{"id":1696,"date":"2013-03-18T00:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T16:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2013-04-25T00:30:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T16:30:50","slug":"taiping-sabak-bernam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"Taiping & Sabak Bernam"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may have noticed, Taiping is my favourite town in Malaysia, so you will not be surprised that I am a member of the Taiping Heritage Society. They are not (yet) very active, so when they announced their AGM with a talk and a dinner, I wanted to attend. But the same weekend Aric’s mother was celebrating her birthday! The solution was to make a combination trip.<\/p>\n

In Taiping we stayed in the Furama hotel, as usual. Close to the Lake Gardens, beautiful and fascinating any time of the day. The famous Raintrees were flowering with pink flowers.<\/p>\n

\"Rain<\/a>\"Rain<\/a><\/p>\n

When you go to Wikipedia for the Taiping Lake Gardens<\/a> you will read there about the “golden rain trees (Malay angsana<\/i>) (P<\/em>terocarpus indicus<\/i><\/a>)” Golden? They must be wrong. And they are. Yes,\u00a0 the angsana is also called raintree and has yellow flowers. And there are beautiful angsana in Taiping.\u00a0 But the trees along the Lake Gardens are NOT angsana but Albizia saman<\/em><\/a>! Same family, but different species. Pink flowers. Click here<\/a> for a detailed explanation.<\/p>\n

The THS meeting was hold in the Flemington hotel. The talk, about Bukit Larut, was given by two speakers, Dr Chan Ah Lak and Ooi Beng Yean, both dedicated birders and nature lovers. They are contributing pictures to my Birding in Malaysia website, so it was a good opportunity to have our picture taken together.<\/p>\n

\"Meeting<\/a> \"With<\/a><\/p>\n

The next day, on our way back to Sabak Bernam, I showed Aric a waterfall near Beruas, which I had visited with CNY. It is a nice curtain fall, easily accessible.<\/p>\n