This is part of a dam which makes up Tasik Kenyir.
If I'm not mistaken, 9 dams were built over 9 rivers to create this lake. The related catchment area off upland Terengganu was soon fully inundated with water and this became Tasik Kenyir...
While the lake was made primarily for generating hydro-electric power, it soon became a big tourist attraction. Luckily we came on Friday morning, hardly a time for tourists to flock in...
Soon it's time to go to the jetty...
Ah. Our boat has arrived...
As we left the jetty, my wife and kids can't help posing...
The waters look very calming...
For Haziq it was a chance to show he has become a grown-up boy (almost) by sitting without fear in front...
Erin also likes to pose...
The vast body of waters beckon for more exploration...
Too bad due to time constraint apart from the cost, our foray was limited to certain parts of the lake only...
Nevertheless it was comprehensive enough to show the origins of the lake - once a vast tract of virgin forest now submerged under water with most of the trees already harvested for timber...
I remember my first trip to this lake in 1997. Then, you could still see many timber trees (or whatever's left of it) rising up above the water surface...
Now the surface of the lake is mostly clear while resort buildings have sprouted at many parts of the coastline @ hillsides...Here's a video clip we took towards the end of this little trip.
Time to return to the jetty...
Here's one for the road... with a shaggy-looking me in the picture...
OK. So you now have some idea of how Tasik Kenyir looks like. Some might say the waters do look vast, others might question is that it? Is that really the largest man-made lake in Malaysia? Is that the lake which is bigger that the island state of Singapura? Well let me add. I've just learned that Tasik Kenyir is also the biggest man-made lake in South-East Asia. To get some idea of its actual size look at this satellite picture made in a 40 km x 40 km box or so. And the area we covered on the boat trip could be fitted into the small red circle seen in the picture! In fact after a closer check the trip didn't even cover half the circle... get the idea?
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