Taman Negara, a land older than time where awe awaits

Railway tracks cutting through the misty green wilderness near Merapoh, a sleepy gateway to the Taman Negara rainforest.

Travel these days often feels like a string of lists and digits: the top 10 cities in the world, the top five malls in the region, the seven best cafés in town – all crammed into 60-second reels, curated for our shrinking attention spans.

Everything is trimmed, bite-sized, numbered.