Lata Berkoh

Boat journey from Kuala Tahan to Lata Berkoh

This journey on Sungai Tahan takes about one hour depending on the river level. Sungai Tahan is in many places lined with huge, leaning neram trees ( Diterocarpus oblongifolius ), forming an archway over the water, their trunks and branches festooned with ferns and orchids.

Lata Berkoh is a spectacular cascade that marks the limit of easynavigability on the river. There are deep pool below the cascade, delightful for swimming but hazardous for swimmers ! ( We discourage you to swim here because of the strong under-current and very cold water. There were a few cases of fatal accidents here in the past years !!! ); and a rocky area overlooking the rapids offers an ideal site for a picnic lunch. Be extra careful of the slippery rocks !!!

The boats stop about 500M below the cascade, and an easy walking path leads along the river bank, past a visitor lodge.

When coming back downstream, it is well worth asking your boatmen to drift with the current, so you can enjoy the sounds of forest and have a better chance to see kingfishers, fish-eagles, straw-headed bulbuls ( Pycnonotus zeylanicus ), monitor lizards ( Varanus salvator ).

If you wish, you may opt to walk from Lata Berkoh to Kuala Tahan ( five hours ), from Lata Berkoh to Lubuk Lesong ( two hours ) and Lata Berkoh to Kuala Tabing (one hour).

Adapted from “An Illustrated Guide In The Kuala Tahan Region Of Taman Negara", published by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Peninsular Malaysia, 1989.