The haze came back after a day or two's break and we decided to go up to the hills to "escape", if there were any escaping possible with the current problems besiegeing the country...
As we were early, the traffic hasn't arrived just yet (before 9 am at Brinchang) but up on the summit of Gunung Brinchang, there were hardly a place to park our car as there were truckloads and truckloads of tourists, locals and foreigners, in successions up the hill. I can only smell diesel smoke instead of the fresh air. So much for the air thingy. It was also quite chilly and misty so no chance of verifying if the haze reached the summits of Gunung Brinchang (at over 2000M)...the road remain tracherous as ever and the tourist truck drivers remain (actually worst than before) rude and gangster-like as ever. They seem to think they own the road since they make a living from it (so third world mentality). Glad it would probably be my last time going up there unless we can get a huge 4-wheel drive like everyone else...
A fire-cracker plant flower
tiny red rhododendrons...
at the corridors of the Sungei Pakas Boh Tea shop...
the haze is there despite the warm sun...
a tiny white butterfly also localized to the hills: Udara akasa
Jewel from the highland wasteland: the Purple Saphire
a tiny skipper, also a highland species: Aeromachus jhora
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