…which in English means WELCOME and you’re most encouraged to be an Eco-Tourist
whenever the merry men of the Utan Bara Adventure Team or UBAT
treks & trails into some of the most beautiful, peaceful, litter-free, tourist-free
but best kept secret jungle locations of the Peninsular Malaysia.

“ Adventure is a romantic name for trouble…..” is what UBAT tries to provide
unsuspecting participants whenever the going gets tough while joining
any of the treks and trails into the jungles. But these very same participants
that complained during the treks will usually ask for more trekking
adventures, for what the great outdoors of the jungles offered them,
can NEVER be duplicated by the artificial environment provided
in their own so called “ comfort zones ” in the concrete jungles!

After all….“ The worst day in the jungles is ALWAYS better than
the best day in office! ” …. The jungles or romantically known as
the “ Rainforests ” contain unimaginable resources for curing all ills
– physical, mental, spiritual and social.

UBAT itself, in Malay, means medicine which is what the Team wants to
provide the general public with alternative forms of healthy and
invigorating foot power-based jungle activities that caters to an
almost broad spectrum of mankind and providing trekkers practical,
highly participative, factual knowledge and first-hand exposure of this
most endangered green environment on earth.
And UBAT which stands for Utan Bara Adventure Team or
the Flaming Spirits of the Jungle Adventure Team, itself, consists
of a special breed of higly passionate individuals – skilled, knowledgeable
and experienced in survival, trekking, camping, hunting – from ex-special forces,
ex-guerillas, reformed hunters to travellers and professionals from almost
all backgrounds as volunteers, whom were once participants of
UBAT’s treks and trail!

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Since its birth in 1995, UBAT has seen hundreds of highly satisfied and
responsible participants trekking, slogging,sweating, slipping, climbing,
surviving and camping in the jungles which  has included a very young 3 years
old Belgian girl and a 60 plus Malaysian gentleman, whilst a red cheeked
6 months old baby that her parents brought to
the elephant orphanage  sanctuary!
The birth of UBAT also acted as a nursery to a number of trekkers whom
then, later on,began to start their own adventure set ups.

Enrolling in UBAT’s highly popular practical jungle survival course
prepared them the courage to lead their own groups in jungle locations all
over the Peninsular Malaysia. And most of the previous participants are
returnees, keen to further pursue other activities and bringing
with them new participants, too!

Whilst others actively promote jungle trekking adventures and tours in
popular destinations with lots of thrills, frills and usually
litter-ridden, UBAT does the opposite!

UBAT actively promote the thrills, skills, practical knowledge and conservation
in almost remote, unknown and undeveloped jungles , known only to the
UBAT instructors of which most of the marketing of UBAT’s activities
are done via word of mouth and articles in the local & foreign
media and of recent, via the Internet.

UBAT’s popular survival courses are also currently being applied by several
organisations for teambuilding or staff development purposes which
shows that the great outdoors is actually the best place to either kill or
keep out the man-made stresses and build good camaderieship.
Lessons learned from the highly biodiversified rainforests
teaches participants how to manage diversity in
their own organisations!

The Utan Bara Adventure Team is lead by its founder and chief
trekker/survival expert known only as The BanditLeader  who
regularly delegates the trekking & survival courses to his most senior men
and only leads/teaches groups upon advance requests from clients.

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To know what the jungles mean to The BanditLeader and his merry men
of UBAT, read his deep and personal description of this world’s
most endangered environment he loves most…

“……from the air, the jungle looks like a sea of broccoli and a novice might
be forgiven for thinking that the underneath is impenetrable. It is not!
Under the treetop canopy, nature jostles to find a space to catch the
sun’s rays, producing a litany of sounds and a library of sights.
Myriads of insects help propagate new growth as well as slowly
working to eradicate the old.
Damp soil and a mulch of fallen leavescushion noise but
retain tracks for those who know how to read them.
Birds and animals are heard rather than seen.

Navigation is a skill that anyone can learn ; map, compass and a retentive
memory, along with a cool head, are the main requisites. The direction of
stream flow, a rise of fall in contours, are normally theonly aids in
featureless terrains. But the depth of a stream, the thickness of
the bush, the flight of the birds,the age of a track and many other signs
are always there to be read like a book by the initiated and turned into
advantage when, to others with senses deadened and mind dulled by a
depressing and endless similarity, the Jungle imposes
itself as an environment which cannot be mastered. "

 This is the jungle – the REAL living jungle that is neutral and
too big to be left unexplored.
And your presence here, should you decide to take up the
offer of escaping into the world’s most endangered green environment
- is to trek into, camp overnite, feel, smell, listen,
see and to understand and respect it better.

If you have made peace with yourself by acquiring the practical knowledge
that is the antidote against fear of the jungles, we hope that you will then
go out into the masses to preach and encourage others to make
peace with themselves in the Jungles.
May Peace be with You.”
- The BanditLeader

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When you decide to join ANY of UBAT’s treks & trails 4 u!….. rest assure….
you will be led in and out safely by some of the most experienced and
conservation-minded  jungle trekkers in Asia, if not, in Malaysia!

If you’re a lazy Ego-Tourist – please DO NOT ever think of joining ANY of
the activities organised by UBAT , but if you’re an Eco-Tourist or a member of
the Mob-Tourism Society keen to let your hair down, leave your ego, power behind,
keen and luxury to learn, understand and respect this most endangered
but hostile environment from responsible jungle trekkers –
please by all means… continue trekking into UBAT’s website.

The Team consists of a most unselfish bunch of experienced teachers in the
art of jungle trekking and survival  where they will never cease to pass you
whatever skills, knowledge and experience they have and in return  –
they will only ask you to impart them to others, for them….
Knowledge is the antidote to whatever
fear one has about the jungles!
Some Eco-Tourists even applies to stay and learn
the art of jungle trekking with us!

To know who we are….. go to Magazine Articles

To The BanditLeader and his merry men of UBAT - fitness OR gender
is irrelevant to enjoy a trek into the jungles for the Jungle is Neutral
& Too big to be left Unexplored!
And do explore it before YOU disappear!

ALWAYS Proud to be Malaysians!