Checkout A Trip To Cheng Wong Forest In Malaysia (Photos)

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Recently I (with some friends) went for a jungle trip to Cheng Wong forest in Malaysia (located in Krau Wildlife Reserve). The original inhabitants of the forest are the Orang Asli people. The forest size is about 61,000ha (bigger than the size of Singapore), The journey was 14km trekking into the forest from Lanchang village (East coast Malaysia). The trek took us between 4-5 hours but with 15mins rest after every 1 hour trekking. We slept in the jungle (camping) for 2 nights and set up our tent in the open, we took out bath in the stream, had to drink and cook with the water flowing from the stream.

Our tour lead is Mr Zali, he is a former VAT69 leader (a sand colour beret member), he is tough and a serious lead as he doesn’t like people complaining.

Here is a brief about the Orang Asli people:
 

The population is about 1000

Their major religion is animalism
They are the smallest tribe in Malaysia
The leader of the tribe is Quan he is more than 90 years old and very strong man
The name of his wife is Wan,
He has 13 children
He was had opportunity to go UK but he rejected the offer as he didn’t trust anywhere outside the jungle
They are heavy smokers and starts smoking as early as age 6
They are largely hunters and fishermen
They don’t engage in business or sell things to themselves
A professor came from UK to spend 20months in the jungle to make a research about Quan and his people in the 80’s


The trip was really interesting.

Here are the jungle rules:
1. No cutting of trees of plucking of leaves
2. no killing of ANY animal or insect in the forest
3. no littering of the forest (we had to move all our trash out of the forest)
4. no destruction of lives or reducing the population of the forest
5. Special permit is requested/required from the authority before going into the forest (the permit takes about 2 weeks to get approval)
6. Everyone is required to sign a letter of indemnity before going into the forest (meaning you are OYO if anything happens to you)
7. You are to submit a copy of your passport and go into the forest with a copy as part of your luggage

The rules above applies only to forest/jungle guests, it does not apply to the inhabitants


Pic 1: setting out for the trip
2: lodged in Lanchang village
3: into the jungle
4: Mr Zali (he doesnt like pictures)

pic 5: Quan
6: getting water from the stream
7: part of the trekking
8: still trekking

9: day 2 activities
10: tobacco smoking
11: tobacco plant
12: cassava harvesting (the Orang are cassava lovers)

13: fun time at the stream
14:an Orang boy constructing a battery powered lamp
15: after trekking for 4 hours
16: about the leave the jungle

17: on the way back
18: monkey having his lunch
19: jungle
20:our kitchen and chef at work

21:Camping activities
22:camp at night
23: watching Quan's photo album
24: a year old boy smoking tobacco

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Udeh Israel
1 year ago

Mad oo

Omo this kind of people still dey this world


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Peter
1 year ago

That's very big forest


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All this people dey get mind enter inside this forest.OYO


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