A surveying trip on X'mas day

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Dec 25, 2007. After coming out of the Cathedral for the midnight mass (at 1.30am, Dec 25), it started to rain & only stopped in the early morning. So, I cancelled my hiking trip as the forest floor was too wet for hiking.

Then, I decided to survey the country roads which I never traveled before near Sarawak-Kalimantan border. I found a few interesting hills & mountains in that area & most probably I'll come back to climb those limestone hills.

I didn't take a lot of pix in this trip....



The gravel road near Sarawak-Kalimantan border:







Some hills that I never climbed before. I think some of them are limestone hills.





Limestone hill near the border.





Limestone cliff & the forest:






Nepenthes gracilis:




flowers of a ground herb:

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A palm in the paddy field:





Hill paddy field:







Cricket:







Crane fly:





A species of fly:

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Cricket:




Rice bug (Leptocorisa sp.):






And some pictures taken inside the Cathedral (using my old digicam) one week before Christmas; Christmas carolling:







One of our priests:





HAPPY BOXING DAY & NEW YEAR TO everyone!!!