Starting off in Singapore for expedition to Malaysia: Daiqin Li, Wayne Maddison, Ingi Agnarsson, Junxia Zhang, and Jeremy (who accompanied us part way)
Picking up quick breakfast at hawker's stalls in Singapore. Note "turtle soup". These are food courts with cheap but good Chinese, Malaysian, Thai, Indian, and other foods.
On the expressway in Malaysia, one sees that almost all of the beautiful forests have been replaced by...
...oil palm plantations
Tropical fruits galore. Jackfruit, mandarines, pineapples, mangos, rambutans, lychees, and so on.
Rambutans are the fuzzy red ones below.
Signs in Malaysia were typically in Malay, English and Chinese.
Passing through Kuala Lumpur, whose "twin towers" are the tallest buildings in the world.
We arrived at the Ulu Gombak field station in reasonably nice lowland forest, remarkably close to Kuala Lumpur
Sun coming up in the tropical forest
In the morning sunny, but...
...raining in the afternoon