5 posts tagged jungle
Sunrise on the Jungle Train, Malaysia.
I decided to finally take the Jungle Train through the eastern overgrowth of Malaysia, and my first step to doing that would be a night train to Kuala Lipis, where I would disembark and head north on the local train at 5am.
Last night I was up late in Melaka trying to figure out what I would be doing today and someone who had found me via this blog started chatting with me. We talked a bit, I told her I didn’t know where I was going next in Malaysia, and she threw out a few suggestions. I had been to the ones she suggested until she mentioned Ipoh, and I asked her what was there. She sent me a link to its Wikitravel page, which mentioned it was a gateway to the Cameron Highlands about 85km away, which was a place I had maintained an interest in seeing. I decided to sleep on it and figure it out the next day.
On the tiny, undeveloped island of Pulau Kapas, some of the beaches are connected by these stairways built into the rock. The rest you would have to climb over rocks or take a boat to visit. During this time I was the only one using them, and they were too good not to photograph.
We needed to get the hell out of Thailand, and fast. Our visa expired in less than 24 hours, and we were slowly finding out how completely the transport shuts down in Ko Lanta during the low season. We were originally planning on heading to Langkawi, a Malaysian island group that is so north it’s practically in Thailand, but that idea was scrapped as we learned exactly how limited our southbound boat options were. Short answer, we didn’t have any.
