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The Lon Rapids- Serene Jungle
Visiting
Waterfalls is an interesting pastime. In fact we look forward to
seeing those waterfalls that we have yet to visited, just like
completing a collection. So contended to be there. Then there
will come a day when you wish you could invent your very
waterfalls. Sungei Lon is just one of those days!
The
town of Sungkai is a small place with hardly enough shop house to
complete one street. This is the town where the massive Sungkai
River flows
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From the
map we picked this tributary at random and as luck was
with us, a solitary road leads to the water catchment's area.
Where there is a catchments, there will be crystal
clear water and waterfalls.
True enough, this is one long
cascade dropping about 10 meters.
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beautiful waterfall. Frequent flash flood helped to
shape the left bank very evenly and tidily for a large
resting area under the shade. We were more
overwhelmed by the beauty of the surrounding forest
rather than the waterfall.
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The trees
here [species not confirmed] have myriads aerial roots
dangling over the stretch of river banks above the
Waterfall area.
The flow of the stream before the
waterfalls was reduced to meandering speed within a
fairly wide gorge.
This was one day for the flora!
Mushrooms, Ginger flowers and large varieties of wild
flowers.
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resist the ambience and the lure of soaking in the
stream? Not a good experience though! The water of a
stream running in the shade was extremely cold. We were quite
contended with the spin off from these waterfall hunt- to
learn how to enjoy nature!
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