Taman Negara Kuala Tahan National Park

The mutiara taman negara resort has a superb rainforest setting overlooking the tembeling and tahan rivers.

Taman negara kuala tahan national park. The most well known of the four entrances to this park is at kuala tahan in the. We booked an accommodation on ourselves and had a very friendly host. Taman negara national park is the first and the oldest official protected jungle. Facts about taman negara kuala koh.

You can enhance your visit to taman negara by looking around the park headquarters compound a little. For good reason the most popular activity in taman negara is to scramble across the canopy walk. After 2 5 to 3 hours you will arrive at the entrance of the taman negara national park at the small town of kuala tahan. We booked a tour to kuala tahan the village near one of the entries via a travel agency in kuala lumpur.

The 1 738 foot long bridge is suspended 130 feet in the air allowing you. Taman negara is a national park in peninsular malaysia. Being the only resort inside the national park boundary it is an ideal place from which to explore the surrounding area. Taman negara is nestled between 3 states in malaysia namely largest in pahang which cover an area of 2 477km2 kelantan 1 043km2 and terengganu 853km2 with a total area of 4 343km2.

The national park is a 130 million years old tropical rain forest. It is the largest national park in peninsular malaysia and known to be the world s oldest tropical rainforest. It was established in 1938 1939 as the king george v national park after theodore hubback lobbied the sultans of pahang terengganu and kelantan to set aside a piece of land that covers the three states for the creation of a protected area. Kuala tahan sungai relau kuala koh and tanjung mentong.

Informative videos are shown in the interpretative room at 9 a m 3 p m and 5 p m. Inside the park are fairly easy boardwalk circuits. Tour operators in kuala lumpur run daily buses from the capital to the jetty at kuala tembeling 3 hours from where a small boat carries tourists a further 2 5 hours up the river to kuala tahan. Departure from the park usually is around 9am.

It was renamed taman negara after independence which means national park in malay. It cover 3 state in total of 4343 sq km almost 7 times of singapore size with 4 main entrance to the park. Established in 1936 taman negara formerly known as king george v national park has an area of about 4 343sq km straddling pahang terengganu and kelantan. The travel agency han offered many activities such as hiking in taman negara boat cuises night walks expedition to the orang asli village and many more.