Trip to Genting Highlands Awanna

This is a beautiful scenery, isn't it?

This is a painting that i took in Awanna

This is Darren, Sherweyne, Yan and me (oh my, we are shivering in cold!)

This photo is taken in Genting Highlands. Full of mist and the wind is so strong!

This is Sherweyne and Yan posing with the lion and tigers (fake one)

I have a most terrific time in Genting Highlands recently. It was a very nice trip actually, with my parents, aunt, uncle, and my 2 cousins. My 2 cousins really like to squabble, hopefully their relationship will be better as the time past. Well, we reached Genting Awanna in noon. After taking our lunch, we went up to Genting and enjoyed until night. My cousins and i played the roller coaster. My, we shouted really loud indeed. Then later, we went to Snow World. We enjoyed playing the slide and eating ice cream too. We threw snow at each other and chased each other about. We even attempted to build a snow man, but sadly that could not be managed. Sigh! After dinner, we went out to take some fresh air, or cold air rather. The wind was so strong, and mist could be seen everywhere. It was a nice feeling, shivering there. Hahaha... After that, we headed back to Awanna. After taking a bath, we went down to Awanna's garden to take some photos, then we lounge near the swimming pool, listening to the music and enjoying the fresh air. In the morning, we woke up bright and early and went for a walk. We came across the stables, and there were horses there. The greeneries and flowers look so nice. I really like this place a lot. After walking, we went back to have our breakfast. Breakfast looked very welcome to us cause we were starving. The breakfast served was very nice and we enjoyed eating it very much, i don't even care how many pounds i will gain after eating that much of food. After breakfast, we went for a swim in Awanna's swimming pool. I even sat on the slide... and whislt i went down the slide. It's been a long time since i sat on the water slide. If Darren and Sherweyne did not persuade me to sit on it, i will most probably prefer to stay ehind. But it was a very fun feeling... i am suddenly feeling young again. I enjoyed this trip very much and i am looking forward going back to Awanna for another trip. Sayonara!

Holidays in Cameron Highlands

This is the tea plantation in Bharat's tea plantation

This is Sherweyne, Darren, Yan and I in the farms

This is a daisy flower that i took in in one of the gardens

This is Sherweyne, Yan and I in our hotel room's balcony

This are some photos from my Cameron Trip last December. The memories are still so fresh in my memory. I can remember every detail of it so well. I went to Cameron Highlands with my family and my relatives as well. We stayed at the Heritage Hotel in Cameron Highlands. The hotel was not very appealing from the outside but so-so for the inside. Although the hotel room was not very nice, my cousins and i cared less for we spent more time outdoors than indoors. So it was very fine with us indeed. On our 1st day, we visited the gardens which were full of various kinds of beautiful flowers. We took a lot of photos of it but sadly i cannot put every photo in my blog cause it will be too crammy. We had steamboat at night. My, the food tasted so nice that our dinner went on for 2 and a half hours. Haha, guess i gained a few pounds in one night. Ok, the next day's events are as follow, we went to the farm to pluck our own choice of strawberries and vegetables. I guessed we ate while we plucked especially the strawberries. We have a tremendous time in the farm as the weather was perfectly fine (not too cloudy nor too sunny)... everything is just perfect. Later, we went to Bharat's tea plantation. We had our afternoon tea there. The cookies and cakes sold in Bharat's were very different from the ones in Ipoh. Its tastes was unique and that means i had more helpings again. We went down to the tea plantation and i really love the green hills a lot. It was so breath-taking. Everything seems so serene and peaceful to me. The green hills remind me so much about the hills in the Sound of Music where Julie Andrews danced and sang to her heart's content. I really have a nice memory in Cameron Highlands. Hope that i will visit the hills soon.

Mulu Caves of Sarawak

If you ask anyone to name one of the natural wonders of the world, the odds are a thousand to one against them naming anywhere in Malaysia. Yet here, in the state of Sarawak, is to be found one of the strangest and greatest wonders of all. For deep below the limestone hills of Gunung Mulu National Park are the most stupendous caverns ever visited by man, thousands of metres below some of the best preserved rain forests in the world.

One cave-Gua Rusa (Deer Cave in English) - has been known to local forest dwellers for centuries. Its huge openings, at each end of the mountain it penetrates, allow daylight to illuminate 200 metres waterfalls that pour from the roof after the frequent rainstorms. They are alos witness to the great exodus of bats every dusk as they fly off in search of insects and fruit, looking like clouds of black smoke as they twist and turn, disperse and gather in the dying rays of the sun. Down below, thousands of footprints on the clay floor show how the cave got its name.

Many more caves have guarded their secrets more carefully. In fact, they remained undiscovered until the past eight years. To delve into their total darkness has called on the special talents of speleologits-cave explorers-equipped with the skills and gear to tackle the unconventional mountaineering which the caves demand. Its draw is so great that several expeditions have come from Britain to join officers of the Sarawak National Forest Department in the work of finding, mapping, photographing the caves. Working with clinometers, instruments which measure angles; tape measures and compasses they have discovered 150 kilometres of caves, and this under a stretch of hills measuring only 50 kilometres in length and never more than 16 kilometres in width! They probably remains much more to be discovered, for in Europe new caves are still being found after a hundred years of exploration in already well explored caving regions. The most spectacular cave yet entered is undoubtedly the Sarawak Chamber, twice as large as any previously known cave. It is so vast that 40 jumbo jets could be parked inside with room to spare.

Deep inside the caves the speleologists found that they were not alone. Signs of life were everywhere, even more than 6 kilometres from the nearest daylight! Far beyond the range of the bats, cave swiftlets make their nests. These amazing birds find their way in the dark by making clicking noises and listening to the echoes. It may seem crude compared to the electronic navigation system of a modern airliner, but it works. The little birds thread their way through passages large and small with perfect accuracy. Sometimes, as in Tiger Cave, they fly in at dusk in such large numbers that thay sound like the roar of a waterfall as they pass by. Not only do the swiftlets navigate in inky blackness, but they also run the risk of snakes waiting to catch them from the air as they whirr round corners. These snakes, known as cave racers can be up to 3 metres long. Fortunately for speleologists they tend to cause alarm rather than harm!

Not all animals who enter these caves are able to find their way out again. Benarat Caverns provides morbid evidence of this. The floor of this very deep cave, running 1000 metres below the surface, is littered with the bones of countless bats, swifts and the occasional larger creature which found its way into the labyrinth but not out again.