Take The Path Less Ordinary

Travellers who believe they are intrepid but ignore Tanjung Piai should be flogged.
For their own good.
You may ask “Where in the world is that?”. Well, one only needs to gaze southward to answer that question. If you’re one of those looking for some healing properties of a good weekend vista that’s untouched by conveyor-belt tourism, [...]

Among thousands of lampyridae species found all over the world, the Malaysian variety Pteroptyx tener is perhaps the most amazing.
Commonly known as fire fly or lightning bug, the Malaysian specie is the only one that flocks together by the thousands after dark and make trees glitter like Christmas tree. For hundreds of years, local [...]

Mangrove trees grow where no tree has grown before. They are able to survive inundation by salt water twice a day, and in “soil” which is unstable and poor in oxygen (anaerobic). They also have to deal with swollen rivers carrying silt during the wet season, as well as violent storms that hit the coasts.
Staying [...]

We saw them today!
While trotting around in knee-deep muddy swamp forest this morning near Kuala Gula, we spotted the Milky Storks (Mycteria cinerea) or Burung Botak Upeh, which literally means bald upeh bird, tending their lofty nest. It was 9:30am and the sun has just peeked out of the cloud-dressed horizon.
The morning was beautiful, and [...]

We had a generous dose of monkey manners yesterday.
It’s our fault. We forgot that we are in wildlife territory and they stake claim to any thing - or car - left on their turf.

We were recently engaged to do a write-up on shoreline conservation for a magazine and figured Kuala Gula would be a good [...]