Thursday, December 20, 2018

Bird's Eye

I woke up at a place called Fraser’s Hill - a classic, colonial-era, high-altitude bird-spotting destination, somewhere on the Selangor-Pahang border in Malaysia.

Within a split second, we had devoured our English-style breakfast, before we joined an incredibly eagle-eyed naturalist, Mr. Durai, named one of Malaysia's top birding guides by Lonely Planet.

To say that our guide Durai was a bird expert would be the most banal of understatements. He practically spotted the crimson colour of an oriole's belly with naked eyes, which we couldn't even tell with the Swarovski binoculars.

We looked up and stared, awestruck.

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