Afternoon tea

Afternoon tea do makes a difference ;)

Escalivada

Still stuck at the office and I am started thinking of escalivada ;) Hmmm ....

 

Coffee

Time for coffee! Anyone? :)

 

It is 9.50 am in Kuala Lumpur :)

 

I dreamed of Ramallah

I dreamed of Ramallah after been reading and watching what happened in Palestine. These are the last two books that I read by Mourid Barghouti (a Palestinian poet):
1. I Saw Ramallah
2. I was Born There, I was Born Here

Life is never easy, whatmore for my brothers and sisters in Palestine. I hope they will be strong and may God (whether thay are Muslims or Christians) bless them always.

Take care everyone.
~ Larra

 

Bat exodus

We visited several caves during our recent holidays in Mulu National Park (Borneo) . Each cave has its own unique features. One of the famous cave that we visited was Deer Cave. Deer Cave is the largest cave passage in the world (it is said that it can fit 5 cathedrals the size of Saint Paul in London). This cave is also known for bats watching. Between 5 to 7 pm the spectacular sight of a black cloud of free-tailed bats emerging from the entrance of Deer Cave. The swarm of bats do not fly helter skelter. Rather, they seem to follow an aerial path that make them look like some celestial serpent in the sky.

When it's time to come out, the bats can be seen at the mouth of Deer Cave.
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Part of the theater where people waiting to see the bats .
 
Deer Cave is also known for famous profile of Abraham Lincoln guarding the southern entrance of the cave.
The cave from far.
 
  In the cave
 
  It feels like being in a big stadium :). Take note of how small my group members look on right side of this photo :)
 

Back to the Cave!

H was on holiday in Malaysia recently and one of our holiday destinations this year was Sarwak (East Malaysia, located in Borneo Island). Mulu National Park is Sarawak's biggest national park and is known for it huge and impressive caves.Wind Cave and Clearwater Cave were two of the famous caves that we visited while at Mulu National Park. Each cave has its own unique features. Wind Cave was so named because of the cool breeze that can be felt at the narrow parts of the cave. It also has many impresive stalactites, stalagmites, flowrocks, helitites and rock cords. While the Clearwater Cave is Asia's longest cave, i.e. 107 km.

Beauty is in the eye of beholder

Beautiful 'passiflora foetida' or wild maracuja flower (in my language we called it 'bunga letup' or 'leletup') that I came accross during my morning walk today. This vine bear edible orange color fruit/berry that I used to eat when I was small :) 

Before the flower open:

 

Slightly open:

 

Fully open!! :)

 

And these tendrils of passiflora foetida have also caught my eyes: