The British cleared the jungle around here and built homes, walkways and a convalescence home from Malaria for plantation owners both here and from Singapore. Recently opened are the aerial walkways and the Skywalk (a different one). The top of the hill can be reached by a funicular railway, which is how we got there. (Once again using the plastic reusable card). One can walk down using a 5Km, 1 in 3 hill in a couple of hours - once again we declined and used the railway to get down. The funicular was only reopened the other day for repairs following floods and mudslides after a typhoon last November. Plenty of work is still being done to repair walkways and shore back banks using hessian and planting.
The red flower growing on the ground surface is part of the ginger plant and the spider on the info panel was real. The hole is a tarantula nest (there were quite a few of them). The grey bit in the middle is a bit of leg !!!!
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