Escape the Jungle

Here’s another forest family trip. But not the tranquil forest walk on suspended bridges like the last post. This one’s for the adrenaline junkies, a jungle trip on steroids! With rope courses and zip lines! See for yourself!


This is Escape, Penang – an adventure theme park in a natural jungle environment that aims to recreate the days of how kids used to play in Malaysia before the arrival of electronic toys or gadgets. All that and a fantastic WATER PARK!!!


Hello Honey, all ready for the adventure? You’ll be OK, the ropes don’t look that high (Anu has a fear of heights…)


The team learning the ropes – getting instructions from the attendant on how to hook themselves onto the cables. There are different levels of rope course to choose from (I think there are 3 levels) – they chose the easiest and lowest due to the kids. (Yours truly had to attend to Jayden who was too young to go on – later I took Level 2!!! Hehe)


All through the first rope! Justin was first, then Anu, Stacey and last, Jason


Ropes course and zip lines are not all. There’re also trampolines… Good one Stacey! Above, you can see someone zip-lining thru


You can try your skills at being a monkey, climbing a coconut tree


Or a friggin 3-storey building! Stacey’s the expert climber of the group


More monkeying around – swinging from a rope tied to a tree… whoopee!


What about for the little one??? …Oh, he could do the Zoom Bug, or explore the ant maze …a maze of burrows accessible only by crawling through. You could see it all on the CCTV screen on the outside if you don’t fancy crawling in – Oh, there you are Jayden and Papa!


And there’s prospecting for ‘gold’! “See, I got a little gold nugget!”


Now, back to the ‘serious’ stuff – the ultra-high zip-line, the Flying Lemur – only for those with a head for heights. “Hey, where’re you Honey?” Oh, there you are (on the ropeway leading to the flying lemur, with Jason behind). ”Err… YOU CAN DO IT!!” We aren’t supposed to bring out our phone or camera as per the guidelines (as there’s a risk of them falling off and causing an injury to those below, but what the heck! This is too good to miss). Anu didn’t realized what she’d put herself into, until it was too late. She wanted to quit, cried, pleaded and even tried to remove her harness when she was on top the ultra-high platform! Only to be stopped by the attendants there, whew…


Back on the ground… “YOU DID IT!! See, that’s not too bad, right?” (She swore she’s never gonna do another silly thing like that again, EVER…)


Now for the water park… As you can see, Jayden’s NOT A FAN of water parks. He’s scared of water. This was my last photo before I joined the water slides. Yippeee!!! (By the way, Escape now has the Guinness World Record for the world’s longest water slide. It was under construction at the time of our visit)


Escape, Penang, Malaysia 2019