Early morning start for a three hour bus ride to Jerantut, and then another three hours on a boat along the Trenggan river. We finally arrived at the Mutiara Taman Negara Resort.
and then...... David yet again fell on his fanny!....an unfortunate incident with a dodgy plank at the river jetty....not nice...ended up going to some bizarre jungle clinic, fearing a luvly pneumothorax!....luckily after some pokings and proddings it appeared to be only a couple of cracked ribs. Stacks of drugs were prescribed(thank gawd!), and he had to get on with it really!.. Never had a rib injury before and its really painful!.
After the afternoon dramas(I had some choice complaints for the resort manager), he sheepishly accompanied us to the clinic and sent over a basket of fruit!....mmmmm...... emm,, do they have claimsdirect in malaysia?? He paid for the drugs so that wasn't too bad.
Took a night jungle walk with our guide, the luvly Angie. (not Watts). She was really nice and very keen to show us all the jungle beasties that come out at night. The humidity even at night in the jungle is stiffling.
Our accomodation was fantastic in wooden/bamboo glam chalets with ensuite and ac etc.
Next day we took a short boat ride to the canopy jungle walk way, which is 50m high and is secured only by cables and ropes to preserve the trees. It was very scary indeed, but great views.

Due to davids wee tumble, kris toddled of with the rest of the group on a 3 hr jungle trek to the Teresek Hill for a wonderful view of Mount Tahan.
Later in the afternoon we took another boat ride up the river via the rapids(getting very wet)to Orang Asli (aborigines) village to observe their way of life.
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Here they showed us how to make their poisoned darts and blow pipes and also how to make fire with just some dried wood and vines. We got to try out the blow pipes, shooting at a target!.. The local people were very friendly to us.
We took our meals on a floating restaurant which wasnt really that brilliant to be honest. Our advice to other travellers would be to take the free and easy package rather than the full board one which would give you more flexibility and save money.
It was great to spend some time in the worlds oldest rainforrest( 130 millon years old) The journey back to KL was the exact reverse but a bit quicker as it was downstream this time.