We have left our hiking adventures and water taxi down the Tahan river and we have exchanged it for a glamorous and chaotic cosmopolitan city Kuala Lumpur. We are staying in China town (full of chinese stalls:) and exploring the town in an imense heat! ....

I was as well successful and uploaded the missing photos from Ko Samui and our trip to Malaysia (as Pedro's picasa is full, please click on the lik Pictures II - where to look to get access to see them)

We will let you know how the trip through Malaysia will continue and until then - have fun! (Pedro might share with you later on his thoughts on how humans are destroying rain forests!)