Personally I love Malaysia and it has far more to offer than most outsiders realize – I see a lot of tourists coming to Asia who only go to Thailand (which is more geared up for tourism) and miss out Malaysia, but I think Malaysia actually has more to offer in terms of nature (although the forest is being cut down fast)…but for tourists it’s harder to find these places (cf. The downside in Malaysia is that it is very hard for foreigners to find work (or, rather, to get work permits) and, if you come in under the second-home programme you are explicitly forbidden from taking on paid work. Malaysia is a great place to retire to and they offer something called ‘Malaysia – my second home’ programme to foreigners wishing to live here – I think you get a 5 year renewable visa (although it may be 10 years now). Very glad you like the videos and hope that some of the info will prove useful on your trip – I’ve heard that there is excellent, and hardly visited, jungle in Burma so I’m very envious. Sorry for being so slow getting back to you but I’ve just returned from a trip and everything backlogged. “We are not defined by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy”
This website is designed to encourage people to visit the jungle and give them hints and tips on how to enjoy their time there skills and knowledge known as Junglecraft – bushcraft skills for the jungle. I hope that more and more people visit the rainforest as without public support the deforestation will continue and rain forests replaced by farms and the regimented boredom of palm oil plantations (that governments disingenuously classify as ‘forest’)… and sooner than we think the only jungle left will be a concrete one. And they’re right: for anyone who seeks real adventure, who is interested in nature (rather than fighting it) and wants to visit one of the least explored and most fascinating areas of the world, the rainforest beckons.īut hurry, it’s being cut down fast… very, very fast.
Is it Indiana Jones running down a hill chased by angry natives? The blackened face of Martin Sheen rising from a steamy river in Apocalypse Now? Tarzan swinging from those handily placed vines? Bear Grylls and his inexplicable battle against the wild? David Attenborough’s calm narration of some mating ritual? Baloo explaining those bare necessities to Mowgli? Snakes? Humidity? Tigers? Mosquitoes? Leeches? (…or is it an expanse of ground peppered with the gravestone-like tree stumps of a cleared rainforest?)įor most people the jungle evokes some image of an exotic, alien environment, a dark and slightly forbidding place where adventure is still possible and risk a reality. What do you picture when you think of the jungle?