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Langkawi-Nature.com
Explore
and discover the hidden beauty
Welcome to langkawi-nature.com
which is the website of Dev’s Adventure Tours,
located on the legendary isle of Langkawi in Malaysia.
Langkawi is a place for those seeking
tranquility and refuge from the hustle and bustle of
city life. Dev’s Adventure Tours gives you the
opportunity to explore Langkawi’s natural beauty
in an adventurous way.
On this website you will find a lot
of information about the nature site of Langkawi, where
Dev’s Adventure Tours is providing professional
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From Dev's
Desk
June 2009
We have been busy outdoors and on trips the last weeks; the local school holidays brought a lot of people from other parts of Malaysia and Singapore to our beautiful island. Especially the well priced new direct flights from Singapore to Langkawi are used often and we have seen an increase of Singaporean guests. The weather has been good for the tourists, which means hot and dry, but we could do with some rain once in a while to keep it all nice and green.
I have finally spotted the not so common Nervilia calcicola, an orchid species. This personally gives me a lot of pleasure because I could not recognize this plant as an orchid and now, after finding it, it has been embedded in my brain. This hexagonally shaped leafy plant is found about 2 or 3 meters above the water line and I came across it at high tide on one of our kayaking trips. After carefully pulling it out of loose soil, I could clearly see the awkward looking bulb and confirm that it is indeed the mentioned species. After carefully placing it back and taking note of the surrounding area, one could see that the plant was growing in a horizontal crevice. Now it will be a matter of time to await the flowering to make some more records and photos. This orchid is endemic to Langkawi and not found anywhere else. Therefore mentioning this plant in other states could help us update a taxonomical list. Please do forward any information to us if you have.
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April 2009
We are very happy to inform you that the Malaysian Nature
Society (MNS) has started a branch on Langkawi. The official
launch was on 21 April 2009. Having an own branch on the island
is definitely more effective than being part of the Kedah
branch on the mainland. This will give more punch and more
say to nature lovers and conservationists on the island and
hopefully a lot of environmental issues can be treated in
a different way and also from the nature and conservation
point of view. Our company is supporting the new branch wherever
we can.
At the moment a lot of dusky leaf langur babies are changing
their colour. The babies are born with a bright orange colour
and this will change after about six months.
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March 2009
The real
dry season is over and we have daily short and heavy rain
showers. As everywhere in the world the climate is changing
and we only had 2 full dry months this dry season
instead
of 3 or 4 months. We always get a lot of questions about the
weather conditions in relation to our trips. Please realise
that the rain is mostly short and heavy and after that the
conditions are perfect to do a trip. Having rain in the area
of your resort does not automatically mean that it will be
raining at the starting point of your trip. We always recommend
you to come to the starting point of the trip, unless we foresee
no improvement. If you are at the starting point and you will
still decide not to join the trip with us, we will send you
back without any charge for trip or transfer. Let not your
day be spoilt by some rain; conditions can change very quickly
and you might be missing a wonderful day out.
Our friend
and wildlife photographer Tom Reynolds has managed to get
a photo of the slow loris, one of the four monkey species
on Langkawi. Lorises are mainly solitary, active at night
and you might be able to spot one by shining a light through
trees and looking for reflective eyeshine. They walk slowly
and deliberately through trees and on wires but can move quickly
when catching a prey. Diet comprises insects, birds, small
mammals and lizards, as well as fruit, nectar and pollen.
An adult weigh 1-2 kg and is 30-38cm.
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February 2009
We
are in the middle of the dry season and it is really dry at
the moment. Is has also been very hot on Langkawi the last
weeks and we really welcomed the short rain showers we had
in the evenings the last few days. It was a real refreshment
for men and nature and the views during the trips are so much
clearer and brighter the following day. The hot weather is
turning the limestone vegetation dry and brown like trees
in autumn and falling leaves are everywhere. The mangrove
forests however are evergreen which provides a nice contrast
in the scenery and during one of the mangrove trips you will
hardly realise that we are in dry season.
One of
the drawbacks of the dry season are the bush fires and we
are definitely not happy with this at all. Local people are
torching bush to clear land which will finally have disastrous
consequences for the nature and environment in the future.
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December 2008
Dry season has started now and this means a lot of sunny
days and hardly any rain. For me the beauty of Langkawi is
at its best during these weeks. At the end of the rainy season
it is so beautiful and green and that is exactly what I personally
like about this island. We have been very busy preparing ourselves
for the coming season. We have trained some new staff, we
bought some extra kayaks and produced some new promotion material.
We would like to introduce you to Hafizan and Selva, two very
passionate guides and real nature lovers. Hafizan teamed up
with us last month after working free lance for many years.
He is experienced in all sorts of nature trips and you might
meet him on one of our trips. You might meet Selva during
a boat trip in the mangroves or during a walk and he will
be able to entertain you endlessly about all the nature treasures
of the mangroves.
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October 2008
We
are almost at the end of the rainy season and you can already
feel and see the changes as the migratory birds are coming
in. The last weeks we have spotted some birds that are rarely
spotted on Langkawi like the Common Hoopoe and the Red Collared
Dove.
The Purple Swamphen is breeding very well
on Langkawi and couples with their chicks can be spotted on
various places. We have added some beautiful new bird photos
in the photo gallery, so please have a look there.
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