Our third stop brought us close to nature, as we stayed in a cabin located in a forest reserve, (we even had a barbeque at the cabin, but as i was too busy helping out, i didn't manage to take pictures... sigh..) and we went to a neighbouring forest reserve for the all famous tree top walk...

unfortunately for us, it was raining, before that, and as we all konw, when it rains, it's cold... thus we were all bundled in wind proof jackets and we headed up onto the platform, to walk above the ground...

Here we have all the ladies, there is aunt Cindy, me, aunt alice, yen ping, dai yi, and yen ling...

this was what we walked on... it was really stable and shook only so slightly with the strongest winds.. here we have yen ping and i.. well we all know that my hands always freeze easily, hence my gloves :p i love my Zara coat :p (my sister bought it for me when i was in Prague, she has a matching coat!! :p )

once we got off the walk, there is a little trail on the ground which we could walk.. to look at some of the magnificent trees from the ground..

lots and lots of greenery.. it was really nice, especially if you like nature :)

this is one of the tarractions, a sort of like hollow part at the root of the tree.. believe it or not, the tree is still alive and growing... but in it's trunk it has a hold like that, believed to be have been caused by forest fire...

more greenery,before we headed to another forest reserve...

the next reserve we went to, was home to a tree called the gloucester tree, where there is a tree about 7 storeys high i think.. and which was used as a look out during olden times for forest fires.. unfortunately i fear heights.. and the steps.. more like ladder? it wasn't really a ladder, basically it was jsut thin little steel bars of about 1.5 cm in daimetere, embedded in the tree to form your steps all the way up...

the sign.. click to enlarge and read more..

there was a picture of me climbing those steel rods, to as far as i dared go, but it is with uncle robert, and again, i don't have the pictures from him..

so all we have is me, feeing the ever so colourful parakeets available there.. they were really tame, and gosh it was so ticklish when they landed on my head... and they were so damn cute, but their claws sure are sharp...

-Oracl3-