Promenade at Fraser's Hills

Today I was having wandering feet so I ended up going for a drive up the mountains at Fraser's Hills. We took a leisurely drive with a pit stop at Bukit Telaga for some photos and off from then on to Fraser's Hills we went. The thing about Fraser's Hills is that it is the nearest hill station to Raub at 30 plus kilometers away. Also, I had fond memories of the place as a child - its misty air, the flower beds, the mock tudor bungalows with their English air, the Hainanese coffee shops...but that would not be Fraser's Hills today. Gone are the well planted English flower beds, now replaced with unkept grassy plastic stuff, gaudily painted buildings, closed old-fashioned eateries only to be replaced with dirty street food that pollute the hill station with plastic wrappers and styrofoam boxes and yeah, everyone wanted to drive their big cars up there...great sadness of our time.

The Archduke, a common butterfly in lowland and mid elevation forests and planted land.

 A true jungle butterfly, the Malayan Owl, Neorina lowii - sunning itself on a leaf at Bukit Telaga.

 A cricket...

 The noisy Spider Hunter. You'll never miss it with its crackling cry around flowering shrubs. A common lower montane forest bird.

Unfolding whorl of a hill fern...

View of the valley where Jeriau is...

 The tree fern must be the poster boy for hill stations in the tropics. They are the fail proof sign of one reaching the montane forest level...

 The changeable Rose Hibiscus: pink indicate afternoon to evening. If you chance upon it in the early morning, you would have seen a pure white blossom, almost like a peony in spring.

 A few Silver-eared Meesias congregating under some shades on the way to Jeriau. Jeriau is currently closed to traffic.

 a pepper-like berry

a velvety nut...

 A lone Manau Rattan palm against the bakdrop of the Titiwangsa or Main Range...

 Memoires from a fluorescent-lit night - cicadas are attracted to light and in the evening, they will fly towards lighted building.

 The last original Hainanese Coffee shop unfortunately closed.

 A jungle tree laden with red pepper-like berries on the way down...

The Bamboo orchid.