Floating in the Forest

Kota Kinabalu, March 30th 2011

One of the activities of our 1-Day Tour to Kinabalu National Park which we booked through Air Asia Go for 645,323.98 IDR per pax, was a canopy walk; A walk into the deep Borneon forest.

But before you get to the canopy, you have to take a long trekking. Luckily, although sometimes steep and narrow, stairs like this was well provided. Trekking the forest up onto the canopy was made very much easier.

 This is not a black and white picture. This is "backlite".

It's a giant tree about 200 hundred years old. I thought we would pass this route again on the way back and I would use my wide lens to try to capture the whole tree until its roots. But it turned out we never returned here again. Ah, I should have followed the advice in one of my travel photography books: "Shoot like there won't be tomorrow."

Here's the canopy.

I somehow feel like a monkey hanging from one tree to another :P

 Oh, Cloud! You've taken my mountain away! :((

 This is Dina (my travel-companion) and RK (our tour guide from Borneo Trails).

Yay! Dina had made it to the end of the canopy!

I thought these were dry leaves. They aren't! They are growing leaves. They grow out from a stem on the ground. These leaves are very wide. The length is about from my neck to my thighs. Well, I'm small, I know. But for a leave, that's huge!

I found this plant outside the butterfly farm. But the butterfly farm was disappointing. There were only few butterflies.

I've cropped a big portion of this photo, because the bird was originally very small in the whole photo.

 These are the poring hot springs. If you don't want to get tanned, you bathe under the green roofs.

I wanted to take a closer shot, but was afraid the guests bathing there would get mad.