If you are driving from KUALA LUMPUR 
- by private vehicles - look for signboards to KUANTAN and you will be on the KL - Karak road
which is part of the East Coast Highway!  ALL tolled highway signboards will ALWAYS be in GREEN colour!
 
LOCATION
 TOLL FEES
 SPEED LIMIT
GOMBAL TOLL PLAZA
 RM 5-00 per car OR  use TAG  & SMART TAG lanes There is a BHP petrol station 1.5 kms on your left AFTER this toll plaza .
Speed limit is 90 kph all the way past Genting Tunnel UNTIL  Karak Toll Plaza
There are currently a few road upgrading works along certain stretches of this highway!
 
GENTING TUNNEL
                             N/A Speed limit @ 60 kph - PLEASE SWITCH ON YOUR LIGHTS!
There is ONE Petronas petrol station IMMEDIATELY about 150 metres on your right  AFTER  the tunnel via the Janda Baik exit &  another about 7 kms on your left, too
 
BENTONG TOLL PLAZA
 RM 3-00 per car or use TAG & SMART TAG lanes Speed limit @ 90 kph  UNTIL Karak Toll Plaza - DO NOT TURN into Karak - keep on driving on the highway that  reads Temerloh /Kuantan on the signboard!
Continue driving towards KUANTAN
 
KARAK TOLL PLAZA
 Pick up toll card or use TAG & SMART TAG lanes Speed limit @ 110 kph - watch out for CROSS WINDS!
There is a rest area about less than 10kms on your  left.
 
PLEASE TURN LEFT INTO
Lanchang - Raub - Kuala Lipis exit

 RM 2-80 per car or use TAG & SMART TAG lanes Turn RIGHT 200 metres AFTER paying the toll fees at the  LANCHANG Toll Plaza towards RAUB
BE ADVISE that parts of this road passes through villages where villagers, domesticated animals & motorbikes sometimes can be seen crossing here and there unannounced!
You will see a signboard on your left to RAUB - DO NOT TURN LEFT - Keep on driving STRAIGHT continuously
The road will become smaller and you will notice droppings of water buffalos on the road, school on your right, village houses, fishing pons left & right, twisting roads and jungle covered hills. with a telecommunications tower on a hill.
THIS IS CELCOM AREA!
The road will become smaller - drive CAUTIOUSLY as there are blind spots along this road until you reach a bridge flanked with 2 huge man-made elephant tusks with a guard house on your left. Drive into the sanctuary and turn left SLOWLY for parking space
Otherwise, just ask a local where KUALA GANDAH is!

        From KUALA LUMPUR by public bus ;
       1. Get on either the STAR LRT or KL MONORAIL and GET OFF at Titiwangsa Station.
       2. Ask around for PEKELILNG bus station - less than 3 minutes' walk away across the busy main road.
       3. LOOK for the KL - TEMERLOH bus company - single journey is less than RM 7-00
       4. Inform the driver that you wish to be dropped off at LANCHANG old town
       5. Buy a return ticket SOONEST you are at Lanchang town - get a 5.30pm return trip!
       6. Ask around at the sundry shops for private cars to send you to the sanctuary @ RM 15-00 to
           20-00 per car. It is best that you get one of the sanctuary's staff to send you back to Lanchang
           OR ask for a ride from any of the visitors!!! Make this arrangement while you are
           registering @ the Visitor Registration Office OR else you will miss the 5-30pm bus!!!

        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 between RM 450-00 to RM 600-00
        p/van with arrivals at about 1230 noon or 1pm!

       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 only setback is that, except for The Elephant Man, no guide has the
      full up to date information, respect and trust  from both the staff & the elephants.
     
      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 15 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!

       
      If you are driving from KUANTAN
      - use the Kuantan-KL Highway & TURN INTO the Lanchang/Raub/Kuala Lipis exit!
 
You can get this attractive car sticker
@ Jelebu's souvenir shop!

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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