{"id":8926,"date":"2016-01-22T21:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2016-01-22T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T13:36:33","slug":"lata-khong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=8926","title":{"rendered":"Lata Khong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month I organised a party for my waterfall friends. It was a very pleasant gathering,\u00a0we had nice food and\u00a0of course we talked a lot about waterfalls..:-).<\/p>\n

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The idea came up to have another meeting, but then at a waterfall. An easy one, no hiking required. One option would be Lata Khong<\/a> near Karak. As it was a long time ago that I visited this fall for the last time, I wanted to do a recce first.<\/p>\n

Lata Khong, a waterfall in the Dua Olak river has an interesting history. In 2003 I met Khong and as were both interested in waterfalls, soon we went out for waterfall hikes. One of these hikes started from KG Sg Dua Olak, March 2005. We had received GPS info about a very remote waterfall in that region. In the left image you see how extremely remote it was (the red trail)! Soon\u00a0it became clear that this was too\u00a0hard-core 4WD for us. But Orang Asli told Khong that there was a nearby\u00a0waterfall,\u00a0quite close to\u00a0the road! And that is how we “discovered” what is now\u00a0called Lata Khong!<\/p>\n

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We were quite excited about this discovery, and soon\u00a0I went back, a few times even. Once with Khong and a few weeks later with another friend, Edward, camping overnight at the fall. It was during this trip that we were wondering about the name of the fall. Of course locals have a name for it, but we didn’t know.\u00a0So, shall we name it Lata Khong? It started as a joke, but even now the fall is still known as Lata Khong!<\/p>\n

Here are pictures taken during my trips. The last picture is a recent one. The fall still looks the same, but the surroundings have changed. Forest has been cleared, access roads have been tarred.<\/p>\n\n\t\t