TREKKING AND CAMPING IN TAMAN NEGARA: LUBUK TENOR.
A picture is worth a thousand words. There is no need for me to write everything about Lubuk Tenor as these pictures tell all about this magnificent place.
You can reach this place on foot through a 3hr trek along the gazetted trail from the Park and Wildlife Department information centre in Kuala Tahan, or you can take a 30-minute boatride along the Tahan River. Lubuk Tenor campsite is sited next to the beautiful Tahan River.
Please again and again...respect the forest and the rain forest will respect you! Do enjoy your adventure as my family did a few years ago.
On the other side of Tahan River at Lubuk Tenor, you can follow another trail leading to Kemtor Hill, Lata Berkoh and Tenor Hide. You can view a gigantic beautiful tualang tree from the tree-top Tenor Hide. You have to be here to believe it!
We choose to take the 30-minute boat ride to Lubuk Tenor. Just us in the boat...my children just love the boatride. They are more used to using boat as transportation rather than cars. Yes..during our early years in staying in Kuala Tahan, the family spend more time travelling on the river of Taman Negara than on the Malaysian roads.
The Lubuk Tenor campsite is enough for 20 tents, but only our family occupied the whole campsite for two nights. We set up two tents with a large outdoor living hall with no TV! My youngest daughter was just 5 month-old and still crawling, but she enjoyed every minute crawling around.
You don't see them but they are many. Lubuk Tenor is a fish sanctuary for kelah fishs. My family played with the friendly kelah fishs. The water is just cool...supercool indeed. Strong swimmers can swim crossing the Tahan River to the other side of Lubuk Tenor. My family just relaxed on the river bank playing with the fishes.
Taking boatride along Tahan River for hundredth of times, but I never feel bored. The freshness atmosphere plus the soft windy environment is just too awesome to miss. The view is so breathtaking that I always enjoy each boatride. My youngest daughter is smiling and enjoying each moment with me on the boat. Just 5-month old, this is her first overnight camping trip deep in the forest of Taman Negara.
My family after setting up our two-night luxury 5-star accommodation at Lubuk Tenor campsite. My youngest daughter is sleeping inside the swing, fully covered with mosquito net.
Lubuk Tenor is a fish sanctuary for kelah fish. They are thousand of them but hard to see them as their skin colour is the same as the river. You have to be here to really seeing them and play with them as my children did. This is also a fantastic swimming spot, minus the strong current.
The showering water at the campsite doesn't come from the tree! The shower head is attached to a tree trunk with pipe inside it...we love it ...the shower water comes from the nearby river and very clean and cooling plus refreshing...wanna try it yourself.
The family in front of the big signboard. You will notice it during your boatride to Lata Berkoh. It is on your right side.
The campsite at Lubuk Tenor.
My 5-month baby is sleeping comfortably at Lubuk Tenor.
Look carefully! Kelah fishes are swimming gracefully at Lubuk Tenor. You can play with them but you are not allowed to catch them. They are protected specie of Taman Negara.
The blogger with her baby on the second-day camping at Lubuk Tenor. There was heavy flood a few months after the trip, so don't expect to see this wooden structure. It is not there anymore....gone with the flood..
The blogger NORHASIYATI BINTI TAHARIN is formerly a registered city tourist guide and later become a registered nature tourist guide based in Kuala Tahan, the hub of Taman Negara. She was also an award-winning travel writer having won the Tourism Malaysia Award in 1996/1997, based on her write-up on Taman Negara Pahang. After leaving journalism for a family life, she continue writing under various byline, but prefer to stick to yatietaharin for her blog. She will continue writing more about her adventure on Taman Negara, namely reaching Tahan Mountain, Perkai adventure, Gua Luas exploration and more...
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