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Pertandingan Rakan Muda Teberau Johor Bharu pada 19 Julai (Ahad) 2011

The Ultimate Love

Residence in Melawati under the shadows of the morning sunrise of Banjaran Titiwangsa reunites two love birds met while doing their medical ambitions. 
Dr. Ahmad Zaimi Abdul Latiff and Dr. Siti Fatimah Gabour began their Ultimate Love journey at the top tail of Banjaran Titiwangsa in Penang to the foothills in Ampang, Selangor.

Banjaran Titiwangsa or Titiwangsa Mountains

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Landscape at the Ulu Bernam's PLUS Rest Area.

The Titiwangsa Mountains from the Highway near Slim River.

The Titiwangsa Mountains (Malay; Banjaran Titiwangsa) are the main mountain range that forms the backbone of the Malay Peninsula. Bordering the eastern and northern boundries of the state of Selangor with Perak and Pahang.

Geology

The Titiwangsa Mountains is part of suture zones that runs north-south, starting in Thailand (Nan-Uttaradit/Dien-Bien-Phu suture zone) and extending south towards peninsular Malaysia (Bentong-Raub suture zone). The western half of Titiwangsa Mountains in peninsular Malaysia is an amalgamation of continental terranes that is known asCimmeria or Indochina, whereas the eastern half is an amalgamation of continental terranes Sinoburmalaya or Sibumasu. These two halves of terranes were separated by Paleo-Tethys Ocean.^[1][2]

The Cimmeria was separated from Gondwana around 400mya during Devonian and rifted towards Laurasia, the northeastern arm of Pangea. It attached to Laurasia completely around 280mya during Late Permian

Sibumasu terranes on the other hand, only started to separate from Gondwana during Early Permian and rifted towards Indochina. The collision of Sibumasu terranes and Indochina terranes during 200mya Late Triassic resulted in the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean and formation of the modern Titiwangsa Mountain belts.

[edit]Geography

This mountain range is a part of the Tenasserim Hills system. It forms the southernmost section of the central cordillera which runs from Tibet through the Kra Isthmus into the Malay peninsula.^[3]

The Titiwangsa range starts in the north as a continuation of the Phuket mountain range in Southern Thailand, running approximately southeast and ends in the south near Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The highest elevation is the 2,183 m (7,162 ft) Gunung Korbu.

The range acts as a natural divider, dividing Peninsular Malaysia into East and West Coast regions. It is called the "Banjaran Titiwangsa" or "Banjaran Besar" (Main Range) by locals. The length of mountain range is about 480 km from north to south.

[edit]Infrastructure

Several popular tourist destinations such as Royal Belum, Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands and Fraser's Hill are located on the range.

A number of roads cut through the Titiwangsa Forest Complex.

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