29th December, 2009

Today's weather;

The blue skies keep coming on and this morning is no exception, with a current temp at 7am of 27.3C. It looks like it's going to be warm today.

Yesterday saw blue skies all day long and it was warm with a max temp of 30.5C.

Camille

Bebaru Trail of Piai Cape (Tanjung) - Johor (Part 4)

The Bebaru Trail is 600 meter long. This trail located before the Admin office of the National Park (you can refer from the picture at Part 1).
The Public Toilet, Campsite and the Activity Area like : Obstacle Course, Fireflies Tower & Mud Trail are in this trail.

There are two campsite situated site-by-site. Both are having the same facilities. Honestly, I love the campsite area. Where all the greenery surrounding...
Each of the tent area are separate, you can view from the photos below.

The Only worry I have is the 'Monkey'! They might attack the foods you bring during the night time! Other than this...it's really good Campsite!

The entrance of the campsite

The trail into the campsite

I cannot understand about this room for female??! Why the female has to sleep inside the Cage?!

The camping area

Each tent will has it's own privacy

The area also provided the shower room, barbeque and dining area (with electricity). All of these are simple setup.

Please save water

After the campsite, you reach the Fireflies Tower. I'm not sure how nice the view is, because I haven't try it yet! :) The BEST Fireflies view so far I experienced was the Kota Tinggi Fireflies...

Behind the tower, the is another Mud Trail. This trail is different from the previous post, because you will be walking directly into the mud! Prepare your boots!

The start point of the Mud Trail

I spotted another Benchmark over there. Seems like a GPS Station.

Next it will bring you to the Obstacle Course where most of the nature lover like it! There are two entrance with two different course. I'm not sure what the different inside, cause I cannot enter it by wearing sandals...:)

First Obstacle entrance. You got to swing to enter it!

Inside the course

The exit of the First Course

Then follow by the second course...

The second course, which I was trying to pass through it...but fail!

Inside the second course

Overall, I love this area very much! Beside the attack of the Wild Monkeys! haha! I believe there must be a way to chase away the monkeys during the night fall...do you have any idea?


Related post :
* The Southern Most Tip of Mainland Asia - Tanjung Piai of Johor (Part 1)
* Fiddler Crab at Tanjung Piai (Cape) - Johor
* The Jetty of Tanjung Piai (Cape) - Johor (Part 2)
* Bluespotted Stingray at Tanjung Piai - Johor
* The Thrid Trail of Piai Cape (Tanjung) - Johor (Part 3)

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28th December, 2009

Today's weather;

A blue sky is shaping up, laced with a few clouds. Current temp at 7am is 25.5C.

Yesterday saw a lovely start of the day but later in the day some heavy cloud formations formed accompanied with some strong wind and it looked like rain but it remained dry after all. Max temp reached 29.3C

Camille

Blue Star Mountain Restaurant, Lamai

Blue Star Mountain Restaurant, Lamai

After my trip report to the Magic Garden in the Samui hills or rather mountains of last month with the road opposite Wat Kunaram in Lamai, we went again today but this time it was with my family and my good friend Eric from the Netherlands who visits Samui twice per year for the last 10 years.

Before we went to the Magic Garden we decided to have lunch in one of the many mountain restaurants, all of them claiming great view points. We ended up in Blue Star Mountain, run by a local Samui woman, Khun Ladda and her Swiss husband of 22 years, Jean.

Blue Star Mountain has a lovely location just before reaching the Magic Garden, there are sign posts to this restaurant and to all of the other restaurants as soon as you're within a few hundred meters.

Make sure to avoid lunch time or the time around 1pm since the restaurant is used by a lot of the 'around the island' tour jeeps. The food is a lot more expensive than on the lower parts of the island but that makes sense since everything has to be brought up the mountain.

The views are spectacular indeed, here Koh Taen and Koh Mudsum can be seen in the distance.

A view direction Nathon over the lush jungle and Durian trees which were just being harvested.

If you're on your trip around the island, don't forget to take the turn opposite Lamai's Wat Kunaram and have a great couple of hours in Samui mountains, visiting the Magic Garden and eat something at one of the many viewpoint restaurants.

Camille

The Third Trail of Piai Cape (Tanjung) - Johor (Part 3)

The third trail doesn't has a name...while we stepped in, there were many monkeys waiting for us! Haha! So I called this trail : "Trail to monkey territory".

Monkeys along the trail

Sometimes this monkeys can be dangerous...they will grab whatever food you bring along. It's safe that you don't carry any with you.
By the time when we getting close to the group of monkeys, they all ran into the jungle...I believe they knew that we don't have any food for them! :)

Halfway of the trail, we heard very noisy monkeys screaming in the jungle, the whole group of them were having a War in the jungle!! I saw many of them (from the both group) jump and run very fast into the jungle...to help!

We were trying (very hard) to snap some pictures of the Fight, too bad after we seek high & low also couldn't spot any of them, but the noise was really Loud!

Observation tower at Monkey Territory

There was another Observation Tower at the end of this trail too...but I cannot figured out what was the tower for?!

The start point of the Mud Trail

On the right of the tower, there was a 'Mud Trail'. Wondering where the trail lead to, we stepped on it and walk...haha! it's only about 100 meter on the swamp area.

The end of the Mud Trail

There's nothing much about this trail...so we just walked back.
I saw s few groups of Taiwan tourist came from the different direction of us...this is really a good spot for tourist. But I think they came to witness the 'Tip' more than the nature over here...

Tourist

Saw some of the monkeys crawl out of the jungle after their war. We think these are the group who won the Fight! Don't you think so? :)
We just try to snap some of the pictures of the Victory group...

They even walk on trail and not scare of strangers...

Many photos been taken from this particular monkey (looks like their leader) before it jumped over to Attacked us!! Haha!

The monkey which attacked us!

We continue our session to the 'Bebaru Trail'...


Related post :
* The Southern Most Tip of Mainland Asia - Tanjung Piai of Johor (Part 1)
* Fiddler Crab at Tanjung Piai (Cape) - Johor
* The Jetty of Tanjung Piai (Cape) - Johor (Part 2)
* Bluespotted Stingray at Tanjung Piai - Johor
* Bebaru Trail of Piai Cape (Tanjung) - Johor (Part 4)

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27th December, 2009

Today's weather;

Another nice blue sky is shaping up, with some clouds scattered around. Current temp at 7am is 27.7C. Could be a hot hot one today.

Yesterday saw a blue sky, no rain and 30C max temp. Lovely Christmas weather down here!

Camille

26th December, 2009

Today's weather;

Another sunny sky reigns over Samui on the 5th memorial day for the 2004 Indian ocean earthquake that resulted in the deadly Tsunami. Current temp at 7am is 26.2C.

A picture taken in Kao Lak two and a half months after the Tsunami which still gives a good indication of the post tsunami devastation. A few more pictures from the same series can be seen on last years memorial day on my blog.

Below is a video of the first wave crashing in on Kao Lak, the devastating power is almost unbelievable, the second video is from Koh Lanta and the third video is a video taken on Kh Phi Phi. The latter two are less viewed but show the moment of the waves crashing in and all associated panica dn mayhem.







Yesterday saw plenty of sunshine although it was hazier throughout the day than it looked like in the morning. Max temp reached 30.2C.

Camille