Tasik Chini

Tasik Chini is the second largest fresh water lake in Malaysia, it is made up of a series of 12 lakes which in total is 12,565 acres. I have absolutely no idea how big is 12,565 acres but I can guarantee you that Tasik Chini is bigger than my house’s toilet.



Tasik Chini is situated in Pahang and is just 60km away from Muadzam Shah so it was in my “must visit list” before I graduated.

The map of Tasik Chini

When me and my friends arrived at Tasik Chini, what we can see was just a simple hotel beside the lake, no water sports or babes in bikinis playing volleyball. Just when I started to feel a bit bored loitering around the lakeside a friendly resort staff approached us and started to give us some knowledge of Tasik Chini. He told us so many things until I forgot almost half of what he said. He then told us that we can see a whole lot more beautiful scenery by taking a boat ride around Tasik Chini.

So being a bunch of naïve students at that time, we fall into the staff’s “marketing trap”, we decided to go on a boat trip around the lake.



After we got on the boat, the guide took us to another side of the lake and we instantly fall in love with the nice view. It was the view of a big peaceful lake where you can see the reflection of the sky on the surface of the lake.






When I look down into the lake, the water was like black in color, so I assume that the lake was very very very deep, I then asked the guide about the depth of the lake and the guide just said that he don’t know. He said that many expedition teams from local and overseas had been here to survey the depth and the ecosystem of the lake but ended up failed or one of their team members drown to death. It was because of the huge amount of water plants inside the lake where divers were stuck inside of it.



I don’t know how true the story is but Tasik Chini’s view definitely surprised me. The time we went there was the lotus season and some part of the lake was full of lotus flowers. The view of lotus and the calm lake view definitely let me forgot about the coming examinations which I haven’t started studying.







Having enough of the big lake view, the guide took us to another part of Tasik Chini. It was the part of lake which was canopied by the rainforest.




There was a big hole by the lake side inside the canopied area where legend says that there was a damn huge snake inside the lake and the snake crawled to land at night. The snake was so huge that the hole that it created at the lakeside can fit two adults.

If the snake was real, I think it can swallow a space shuttle

The boat ride also included the visit to the Orang Asli’s village.

The Orang Asli kids with Susan, Amy and Tiffany (from left to right with colorful clothes)

When we reached there, we were welcomed by the friendly Orang Asli. Their village is just a few simple atap huts, no Astro, no computers, not even a proper gas stove, but yet the people there were satisfied at their standard of living and never had a thought of leaving for the cities, I guess this is how people have different levels of satisfaction. For me, my satisfaction level is at where I have all the supercars like Falali and Lembugini in my garage.

One of the old man in the Orang Asli village was kind enough to teach us how to hunt using their weapon of mass destruction.




A tube with poisonous sharp needle.



The old man let us try using it with a non-poisonous needle (just in case some people shoot it on other people’s buttocks) by targeting at a soft board set up nearby. I tried it and I think that I did quite well.

I seriously think that I can participate in the Beijing Olympic games

The boat trip ended after the Orang Asli village visit. When we came back on shore we saw something interesting.

A black and white squirrel.

The guide said that this kind of squirrel is called the Pahang squirrel, because its fur color matches the color of the Pahang state flag and can be only found in Pahang.

Pahang state flag

Now I wonder how Perlis squirrel will looks like…

Perlis state flag