Ali don't open, poisonous

[Robert]

(this was an old thread posted in other forum which i didn't post here,some of you might have read it. Extra pics not posted before were were added. Enjoy nevertheless).

Gunung Murud was the highest mt in Sarawak and 4th in Malaysia, temperature at night often drop to 12ºC-15ºC, humidity range from approx. 60% (day) to 90% (night). Late evening to early morning it was often windy and foggy. At 2423m asl this tropical mt offer an intriguing plant diversity to naturalist and photographers. The earliest ascent was a Swedish, Eric Mjöherg, in 1922.



Our journey started overland from Lawas town (having flown from kuching, stayed a night in Miri town as there isn’t a direct flight to Lawas ). As our trip spread over 5 days we stock up our rations in Lawas. The journey would take 5 hours ( actual duration should be 3.5 hrs as we often stop to investigate pitcher plants and photography )

Logging trunk a regular sight.


Stenophylla, reinwardtiana and fusca can be spotted on some road banks.











Along the stretch of road we found the first vogelii.


It was already late and we have to put up for a night at Lepo Bunga, at 1300m was the highest point 4x4 can reached. It isn’t a village or settlement but a simple wooden shade, a name given by the local Kelabit tribe who built it for their convenience but occasionally used by travellers and hunters.

The Lepo Bunga wooden shade


Just before sunset a walk around Lepo Bunga offered a fantastic sunset. Over the horizon was Brunei’s Temburong National Park.


Admiring the landscape below