Enjoy the wild and wind at Perak's Lata Penyel waterfall without a car


Huge backpack and camper ­waiting for the right train;

Waterfalls make their own wind – at least, when they’re tall enough.

It took me a while to realise that the cool, non-stop breeze at Lata Penyel in Perak wasn’t coming from the sky, but from the 60m-high waterfall tumbling into the narrow jungle valley. That’s about the height of a 20-storey apartment block.

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