Taman Negara Park

You heard sounds. It come from every directions from you. Then you realize that it is multidimensional. First, there is the big sound, the sound of the forest as one, but that is really an orchestral illusion: it is actually composed of a million "little sounds." Close your eyes, and you hear the tiny local sounds, the group of chirps, squeaks, and flutters. Then, as your ears adjust, more subtle strains emerge. There are rubbings, warbles, clicks, knocks, rattles, castanets, peepings, pop-pop sounds, chirroop- sounds, sounds that go everything in the night. The more you listen, the more you become convinced that the variety of creatures singing in the night is endless. This is the small picture of the night life at Taman Negara Park.
Malaysians called the Taman Negara as the “green heart” as it is the oldest national park. The Taman Negara covers the mountains and limestone hills of the peninsular state of Pahang. It is home to more than 10,000 kinds of plants, 350 species of birds, and countless other insects and animals like elephant, tapir, mouse deer, and snakes. Visitors spend their time here by hiking the jungle trails, fishing , river rafting , walking along the canopy walkway and so forth.
However the Taman Negara is truly alive at night. Walking through the jungle at night offering exciting experience to the visitors. The dense of air while the sky is invisible plus the limited sight of flash light surely making you more excited. Searching for animals or insects become more challenging as they are highly specialized the adaption of survival. Some of them highly mastered the camouflage skill especially the leaf and stick insects. Sounds hard right? but if you do searching patiently you can usually spot them. The most easier creatures to see are the fireflies that flare through the jungle. The large group of this fireflies lighting up like a fairy city.
Night walk in Taman Negara is not complete without a visiting the park's tree hides. These elevated huts are located about five-minutes away from the park headquarters, and they are perfect place for viewing the park's more dramatic creatures as they prowl out of the woods to enjoy salt licks. The most frequent visitor to the licks are tapir and deer, but sometime elephants and tigers have also make a surprise to the die-hards who stay up all night. Even if these wonders didn’t appeared in your sight, the sound of the Green Heart beating at night is more than enough reason to spend time walking through the jungle at night.