A Jungle in Malaysia

Hello My Dear Great Ones,

Malaysian jungles apparently have incredible bio-divesity as compared to North American or European forests.  Being practically at the equator, surrounded by water and not having your forests destroyed like in other countries obviously helps a lot.  Celia and I had a little tour through a jungle on our trip to Malaysia over Christmas.  The trip we took was pretty rough in terms of how poor the trail was and we had to hire a guide.  Yet, we saw some very interesting trees and plant life. 

The entrance to our a little jungle adventure.

 Off we go into the depths of the jungle.

 Some interesting fungi feeding on a downed tree.

 Some of the trees, this I think is Ironwood, were super tall.

 This is a small sample of a Shorea Faguetiana tree.

 Giant curly roots hung from some of the trees.

 The chocking fern on this tree will literally choke it to death.

 The curly branches were amazing.

 More vines chocking a tree.

 The trees were massive.

 This tree was like a wall.

 Amazing curly roots.

 Curly roots going up into the sky.

 Bamboo growing out of a dead tree.

 Near the jungle was a plantation of palm oil trees.  Boo.

 Almost like the Redwoods.

Praise God for the amazing diversity of plants and trees in this world.  I pray and hope Malaysia does not waste the great gifts that they have.

God bless you all.

Love adios and ping on!

Till next week.

Dirk