29-31 Aug 2009 Belum Rainforest

This is suppose to be a photography trip being organized for shooter to experience and shoot the beauty of the 130 thousand years old Rainforest, sound interesting right? and the prize are sponsored by Sony. Unfortunately, the organizer are quite messy. We have been calling the organizer for the details itinerary, and the only info we got is wait at the Gerik Bus Station at 12pm.

When we arrive there earlier, around 11pm, we just take our time to have our lunch, then we got a call to said that they have postponed the meeting time from 12pm to 2pm. And what can we do?? WAIT loooooo!

After awhile, we got a call from the organizer that we can call Kolonel Chua, the person who organize the program in the rainforest, then we been directed to the jetty, and we finally meet this Former Army - Kolonel Chua. A very nice and tough man, knowing many thing about this forest. He tell us alot of his experience, and his view about life. I really learn alot.

While we are chit chating, we got our first surprise, we need to wait for another 2 person for us to moved into the island (and this wait last us more than an hour.......), then the 2nd surprise is, due to we only have 4 pax, they have no other man power to arrange our itinerary, but they do have 70 pax corporate team building team, we can tag along.

K. Chua are trying his best to take care of us... (He did suggest to postponed our trip, but some how the message doesnt get sent thru to us.. blame who?

I think the whole trip, the worst thing i have been is the 2nd day, after a 3 hours treking in the jungle, we need to wait almost 1 1/2 hours at the deserted jungle corner... the heat, not enough water, sitting at the staircase of the jetty, looking for every boat passing by, hungry, and need to eat whatever we have..... and wait wait wait......what a experience.. survival skills? After this sitting at the stairs for so long, my buttock also pain, and dont feel confortable to sit on hard chair anymore...... hmmmm......

Take away the bad organizing, this Belum Park are simply amazing & awesome. Green and swimming pool like lake, good air, (although its does rain for abit, but it doesnt affect the prettiness of the placed)

This is really a huge lake -- Temengor Lake... is estimated 3 times Singapore size. really huge and pretty lake. Then we have meet with the resort staff, and bring us to our room. The room is basic, and the view of my room is fantastic, the beauty of the lake view room....The staff there are very friendly, and we do have many nice food, and nice chit chat with the staff there.

Besides the natural and beauty forest, there are one thing interested us. That is the bamboo rack (not sure if this is the right name). We want to go on it, and the staff there very kind, look at this 2 city girl, he decide to take us for a ride. ha ha.... all the pix of moving the bamboo are not true... ha ha....The pix taken while we are on the rack are just so owesome....pretty pretty... after that, we dip ourselves into the lake water, it is kind of warm, and refreshing, After a half day treking, u can imagine how refreshing we feel.... wao! nice nice!

Besides these, the other interesting me is the "woodpacker" bird knocking the tree, the "tuk tuk" sound are really soothing.... and we saw wild boar leaving some "hole" that they make, and some elephant shit too... but no luck on seeing any of them...

We wake up 6am everyday for sunrise photo, but none, cos the cloud here are pretty unpredictable, but these are another type of beauty, as you see my photo below, the cloud formation are quite pretty, and it changes every second... beautiful. We did not see beautilful sunset as well, except for 2nd day, Calvin & Mike saw the beautiful sunset and rainbow, while we have give up and lying on the bed.. what a waste! But thats is life isnt? hei hei.... Unpredictable!

The other thing I want to talk about, its the food. All the food taste good, and they served 6 meal a day. Its more than enough....the staff there are very attentive, whatever we need, they send it to us, i can say, they attend better to us compare to 5star hotel. i give them 5 *****. Superb! And to the staff who bring us to our room, really considerate, he show us the room available, checking with us if no bath room attached will caused us any problem? should him give us a room with attached bathroom, but sharing with others? or should we stay in a room nearer to the toilet, and more convenience? or we want the lake view, but further from toilet?.. very kind of him.. although at the end, we chosen the further room with lake view....but this can proof that they are very sensitive to customer need.. which are far better than any hotel. I give 6 ******

Ok.... you should be tired of all my complain and story..... I will stop here.. hei hei.... Lets see some of the photo taken from the trip..... Besides all the above, the most important thing is we have good buddies in the trip, thanks to Suzanne, Calvin and Michael, we have good laugh, good joke all the way since the trip started...... all in all, I do have fun! .......:-)