Kanching Falls

This guide to Kanching Falls outside Kuala Lumpur opens with General Gerald Templer, the British commander of the Malayan Emergency, and the forest the Sultan of Selangor dedicated in his name in 1954. It follows the climb from the car park through seven tiers of waterfalls dropping through ancient rainforest, with gibbons calling somewhere in the canopy above. The guide also covers a critically endangered tree species found along the trail, with only a few hundred known left standing anywhere.