Thursday, July 29, 2010

Lata Berkoh of National Park - Beautiful Tropical Nature Place

Lata Berkoh, Taman Negara
Lata Berkoh

Kuala Tahan at Dusk (IR)
Kuala Tahan at Dusk (IR)

Early this year, under the luarbiasafoto.com umbrella, we went for a short trip 2D1N to Lata Berkoh at National Park, Jerantut, Pahang. The trip intenary include canopy walk.. boating... bbq... short trekking to Lata Berkoh and swimming at the kelah sanctuary..

Natives of Kuala Tahan, Kuala Tahan
The main transport along the river is by boat. In this picture is Orang Asli (aborigines) with their boat.

Syok sendiri versi Taman NegaraOn our first day, we went for the canopy walk. To reach the canopy walk starting point you need to follow the wood stairs for several hundred metres (total elevation is around 50m). A good cardiac exercise :D. I took the opportunity to shoot macro photo along the way. If i remember correctly, at that time i havent shoot macro for almost 7 month already. Macro shooting need a steady hand which you can get after you keep shooting macro. During evening, most of us went for photohunting around Kuala Tahan and shooting either nature subject or landscape scenery with houseboat.. boat.. river.. etc.
Spider (wolf?) @ 5:1 (FF) magnification  closed up, Kuala Tahan
Probabily a wolf spider at 5:1 magnification

Lynx spider, Lata Berkoh
Lynx spider

BBQ, Kuala Tahan
At night, we had a big BBG feast. The grilled squid is simply delicious.


On the 2nd day we went to Lata Berkoh and a kelah sanctuary nearby.

Trees under the hot sun, Lata Berkoh
Some tree along the way towards Lata Berkoh taken from the boat


Trees (IR), Lata Berkoh
Some of the trees picture taken along the way (IR)

Lata Berkoh is one of the beautiful but very accessible waterfall in National Park. You just need ride a boat for about 45 minutes followed by 20 minutes of jungle trekking to reach the waterfall. Along the way through Sungai Tahan, you can see many huge leaning Neram trees forming an archway over the water which is simply wonderful.

Burung Pucong, Lata Berkoh
Small black heron

Kingfisher, Lata Berkoh
Kingfisher

During the journey, the group in front of us managed to capture a photo of Kijang by the riverside. Our boat only manage to shoot few kingfisher along the way.

Kingmarul (IR), Lata Berkoh
After reaching the final boat point, we need to trek a bit to the waterfall. The jungle trekking is very easy and not demanding at all . You will walk through walking path along the river bank until you reach the cascade. There is a small area with toilet and facility in between if you want to take a break for a while. Half of the group (our group) keep stopping for picture taking session during the 20 minutes walk to the Lata Berkoh.. so instead of 20 minutes.. it became 30 minutes ++ due to numerous stop by us..hehhehe.. those already in front surely miss all the ke'poyo'an moment.. hehehhe... The destination, Lata Berkoh is more like a big and large river cascade instead of waterfall.

Roots, Lata Berkoh
A beautiful leading line of tree roots

After spending around an hour at Lata Berkoh, we went for swimming treat with the malaysian mahseer (kelah). Here you can swim together and feed large size of kelah. You can also observed that some of the big kelah fish has some large scar at their body. Our guide told that it is because of the eagles that try to catch the fish but failed halfway.
Astro Satellite Dish @ Kuala Tahan
The astro satellite belong to the boat restaurant. Because the house boat keep moving , they need to put the astro dish inland.

After that we went back to our chalet, check out and went to our place. Hope to revisit other part of Taman Negara someday.

Old House (IR) at dusk, Kuala Tahan
Old abandoned house at dusk, Kuala Tahan (IR)

Dedaunan (IR)
Leaves (IR)

Swallow, Kuala Tahan
Swallow.. taken from the boat restaurant

Nature (IR), Lata Berkoh
Nature (IR)

Floating house (IR), Kuala Tahan
Floating house (IR)

Perahu (IR), Kuala Tahan
Boat (IR)

Kuala Tahan (IR) , Taman Negara, Pahang Darul Makmur
Kuala Tahan (IR)

Sampan (IR), Kuala Tahan
Boat (IR)

Speed Boat @ Kuala Tahan (IR)
Boat panning


A more detailed itenary wrote by Dr Jamal (in malay)

Day 1 (Saturday)
9:15AM - Dr Jamal, Ali & Andy sampai di Jerantut
10:30AM - Rombongan KL sampai - Abah & family, Emran, Hakeim, Kingmarul, Azli, Firdaus & Zilzal
10:45AM - Khaidir & family sampai
11:00AM - Kami terus memandu ke Kuala Tahan
12:00PM - Sampai ke Aki's Chalet (owner baru Ekoton)
12:45PM - Menaiki 2 bot besar ke Pejabat Perhilitan utk ambil permit.
1:30PM - Sampai di Canopy Walkway (perjalanan ke entrance canopy lebih sukar dari canopy walkway itu sendiri wakakakaa.....50m aje vertical)
2:30PM - Ramai yg sudah selesai menyeberangi 330m canopy walkway...and layan makro sambil turun
3:15PM - Menaiki bot balik ke Kuala Tahan - layan makan tengahari....& then free & easy
4:00PM - Waja & Mat Saiko sampai.
5:00PM - Ada yg shoot makro, skodeng awek orang putih & burung
7:30PM - Nyalakan api utk BBQ
8:00PM - Gotong royong membakar BBQ - melantak sampai tak larat telan
10:00PM - Ada yg layan star trail - tak tengok pulak hasil nya, ada yg borak2


Day 2 (Sunday)
7:00AM - Jemaah taam yg diketuai oleh Azli telah memanaskan nasi goreng & ayam bakar lebihan semalam punya BBQ.....semua layan.
7:15AM - Turun ke restoran sebab nak minum. Makan tadi takde air :D tapi ada yg mengelat....order roti canai pulak walauoun dah makan nasi goreng.
8:15AM - Bertolak ke Lata Berkoh - ada yg dapat shoot rusa & kingfisher - saya dapat shoot Kingmarul aje....hampeh tul.
9:00AM - Sampai ke entrance Lata Berkoh - start trekking sejauh 700m - santai jer
10:00AM - Layan 'slow shutter'.....f18, 1/250s....takyah tripod pun takpe....ish....
11:00AM - slow2 jalan balik ke bot sampai layan makro.
12:00PM - saya, Hakeim, Azli & Abah sampai dulu....& terus naik bot ke Kelah Sanctuary
12:10PM - lain2 sampai...& memulakan acara mandi bersama kelah.... tunggu hasil video Hakeim, OP kita :D
1:00PM - Balik ke Kuala Tahan - layan patin.....ada yg layan nasi goreng pattaya.....& then balik ke hotel.
2:00PM - Mandi....tidur sekejap & check out.


Going Home..
Going home


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2 comments:

  1. salam emran

    nice place , nice picture

    aktiviti sebegini mmg menyeronokkan dgn panorama yg begitu indah yg mendamaikan utk dirakamkan

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  2. salam bang.. terima kasih sudi singgah ke blog saya nie & terima kaseh juga sudi jadi follower... blog abe mmg beh... serata dunia dah sampai.. :D

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