The Jungle Train and a trek  Trip Start Jun 09, 2003 Trip End
Jun 02, 2007  Loading Map Map Options Show trip route Hide lines
Flag of Malaysia  , Thursday, March 24, 2005  I'd just finished
this entry and somehow managed to lose it all, so here goes
again.  It was another very early start to go and catch the
jungle train. The first hour was quite a novelty riding through
the dense jungle and watching the sun rise and wondering how on
earth they ever managed to build the railway, it's quite an
engineering masterpiece. After the novelty wore off we had
another 8 hours to go. It got very hot very quickly and the fans
on the train weren't working so it wasn't quite the spectacular
journey the Lonely Planet makes it out to be. We eventually
arrived in Jerantut, found somewhere to stay and went to watch
the Malaysian Grand Prix. The following morning we jumped onto a
boat and headed up river into the Taman Negara National Park,
one of the oldest rainforest jungles in the world, 130 million
years old. We were told