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Mentakab Town
Some 12 kilometers futher west is the town of Mentakab. The road branches into 2, the highway or the local road.
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These days travellers to the east coast can by passed Mentakab without going into town. Those heading for the National Park can take a turn off that leads into Mentakab but passes by the fringe of it. |
There is nothing unusual about Mentakab. Long ago, it had only a L-shaped main street. Today the area in the "L" is transformed into a square township. There are shops, plenty of them, for all goods and services. In the night apart from the reqular night life, there is also a fair size open air night market. Good food and cheap VCDs.
| Mentakab flourished in the 60s because of the logging activities. This town is the center for the harvested logs. Downstream industry such as sawmills, repair shops and supplies flourished. |  |
The largest of the land development projects, Jengka, is now finished and long gone. So very much less logs to support the industry. Whatever is left of pristine forest are tightly controlled, what is remaining are some odd projects. You can still see a couple of these surviving industry.
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