Trus Madi

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Malaysia's second-highest peak at 2,642m, just 70km from Kota Kinabalu but a world apart in visitor numbers — there's no cable car or paved summit trail here, just a steep, often muddy climb through five distinct vegetation zones. That relative obscurity is the draw: montane specialists like Whitehead's trogon and Whitehead's broadbill that are hit-or-miss on the crowded trails of Kinabalu Park are seen here with better odds, and the mountain's pitcher plants and invertebrates include species found on Trus Madi and almost nowhere else.