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Waterfalls
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Ulu Serting Recreation Park
The Main
Range that forms the backbone of Peninsula that almost divides
the state of Negri Sembilan into 2 halves. It is also at its
southern border that the Main Range ends. Just before that,
inside Negri Sembilan State, there are 2 mountain passes that
motorist can travel across the mountain.
One of them
is through Jeram Toi, Kuala Kelawang to end at Simpang Pertang.
At this town the eastern slopes of the Main Range ends.
About 3
kilometers south of the town, a nice paved road of 5 kilometers leads west back
into the hills and forest.
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Capitalizing on the availability of a large
varieties of trees, a special corner of the forest is set
aside as a recreation area.
This vicinity is better known
as an education park focusing on trees.
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For reasons unknown to us.
this signage of an education park is now being removed.
Coming back to the subject of the park
proper, the area chosen spread over
a couple hillocks and transgress by 2 brooks. With the
undergrowth cleared , the park can be properly seen to be
sheltered by towering trees.
The thick canopy above gave
the park a very shaded environment, in fact, some part
very dark.
The geology allows
the water to cut deep into the soft wet ground, cutting
deep narrow ravines dotted with falls.
A suspension
bridge joining the banks of the gorge on the right
accentuates the terrain's profile.
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At the
entrance area, the slopes end and the gorge open up to small flat
land. The area was wide enough for the construction of a square swimming pool and matched by its surrounding as a picnic ground.
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The damp environment and limited sunlight favors the survival and propagations of many species of
mushroom and fungi. We had a field day taking photographs of the
wonderful range of good specimens. An example would be
this cluster of fungus.
Khoo's attention was drawn by
this red colored specimen.
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education park?
There are many variations of buttress
roots from different species of trees.
This tree though not large
but have exceptionally large proportion of its roots as
buttresses.
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The main tributary no bigger than a brook
cascaded down from along hill slope, dropping only 8
meters.
Then, once inside the park, the cascading brook
generated some nice looking falls. The poor lighting
condition forbade beautiful pictures.; pure white falls
in dark ravine don’t go well.
Look at the disastrous
result! Khoo got his own image overcooked.
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This
ornamental waterfall was about 5 meters tall.
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