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Kenong Rimba Park Pahang Wildlife Jungle Train Adventure – Kuala Lipis / Part I

This video is the beginning of a Jungle adventure this time by train, this route is known as the Jungle Train or the The East Coast Line. To Kenong Rimba Park Pahang, we started in Kuala Lipis a town 160km northeast of Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lipis was a gold-mining center before the British arrived in 1887. In 1898, it became the capital of Pahang until 1953. During this time, grand colonial buildings, such as the imposing District Offices and the Clifford School, and the Pahang Club were built. The hilltop house of the British Resident is now a hotel and museum.

The town grew and prospered with the coming of the railway in 1924. However, in August 1955, the state capital was shifted to Kuantan, and Kuala Lipis fell into a decline. We highly recommend spending at least a day there to visit the old town. Now onto the train journey. Part II coming soon. It runs from Tumpat just north of Kota Bharu in Kelantan down to Gemas in Negeri Sembilan where it joins with the west coastline which runs all the way from Singapore to Bangkok via Johor Bahru, Kuala Lumpur and Penang.

The name ‘East Coast Line’ is rather misleading – once the train leaves Tumpat it goes nowhere near the sea. Perhaps it is so-called because it links the east coast state of Kelantan to the rest of Malaysia’s rail network. Jungle Railway is a more accurate description because it passes through the sparsely populated and heavily forested interior of Peninsula Malaysia and skirts the Taman Negara and Kenong Rimba national parks.