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About 16 kilometres away from Sungai
Lembing is Gunung Tapis, a beautiful
nature park. In early day we need to
take 4WD to go into the starting point
of this waterfall but now can just go in
by car. After parking the car (is one of
our camp site too) we need to cross the
river and take one and half hour to trek
into the waterfall.Excellent camping
spots can be found in a number of areas.
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Although still in the early stages of
development, Gunung Tapis offers a
number of activities. You can shoot
rapids on one of the several rivers, or
fish for the delectable "Ikan Kelah" (tortambroides
duronesis). The Park also abounds with
hot springs and wildlife. If you plan to
stay over, camping and survival
equipment are recommended. Prior
arrangements for the trip must be made
through, the local outbounder's society
or the Tourist Information Centre.
Sungai Lembing used to be a busy mining
town and housed the largest underground
tine mine in the world - today it is
almost deserted since it is simply no
longer economic to continue mining in
the area.
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Rainbow water is a bit difference with
other waterfall, it is like a small
mountain that has been sliced out a
small piece in the middle and we just
follow the sliced out part trek into
there. At the end of the trek, a big
natural vertical wall appear in front of
us and 75 degree slope on both side grow
with small plants.The water is broken up
and reaches the bottom as mist and in
the process forms a rainbow usually
between sunrise and 11am when the sun is
at a certain angle.
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