LATA LAYANG - KLAYANG

                                                       

There is one waterfall that not many people know the existence at Jerantut, Pahang. Located at Kampung Pagi, Ulu Tembeling, this waterfall will show you the natural beauty of the nature. Surrounded by the tree and being far away from the city nor the road, we can see the magic of the nature.

From Kuantan, it will take about 3 hours and 30 minutes to arrive at Kampung Pagi. Upon our arrival at there, we will be greeted by the big signboard wrote “WELCOME TO KAMPUNG PAGI”. There are stalls where we can enjoy our food. Right beside the stall, there will be a jetty where all the boat park at there.

We will check in to our accommodation around there. Most of the home stay there owned by the local residents. The accommodation that was prepared for us is suitable for tourist that come in a group form. Our main transport at there will be 4WD vehicle and boat for water activity.

The guard will pick up our bag and put them at our accommodation while we proceed to lunch at there. After that, we will proceed to our first water activity and that is going to “Kampong Orang Asli“ named Aborigin Village.  We will use boat as our transportation to go there. From Kampung Pagi Jetty it will take around 15 minutes to arrive at the Aborigin Village.

Most of the people at Aborigin Village is Negrito tribe. They live in nomadic way, move from one place to another place within Taman Negara. They will married to people among themselves. One of the fun fact about them is they have to stay loyal only to their partner for the rest of their live. They could not get a divorce and the man can not married more than once. They also have age limit in their marriage procedure based on their tribe trust. For men their marriage age is 20 years old until 25 years old and for the woman is 15 years old until 20 years old. If they pass their age limit, they have to stay single forever.

For their children education, if their children decide to further their study the parents will send their child to their adopted family that live near the school. One of the reason for their decision is because of the transport problem. They have to use water transport from their village to the jetty and vehicle on the road. Many of the children there decide not to continue their study and stay with their family.

There are a few activities that we can do with them and that is a chance to see how they survived in the jungle. They will show us how to make a fire using forest substance. They also will show us “menyumpit” as they used them to animal hunting. We also can make donation to them neither by clothes, food or money.

It is kind of hard to get close to them especially with the children as they hardly get any visitor. One of the way to get close to them is to offered them some candy. They use jungle substance, river and animal hunting as a way for them to continue their live.

The next activity prepared is Rapid Shooting. For this activity we have to get ready to get wet as they will splash the water among the boat. The cold river water will fresh you up. With the remaining time we will play in the water.

For this itinerary, at night we will have free and easy activities as we will use a lot of energy for the next day. Usually we only have a dinner at night and we can enjoy the night scenery there. We can request for the 4wd driver to drive us around at the village.

For the second day, we start our day with breakfast. Then we start expedition with 4wd pick up. The road will be a little bit bouncy and have a lot of fine dust so recommended to bring along your hat. We will start trekking and the first check point is Kem Rimba. After a bit of rest, we will continue trekking until we arrive at first waterfall and that is Pancho Rimau. The water itself will fresh you up and vanished the heat and tiredness. We were told to expect more at Lata Layang - Layang. We continue our trekking until our real destination: LATA LAYANG-LAYANG.

The emerald waterfall with the stairways rocks that create the waterfall will amazed everyone that get a chance to see it. The branch with green leaf will be our roof at the waterfall. The water flows and bird chirping will be our music there. The nature never fail to amazed us as the human being. The fresh air and the beautiful scenery will make you forget all the hectic things happened. The emerald green water will fresh you up and make you forgot the tiredness from the trekking. Lata Layang – Layang is one of the under rated waterfall so the beauty still remain there and not damaged by the people. We enjoy our lunch there while playing with the water. Once you go there, it will make you feel heavy to leave the place. There are no words that can describe the beauty of the nature. You will never get the same feel just like at there.

With a heavy heart, we trekking back to the starting point. We use the same route with the one we use to go there. Basically we can see a lot of new things there with new type of tree and animals.

For the next day, we will play in the water. As usual, we will have breakfast for some energy. After that, we will hear some canoeing briefing. With all the safety equipment prepared for us, we will ride boat to transfer us to the starting point. At the starting point we will check our equipment for the last time then Grand Kayak Adventure at Sungai Lembing starts. The distance is 15KM. Halfway through there, we will stop for lunch at the water point. Right then, we will continue canoeing to the exit point then we will ride 4wd back to our accommodation and our expedition ends.