Betau Valley

Betau Valley

Thursday 17 March 2011

Flora of Gunung Brinchang (2)

This is my third time up Mount Brinchang (6666 feet) and the trips never disappoint, despite the intermediate showers throughout this trip. We were at the Cameron Highlands for 2 days for a short holiday and it rained the 2 days we were there. Undaunted, we decided to give the Mossy Jungle Trail at Mount Brinchang a try after a lingering morning rain on our second day...


Spectacular view of morning mist rising from the mountains after the rain (from the observation tower)...

Another breath-taking view...


Farming activities at Brinchang...everywhere, scores and scores of red mud mar the fragile highland landscape and if you take a leisure drive down the Blue Valley and Bertam Valley, the sights are shocking as to what extend agricultural activities are permitted on sensitive highlands...


Hopefully, these views will last...


Delicate orchids on tree trunks in the rain


Almost alien-like: flowering bodies of lichens


A heath rhododendron


wild raspberries


A delicate pink rhododendron at the entrance to the Mossy Jungle Trail


View from the Mossy Jungle Trail.


Another rhododendron...


Big Nepenthes cups dangling from mossy tree branches...


Beautiful trio of Epigenium longipes.


Another close-up.


Rhododendrons are flowering everywhere!!!


A mountain epiphytic orchid, Chelonistele perakensis


Strange looking cabane on the way out

1 comment:

  1. Hai Mr.LA JOCONDE

    verry nice picture's taken by you from Cameron Highlands,
    From, Rani
    http://cameronservice.blogspot.com

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