Taman Negara Teluk Bahang

When mentioned about Taman Negara, I only know TN in Pahang, TN Endau Rompin, TN Niah and TN Mulu. I never knew that there is a Taman Negara in Penang Island, where the Teluk Bahang is the entrance for the national park.
Since I kena lelong to work in Penang, so I shall not miss the chance to visit the national park (So called Work and Travel) with my boyfie's relatives.


No entrance fee is being charged, is just that we need to register ourselves at the Registration counter before we enter the park and when we leave the park for some safety purpose I guess. There are 2 ways to explore the national park, which is either by boat or hiking. So, we choose to explore the park by hiking to burn our body fats and leave the park by boat. Btw, you can either pick Pantai Kerachut or Muka Head Lighthouse as your destination.

The trail guide.

Our final destination- Pantai Kerachut

For your information, Teluk Bahang is a fishing village and I managed to snap a breathtaking picture which I quite satisfied with:

Praise me if you think I have good photography and editing skill.

So, before we start our exploration, we were so energetic. But, 30 minutes after this picture was taken, I seriously surrender, I can felt that my body system is breaking down. I should have cholesterol flowing in blood at my age, however, during the hiking process, I realize that is actually my blood flowing in my cholesterol. Stop mumbling, let’s continue with the story.
At the 1st part of the journey, there is a "Little Tarzan Playground", where we can have some mini fun before the hiking.

You can sit on swing like me.

Or swing on the rope like him.

Or else swing like her.

And I reach the first checkpoint, Jambatan Pasir Pandak.

Then, you need to decide which destination point you are going to at here.
We choosen the Pantai Kerachut trail.

And the hiking process begins. The first 30% of the journey is all about climbing not hiking because we were climbing the stairs instead of hiking the jungle trail. I can tolerate with the jungle trail but I seriously hate stairsssss!!!! Those stupid stairs make me cant take my Fujika out to snap, snap and snap.

Thanks to the stairs which almost make me black out.

I felt nausea but luckily my body did a great job in homeostasis process, finally my body and I can adapt to the environment. And I can took out my camera again to take some pictures of the mother of nature.
I was keen on snapping those lens flare pictures during the journey. 



This narrow alley is known as Dug Out Hill, according to the notice board, the orang hutan(not orang utan) who stay here like N years go, use cow/buffalo to drag kayu balak upto or down from the hill, and created this small lane. 

After around 1.5 hours of hiking, finally we saw this. 

1320m to go~ Aza aza fighting!!

5 minutes distance to Pantai Kerachut.
We can heard the sound of waves in the jungle at this step.

Finally, tadaaa...

We reached Jambatan Pantai Kerachut.

Next to the bridge is actually a lake, but it was low tide when I was there, so the lake is actually kering-kontang, what I saw is just a piece of land. If you happen to visit the Park during the high tide, this piece of land will become a lake. And, this is an unique lake which known as meromitic lake. 

This piece of land will fill with water during high tide.

This is an unique lake, known as meromictic lake, where the 2 layers of sea and river water does not mix with each other.

Pantai Kerachut

I saw the wave hit the rocks and created a nice scenery, so I quickly took out my Fujika and focus at the rock. After 1 minute of waiting, finally I got this:

I seriously love this picture

The lonely plant on the sand.

There is nothing much on the beach, the sand is not soft enough, the sun is too bright enough, got jellyfish in the sea some more. Oh ya, there is a Turtle Conservation Centre on the beach.

Turtle Conservation Centre.
But no turtle de lo~

Ok,well, got around 20 la~

We were exhausted and finally our boat came so we just hop into our boat and leave the beach happily as our body is healthier after the exercise and our thighs are firmer now. Muahaha.

Jetty on Pantai Kerachut.

Along the journey back to the entrance point, the captain showed us some rocks that assemble the look of:

Rabbit.

Turtle. Crocodile.

I even saw eagles flying on the sky which made me have the wrong thoughts that I was in Pulau Langkawi. And I saw a bird in orange colour flying across the sky, and that is the plane belongs to Firefly.

Hoooray, we reached the entrance point.

My heart beat super fast and my legs are shaky when I was walking on this wooden bridge,
I cant stop my mind thinking that I will fall from the bridge into the deep sea anytime.

 

Overall, I think the trip is an enjoyable trip. Even though I told my bf’s aunt that I will never step on this piece of land anymore, but, when I was browsing through the pictures, gosh, I seriously hope to get back to the forest as soon as possible. (But, I still hate the stairssss!!!). So for all my Penang friends, or friends that working in Penang, don’t just stay at home and Facebook, or stay in air-cond area, go out and say hello to our mother of nature. You can feel the different!

My tiring but healthy look.