Trip to the Waterfall from Kuantan

Kuantan is the state capital of Pahang, Malaysia. It is located near the mouth of the Kuantan River. Kuantan is the 18th largest city in Malaysia based on 2010 population, and the largest city in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It has been expected that Kuantan will be officially declared as a city in 2020. The administrative centre of the state of Pahang was officially relocated to Kuantan on 27 August 1955 from Kuala Lipis and was officiated by HRH Sultan Abu Bakar Ri'ayatuddin Al Muadzam Shah, the Sultan of Pahang. The Pahang state government shifted the administrative centre of Pahang from Kuala Lipis to Kuantan in 1955. The urban area of Kuantan city is located mostly in the mukims of Kuala Kuantan and Beserah.

Sungai Lembing is a small town in Kuantan District, Pahang, Malaysia. It is about 42 km northwest of Kuantan. The town began in 1900s as tin-mining community when British-based Pahang Consolidated Company Limited (PCCL) setting up the tin mining industry after mining activity begins in 1886. Sungai Lembing had roads, electricity, bungalows, schools, office building, warehouse, shops, cinema, petrol station and a hospital. Sungai Lembing was affected by 1926 floods which damaged infrastructures in the town and mining activity were suspended for three months. It was later followed by great depression, Japanese occupation of Malaya and Malayan Emergency which greatly affects the tin mining industry in this town. Since independence, Sungai Lembing starts to decline as global demand for tin drops and the price of tin worldwide fell causes the mine to shut down in 1986. By this time, many out-of-work miners and other residents had moved elsewhere and causes some facilities such as shops and petrol station to closed. After 2001, Sungai Lembing was revitalized as a heritage tourism attraction with opening of Sungai Lembing Museum and subsequent investment from government has made this area one of the important tourist attraction in Pahang and had attracts large numbers of tourists.

Malaysia is blessed with abundant rainforests all throughout the country, and with it comes gorgeous waterfalls. Rainbow Waterfall is one of the most magnificent waterfalls in the country. The unique feature of this waterfall is that from 9-10am every morning, the sun hits the falling water at the base of the falls and creates a beautiful rainbow. People come from all over the country to make the one and a half-hour journey to get to the falls, just to see this beauty of nature.