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တကယ္ေတာ့ ဒီပို႕စ္ဟာ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္း က အတန္းထဲမွာ ေရးခဲ့ဘူးတဲ့ သင္ႏွစ္သက္ရာ ဘာညာဘာညာ စသျဖင့္ ေရးခဲ့ရတဲ့ စာစီစာကုံး တပုဒ္လုိပါပဲ။ ဟုတ္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္လဲ ဒါဟာ စာစီစာကုံးေလး တပုဒ္ပါပဲ။ လူတိုင္းလူတိုင္း မွာ ကိုယ္စီ ကိုယ္စီ ႀကိဳက္ႏွစ္သက္ရာ ေလးေတြ ရွိတတ္စၿမဲပါ။ တခ်ိဳ႕ က အ၀တ္အစား၊ တခ်ိဳ႕က ေမာ္ေတာ္ကား၊ တခ်ိဳ႕က ပစၥည္းေသးေသးေလးေတြ၊ အသုံးအေဆာင္အဆင္အယင္ေတြ၊ အစားအေသာက္၊ အိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္၊ စသျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး သူ႕အႀကိဳက္ ကိုယ့္အႀကိဳက္ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိ ႏိုင္ပါေသးတယ္။ က်ေနာ္က ေတာ့ ေယဘုယ် အားျဖင့္ သဘာ၀ တရားႀကီးကို ျမတ္ႏိုးတယ္။ ေကာင္းကင္ႀကီးရယ္၊ ေတာင္တန္းေတြရယ္၊ သစ္ပင္ ပန္းမန္ ေတြ စသျဖင့္ေပါ့။ ဒါေပမယ့္ က်ေနာ္ တိရိစာၦန္ေတြ ကို ပိုၿပီး ခ်စ္တယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ အရိုင္းသဘာ၀ အတိုင္း ရွင္သန္က်က္စား ေနေလ့ရွိတဲ့ တိရိစာၦန္ ေတြကို ပိုၿပီး ခ်စ္တယ္။ သဘာ၀ တရားႀကီး ဟာ သူ႕သဘာ၀ အတိုင္းကို က ပင္ကို အလွရွိၿပီးသား။
က်ေနာ္ရဲ႕ ဇာတိခ်က္ေၾကြ ေမြးရပ္ေျမ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံ အလယ္ပိုင္း ေျမလတ္ေဒသ ၿမိဳ႕ကေလးမွာ ကေလးဘ၀ ကို ျဖတ္သန္း စဥ္ ကာလ ကတည္းက သဘာ၀ ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ ကို နည္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး နဲ႕ ထိေတြ႕ခြင့္ရခဲ့တယ္။ တကယ္လို႕ တစုံတေယာက္ က "မင္း ဘယ္ တုန္းက စၿပီး သဘာ၀ ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ ကို စၿပီးခ်စ္ခဲ့တာလဲ၊ ဘယ္သူ ကမ်ား အဲဒီလို ခ်စ္တတ္ေအာင္သင္ေပးခဲ့ တာလဲ" လို႕ေမးလာခဲ့ရင္ က်ေနာ့္ ရဲ႕ အေျဖ ဟာ "အေဖ" ပါပဲ။ သူဟာ က်ေနာ့္ အတြက္ ေတာ့ အခုအခ်ိန္ အထိ ဗဟုသုတ ဟင္းေလးအိုးွ အျဖစ္ ရွိေနဆဲပါပဲ။ က်ေနာ္ စကား စေျပာ တတ္ကတည္းက စ ၿပီး ေမးလိုက္ တဲ့ မေရမတြက္ ႏိုင္တဲ့ ေမးခြန္း ေတြဟာ အခုထက္ ထိမရပ္ႏိုင္ ေသးပါဘူး။ အေဖ့ရဲ႕ အေျဖေတြ ဟာ က်ေနာ့္ အတြက္ အၿမဲတမ္း စိတ္ေက်နပ္စရာ ေတြခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ အေဖ့ရဲ႕ ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္နဲ႕၊ ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳနဲ႕၊ ဘာသာတရား နဲ႕၊ သမိုင္း၊ ဓေလ့ ထုံးတမ္း စဥ္လာ ေတြနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ ယွက္ႏြယ္ ေနေလ့ရွိတဲ့ ပုံျပင္ ၀တၳဳ ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ဟာ က်ေနာ့္ ေခါင္းထဲ မွာ အခု အခ်ိန္ အထိစြဲၿမဲ မွတ္မိေနဆဲပါပဲ။
အေဖ့ ကို မသိတာ တခုေလာက္ ေမးလိုက္ တာနဲ႕ သူ႕ဆီ က အေျဖက အခ်က္အလက္ အကိုးအကား၊ ဥပမာ ဥပေမယ် ေပါင္း စုံနဲ႕ တြဲၿပီး မရပ္မနား တလစပ္ ထြက္လာေတာ့တာပါပဲ။ သားသိပါၿပီ၊ ရပါၿပ၊ီ ေတာ္ေလာက္ ပါၿပီ လုိ႕ကို ေျပာယူရပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ့္ အေဖ အေၾကာင္း ေရးရ ရင္ တေထာင့္တည အာေရဗ် ပုံျပင္ ေတြ ထက္ ကို ပိုၿပီး ရွည္လ်ားေထြျပား ႏုိင္ပါေသးေတာ့တယ္။ က်ေနာ့္ အတြက္ေတာ့ အေဖဟာ သူရဲေကာင္း ၿပီးေတာ့ ကမာၻ ေပၚမွာ အေကာင္း ဆုံးအေဖ ပါပဲ။
က်ေနာ္ အလယ္တန္းတက္ ေတာ့ မနက္ အေစာႀကီး ေလးနာရီေလာက္ မွာ ထၿပီး စာက်က္ေလ့ရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီ အခ်ိန္ဟာ စာထဲ မွာ အာရုံ စိုက္ၿပီး က်က္လို႕ အေကာင္းဆုံးအခ်ိန္ပဲ။ မနက္စာ မစားခင္ အထိေပါ့။ က်ေနာ့္ေမြးရပ္ေျမ၊ ပူျပင္းေျခာက္ေသြ႕တဲ့ ေျမလတ္ေဒသက ၿမိဳ႕ကေလးမွာ မနက္ေစာေစာ အခ်ိန္ေတာ့ ေအးျမျမ ေလးျဖစ္ေနေလ့ရွိတယ္။ ေလးနာရီ ဆိုတာ နဲ႕ သေျပတန္း ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး ေက်ာင္းက အုန္းေမာင္းေခါက္သံ နဲ႕ အတူ အေဖထတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ့္ ကို စာက်က္ဖို႕ ႏွုိး ေလ့ရွိတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဖ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ျပန္မအိပ္ဖူး၊ ေရေႏြးၾကမ္း တအိုး နဲ႕ စာအုပ္ တအုပ္နဲ႕ ေစာင့္ေပးေလ့ရွိတယ္။ တခါတေလ က်ေနာ္ ငိုက္ရင္ သတိေပးရ ေအာင္လို႕ေပါ့။ "သား" ဆိုၿပီး အေဖ သတိေပး တာနဲ႕ က်ေနာ္ လဲ ဆိုမိ ဆိုရာ ထၿပီး ဆိုေတာ့တာပဲ (မွတ္မိေနေသးတာေလး ကေတာ့ "ဦးဖိုးက်ား၊ ဦးဖိုးက်ားသည္ ဟသၤတၿမိဳ႕နယ္ နိဗၺာန္ရြာ သားျဖစ္သည္")။ စာက်က္လို႕ ခန အၾကာမွာ ေတာ့ ငွက္ကေလး ေတြ ေတးသီခ်င္း သီေၾကြး သံ ကို စ ၾကားရပါေတာ့ တယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဒီငွက္ ကေလးရဲ႕ ထူးျခား ၿပီး အမ်ိဳးမ်ဳိး ေအာ္ျမည္တတ္တဲ႔ သာယာနာေပ်ာ္ဖြယ္ အသံေလး ေတြေၾကာင့္ ပါ။ အေဖ့ ကို အဲဒါ ဘာငွက္လဲ ေမးေတာ့ "ငွက္က်ား" လို႕လဲေခၚတယ္ "သပိတ္လြယ္ငွက္" လို႕လဲေခၚတယ္လို႕ေျပာပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေနာက္မွာ စာဆက္ၿပီးမက်က္ရေတာ့ ပဲ သပိတ္လြယ္ငွက္နဲ႕ ဆက္စပ္ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေတြ ဆက္ေျပာပါေတာ့တယ္။ ငွက္ကေလးဟာ အျဖဴနဲ႕ အနက္က်ား ေလးပါ။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေတြ ဆြမ္းခံတဲ့အခါလြယ္တဲ့ သပိတ္ကေလး ကို လြယ္ေနတဲ့ ပုံစံေလးေၾကာင့္ သပိတ္လြယ္ လို႕ေခၚတယ္ေပါ့။ ေနာင္ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေလာက္ ၾကာလို႕ က်ေနာ္ "ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ငွက္နဲ႕ သဘာ၀ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး အသင္း" ကိုေရာက္ေတာ့ မွ က်ေနာ္ၾကားခဲ့ ျမင့္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ အဲဒီငွက္ ကေလးေတြ ကို "Magpie Robin" လို႕ေခၚတာ သိလာရပါေတာ့တယ္။
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္က အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႕ မိသားစု ေရၾကည္ရာ ျမက္ႏုရာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ႀကီး ကိုေျပာင္းလာခါစမွာ လူေနထူထပ္တဲ့ ၿမိဳ႕တေနရာ က ေျခာက္ထပ္တိုက္ႀကီး ရဲ႕ အခန္း က်ဥ္းက်ဥ္းေလး မွာ ေနခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ခ်စ္တဲ့ ငွက္ကေလးေတြရဲ႕ ေတးသီခ်င္း သီေၾကြးသံေလးေတြနဲ႕ ႏွစ္ အတန္ၾကာ ေ၀းကြာ ေနခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ေနာက္မွ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ႀကီး ရဲ႕ ဆင္ေျခဖုန္း ၿမိဳ႕သစ္ကေလး ကိုေျပာင္းလာျဖစ္ေတာ့ အရိပ္ရမယ့္အပင္ေရာ၊ စားပင္သီးပင္၊ ပန္းပင္ ကေလးေတြ မိသားစုတေတြ တက္ညီလက္ညီ စိုက္ၾကပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ သတိထားမိတဲ့ မနက္ခင္း တခုမွာ က်ေနာ့္ ခ်စ္တဲ့ ငွက္ကေလး ေတြရဲ႕ မနက္ခ်ိန္ခါေတးသံသာ ကို ၾကည္ႏူးႏွစ္သက္စြာ ျပန္လည္ၾကား ရပါေတာ့တယ္။ ။
အမွာစကား ။ ။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဂ်ဴလိုင္လ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႕ကက်ေနာ့္ဘေလာက္မွာ တင္ ခဲ့တဲ့ Birds, Nature & Me - 3 ကိုအခါအားေလ်ာ္ စြာ ျပန္ဖတ္မိၿပီး အဆင္ေျပသလို ျမန္မာလို ျပန္ေရးပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ ကတည္း က စိတ္ကူးတည့္ ရာ ေရးခ်င္သလို ေရးတဲ့ ပို႕စ္ေတြအၿမဲလို လာဖတ္ၿပီး ကြန္မန္႕ေပးခဲ့တဲ့ အစ္မငယ္ႏိုင္ ကို ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမနက္ မွာ အစ္မ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေအး နဲ႕ ခ်က္တင္း လုပ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး အေၾကာင္းတိုက္ဆိုင္ၿပီး အေမနဲ႕အေဖ ကိုေရာ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္း က အေၾကာင္းေတြ ပါျပန္သတိ ေအာက္ေမ့သြား တာ ကေနဒီပို႕စ္ ကိုေရးျဖစ္တာပါ။
Actually this post is like an "Essay" which we used to write in the classroom when we were in school-age (something like "Write an essay about your favorite blah blah blah"). Yes. It is really the same like this. Everyone has their favorite things perhaps these can be cloths, cars, small tools, ornaments, foods, pets, animals and it can be varied. In fact, I love nature in general; sky, mountain ranges, trees and plats, flowers and faunas etc.. but especially I love more to animals those in natural habitats, wild. Nature in the Nature has already their own beauty..
Since I was in my childhood, growing in typical small town in central Myanmar, I love to touch the nature in different way. If there is question asking "how did you start to love the nature and who did you to love it?", my answer is all about my father who is my knowledge bank (until now). Since I started talk and made uncountable questions to him, he answers and (always) satisfied me. He told me uncountable numbers of stories related to nature, culture, religion, beliefs, history, and many of subjects which are still stuck in my mind.
Once I asked a question, the answer come out from him with various facts and quotations. He can not even stop :) Sometime I said, father that is more than enough for me. If I write about my father, it would become like Arabian Tales (for one thousand and one night perhaps even more). He is my hero and ever the best father of mine.
When I was in middle school (secondary school), I used to study in early morning about 4 am onwards which is the best time to study and for me to get more concentration. I used to studied until before breakfast. The weather is usually cool in the small town of typical dry zone in central Myanmar. My father always wake me up for my early morning study and he never went back to sleep (he just waiting probably reading a book with a pot of Myanmar tea) and accompany me. After awhile we started to hear beautiful songs singing from the guava tree inside our house compound. The song had quite high tone and beautiful melody (I notice it is eight to 14 diffient tone and melody). I asked what kind of bird is it. He said "Nget Kyar (ငွက္ က်ား - actualy there is another bird with same name which is completely different - water bird) also known as Tha Baik Lwal (သ ပိတ္ လြယ္)". The color of the bird is only Black & White (it can be varied) and the feature is a bird caring an alm bow (Buddhist monks equipment). Later after twenty over years, once I joined Myanmar Birds & Nature Society, I knew it is called "Magpie Robin" precisely the birds I saw are "Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)".
Our family relocated to the capital city in Yangon over a decade ago, we were in subarbs of Yangon in a narrow apartment of 6 storied building. I lost my lovely songs for years. Then after we settled down in newly established town - outskirt of Yangon city center (about 20 kilometers). We grew some plants and trees in our house compound. Again, I started to get back my favourite birds singing as "Moning Section Music (မ နက္ ခ်ိန္ ခါ ေတး သံ သာ)".
The Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus Saularis) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered an Old World flycatcher. They are distinctive black and white birds with a long tail that is held upright as they forage on the ground or perch conspicuously. Distributed in many parts of tropical South and Southeast Asia, they are common birds in urban gardens as well as forests. They are particularly well known for their songs and were once popular as cagebirds.
Photos:-Photos were taken from below sources and posted in this post before but after insisted by the original photographer, I deleted from the post accordingly. (updated on 2226 hrs local time, 18 March 2011).
Birds, Nature & Me - 3
Actually this post is like an "Essay" which we used to write in the classroom when we were in school-age (something like "Write an essay about your favorite blah blah blah"). Yes. It is really the same like this. Everyone has their favorite things perhaps these can be cloths, cars, small tools, ornaments, foods, pets, animals and it can be varied. In fact, I love nature in general; sky, mountain ranges, trees and plats, flowers and faunas etc.. but especially I love more to animals those in natural habitats, wild. Nature in the Nature has already their own beauty..
Since I was in my childhood, growing in typical small town in central Myanmar, I love to touch the nature in different way. If there is question asking "how did you start to love the nature and who did you to love it?", my answer is all about my father who is my knowledge bank (until now). Since I started talk and made uncountable questions to him, he answers and (always) satisfied me. He told me uncountable numbers of stories related to nature, culture, religion, beliefs, history, and many of subjects which are still stuck in my mind.
Once I asked a question, the answer come out from him with various facts and quotations. He can not even stop :) Sometime I said, father that is more than enough for me. If I write about my father, it would become like Arabian Tales (for one thousand and one night perhaps even more). He is my hero and ever the best father of mine.
When I was in middle school (secondary school), I used to study in early morning about 4 am onwards which is the best time to study and for me to get more concentration. I used to studied until before breakfast. The weather is usually cool in the small town of typica l dry zone in central Myanmar. My father always wake me up for my early morning study and he never went back to sleep (he just waiting probably reading a book with a pot of Myanmar tea) and accompany me. After awhile we started to hear beautiful songs singing from the guava tree inside our house compound. The song had quite high tone and beautiful melody (I notice it is eight to 14 diffient tone and melody). I asked what kind of bird is it. He said "Nget Kyar (ငွက္ က်ား - actualy there is another bird with same name which is completely different - water bird) also known as Tha Baik Lwal (သ ပိတ္ လြယ္)". The color of the bird is only Black & White (it can be varied) and the feature is a bird caring an alm bow (Buddhist monks equipment). Later after twenty over years, once I joined Myanmar Birds & Nature Society, I knew it is called "Magpie Robin" precisely the birds I saw are "Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis)".
Our family relocated to the capital city in Yangon over a decade ago, we were in subarbs of Yangon in a narrow apartment of 6 storied building. I lost my lovely songs for years. Then after we settled down in newly established town - outskirt of Yangon city center (about 20 kilometers). We grew some plants and trees in our house compound. Again, I started to get back my favourite birds singing as "Moning Section Music (မ နက္ ခ်ိန္ ခါ ေတး သံ သာ)".
The Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus Saularis) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered an Old World flycatcher. They are distinctive black and white birds with a long tail that is held upright as they forage on the ground or perch conspicuously. Distributed in many parts of tropical South and Southeast Asia, they are common birds in urban gardens as well as forests. They are particularly well known for their songs and were once popular as cagebirds.
Labels: Birds, English Posts, Nature, ျမန္မာ ပို႕စ္, ျမန္မာပို႕စ္
First of all, I do apologize as the theme of this post would not probably match with the title. Perhaps you may expect available homestay arrangements or all about homestay in Myanmar actually it is NOT for the moment. I have just chatted with a Myanmar offshore tour operator about said matter especially the possibilities, advantages and disadvantages of doing homestay in Myanmar. In fact, I used to discussed with many people from various destinations and various destinations of Myanmar Tourism Industry.
We expected that would be developed sooner in the future but it was a few years ago and now I am wondering why it is still not in our list of products.
Wikipedia (the free online encyclopedia)
However, it can go a bit further and wider in an aspect of tourism industry in a particular nation. There are many reasons to develop homestay and why it should be. Some of our neighboring countries have opened up their home doors to foreign guest to have a genuine taste of their tradition and lifestyle. And of course, experiencing a homestay in a traditional village is logically one of the fastest and easiest ways to get studied what “real life” like the country is. It can be a village in typical Myanmar village in the central part of Myanmar or a village in Mt. Vitoria area; perhaps it can be in a village around Mon or Karan State. In fact, it can be anywhere in Myanmar even in a suburb area of Yangon; somewhere like Mingalardon or North Okkalapa.
There is no doubt “Myanmar is the richest country in terms of many factors”. Myanmar is rich in natural resources; Myanmar is rich in cultural heritages, Myanmar is rich in …. We can always proud on that. The hundred over ethnic groups have their own tradition, belief and customaries. There are always thousands of things to study and learn from them. The visitor can study and experience the broad spectrum of a village life.
The possible chances to learn from a host village:
The geographic study of a host village
Occupational works (method, articles, traditional ideas etc)
Home-cooking lessons (main foods and delicacies)
Traditional Games (indoor and outdoor games and related toys
Traditional Arts (cultural dance, songs and instruments)
Ceremonies (Religious ceremonies, weddings, funerals etc)
Ways of thinking, philosophy and ideology
There are also a number of benefits of Homestay which comes under Tourism. On very large scale it offers an alternative to some destructive industries for generating income both nationally and individually. It can surely create jobs in many different areas.
Opportunity for economic and educational growth
Opportunity to experience other cultures (which broadens understanding)
Improving infrastructure (road, bridge, hospital, etc)
If the Homestay is properly developed, the generated income can be tremendously beneficial to the nation and her local communities. The income can be used on the region to improve infrastructures, better education, better health care, for conservational projects, and to promote responsible tourism.
*Note: I am not an academic and merely a tour operator. Therefore if there are mistakes and weakness in this post, please kindly point it out.
- Wikipedia (The free encyclopedia)
- Notes from Auburn University
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 12/09/2010 05:05:00 PM 6 comments
Labels: Destination, English Posts, Myanmar, Tourism
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Malaysia, Home of the World's Most Diverse Ecosystem
The tropical rainforests in Malaysia were blessed with a location far from the ravages of the earth's ice ages that they developed much earlier than the other equatorial rainforests in Africa and South America. Evolving for over 120 million years, they displayed a much greater diversity and provided shelter for the emergence of mammals as well as birds.
When the earth became drier, the rainforests of Southeast Asia, sheltered by the Himalyan Massif, remained moist. This was followed by the ice ages when sea levels fell dramatically, forming land bridges between mainland and island Southeast Asia, allowing plant and animal migration. As the climate began to warm, this vast genetic storehouse burst forth with the profusion of species that exists today.
Malaysia is also home to the world's richest marine environment, which includes coral atolls, fringing reefs and barrier reefs. Coral reefs are to the sea what tropical rainforests are to the land. Corals require stringent conditions in order to flourish, only existing in warm, shallow seas where sunlight penetrates to about 100m and warm currents flow.
These living organisms form an ecosystem and tightly recycle everything, being virtually self-contained. Although they are found primarily in the tropics, they do not exist throughout tropical seas. It is very difficult to say which is the most complex ecosystem on earth - the coral reefs or the tropical rainforests. Both have no equals. Both are fragile yet boast unparalleled diversity.
Malaysia enjoys the best of both worlds and is truly the ideal destination for the nature lovers. It is not only one of the few countries that is home to these extraordinary ecosystems but also ranks among the very few that provide wide ranging protection in terms of designated parks as well as sanctuaries for these unique living treasures.
Courtesy of Tourism Malaysia
- Courtesy of Tourism Malaysia
- Carol @ Lankayan Island Resort
- Carol @ Sepilok Nature Resort
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 6/30/2010 11:14:00 AM 4 comments
Labels: Destination, English Posts, Environment, Malaysia, Nature, Tourism
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Tigers, Big Predators of Myanmar
Myanmar Tiger on Trap Camera by Wildlife Conversation Society - WCS
Tiger is an animal with full of mystical background stories in Myanmar since for hundreds years ago. Like werewolves in America and Europe, weretigers in Mynmar is one of the most thrilling characters among folklore of Burmese and various ethnic groups. Furthermore it is a part of religious value for animistic beliefs both tribal people and urban communities. Until now, it is remained as one of the major themes in traditionally told bedtime tales.
From the far northern snow-capped mountains to down south Mergui Archipelagos, Myanmar is a shelter for a wide range of biodiversity and wildlife. Various parts of the country itself is a home for mix of species from north Asia, south Asia and southeast Asia. In fact, Myanmar is the largest country by geographical area in mainland Southeast Asia or Indochina Peninsular.
In general, tigers habitat in Myanmar is the Indochinese Tiger (Panthera tigris corbetti) and also known as Corbett's Tiger which are even found in China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Records show a number of Bengal tigers also found in Myanmar. They habitat in the deep jungle especially in mountainous or hilly regions. In fact they are very similar to Bengal tigers but practically darker and smaller in appearance. However it is said to be more intelligent and hazardous in the desperate situations. Now all those tigers in estimated population between 1200 to 1800 are only several hundred left in wild and nature due to various reasons such as decreasing of primary prey species which are medium and large size animals (ie. deer, wild pigs, serows etc.), poaching and inbreeding. Furthermore, traditional hunting as basis need for ornaments or costumes by some tribal ethnic groups might be another strong reasons. The illicit demand from China for traditional medicine would be another major reason for the unrelenting poaching pressure on tigers. The traders and brokers for tigers remains are always roaming in tiger habitat areas.
"Myanmar (Burma): Chinese pharmacy, Mandalay, 11. XII . 1987 ; special offer: tiger (Panthera tigris), Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), civet cat (Viverra zibetha), Bengal and domestic cat (Felis bengalensis, Felis libycus forma catus), etc."
"The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,000 mile-long "genetic corridor" from Bhutan to Burma that would allow tiger populations to roam freely across landscapes. The corridor, first announced at the United Nations on January 30th, would span eight countries and represent the largest block of tiger habitat left on earth."
Source: Science Citizen / WCS
As an ambitious project, "World Largest Tiger Reserve" has been created in Myanmar. It was in year 2001, the total area of more than triples size of the 2500- square-miles (6500 -square-kilometer) Hukaung Vally Wildlife Sanctuary was established. In fact, Myanmar had been identified since 1995 as a high priority tiger conservation area as WCS Myanmar assume Myanmar has large areas of potential habitat existed for tigers. Followed by this statement, WCS approached with National Tiger Action Plan to Forest Department in 1998 when preliminary surveys and training programs began.
Tours are now possible to arrange for off-the-beaten-trek Htmanti Wildlife Sanctuary in Sagain Division, the Hukaung Vally Wildlife Sanctuary in Kachin State and the Htaung Pru Reserved Forest and Pe Chaung catchment in Taninthary Division consider where global hotspots for Myanmar tigers and biodiversity.
- Wikipedia
- WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society)
- Science Citizen
- National Geographic
- Aung Kyaw Tha - Myanma Alin
- Research Institute and Natural History Museum - Senckenberg (Germany)
- WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society)
- Research Institute and Natural History Museum - Senckenberg (Germany)
- Ledo Road
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 11/24/2009 04:16:00 PM 5 comments
Labels: Culture, English Posts, Myanmar, Nature, Personal, Tourism
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Sarawak - on the Island of Borneo
Sarawak exists on Borneo, the third largest in the world after Greenland and New Guinea. Malaysian belongs two states on Borneo are separated in Sarawak with a size of 123520 square kilometer and Sabah with 75230 square kilometer. The sultanate Brunei wedged in between these two Malaysian states and the southern two third of Borneo is belong to Indonesia and called Kalimantan.
Sarawak is well famous for its richness in plants and animal species, in a way Borneo is a center of biodiversity in tropical Asia. There are 10 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in Sarawak and which are home to quite a number of endangered animal species such as Proposcis Monkeys, Orang Utans, Sumatran Rhinoceros, Clouded Leopard, Asian Elephants et cetera.
Archaeological encounters at Santubong Peninsula serve that the Chinese came to trade during Tang, Yuan and Sung dynasties from 618 AD to 1368 AD. And it was under the control of the Sultan of Brunei once in the past, at some point, there is no written records of the "middle age". In fact, Sarawak's history is like an exciting story from a novel played by enthralling characters of various performers. It was full of mysterious and alluring time while James Brooke landed his first step to the inside of Sarawak from the Sarawak River. He become first White Raja in Sarawak.
"My intention is first to visit Sarawak - a river whence they get antimony ore, as yet unknown and unmarked on teh charts. At Sarawak, I hope to get hold of the Rajah of Borneo proper and go up to the capital with him and, if possible, make an excursion up the river. I feel confident something is to be done"
James Brooke (29 April 1803 – 11 June 1868)
The Chronicles of the Brooke ruled in an era by three generations of an English family whose first foray into Sarawak. James Brooke arrived in Kuching in 1839 to deliver a letter to the governor of Sarawak, Raja Muda Hashim. Sarawak was ruled by Brunei Sultanate at the time he arrived. The Brunei Sultanate and rebellion from the Malays and Bidayuh who had been forced into hard labor by the Governor. Rajah Muda Hashim was not able to control teh uprising and requested to James Brooke to compromise and bring a peaceful settlement with the natives. Brooke succeeded the operations and become White Raja of Sarawak in 1842 as a reward. Not before expanding his territory, in 1842 Rajah Brooke died.
His nephew Charles Brook took over him. Charles Brooke was well organized and capable person who set a proper system of government and extension of Sarawak Border. From 1941 - 1945, during the Japanese occupation, Charles and his family fled to Australia. No difference like other places during Japanese occupation, all economic and administrative structures are collapsed and the people of Sarawak were suffered. Before the return of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, Sarawak was already took over by Austrilian Military Administration. Sarawak's colonization by British on 1 July 1946 and hundreds of government officers resigned from government service. In 1949, the second British Governor was assasinated by Rosli Dhobi. Despite Malaysia independent on 31 August 1957 (Merdeka Day), Sarawak did not achieve full independence until 16 September 1963 due to opposition from Indonesia and Philippines.
There are 28 ethnic groups inhabitant in Sarawak with their own distinct language, culture and lifestyle. Urban ares are populated by Malay, Chinese, Melanaus and small percentage of Ibans and Bidayuh who are relocated from their village for various reasons such as work or education. There are only a small community of Indians living in Sarawak. It is a harmony amongst the population of over 2 million in 28 indigenous ethnic groups who speak 45 different languages. Furthermore Sarawak is a place of the cluster of various traditions, pratices and religions.
"But who is the civilised Malay or, as he is also termed, the Deurero-Malay or Coastal Malay, of Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Lombok, Borneo, Celebes, Ternate, Timor, Sumba, and other islands? This broad-headed individual with more or less Mongoloid features, olive skin, lank black hair and thin beard is the Proto-Malay plus many foreign strains derived from inter-marrage with Chinese from teh Chou period onwards, with Indians from Bengal and the Deccan, with Arabs and Siamese." Sir Richard Winstedt, The Malays: A Cultural History
Twenty one percentage of the population in Sarawak, Malays are traditionally fishing, wood carving, silver and brass crafting as well as traditional Malay textile weaving. They are in fact originally migrated from Sumatra and they speak different dialect from the Malays of Peninsular Malaysia. Mostly they live traditionally along the coast.
The Chinese
They came to Sarawak as traders in early 6th century, Chinese now the 29 % of the population of Sarawak and practically built up strong community in social and business fields since 19th century then. Sarawakian Chinese are comprising Hokkien, Foochow, Hakka, Cantonese, Teochew and Henghua. They maintain their tradition and celebrate almost all of major cultural and religious activities.
They are the largest portion of the total population which is 30 % of entire Sarawak, Iban are reputed as "headhunters of Borneo". Ibans dwell in their renowned longhouses and famous for their weaving, silver crafting, wood carvings and beads. The Ibans traditionally settle in the river valleys of Batang Ai, the Skrang River, Saribas, and the Rajang River by building up their longhouses. These longhouses may have somewhere between six to nearly a hundred units! Longhouses generally located in newly opened areas are typically made of bamboo and tree bark, but more established and prosperous longhouses can be made of precious and long-lasting hardwoods from the nearby forest. They practice their own democracy in a communal group. They keep the elderly as important rote to make major decisions. The headman who is elected by the people of the entire community of each longhouse. Nowadays, Ibans are well known for their hospitality and friendliness.
The Orang Ulu
The Orang Ulu means upriver people and it had used to mention numerous tribes who live in upriver of inside Sarawak. In fact these groups make up approximately 5.5% of Sarawak's total population. Those tribal groups include also major Kenyah and Kyan tribes as well as the minority groups of Kajang, Kejaman, Punan, Ukit and Penang. The word Orang Ulu nowadays more widely called also to down-river tribes of Lun Bawang, Lun Deyeh, Murut and Berwan as well as the hill tribal Kelabits.
***Note: I sincerely tried to write about Sarawak at a glance and I doubt my post would be covered all about Sarawak.
- Wikipedia
- Sarawak by Robert Hoebel
- Sarawak Tourism Board
- Wan (Kuching)
- Courtesy of Sarawak Tourism Board
- Sir Francis Grant from file Wikipedia
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 10/24/2009 10:11:00 AM 8 comments
Labels: Archaeology, Culture, English Posts, History, Malaysia, Nature, Tourism
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Nearest Forest to Kuala Lumpur
I visited to my friend's house last one month ago and saw from his house a green forest along a hill in Kapong area. Then I straightaway asked him if possible to climb up the small hill and trek across the forest so the sake of my stupid hobby :). He answered me it is very convenient to do so as it has been developed as a forest reserve since long time ago. In fact, Forest Institute of Malaysia (FRIM) is the nearest forest to Kuala Lumpur.
Last 80 years ago, the place was vegetable gardens and shrubby forest where abandoned tin mine wastes. In 1926 and since then, foresters and scientists started develop the forest in nature by British government's support. Nowadays, it is an ideal place to research for forest ecology in forest science park. Aside of these forestry and scientific knowledge center, the park fosters as leisure picnic place and jungle trekking. There is a diversity of animal lives, and believed to be existed wild boars and small species of foxes (I saw the wild boar trails somewhere in the forest).
I leaved my house about half pass eight in the morning and took a KTM to Kapong Sentral then hired a taxi to FRIM. The taxi driver dropped me at the gate of FRIM. Walking the to information center from the gate took about twenty minutes. A number of people for the jogging and biking on the way into the park. The information center is located in the building D6. I went in the center but they gave fliers and leaflets but no information provided personally. I bought a ticket for canopy walk.
I bought takeaway lunch for myself and started to trek up to the hill which is about 70 minutes as I was on my way to trek and spot the birds along the trail. I spotted White-Rumped Shama which is the major highlight of FRIM (later I was told by a nature staff from FRIM) on the way to canopy walk. Incidentally, in the middle of the trek, I met a man with two Japanese tourists (I am not quiet sure where are they from) and asked me "are you a birdwatcher???" apparently I am a guy with a binocular and looking to the up trees :) then I replied him happily "yes I am". We introduced each other and agreed to meet him down there in the base camp next 2 hours.
I continued up trekking until most likely the peak of the hill (1000 feet) and viewed the panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur from the canopy walkway. My picnic lunch was had near the waterfall and subsequently I trekked back the same way to the base camp. I met Mohd Zain near the information center together with his young son. He led us in the selah walk for half an hour with technical explanation about the FRIM and the nature of the plants as well as the resident animals. I must say he is very knowledgeable and nature lover. Furthermore, he is a good birdwatcher and bird guide for FRIM. We spotted together a few species before I left the park. He sent me until the entrance gate with his motor after our conversation about birds and nature in general.
Afterward, I ringed my friend to fetch me to his home in the early evening. He hosted me a bottle of Chivas Regal with varieties of foods. Finally, his family sent the happy and drunk amateur birdwatcher to his home in the very late evening :P
Private Bird List of FRIM
- Common Flame Back Woodpecker
- Black-Browed Barbet
- House Swift
- Asian Palm Swift (not confirmed)
- Green Imperial Pigeon
- White-Rumped Shama
- Peaceful Dove (I always wrongly mention as Spotted Dove)
- Large-Billed Crow
- Common Iora
- Black-Naped Oriole
- Oriental Magpie Robin
- Crested Myna
- Red-Whiskered Bulbul (not confirmed)
- FRIM official website
- Wiki encyclopedia
- Birds of South-East Asia by Craig Robson
- Mohd Zain - FRIM
- xiaoloongzi
- Markus Seibel
- botany hawaii
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 10/06/2009 10:22:00 AM 6 comments
Labels: Birds, English Posts, Malaysia, Nature, Tourism, Travel Experience
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Naga, the Warriors of the Hills
The Naga Warriors at their New Year Festival
The legendary people, Nagas have being dwelt since hundreds years in Myanmar geographically the northwestern hilly region and along the India border. In fact, they live in both Myanmar and the Nagaland of India sides. According to the statistical records, there are more than 150,000 Nagas in Myanmar a composition of 49 more major tribal groups and many sub-tribes in estimation. The well known tribal groups are made up of more than twenty different peoples, amongst which are the Angamis, the Aos, the Konyaks, the Semas and others. Since recent years, many Nagas have moved to Chindwin River Vally (Patkoi and Seramayri Mountain Ranges) around the Sagaing Division and Chin State.
In fact, the term originally "Naga" is disputed as the Nagas did not describe themselves for many years. Some anthropologists said it derives from Sanskrit meaning "naked people" or "mountain men". Apparently the name was given by the people of the plains and later by the British colonials.
The Culture
Like many hundred years ago, there are not many changes in their daily lifestyles and community as practically sharing in hunting, agricultural and animal husbandry lifestyles although each and every tribe has developed in individual costumes, weaving, headgear, bodies and facial tattoos and many other individualized ornaments and weapons. Their tradition, beliefs and customary are strongly related to the other tribal people of Borneo (Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan - Indonesia) and Philippines.
It is difficult to give a very specific view of Naga culture, as there are differences and similarities between the groups belonging to it, as well as aspects shared with other cultures in nearby regions. The researcher Von Fürer-Haimendorf wrote, "In a world of rapidly improving communications and the resulting leveling of local differences, there is no room for archaic, isolated societies. Their once vigorous and widely varying cultures must gradually disappear before the impact of one of the great modern civilizations" in his research in the beginning of 1960s. Although there were being increased the trading with the plains, missionaries, colonialists and the impact of new technologies, the Naga still retain a lot of their traditional characteristic features. Until now, some of them are genuine in cultural aspect.
Nagas are derived from Tibeto-Burman and many of their languages are belong to Tibeto-Burman languages. Their music and dances are spectacular especially their martial and war dances. All dances are together with the songs and war yelling by the dances themselves. Their instruments are various kind of drums, bamboo flutes, bamboo mouth organs and cup violins.
Headhunting Practice
In the past of their exiting history including, their Headhunting practice especially among enemies make the Naga people legendary in a way however notorious i.e good example is an existence of such people in Myanmar-China border, Wa (Wa were still practicing headhunting until 1970s however unlike Nagas).
"The people around the world know that the forefathers of the present Naga people were head hunters. Head hunting meant that man killed his enemy, cut off his victim’s head, and carried home the head as a victor’s trophy."
Nagas keep the skulls in a skull house and each of Naga man has to contribute for the collection. These kind of spiritual houses are easily can be found in most of Naga villages. There is nothing more glorious for an adult Naga than victory in battle by bringing home the head of his victim. Nowadays they abandon the tradition due to the missionaries and supports of central government however it is believed to have been known some Nagas of the isolated Myanmar still practicing headhunting.
The Festival
Annually, in January, many different kinds of Naga tribes come together to celebrate Kaing Bi (Naga New Year) after harvesting their crops as welcoming for the next season. In this festival, traditionally to make discussion among them sharing their experiences of previous years and the ways to overcome the difficulties. Ancient times, the festival was held different groups and villages by villages but nowadays the central committee of Naga Tribal Culture choose one celebration site each other and to be held on January 15 (i.e Layshee and Laha alternately which are major Naga towns in Sagaing Division). Another reason of the festival is reunion of friends and relatives. Formerly it was a private celebration; it is now open to the public.
It could widely be said that Nagas are brave, straight forward, hardworking, honest and with a high standard of integrity. Every of an adult male Naga is practically a warrior. The Nagas have very strong sense of self respect. However they are also well noticed for their striking characteristic of hospitality and cheerfulness.
- Wiki Encyclopedia
- the Encyclopedia Britannica
- Myanmar Explore
- Absolutestronomy
- Unescocat
- Everyculture
- Ancient Naga Headhunters by T.Penzu
- Personal notes
- Credit goes to AFP
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 9/24/2009 03:57:00 PM 3 comments
Labels: Culture, Destination, English Posts, Myanmar, Nature
Friday, September 18, 2009
A Trip to Belum Rainforest
Belum Rainforest
Orang Asli the Indigenous People
A home of Tamir and Jahai the indigenous Negritos of Malaysia also known as Orang Asli, the Belum Rainforest is believed to be existed since 130 million years ago. Temengor Lake (an artificial dam built in 1975) after flooded the valley where Orang Asli were roaming and dwelling around this ancient tropical rainforest. The flood made 80 islands turned from hills of the valley. In fact the area was occupied by CPM (Communist Party of Malaya) during the dam project. Over 400 Orang Asli villages were airlifted but not proper rescue could be made for resident animals due to the threats of attacks by CPMs. There are about 5600 Orang Asli live around that area.
Temanggor Lake
The lake is the largest man made dam in Peninsular Malaysia which is located approximately 35 kilometers to the northeast of Gerik of the Perak State and covering an area of 15200 hectares. The lake is an important source of fresh water fish in a way, an abundant place for fishermen around Malaysia. Its beauty of tranquility and richness of flowers and faunas attract the foreign tourists and even locals especially to the nature lovers. It is also common to see scores of hornbills landing by the banks of the lake. Among them are the Plain-pouched Hornbills, a spescies rarely spotted in other parts of Malaysia. And Wreathed, Oriental Pied and Helmeted are also can be found in this area.
Temanggor Lake
Driving through North-South Expressway from Kuala Lumpur about 0830hrs, our first stop was Kuala Sepatang a typical small town. We visited to a small floating Chinese fishermen village where the sea fish farms locate and refresh at floating chalet for a few minutes. After having a very good seafood lunch, we continued visit to Mangrove forest and Charcoal factory (an eco friendly business). We arrived Belum Rainforest in the early evening about 1730hrs. Good Dinner and Good Night.
Private Jetty of the Belum Rainforest Resort
Day-02: After breakfast at the resort, the excursion started by boat for half and hour to explore Rafflesia, the world largest flower in the one of the islands of Temanggor Lake (actually the another species of Rafflesia from Borneo are bigger than the species found in Belum Rainforest). Unfortunately we found only buds :( and apparently we had not much time to discover it in the other places in fact it is believed to be abundant of Rafflesia in this jungle.
Raffelsia Bud
Another forty minutes boat ride to Batu Puteh (White Rock Island) where huge beehives were found. It seemed black holes on the wall of the island in the high but I could see clearly with my binocular :) these are about 1 to 3 meters in length and 1 to 2 meters in wide which are really huge. I have never seen these kind of big beehives on the rock wall. Our boatman was trying to explain about a plant (a sort of palm tree) stick on the rock wall and saying that it is endemic and very important for the ecosystem of this jungle (however he does not speak proper English so we just showed him nodding our heads like we understand everything). Then after another half an hour boat ride, we arrived a place called Gaja Sela where the elephants come to have their necessary salt-lick in fact they made holes as the use their long tusks to eat the salty ground. There are many elephant dungs which makes a very strong smell of its animals. On the way to that area we followed a trail of wild boars (perhaps there would be a family) just passed by about an hour ago before we arrived there.
The gateway to elephant salt-licks
The boatman showed us the treks of Sun Bear on a big tree where small holes (like holes of old nail) while they climb up the tree by using their claws. In fact the jungle is home for many hundreds of Sun Bears. The boatman said he just saw a Sun Bear swimming in the Temanggor Lake last a couple of days ago. Furthermore Malayan Tiger and Malayan Tapir are believed to be habitat in this wide and deep rainforest jungle with hundreds of population. However it is easier to see a tiger rather a tapir as they are very shy in nature. They are can be found from lower part (down south of Myanmar) through Thailand and the northern part of Malaysia. If we have much time and roaming around the norther part of Belum Rainforest, we may see these shy animals. However, in order to make this kind of discovery trip would need a prior permission from tourism official and wildlife departments in 2 weeks advance.
Wild Durin eaten by Malayan Tiger
We continued boat ride to Sg Katir where a beautiful waterfall and camping site located. We had picnic lunch there after crossing a few suspension bridges.
On they way back to the resort, visit to Kg Chueh "the Orang Asli Settlement" with a bag of apples from the resort. Then we went back to resort to conclude Bulem Rainforest expedition.
- Wiki Encyclopedia
- Perak Tourism
- Virtual Malaysia
- Journeys Malaysia
- Courtesy of Belum Rainforest Resort
- Daniela Barattino
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 9/18/2009 10:20:00 AM 2 comments
Labels: Destination, English Posts, Nature, Tourism, Travel Experience
Monday, August 10, 2009
The Best of Southeast Asia by UNESCO - 4
The fascinating country, Malaysia is well know for her diversity of culture and tropical rainforests. I have wrote and post from my beginning of this blog (click here).
Gunung Mulu National Park
Sarawak's largest, Gunun Mulu National Park is covered 52,865 hectares out of other 11 national parks. It is extremely rich in palm species with over 100 species in 20 genera so far identified. The park is dominated for 2377 meter high sandstone pinnacle and world's largest and longest limestone caves after recently discovered in Vietnam (At 262-by-262 feet (80-by-80 meters) in most places, the Son Doong cave beats out the previous world-record holder, Deer Cave in the Malaysia section of the island of Borneo). However the park is home to 295 kilometers of explored limestone caves which are resident for million of cave dwellers such as bats, swiftlets, spiders, cave toads, cave snakes and so on. The Sarawak Chamber which is 415 meters wide, 80 meters high and 600 meters long and bacome one of the largest cave chamber in the world due to the Clearwater cave system fosters world's longest cave passage at 51.5 kilometers in length.
Gunung Mulu National Park is important for its high biodiversity and its flora and fauna, which has been listed for 17 vegetation zones with 3,500 species of vascular plants mainly 2,000 are flowering plants. There are 67 mammal species, more than 260 species of birds, over 20,000 species of invertebrates including 25 snake species, 75 amphibian species, 23 lizard species and over 320 fish species. Malayan honey bear, Sumatran rhinoceros, famous Orang Utan and the world's smalesst mammal pangolin (Manis javanica), swuirrels and pygmy shrew.
Gunung Mulu National Park was first constituted in 1974, opened to the public in 1985 and dsignated as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000.
How to get there
Mulu is gateway and accessible by air from Miri, Limbang or Marudi. There are a numbers of Malaysia Airlines flights from Kuala Lumpur or Kuching to Mulu or Miri.
"It is perhaps the largest and most magnificent flower in the world... it measured across from the extrmity of the petals rather more than a yard, the nectarium was nine inches wide and as deep, estimated to contain a gallon and a half of water..."
SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES, published 1835
Kinabalu National Park
Located in Sabah on the northern part of the Island of Borneo, Kinabalu Nat ional Park covers an area of 754 square kilometers surrounding Mt. Kinabalu, which at 4,095.2 meters, is the highest mountain on the island of Borneo. The park is featured by six major topographs - the park, peaks, plateaus, gullies, rivers, streams and waterfalls, hot springs, caves and granite slabs. It is said to exist more than fifty persentage of flowering all around the world in the park. According to the recent survey, there are 6,000 species of flora comprising over 200 families and 1,000 genera. The world's largest flower, Rafflesia is found here in three different species rafflesia keithii, rafflesia pricei and rafflesia tengu-adlini (named after SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES).
Sumatran rhinoceros, Borneo wild cattle and most of the mammals habitat in the lowlands around Kinabalu Park. The Borneo pygmy elephant is said to exist in this park but many other large mammals such as the Orang Utan ("Forest Men or Men of the Jungle" in Bahasa Melayu & Indonesia) have been spotted up to 1,400 meters. The other primates like langurs, monkey, gibbons, tarsiers and slow loris are to be seen within the park.
How to get there
It is just 2 hours driving distance from Kota Kinabalu to reach Kinabalu National Park. Kota Kinabalu is state capital and hosts as international gateway.
A Famosa (original Portuguese fortress built in 1586 AD)
Melaka (also spelled as Malacca) is located at the edge of west coast of Peninsular Malaysia on the famous Strait of Melaka. It is 147 kilometers driving distance from Kuala Lumpur. Historical evidences said Melaka was found in 1390 AD which is last 600 years ago. After Sultanates, Melaka was ruled by Portuguese, Dutch and Britishs for centuries. St. Paul Church (once Portuguese Catholic religious place and then turned over to a burial ground of the nobel deads; where St. Francis Xavier's remain was burried there 1553 before moved to Goa, India), A Fomosa (original Portuguese Fortress built in 1586), the 1950-built-Dutch-Government-Residence, the Christ Church (built in 1753 and Dutch architectural structures are able to study), Kampung Keling Mosque and Bukit China are also major historic place in Malacca. Melaka became promenent UNESCO World's Heritage Site in 7 July 2008.
How to get there
Approximately 2 hours driving distance from Kuala Lumpur and about 3 hours driving distance from Singapore.
Khoo Kongsi Clan Temple, Penang
Located in northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia and by the famous Strait of Malacca, Penang is an island now also called as "Peal of the Orient". Originally, Penang was under Malay Sultanate of Kedah but in 1786 Captain Francis Light from British East India Company disembark Penang and renamed it as "Prince of Wales Island". He married with the daughter of Sultan of Kedah and promised the Sultan military protection from Siamese (Thais / Chakri Dynasty) and Burmese (Konbaung Dynasty). Captain Francis Light is now honored as the founder of Penang. Trading and cultural exchanges have being developed over 500 years between East and West in the Straits of Malacca settlement along with Malacca and Singapore. George Town is the historic town of Penang and listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site jointly with Malacca in July 2008.
How to get there
There is an international airport in Penang serving numerous flights. It is also reachable by overland from Kuala Lumpur is about 369 kilometers.
- Tourism Malaysia
- Sarawak Tourism
- Tourism Penang
- National Geographic http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090724-biggest-cave-vietnam.html
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- "You'll love Malacca Guide & Information" by Wee Hock Chye
- Credits go to Sarawak Tourism Board (all rights reserved)
- uk.encarta.msn.com
- Khoo Kongsi Clan Temple http://imleavingnow.blogspot.com/2007/10/georgetown-kuala-lumpur-malaysia.html
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Posted by An Asian Tour Operator at 8/10/2009 02:20:00 PM 5 comments
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