Trip to Endau-Rompin National Park

Part 2 – Endau-Rompin National Park, 7-9 June 2008

After a palatable breakfast at the station Café, and took away a few more packets of nasi lemak, we proceed straight to Kahang town, where all the participants of the trip were supposed to meet up before 11am.

To locate the office of Endau Rompin National Park, once you enter Kahang town, watch out for the two-storey shop-lots on your right. The said office was squeezed in between a restaurant and a motorcycle repair shop.

Many of us had lunch at the restaurant. The owner should be very pleased over the sudden increase of customers.

We were packed into five 4WD vehicles that brought us into the National Park which was 56 km away from Kahang.

There had been raining for the past few evenings. The road to the National Park was not accessible with normal vehicles, especially at the site where we need to slope down to a flooding bridge.

On arrival at the visitors centre (VC) of the park, we were welcomed by a heavy downpour. It caused us much inconveniences. With lots of difficulties, we finally checked into our chalet,

To access to the canteen from the chalet, we need to cross a hanging bridge. The planks of the bridge were wet and very slippery. In fact, someone slipped and fell.

Rain had not stopped the bird-enthusiasts from performing their act of bird watching. As the rain began to retreat, they had put themselves into actions.

It was dinner time. We cater food at the only canteen available in the park. Very expensive, cost us RM12.00 each. After negotiation by the organizer, the next day’s dinner was much better.

This was Rm12.00 food – an improved version on the 2nd evening


On the 2nd day morning, lorry ferried us from Visitors Centre to NERC as early as 7:00am. From there, we did bird watching along the narrow tar road.

While we were concentrating on birds’ activities, one young lady in a motorcycle informed us that there was a herd of elephants ahead of us.

Cautiously and silently we walked by. True enough, a herd of them which includes a mother and its young were enjoying their breakfast at the bushes just next to the tar road, and were about 30 feet away from us. We speed up our steps. Fortunately, they were quite comfortable with us, never attempt to charge. In fact, this was my first experience of close encounter with the wild jumbos.

Freshly manufactured. Awful, isn’t it?


Around 100 species of birds were recorded during this trip. Amongst them:

Banded Broadbill. It was carrying some nesting materials.

Red-bearded Bee-eater, a juvenile.

If you wish to know more about birds of this trip, I suggest that you visit:

http://wcm-birding.blogspot.com/2008/06/birding-at-endau-rompin-kg-peta.html

A trip-report wrote by Susan Wong. She is a very experience and enthusiastic bird watcher.

Observe the rule of the park,

otherwise our next generations don't have a chance to see this.

We had to bid farewell to the park. On our way back to Kuala Lumpur, we stopped by at the Kluang station again for a cup of coffee and nasi lemak.