| Sungei Perting Fall aka Lata Hammers
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Pahang | | Location | Off the Gombak-Bentong road | | Coordinates and map |
N03 27.41' E101 51.85' | | Water Source | Small River | | Waterfall Profile | Vertical Falls | | Accessibility | Trekking along trail |
Access to this beautiful, unknown, waterfall is from the old Gombak-Bentong road. Coming from KL by the Karak highway, you take the exit to the village of Bukit Tinggi, where you can have breakfast. Then you follow the old road to Bentong for about 16 km. On your way you pass a nice unnamed waterfall and a Hot Springs.
This nice unnamed waterfall can be seen from the road. Will be powerful in the rainy season. | 
The Hot Springs look grand, but are now in a bit of disrepair. | 
This signboard marks the access road to the resort and the waterfall |
From the junction a small road leads in about 3 km to the resort. The quality of this access road was reasonable during our visit. Should be possible with a normal car, although a 4WD might come in handy during the rainy season.
Near the unfinished house you can park your car and start trekking | 
First you have to cross the river. | 
After the crossing you follow a well-maintained trail |
The trail is well maintained, at some places a bit overgrown. Follow it for another 2 km (half an hour). The river is always audible down in the ravine to your right. During our visit the location where you start the descent to the river, was indicated by an arrow, made of tree braches and twigs. Take care, this descent is very steep!
The start of the scramble down to the river. Notice the arrow. | 
The steepest part of the descent. A fixed rope is helpful | 
At the bottom, the waterfall and the huge pool come as a big suprise. |
This waterfall is one of the most beautiful that can be found near KL. The water volume is high, even in the dry season and the pool is huge. There are several suitable campsites around.
You have to cross the river to reach the 'beach' | 
The Hammers waterfall in all its beauty | 
Driftwood trees show that in the rainy season this fall will be much more powerful. |
A vague trail to the right of the fall leads to the upper fall, which is more modest, but also has a nice pool. Upstream the river becomes quiet.
The upper fall | 
Wild orchids can be found here | 
It might be interesting to explore the stream further uphill |
This waterfall is a relatively unknown and therefore unspoilt gem, quite near KL. Keep it that way! Take only pictures, leave only footprints.
Visitor Comments
| HAPPYYEN | 27-04-2008 |
Instructions to the place is very accurate. Today, 4 of us from the BP Guild was there. Yes, the gate was installed. Manage to walk across the river infront of the gate. Beautiful place (good view from the campsite), spoilt by rubbish left behind by uncaring campers.Contact me for more info at happyyen@gmail.com
| | fazrol | 21-03-2008 |
ishk2~
yekeee riza??
napelaa diek uat mcm tuh..
susah la nk seberang sg nnti..
dah kene cr jln len lak..
bod bet la tuan tanah kedaun tuh!!!
| | Riza | 21-03-2008 |
Bad news, the owner of the farm was seen installing a gate yesterday. Most probably will need to find another place to cross the river.
There were 4x4 tracks seen on the trail, which made a mess of the trail.
| | fazrol | 26-02-2008 |
bln5 nih aku nk g lg..sape nk foloww
aku nk camping lageyyy...
xpuassss!!
bestttt sgt2..
| | fazrol | 25-02-2008 |
to daud:apelaa..xkan JAIS nk masuk jauh sgt dlm hutan tuh,lata hammers jauh sgt drg org luar,so pandai2 laaa..its ur responsibility..ape2 pon lata hammers the best ever n forever!!btol x alan??
| | Daud | 22-02-2008 |
Wud like to know is it ok for couples camping there. I mean i am afraid if JAIS disturb us..or caught us on camera and suddenly me and my gf becoming famous in YouTube.Hidup Lata Hampeh.i think the name Lata Hampeh suit the place better.
| | Alix | 18-12-2007 |
Visited the waterfall on 9/12/07. The descent on the right of the trail is well marked with a pink ribbon. Can't miss it ! It took us 40 minutes to reach the waterfall. The trail is wet and infested with leeches. Few fallen trees due to the rain. Please keep the place clean, leave nothing but footprint.
| | Bryan Mok | 18-12-2007 |
Hi Guys,
Planning to go to this Lata Hammer coming Jan 08 due to rainy season, can some one offer direction to look for the trail to descent please, my email mokbryan75@gmail.com
| | Alix | 06-12-2007 |
Plan to visit the waterfall this weekend. Would appreciate some advise and direction. Email : rosalix9922@yahoo.com
| | Keong | 27-11-2007 |
Hi Zhi Hao...my name is Keong and I would like to make a trip to the Hammers falls. Since you were the most recent visitor there, can you give me more specific directions on how to get there? My email is bandel4@yahoo.com.sg
| | Zhi Hao | 27-11-2007 |
From KL, we took LRT to Titiwangsa, then a bus to Perting (Central Pahang). The bus stopped by the highway and we started trekking inside.
| | Zhi Hao | 27-11-2007 |
Just went there, 21 boys, quite difficult to reach because we were carrying camping stuffs and equipments.
| | Alan | 15-10-2007 |
Dear Rick & Tim. Went camping on the 13/10/07. Yes, there was a fallen tree with branches all over the path. We pratically climbed over the obsticle. 3 adults and 4 kids. Not easy, but we made it. It rained at the falls and it was a real tsunami. Good experiend.
| | Rick | 15-10-2007 |
We tried to visit on 14.10.07. We crossed the river and walked for 25 minutes, but discovered the path was blocked by a fallen tree. Shame, we must have been very close but there was no way past.Still, it was a good walk and we got to swim in the river near the crossing point.
| | tim | 15-10-2007 |
Visted on 14-10-2007. A very large tree has fallen down hillside and across trail at approx 2km mark from start of walk....unable to get to mark to descend to waterfall...need equipment to clear trail....Tim
| | rickywong | 27-09-2007 |
hello, everybody.. who can tell me that how do i get to there from KL? need yours help so much....thanks!
my email ricky0163338291@gmail.com
| | Megat | 26-08-2007 |
It's pretty hard to find the junction down to the waterfall w/o the sign or indication. The other day, we were busy having fun chatting we missed the junction. Oh well, it was a good walk in the jungle, though. Plus, the fall we ended up was pretty much beautiful if not great!
| | yellowbanana | 26-08-2007 |
I've been there on the end of May 07. Not bad at all and very clean as if there's no one every discover it. Here're some pics and activities during our Lata Hammers's trip.
http://yellowbananainc.blogspot.com/2007/05/lata-hammers-invasion.html
http://yellowbananainc.blogspot.com/2007/05/lata-hammers-invasion-story.html
| | Alan | 23-08-2007 |
Dear Aziz, Lata Hammers is quite hard to find. The trail head is completely diferent from the instruction from this website. Own transport needed. Rapid KL buses don't masuk jungle. More instruction pls email me. campmanalan@yahoo.com Cheers.
| | Aziz | 23-08-2007 |
Hi guys,
I'm planning to visit KL in a couple of weeks, and am thinking of visiting Lata Hammers too.
Any pointers with regards to getting transport from KL, knowing that Hammers is a rather isolated place?
Cheers,
Aziz
| | Alan | 19-08-2007 |
One more thing. Watch out for those little vampires shaped like worms and black. Can someone tell me what happened to the fishes. Man, they r all gone !
| | Alan | 19-08-2007 |
Went to Hammer today. 4 of us have the whole place to ourselve. The arrow indicator to scramble down is gone. Good, cause less people would fine it. Selfish me ! Well, find it if u can. Still a beautiful falls and a nice beach. Hammer is advisible for experienced trekkers or u r gonna walk round the jungle finding the falls. Good luck.
| | Hmmlo | 27-06-2007 |
I went to the waterfall with Megat and friends. Unfortunately, we did not find the waterfall at all. I guess that we missed the sign to go down hill after half and hour walk, and we ended up walk further up for three hours.
My advice for you all, read the direction to the waterfall carefully.
| | Megat | 25-06-2007 |
We just went there last weekend. We had a productive walk and a great picnic by the river bank. The high-volumed river was really beautiful and wild. Good place for people looking for a place to getaway from the city and enjoy the unspoiled nature. Watch out for leeches coz there is a lot of blood suckers out there.
| | chew | 04-06-2007 |
i went there to camp recently but it,s sad that the place already become dirty and full of food can left by camper.the most saddest thing to me is some irresponsible people are using bomb to fish few days ago for some few quick buck!it's sad to see floating rotten fish and bad smell!The nature is not belong to you but to everyone!Clean up you rubbish and stop destructing nature!
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