The place

The major towns in the Peninsular usually get their supply of fresh vegetables from farms in Cameron Highlands. Today, the markets in Selangor obtain certain types of beans from the farms at Bukit Tinggi situated at the State Boundary very near the Genting Pass. This hilly location was once pristine, filled with trees of various diversity. Today, you get to see the whole hillsides dotted with cultivated patches. These terraces are popularly planted with French beans, long beans and 4 angles beans. Beside these filling the hill slopes with planted plots of vegetables, there are more in the ravines. These are terraced plots hidden from view besides the river, what’s this? - Water Crest! Shallow ponds are prepared with a constant fresh water source. This vegetable thrive on a film of water about 10cm deep. The young shots are harvested and continuously providing the farmers with produce for the market.

Further down in the plain, you still get to see an occasional patch of ginger being planted. Ginger plants with its slow growth and low maintenance is avoided in valuable farmland They are the plants chosen for freshly opened forestland. It had be rumored that Ginger farming is detrimental for the land. The slow growing ferocious plants depletes nutrients in the soil. Nothing grows on the same land for 5 years after the initial crop.

Visitors unfamiliar to this valley will be shocked to see that a network of roads, that has now changed the valley's outlook! These tarred roads permeate the hill slopes. The locals, hard working farmers had showed good results with existing land. To compound the problem of loosing forested land, more housing projects are visible and encroaching the cultivated patches.  Keep your eyes focused on this valley of rolling hills, each time you pass by the Genting Pass. The once scenic valley is now filled with settlements.

Now the "Star attraction" - Every developer was eyeing this Waterfall Here is a surprise for the city folks. One of the roads leads the driver to the "door steps" of a 28 meters tall waterfall. As there is no known reference, we named it after the river, Tanglir. This is a prefect picture frame waterfall so near to urban area but well hidden in the ravine.

From the access road, which is on the same level as the top of the fall and barely 30 meters away, you can only hear the roar, while the trees lining the ravine’s slope hide the fall. To get to the fall, you need to climb down a 70-degrees slope with sparse vegetation. The climb is neither easy nor treacherous for there are small tree trunks for you to hold on. The real view of the Waterfall is more dramatic that then seen on this pictures It was near vertical. This is vertical waterfall No.2.  About 100 feet tall. Nest, at the angular turn of the road, a broad track used by farmers will lead you to the top of the second Waterfall No.1. This Waterfall No. 1 is much lower at only 45 feet but has nice small but deep pool. Some 50 meters upstream is an area used by picnickers. The river will be going through a series a of cascades and rapid. With the road system and the rapid development, this adventure fall will soon be an ornamental piece for someone's garden. Thanks to the farmers, the access road is so badly damaged that outsider with insufficient knowledge of the hinterland would not dare to attempt any visit. The climb down to the pool of the second waterfall is also by another very steep slope. An easier and much shorter compared to that of the Main waterfall and through a bare slope.

The Tanglir waterfall is among the top five large waterfalls in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur.

My recommendation

Neither easy nor treacherous, for there are small tree trunks for you to hold on. Just preceding this fall, there is the second Waterfall. Equally spectacular but many may like a picnic area. Then there are plenty. I pray that after each raining season, the farmer would maintain the road.