If you are driving from KUALA
LUMPUR
- Head for GENTING HIGHLANDS / KUANTAN
signages
- Enter KL-Karak Highway via
Gombak Toll Plaza @ RM 5-00 per car - Cash/Touch N Go & SMART TAG
SPEED LIMIT max - 90kph
Proceed KUANTAN bypassing Genting
Highlands direction - enter TUNNEL
SWITCH ON LIGHTS
- Bentong Toll Plaza -
RM 3-00 per car - Cash/ Touch N Go & SMART TAG
SPEED LIMIT max - 90kph
Proceed towards TEMERLOH / KUANTAN signages
AVOID turning into Karak
Karak Toll Plaza - COLLECT
CARD or SWIPE Touch N Go only - NO SMART TAG!
You will be entering East
Coast Highway
SPEED LIMIT max - 110 KPH
Exit @ LANCHANG / RAUB / KUALA LIPIS
Lanchang Toll - HANDOVER CARD
- RM 2-80 per car OR Touch N Go only - NO SMART TAG!
T-Junction - LARGE BROWN
SIGNBOARD - TURN RIGHT
Keep on driving...IGNORE KUALA LIPIS turn off
Keep on driving CAUTIOUSLY - road becomes
smaller and less traffic - WATCH
OUT FOR LOCAL TRAFFIC!!!
WATCH OUT FOR SHARP UPHILL CORNERS!
T-junction - DEERLAND to your right & KUALA GANDAH straight ahead !
Keep on driving the tarred
road - WATCH OUT for
blind spots and sharp corners - until you see an gated entrance to your
right & ENTER - make a sharp
left and look for the parking lots!
There is a local souvenir shop located on th e left BEFORE the entrance - do support
the local community by purchasing
souvenirs from this shop!
Eco Tourism is ALSO about supporting the locals!
From KUALA
LUMPUR by
public
bus ;
- Get on
either the STAR LRT or KL
MONORAIL and GET OFF
at Titiwangsa
Station.
- Ask around for PEKELILNG
bus station - less than 3 minutes' walk
away from both monorail stations.
- LOOK for the KL - TEMERLOH
bus company
- single journey is less than RM 7-00
- Inform
the driver that you wish to be dropped off at LANCHANG old town
- Buy a
return ticket SOONEST you
are at Lanchang town - get a 5.30pm return
trip!
NOTE -
Weekends are VERY difficult to get return tickets!
- Ask
around at the sundry shops for private cars to send you to the
sanctuary @ 30-00
per car.
It is
best that you make arrangements with the private cars to send you back
to Lanchang.
Tour
guides with cars or vans normally charge between
RM 190-00
to
RM 250-00
p/pax while the
cost of hiring a van + driver only is
generally between RM 450-00 to RM 600-00
depending on where your pick
up point is!
If your guide says that the
package covers the cost of a donation
towards
the Elephant
Trust Fund - PLEASE check with
the
Visitor Registration Office again - many visitors
have complained that their guides did not contributed towards the fund!
Contact us
if you have any complaints against your guide and we will refer the
matter
to
the relevant authority!
SEE LIST
OF GUIDES TO THE SANCTUARY!
More
often than not, if you intend to just come for a few hours to ride and
feed the
elephants, - you
dont' really need a guide - , a
driver will do as ALL
activities here
have
been planned and arranged accordingly!
The sanctuary highly
recommends The
Elephant Man if you need
a guide as his
presence always eases the workload for
the staff due to his excellent command in
English
& Malay as well as his
tremendous up to date information on all of our
residence elephants, the sanctuary and
efforts in saving wild elephant, as well as
organising many sponsorships and
donations for the residence elephants and staff,
having
been involved in many wild
elephant rescue
operations himself as working side
by side
with the staff whenever he comes
volunteering
during his off days from his
jungle school for more than
18 years!
But be
advised - You will probably be roped in to help
out with preparing food for the
elephants whenever you come with The
Elephant Man! That is his
unique style
of
getting his visitors to really understand elephants and efforts in
protecting AND
conserving them too!
You should also ask him about his treks
deep into the heart of wild elephants and tigers
with visitors too!!!!! Only if you love
adventure and wildlife!
If you are driving from
KUANTAN
-
use
the Kuantan-KL Highway &
TURN INTO
the
Lanchang/Raub/Kuala
Lipis exit!
HAVE A SAFE & PLEASANT
DRIVE TO
& BACK !!!!
We hope that you won't be
the first
visitor
to get lost after following these instructions
which
were kindly prepared & provided
by The
Elephant Man -
mobile
019 342 2049
- call him
if your eyeballs are beginning to
fall out :-))) or when your back seat drivers
begin to say left
but you say to the right!!!
If you are able to
reach the sanctuary based on the above information - feel free to
send us an email and " sell
" to everyone concerned about the sanctuary!
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