🌳Gerik
#7 National Parks & Rainforest in Malaysia · 2026
Royal Belum State Park
🌺🌺🌺 Highly Recommended · 🌳 National Parks & Rainforest
Why go
A 130-million-year-old rainforest reached by boat across Temenggor Lake, with hornbills, Rafflesia, hot springs and rare tigers and elephants. Visits are with licensed operators who arrange permits and boats.
⭐ Don't miss: Boat safaris to hornbill roosts and Rafflesia sightings
- Entry fee
- Permit RM10 Malaysian / RM20 foreign (guides differ; usually bundled by operators); camera/rod permits separate; book 10-14+ days ahead
- Opening hours
- Daily with licensed tours (check before you go)
- Best time to go
- Mar-Sep
- Time needed
- 2-3 days
- How to get there
- About 4.5 hrs from KL via Gerik; transfer to Banding jetty; book via operators.
- Address
- Royal Belum State Park, Pulau Banding Jetty, 33300 Gerik, Perak
- Area
- Belum-Temengor, Gerik, Perak
- Facilities
- 🧭 guided tours🚻 toilets
- Muslim-friendly
- 🕌 Prayer room (surau) on site · 🍽️ Halal food nearby
Surau at operators' bases; meals included - Accessibility
- Boat access; not accessible
- Kids
- Teens and older
☪️ Halal status changes. For food, look for a valid JAKIM certificate (check at myehalal.halal.gov.my). Hotels and venues we have not verified are described as "pork-free", not halal.
⚠️ Safety & weather
- Permit and licensed guide required
- Leeches
- Wildlife encounters
- Boat safety