User blog:007Jamesdean/Volcanic Trip Part 29

Part 29: INDONESIA

Borneo.

We all had arrived in the jungles of Borneo.

Me: Welcome to the Island of Borneo everyone.

Lana: Whoa! It's like my jungle room back home.

Laney: Borneo's rainforests are amazing. They're really beautiful.

Shanan: They sure are. Borneo is known for having some of the most beautiful rainforests in the world. And it also has some of the most amazing plants and animals.

We walked around the jungles and they were really dense and breathtaking.

We then smelled a really foul odor.

Me: Ugh! What is that smell!?

Lori: Lana! Did you literally fart?

Lana: No it's not me this time.

Me: Wait a second. I know that smell.

I show them where it's coming from and it was coming from a huge red flower.

Me: The Rafflesia Flower. I thought so.

Laney: That flower is huge!

Me: It's the largest flower in the world. It's bud is as big as a basketball and the open flower is as big as a car tire.

Lana: That's a huge flower. I can't believe it's that big.

Me: Yeah. It's also the stinkiest flower in the world. It looks and gives off the smell of rotten meat.

Everyone: EEEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Lori: That is literally disgusting.

Leni: Totes. It smells horrible.

Me: It's supposed to smell that way. See all these flies?

We saw all kinds of flies inside the flower.

Lisa: Fascinating. There's lots of Diptera specimens in here.

Me: That's how the flower pollinates. It attracts flies into it in which the flower gets its pollen all over them and they pollinate it.

Lola: That's amazing. I had no idea flowers can smell like that and lots of flies can go in. Excuse me.

Lola ran to a nearby bush and hurled her guts out.

We continued on and saw all kinds of animals too. We saw orangutans, snakes, frogs, and more.

Lana: There are so many plants and animals here. I can't believe that Borneo has so much to show us.

Laney: It sure does.

Cody: It's all amazing.

A roar was heard and out came a Sumatran Tiger.

Me: A Sumatran Tiger. One of the Rarest and biggest cats in the world.

Laney: She's amazing.

Lana: She sure is. Also they're critically endangered and hunted for their fur and more.

Lisa: What a beautiful creature. Panthera Tigris Sondaica is one of the most powerful cats in the world.

Tiger: You all are gonna make a fine meal for me. I love a good batch of humans for my lunch.

Me: I'm afraid we are not that appetizing to tell you the truth. We would give you a nasty case of indigestion.

Laney pulled out a huge steak.

Laney: Here. Eat this.

Laney threw the steak and we ran as the tiger ate it.

Tiger: Eh. Steak is much more delicious than humans.

Me: That was a close one. Good thinking Laney.

Laney: Thanks. Always be prepared for anything. I learned all that from the Dark Luan Nightmares.

Luan: You sure have come prepared Laney.

Eddy: You sure have.

We came across the entrance into Borneo Cave.

Me: It's Borneo Cave. The largest known cave in the world.

Nicole: This is gonna be cool for us guys. It took thousands of years to form a cave like this because of erosion.

Me: I believe it.

Lucy: If it's dark. I'm in.

Zoe: Me too.

We go in and we saw the largest cave chamber in the world: Sarawak Chamber.

Me: Whoa!

Lola: This cave is amazing!

Laney: It sure is. (Echoing) HELLO!

Varie: Wow!

Nicole: This is Sarawak Chamber. The Largest Cave Chamber in the world. It's big enough tohold 16 football fields.

Lori: That is literally the biggest cave ever.

Leni: Totes.

Luna: This is amazing dudes.

Sam: It sure is.

Chione: I've never seen a cave room this big. It's unbelievable.

Ben: It sure is.

We put on miners helmets with lights on them and head deeper into the cave.

Lynn: This is all amazing.

Terra: It sure is. Before I knew the comforts of a house and all that I was living in a cave.

Robin: I remember that.

Cyborg: Me too.

Starfire: Which I found completely unacceptable.

Beast Boy: That's how we met Terra.

Me: That's cool guys.

Nicole picked up a rock and it was a limestone rock.

Nicole: This is the coolest part about Limestone. I have a bottle of vinegar with a dropper. Watch.

Nicole dropped some vinegar on the limestone and it fizzed when it came into contact with it.

Sakura: Look at that. It's fizzing.

Lisa: Correct Sakura. When Vinegar comes into contact with the Calcium Carbonate in Limestone it fizzes and releases Carbon Dioxide gas.

Me: I saw that and it was amazing.

Vince: I had no idea that Limestone fizzes when vinegar is on it.

Luan: It sure is a fizzy development. (Laughs to Rimshot) Get it?

We all laugh.

Me: (Laughs) Fizzy Development. That was funny.

Varie: (Laughs) That's funny.

Lynn Sr.: That was a good one.

Rita: It sure was.

Cody: That was funny.

We later exited the cave and we saw a grove with red orchid flowers.

Me: These orchids are beautiful.

Lisa: (Gasp) Sweet mother of all science! That's the legendary Perrinnia Immortalis!

Me: The Blood Orchid!? Like from the movie "Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid"?

Vince: I saw that movie and those flowers were beautiful. But those snakes were monsters. No offense Lana.

Lana: None taken Vince but yeah I saw that movie too and those snakes were monsters. Even El Diablo agreed with me.

Me: But I thought that these flowers were fictitious.

Varie: Me too.

Aylene: Same here.

Zoe: But apparently they are real.

Hercules: I remember in that movie that the Blood Orchid is said to have a special chemical in it that scientists want to get in order to extend human life.

Me: That's amazing.

Shanan: It sure is dad. I had no idea such flowers even existed. It's like we're looking at a flower from another world.

Lola: Those flowers are beautiful.

Lucy: They sure are. The color of blood is perfect for them.

Shannon: These flowers are incredible.

We beamed the whole grove to Lana's greenhouse back in Royal York and it was right at home there and we continued to explore the jungles. We saw lots of amazing stuff as well and we later went to our next destination.

Continues in Part 30.