Stargazers blessed to catch meteor shower

Starry, starry night: The sky in the Rungus village in Matunggong filled with falling stars yesterday morning. The bright moonlight also turned the night sky into day.

KUDAT: The Rungus in Matung­gong, near Kudat, are perhaps the only people in the country to have had an unhindered view of the Perseid meteor shower.

As the rest of the country, including a large part of Sabah, was blanketed by thick cloud cover and rain on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, the small town, located halfway between Kota Belud and Kudat town, enjoyed the best view of the celestial display.