Belum Forest - Relatively untouched, it is one of the oldest rainforest in the world (120 million years old) with an area of more than 113,000 hectares it is located north and northwest of Tasik Temenggor in the northern region of Perak State and extends up to the border with Thailand. About 300 km (190 miles) from Kuala Lumpur.

This remote area of Perak was once a 'hot-zone' during the conflict between the Malaysian security forces and the communist bandits. Known as the Bamboo Trail, it was part of an infiltration route for the communist terrorists into Malaysia with the trails passing through secondary forest, bamboo forest and lowland primary jungles.

Being out of bounds to visitors and virtually untouched by mankind, the area is bristling with fauna and flora, a rich national heritage that Reserve is of great interest to ecologists, conservationalists and nature enthusiasts. With the end of the conflict and the curfew in 1991, Belum is slowly exposing it's well kept secrets to the outside world. This last frontier of Malaysia beckons the adventurous to its everlasting charm.