Hiking, Exploration, Sightseeing.

Hiking in the tropical jungle is one of the best experiences you could have if you are into sports and nature. The path you take in the jungle, not only leads you to all the wonders but is also home to many (animals), from unique looking inserts, to birds,reptiles, and mammals.  It is full of surprises at every corner.  Trees in the tropical jungles are significantly different from other regions, one very obvious difference is many plants in the jungle have massive size leaves, because in the jungle, plants are in very high density, they packed very closely together, creating a lot of shade, the understory layer of the jungle receive the least amount of sunlight, the lower layers plants tend to grow much larger leaves so they can be exposed to more sunlight, and larger leaves also help plants cope better with hot and wet. (Pictures of banana trees and elephant ears for display)  When the jungle is big enough, it can make its own weather system.

   Our favorite time for hiking in the jungle would absolutely be at the beginning of the raining season where rain amount is perfect not to affect your journey but like additives, where the temperature and moist is perfect for fungus, which some of them are magical, some of them are edible, and some of them are only for appreciations. After a quick rain, the jungle traps the clouds and later releases them when the rain storm passes, looks like morning fog mist, It’s like walking through a breathing jungle, you can feel and breathe in the oxygen which the trees just release,  so refreshing and so unforgettable  (pictures of the hiking of the clouds between the trees) 

   Once on a hiking trail, we have experienced a walk of an evolution from grasses to trees. Imagine you have one grass plant in front of you, now enlarge the leaves to 15cm wide and 2 meters long, both side of the edge are as sharp as blades, the middle part of the leaves are as hard as iron, that’s exactly what I would imagine how grass looked like during the dinosaur times, that massive and majestic. But they are there in the jungle, our current time.  Few steps away from, more plants from the same family but with a stem covered by spikes, and the massive grass leaves are off the ground now, then there “comes the tree”! (pictures in front of those plants for show) 

          Being in the Jungle not only allow us to experience what mother nature provides for us, but also you can see with fresh eyes how all the species co-exist or competition, massive tree branches covers by ferns or vines from different spices as they benefit each other such as (some ferns provide nutrients to the trees?)  to thrive together, or plants using other plants for camouflage, plants using bamboo skin and spikes to cover up themselves  for self defense. Multiple plants grow in one area and fight for spaces and in the end they choose to co-existence.