Nature and New Years

Happy tiger year.




I decided to go for a very peaceful celebration this year and went to a national park in Malaysia. The jungle surrounds the small village of Kuala Tahan and the rainforests in the park are one of the oldest in the world - 130 million years. Was really amazing, stunning nature, peaceful surroundings and very laid back people.

Interestingly enough, there was hardly any mosquitoes or leeches, which made the trip very enjoyable. I was warned by many, but apparently there is an interesting balance of nature, so the mosquitoes are just being eaten enough by birds, lizards etc. And the leeches where on the ground(not able to get to you) as somehow we did not have any rain, despite of the monsoon period :) On the contrary to other rainforests in the world, this was supposed to be quite uncommon.

From Taman Negara, Malaysia