If you’ve never been to the Lost World of Tambun, well, good for you. You didn’t miss a thing. In fact, you saved your money and yes, your time! We took a trip there for a short weekend getaway and did we regret it…Lost World of Tambun is indeed lost. A LOST case!
Let me show you some pictures…
Lost World of Tambun
The water theme park entrance looks interesting enough but it belies what lies inside…
The almost empty parking lot
We should have realised that something must be wrong when the enormous carpark lot only have about 30 cars ON A WEEKEND…
Inside, it is beautifully landscaped with nice ornaments
I suppose the landscaping and decorations and ornaments they put in the Lost World of Tambun is quite impressive but that’s about it. Entrance is RM25 per adult and RM18 per child. My son entered free because he’s below 90cm.
The 'beach' and tidal wave pool
Again, looks nice and impressive for a water theme park. But heck, we didn’t pay RM50 for beautiful scenery! We need beautiful scenery we’d go for FREE walks in the national park or something.
The children's wading pool
Which is absolutely pathetic. My son got tired of it after a full 10 minutes. Wanna see a REAL children’s wading pool in a water theme park? Feast your eyes on this!
Children's wading pool at White Water World, Brisbane
See the difference? Let’s look at what else is at the Lost World of Tambun…
Spend RM10 to keep your things in this tiny locker or risk losing it
Yep. On top of the RM50 entrance fee, we have to fork out RM10 to rent the locker and if we want to use the big giant tube (float thingy), the rent is RM8 with RM2 deposit = RM10. We didn’t rent the stupid tube thingy.
Guess what this murky, slimy, oily pool of water is?
It is supposed to be a…
Can you guess by now?
Yep, it’s supposed to be a pond for people to paddle around in those giant Swan water-cycle thingies but ewwww….
Surprisingly, the fishes inside aren't dead yet and pretty darn hungry too
Look at them grabbing at some fish food we fed them (which we bought for RM1 at the ticketing counter outside). Some even wriggled to the ground to swallow the pellets before wriggling back into the murky slimy water.
The 'needle' of Tambun or so it's called 'politely' by the brochure
That’s what nature lovers get to view up close if they take the ‘nature walk’ path which leads right to the virile male symbol of all time….So, men, if you have an inferiority complex, please avert your eyes. But hey, maybe if you go there and hike there and touch it, it may help you to grow bigger and longer too? lol… just saying…
The only thing I like about this theme park is the Tiger Valley
We happened to talk to the tiger trainer, Nathan, and the park has 11 Siberian tigers. They only put four in display and they have tiger feeding time and show at 3pm and 4pm.
Nathan, the tiger trainer
Nathan is actually an MBA holder who used to be an ISO consultant before making a career change to train tigers. His rationale for the total about change?
“It is easier to handle tigers than to deal with people,”
How true. At least tigers don’t stab people on their backs. They don’t gossip. They don’t plan and plot your downfall. They don’t go into politics nor play politics. They only attack because of two reasons, either because they are hungry or because they feel you are threatening them. They generally do not eat humans and our Malayan tigers are on the brink of extinction, not that our Forestry Department care since they always LOVE to go on a shooting spree to kill tigers because of ONE rogue tiger when it is HUMANS WHO ARE ENCROACHING INTO TIGER TERRITORY and not the other way around. Don’t even get me started on that…
Let's not forget the Hot Spring Pool too
This is another redeeming quality of the park. They have a hot spring pool which is darn relaxing but be careful, it is so hot it may just melt your synthetic swimwear!
The things I don’t like about this place are:
No outside food allowed
Ridiculously, they charge you RM1 to store your food outside (if you happen to bring any) and you can collect it when you go back. And yes, you can’t smuggle it in because they check your bags at the entrance! We brought some dry biscuits in a tupperware for my son and they said we are not allowed to bring in the tupperwear but it is okay to bring in the dry biscuits. So, we took out the dry biscuits, put it in a plastic bag and left the tupperware in the locker outside. Yep, no tupperware allowed BUT plastic bags are okay. Why? They are worried that we’d smuggle some of their murky pond water in our tupperware? Or is it the sand? Perhaps we could fit the tiger into our tupperware?
The food sold inside SUCKS big time and DARN expensive too. And yes, did I mention not much choice except for some limited choice fast food, chicken rice, waffles, garlic bread and mee mamak?
Three lousy pools littered with dirt, leaves and floating objects – one hot spring, one tidal wave pool and one children’s pool but LOADS of leaves, clumps of hair and yes, dirt and grime.
They have that ‘river’ thingy but with no fake current and since it is more fun to go around with the tube, we didn’t even bother to try it. Besides, it is only a short distance and does not go around the three other pools or anything.
Oh yeah, they have the giant slides too but I didn’t even bother. It looks boring as ever and yes, it doesn’t look very safe. Hell, if they can’t maintain the cleanliness of the pools and the pond, what makes you think they maintained those slides?
It is NO fun at all. Water theme parks are supposed to be FUN. Not boring.
So, Lost World of Tambun is indeed a lost case. They lost the plot on how to be a fun water theme park somewhere. Other than fabulous landscaping and scenery and the tigers, they don’t have anything else. Blardy waste of time. Better to go to Sunway Lagoon. Strangely, these two water theme parks belonged in the same company but I don’t know why it is so lousy in Perak. I don’t mind paying the entrance fees though, since I know it’d go towards feeding those tigers…
Wanna get lost? Just don’t do it at the Lost World of Tambun or you might regret it.
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i didn’t know tiger dare to swim!
tell me… what are things that actually takes off in malaysia?
zewts last blog post..Singapore snippet
Touch the tiger can make my thing grow bigger & longer ah? How much for season ticket?
zewt…Air Asia??
Maybe, build lots of overpriced condos and sell to kaisu??
lisa: although they are in the cats family, tigers do love to take a dip in the water to cool off especially when it’s hot
zewt: how true but I’ll have to agree with engineer…AirAsia planes do take off quite often although there are no guarantees that it will be on time.
engineer: wei..not the tiger lah. I’m referring to the ‘needle’ of tambun wei….look properly. Need glasses or not?
Foong…..you know what causes bad eyesight?…..too much sex.
That’s why I am going blind lah. heheheehe
engineer:…..