RHH's photos with the keyword: malaysia

Taken on a 2011 trip to Singapore and Malaysia. We stayed in Kuala Rompin, Pahang, for a conference and each morning I walked the beach to see the sunrise.

This was taken in Rompin, Pahang on a 2011 trip to Singapore and Malaysia. The risherman was working his nets close to shore as the sun rose over the South China Sea.

This was one of the many tropical fruits we sampled in Malaysia when there for a conference in 2011. This is Snakefruit or Salak, the reason for its name very obvious, a fruit unavailable in the states but one which we would willing purchase if it was.

In 2011 we were in Singapore and Malayasia for a conference. We tried many different tropical fruits, Jambu, Rambutan, Lychee, Snakefruit and like them all except this one, Durian. Its smell has been described as "turpentine and onions, garnished with a gym sock" and it is banned on the rapid transit system in Singapore because of its smell. The edible part has the texture of custard and is very acidic. The flavor is not bad but the combination of smell and texture was more than I could handle. My wife ate more than I did but even she did not like it. We tried it at a Durian "feast" the last night of the conference when crates of Durian were brought in and opened.

Phalaenopsis have become a popular houseplants. At least here in the United States they are available at grocery stores and box stores. Those available, however, are complex hybrids that have been bred over many generation and usually have long arching flower stems with many flowers. This Phalaenopsis is very different. It's a species that has only one or two flowers per stem at a time, though it produces flowers for many months, and the stems are very short, carrying the flowers just above the broad leaves. This species is from Sumatra and Malaysia and is an "alba" form, that is, it has none of the purple markings of the ordinary form.

This Phalaenopsis species, one of the few I grow, is from Malaysia and Sumatra and is intensely fragrant. It only produces one flower at a time on a flower spike, but blooms over a long period of time, the flower spikes producing flowers for years.

This is an Asian species and comes from China, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java and Sumatra.

This is an Asian species and comes from China, India, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java and Sumatra.

Native to Thailand, Burma, Malaysia and Borneo.

In Explore August 11, 2009, #33. Photographed in the Tropical Plant and Butterfly House at the Devonian Botanic Garden in Devon, Alberta, Canada. Thanks to tink tracy for the id.

Photographed in the Tropical Plant and Butterfly House at the Devonian Botanic Gardens in Devon, Alberta, Canada.

Taken in the town of Mersing on our way home from the conference - lots of fishing boats going up and down the river.

Taken in Pahang, Malaysia, near Rompin.

Taken from the balcony of our hotel in Pahang. Thanks to Ringo Gomez for the ID.

One more sunrise picture from Pahang looking out over the South China Sea.

There was family of monkeys outside our window one morning, not something we experience in the States. I don't know what kind of monkeys they are and the picture is not the best, but thought I'd post it anyway. The monkeys did get into one of the rooms where the windows had not been closed and wreaked havoc with the owner's possessions.

Decided to post some of my pictures taken early last summer in Malaysia and Singapore. We were there briefly and did not have a lot of time for pictures on account of the busyness. This picture was taken at a pond on the grounds of the conference center near Rompin in Pahang.

One more picture of the lotus I previously posted, this time a close-up (with a telephoto lens). Taken on the grounds of the Conference Center we stayed in while in Pahang, Malaysia.