This is an excellent add to Sipadan, Layang Layang or Lankayan, for the enthusiast who wants to explore the fascinating over and under water natural wonders of Malaysia. Central Peninsula Malaysia has been free of such excitements as seismic activity, ice ages or man's never-ending quest for wood and as a result contains some of the oldest tropical jungle in the world, some 130 million years old.
The trees, vines, shrubs bushes have evolved into something quite, quite different. It is home to the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia, which has been known to grow up to 97cm across and weigh up to 9kg; the resort's 450m canopy walkway, a hanging walkway through the top layer of the rainforest, is the world's longest; the resident Atlas moth, with its 25cm wingspan, is one of the biggest moths in the world; there's a 55cm stick insect in the park, and yes, you guessed it, it's the biggest one in the world; the gaur, the largest species of wild cattle in the world, hangs around here too; and you can also find the tualang, the world's tallest tropical tree species, clocking in at a height of 80m.
And on top of these record-breakers, there are the 20cm-long cicadas, the katydids, the grasshoppers and the crickets who are responsible for the cacophony of background screeching, surely one of the loudest noises in the world after Indonesian bus music; one of the crickets even builds itself a concave amphitheatre to amplify the sound of its legs rubbing.
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