White water rafting at Gopeng's Kampar River offers adrenaline and absurdity


By PS OOI
Photos By HA LEE

Face-first into the rapids – exhilaration written on every face as the raft dances with the river’s power.

THE early sun filters softly through the rain­forest canopy as we rumble up a win­ding track just outside Gopeng, a sleepy former tin-mining town in Perak.

Once known for its subterranean riches, Gopeng now whispers of a different trea­sure – its rivers.

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