Borneo Jungle

Well I've just had my first shower in 3 days!! I'm back from the Jungle!! What a fun experience. I must admit it depends hugely on the group of people who are on your trip too. Ours was quite a funny bunch - full of incredible characters!!! I spent a lot of time with a Czech couple Honza and Olga and an American couple Mike and Vyga.

You arrive there by speedboat up the Kinabatangan River. When we got to the river it was during a torrential downpour. We drove for 30 mins down river and got absolutely soaked. We checked in had our briefing and after a great dinner it was off on a night boat safari. Boy we saw some amazing animals, the star of the show was definitely the Slow Loris which is a rare sight. I don't know how these boys (rangers) do it, they spot things in the dead of the night with the aid of spot lights but a slow loris is about as long as an average woman's lower arm. One ranger spotted it and signaled to all the boats we came over got onto land and spent a good five minutes watching the poor creature as he scampered (slowly) up a tree for shelter away from our torches. We also spotted two Civit Cats having a drink on the river bank, lots of Maquac Monkeys asleep on the branches of a riverside tree.

Maquac Monkey - been through the wars, blood on nose.

The next morning it was up at 6am (have by this time forgotten what a lie in actually is) and it was off to see more animals in the Jungle Book. We had a lot of fun on these safaris and finally even saw Crocodiles! There were the Probiscus Monkeys, one Gibbon, monitor lizards, lots of birds and of course the theiving maquacs who were on the river banks and also at the camp! One of them may even have my baseball cap! Im sure there are animals I am forgetting to mention.

Little croc

We left the forest the same way we got there. Some new tricks in hand. Want to spot a croc? easy at night the light shines over their eyes and they are bright red, monkeys: look for moving tree branches they tend to fly through the canopies.

Probiscus Monkey

In hindsight, the lack of showers and the raw ankles resulting from the wellies worn on land were small prices to pay to be there and to see the animals in their own habitat.

BUG :)

And luckily I didn't see any snakes!!!

BLOODY LOGGERS ! :(