Gunung Panti National Park - 13.-14.Oct.2006

James organizes another short trip: a weekend trip to
"Gunung Panti National Park" in Malaysia. It is in the state
Johor, the neighbour state of Singapore, three hours away.
Since our first trip to Tioman Island was perfect, I have no
doubts to enjoy a weekend full of fun.
These two white vans bring us to the starting point from
where we head for Mount Panti. We are a totally mixed
group, a few exchange students and local students, some
foreigners working in Singapore and mostly Singaporeans.
The hike shouldn't be very exhausting. Mount Panti is only about 500m high and the walk to the
summit takes 3hours. Nevertheless we have other problems ;-)
The humidity, I can't imagine that I have ever sweated so much. And then all the mosquitos and
even worse leeches (Blutegel).








Leeches live on the ground, not only in water!!! And they must have a perfect sensor to locate their
victims. If we stop to take a break you can see them creeping towards us. They make their way up
your shoe to find a nice place. And then at the end of the day you can almost be sure to have one
blood sucking leech somewhere at your legs. More than the half of us 15people have at least one!
But not me, hehe.

This will happen without mosquito repellent.
termite hill

oversized ant








All this is not really harmful and if I can be in this wonderful nature instead, I'm pleased.












Mount Panti has an interesting shape. It is mostly not very
steep. Only on the last few 100metres the way goes up.
Some rocks have to be climbed to reach a large plateau with
a good view on the jungle.














Everybody carries so much food in his bag that we spend the rest of the day preparing Malaysian
dishes and a big barbecue. And with some cans of beer and a bottle of vodka it becomes a funny
night.










We sleep outside on the ground or in the hammock.

















On the next day we take the same way back to the vans and to Singapore, with one stop in a
Malaysian restaurant.
The food is really, really,... really good,
except the chicken feet in the soup. I eat almost everything, but I would never try this, bah!