"Tanjung Piai (Piai Cape) is also known as “The Southernmost Tip of Mainland Asia”. Tanjung Piai is named after this fern locally known as ‘Paku Piai’. It is a type of fern that can live in saline conditions. Tanjung Piai is also home to many species of mangrove plants and species of animals. Tanjung Piai State Park (Ref: 1289) wetland designated on 31/01/03; 526 ha; 01°16′N 103°31′E is a State Park consisting of coastal mangroves and intertidal mudflats."
"According to Wetlands International, Johor holds 28.7% of mangrove forest in Peninsular Malaysia (27,733 ha) or 4.7% of total mangrove forest cover in Malaysia. Tanjung Piai covers 526 hectares of Mangroves and another 400 hectares of inter tidal mudflats. Mudflats are soft and muddy soil. It has high salt content and low oxygen levels (anaerobic). However, they are subject to hot and dry conditions." Info source :
Johor National ParkI would like to break to 4 parts on our visit to
Tanjung Piai (N1°16.095' E103°30.522'). Every part is different trail from the picture below. This post is the first part...
The four trail into four partOn one of the Sunday morning, me and a
fellow blogger Ben were having a photography trip to the
Southern Most Tip of Mainland Asia - Tanjung Piai. The journey took about almost 2 hours drive form Johor Bahru to the National Park. We reached there around 12:30pm...
The first wooden bridge after the parking
The entrance fee is
MYR5.00 for Malaysian and
MYR10.00 for foreign visitor. Car parking fee is
MYR3.00 per car.
The Location map of the National ParkAfter the shooting the surrounding, we proceed to the entrance of the park.
Not many visitor around when we were there. So it was quite free to move around...before we start on the trail, you can read the information and what are the activities in park around the main office.
If you are smoker, Please take note! We decided to take the left trail first, that was the trail lead you to the
TIP. The trail is
653 meter from this point...Wah! To reach the
TIP and walk back will be more than a Kilometer! That was a good exercise for us!
There is a
Fishing Jetty nearby the
TIP, but we skipped! Because we had to finish total of
4 trail around the national park.
Along the way, I felt peaceful and calm...I Love the
greenery surround us!
My eyes were busy looking around and my hands was busy pressing the shuttle of my camera! haha!
Mangrove area also capture rubbish naturally, as you can read from my
Kukup Island post. Beside the green of the plant both side, you will see many
Rubbish being capture by the
Mangrove too!
Along the trail, you can have a rest by this small area. There are many of them...
Once you reach the junction, on your left is going to the fishing jetty and on your right is the last path to the
Southern Most Tip of The Mainland Asia!
The trail is towards the sea
The platform area at the TIP
Ben was busy snapping around
Do you see anything?There is a platform where you can enjoy the scenic view at the tip. It's windy all the time, there are some words that told you have reach the TIP.
The sea traffic is very busy everyday over here, do you notice it at the background?
The pillar below maybe standby for the expansion of the platform...
We were impressed by the Telephoto Lens they use...
After passing them, we met another group of peoples fishing along the pathway. What they caught for that day were mostly catfish....with one Blue Spotted Ribbontail Stingray (more than 1KG weight). I will blog about it after this post.
I love the walk to the Jetty, it's relax and especially cool sea breeze...we really enjoyed it!
I did lift the Stingray. felt quite heavy...the weight at least few Kilogram! Wow! Cool!
They already chopped the tail when we were there, too bad I didn't see the 'Ribbontail'! The tail is the dangerous part of Stingray, the World Famous Mr Crocodile was killed by the tail!
Bluespotted Stingray
There were not many visitors on the day when visited this sanctuary. It's quite free to move around...
Follow by the souvenir shop...in front of the souvenir shop, there were many reptile...I believe they are belong to the Lizard family...
The entrance to the Butterfly area...
Exiting the cave, there was a garden with nice landscape...wooden bridge and others...
Exit of the cave...
I can't figure out what so special about this tortoise, because they situated between this garden...maybe you can tell about it?
Visitors enjoying the green environment...
"This Crystal Rock was only discovered on 14th May 2006 at this part of the aviary - approximately 16 years after the park's officially open. Though at it's very beginning of the Crystal life, many believe that the discovery of crystal formation will bring good luck, which we sincerely hope it will spill over to all visitors that come to see it." - from the signage beside the rock.
There are few American Alligators at the right of the Crystal Rock.
American Alligators
We had a rest over here, and I noticed there are many trees have this kind of fruits (below) surround it...
