Last updated: 2010-02-16
Day by Day
Day 1
Arrival at Kuala Lumpur. A good city for shopping. The prices are cheaper than Singapore. You live in the Indian quarters, close to the shopping centre, LRG (the up side down train) and Petronas Twin Towers, previously the world’s highest buildings.Day 2
With a rented bus to the nature sanctuary Kuala Salangor by the coast.You walk on paths through the mangrove forest. You see waders, apes and goannas. The strongest impression might be the intensively flashing fireflies, while you glide through in a canoe in the compact darkness.Day 3
In the morning you visit a project, replanting the mangrove forest to protect the coast, in Kuala Selangor. Study and Travel sponsors the project and the children get a chance to help planting, a guaranteed fun and instructive experience. Bus to Fraser´s Hill.Day 4
The colonial buildings give evidence of the British era. The temperature is pleasant at 1500 m height. You trek in humid rainforest.Day 5-6
Bus to the small town Jerantut. On the way you visit Kuala Gandah. Help caring for abandoned elephant calves. Yes, you do get the bathe with them! The second day you make an excursion to a cave nearby, with a large quantity of bats, giant toads and perhaps you gat to the long, totally blind cave snake. A flash light is a good tip.Day 7-9
After lunch you travel to the village Kampung Kuala Medan. You and your family will be accommodated in a Malaysian home, with an English speaking family member. Plenty of playmates and a possibility to help out with the everyday chores. The children might like to take part in the process of rubber tapping and pick fruits from the trees. Who gets most fruit?Day 10-13
By rented bus to the rainforest area in Kuala Koh, situated in a buffer zone to the national park Taman Negara. The sounds from the forest are overwhelming; frogs and cicadas together sound like a jet engine, combined with the often occurring hoarse scream of the hornbill. In the restaurant simple Malaysian and Chinese dishes are served, noodles and fried rice- the children will not object. In the morning herds of apes pass by in the tree crowns. Deer and tapirs have been seen from the houses, and traces of elephants and tigers just outside. The days are filled with adventure. You can make longer or shorter treks along the marked paths, and swimming is possible in the river close by.If you are not afraid of the dark, you can camp out in the forest. The tour guidewill bring tents that are mosquito proof. With a little luck you will see deera, wild pigs, apes and tapir, maybe even an elephant. There are leopards and tigers, but they are extremely shy. The rain forests of the Malay Peninsula are filled with different species, 2500 different trees. The risk of being harmed by dangerous animals is minimal, compared to the risks of getting hurt in traffic. Snake is hardly seen, they are even more scared than you.
