If you enjoy nature pursuits and jungle treks, then a visit to Malaysia’s Endau Rompin national park is definitely recommended. Located in the southeastern part of Peninsular Malaysia, near the Johor-Pahang border, this national park extending over 80,000 lush hectares of ancient rainforest derives its moniker from the two main rivers, the Endau and the Rompin, which flow through it.

Like various other nature
reserves and national parks in Malaysia, the Endau Rompin national park is
protected for the conservation of its many endangered inhabitants. In fact,
only a few sections of the park are accessible by the public and moreover, you
can only visit the park after you have acquired a special permit from the Johor
National Park Corporation. It is for this reason, that visitors desirous of
exploring the rich flora and fauna of the Endau Rompin national park, choose to
do so by way of conducted guided tours offered by various tour operators.
The park is in fact quite
difficult to access for it is equipped with three main entrances, two of which
lie in Johor and the other in Pahang, guided tours of the park are usually
conducted aboard sturdy four wheel drives and access the park from the Johor
side. During these tours of the park, visitors have the opportunity to view the
park’s vast repository of birds, mammals, insects and amphibians along with its
sumptuous green cover composed of numerous plants, herbs and trees, many of
which have much medicinal value.

Also on offer are jungle
treks and nature rambles that are usually conducted over a few days and offer sightings
of much exotic Malaysian fauna like the leaf monkeys, Asian elephants,
white-handed gibbons, tapirs, deer, long-tailed macaques along with rather rare
sightings of Malaysian tigers and leopards. Other expeditions in the park,
offer visits to spectacular waterfalls and tours of the dwellings of the Orang
Asli (Jakun) tribe resident in the park.

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