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Thursday, June 30, 2011

day 1 part 2 in cherating, pahang

Then, we rushed back to the hotel and the van brought us to the Haziq cottage.
Well, we realised that the price for each person is suppose to be 15$but the hotel charged us extra 10$for service.
Albeit we knew that erlier  but my dad never intended to cancel the booking and came here directly to save 50$in total.
 I always don;t know why but he said we  should never break the promise,it is a deal
So,what can i say?







When we arrived the Hafiz cottage, only we realized that we need tickets to enter but the hotel forgot to give us .
So, we waited there and waited for the driver to take it.
Before we entered, we were given talk about the fireflies.
The travel guide for this activity was Hafiz.
According to him,2 and 3 years ago, when he started this business, he never thought of giving talk about the fireflies.
Normally, he just started the journey and brought them around and when the tourist request to take a pictures of the fireflies.
He would said yes or no depend on his mood.
However, a few years ago, he met a professor in fireflies and got to know more about the characteristic of fireflies and started to have more interest to indulge himself more in this aspect.
Now, when people asked him whether he can take photos or not.
He can answer,exactly not  because even you take a photo,you will not see the fireflies in the picture and even worst, you kill it as the fireflies communicate using the light and when you press the shoot button,the flash of the camera will eventually affect the natural ability of the fireflies and they will fail to communicate anymore,then they died.Besides, the longer lifespan of the butterflies is 4 weeks.
According to Hafiz, it takes 2 week to hatch from the egg and become larvae,2 months to turn into pupae and 2 week to turn into adults.
At around 8.00,all the fireflies come out and mate.Once they mate, the male died on spot whereas the female died after it laid its eggs(around 100++once). Well, the only type of fireflies exist is pteroptys beari.They give out the light nether body nor tail but through the bulb at the end of their bodies.
The light they give out have no heat at all.99 percent pure light.
Thus, they call it as gold light.
They live in the mangrove cruise with lots of berenwang trees at river edges.
That were roughly about the talk and we embarked the journey on the boat provided.
They have their very special way to attract the fireflies by imimtating their light.
When the fireflies see the light, they flied towards us as they thought their friends are calling them.
The way they give out the light is one long flash and one short flash. Evertime they breath in , the light ignite.
These was the only special way that made it more outstanding than the fireflies watching in Selangor as the fireflies there never fly to us but remain on the trees so we only got a chance to watch.

                    

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