This was the story on our 4th day of the trip. On the way to the location of our interest, we were hoping we may view the largest flower in the world. Anyone has any idea on what is the name of the flower is? It's Rafflesia!! Yup, we managed to look for it as 1 of the local landlord have several Rafflesia buds & 1 of them was currently blooming at their orchard. We need to pay for the charges to view the blooming Rafflesia, it's about RM10/pax.
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| The Location of Blooming Rafflesia @ Erry Rafflesia |
After walking deep into their orchard through the hilly land, passing through a small water stream with our t-shirt damp due to sweat FINALLY, we managed to see the blooming Rafflesia. HOORAY!! Indeed it takes a lot of effort to see a Rafflesia but the reward was worth it....
The Rafflesia that we managed to see was around 90cm in diameter. It had a very unique smell - like rotting flesh. Hence, this odour attracts a lot of insects especially flies & in the end all of them were found dead at the center of the flower.
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| The Blooming Rafflesia - The Largest Flower in The World |
Before we went back to our guest house, we had stopped by at the Poring Hot Spring. As our feet were really exhausted, we took some of our sweet time to relax at this well-known hot spring before continuing with the next adventure. Some related tourist informations can be retrieved via this LINK.
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| Poring Hot Spring - The Entrance |
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| Poring Hot Spring - The Path to The Hot Spring |
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| Poring Hot Spring - The Welcome Entrance of Hot Spring Area |
The water of the hot spring was really warm. There were a lot of shelters & some pools for the tourist to have bath or just sitting having their feet soak in the lukewarm water. Both of our feet went red after spending several minutes in the water & all the fatigues due to looking for Rafflesia had swept away & we were ready for the next mission - PORING CANOPY WALKWAY.
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| Poring Canopy Walkway - The Tourist Information Board |
Poring Canopy Walkway is 157.8 meters long and is 41 meters high. There is a fee for the entrance ticket & if you bring camera or need to take video different additional charges will be applied as in the above figure. Please wear comfortable hiking shoes and carry some water & it's better to bring your umbrella just in case it rains.
The canopy walkway is narrow and only can support approximately 6-peoples load at a time. It is a suspension bridge constructed with ropes, steel cables and a series of aluminium ladders bolted together. Laced with polyester ropes, the open rungs of ladders are covered with walking plank & netting added at both sides for extra safety & security.
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| Poring Canopy Walkway - That's ME!! |
There was 2 security guards to watch out the condition at this area & they will do some inspection before we started our adventure. At the same time there were several branches of trees felt down before the adventure began. It made me chilled & worried at the some time as we would need to go through 3 tree-top platforms to complete it. Yeah, I was smiling but deep down my heart was beating faster than normal especially when looking down the walkway. In overall, it was the best adventure at all!!
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| Poring Canopy Walkway - The Huge Canopy |
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| Poring Canopy Walkway - Another Tree Canopy |
Photographed by: Irwan
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