Day 1 : Some friends came down to Raub from KL to visit the Raflessia site and I chose a Saturday to avoid tourists as well as picnickers. However, when we arrive at around 10h15 in the morning, there were already many local campers preparing their backpacks to go hiking 2.5 km uphill to Lata Tinggi. However, the Raflessia site was only 1 km uphill and did not exert much on anyone healthy enough to walk. A slow and quiet ascend on a continuous slope of around 25 to 35 degrees up the kilometer is my weekly or sometimes monthly exercise to bring out some sweat in clean air environment, killing two birds with a stone because I also get to take marvelous photos of plants, insects and birds with just my faithful Nikon Coolpix S200 compact camera.
A giant millipede greeted us at the beginning of the trail.
A Mussaenda in flower...
A fungus with interesting marks.
A coupling pair of dusky coloured butterfly.
Flowering bract of a common ginger.
A tiny but colourful cicada.
A tiny pale green terrestrial snail.
A caterpillar 'jaywalking' on the trail.
Opening flower bract of the Tacca lily.
Lemon yellow coloured flowers of the Lemba, a plant that produces berries with natural sweetening substance that can be used as an 'antidote' for bitterness.
A fluorescent yellow fungus.
Opening bud of the Raflessia cantleyi.
One with a 50 cent coin for scale.
Brian taking a shot at the Raflessia.
The almost opened flower.
Closeup of the petals' texture.
The starry center.
A jewel orchid of the Anoetochilus genus.
Tiny pink flowers on a trunk.
Magenta coloured flowers of a herbaceous plant.
A Lady bug.
Flowers of a liana.
Hello Liew,
ReplyDeleteGood to read this, as we were there too. When we went again on 13th Apr, the Tacca Lily was fully opened and in fact, a bit over! Very impressive for its size. Best wishes.