April 29, 30, 2015, Kuching, Malaysia, Thursday, Friday

April 29, Thursday was a sea day, crossing the South China Sea

April 30, Friday

Our Borneo greeting

Today we went on a hike in the jungle at Bako National Park, (Borneo), Malasia.  We are on the largest island of Malasia, called Sarawak. We chose the Bako Park excursion where we may see the proboscus monkey.  Our guide said that in the jungle you must respect the jungle.  It is a big supermarket.  we got word early that we would have a wet landing because of the tides, so wear water shoes. 

Our dock in Kuching

Waterfront homes at the boat landing.  Note how the boats are not in the water, ie low tide

We rode on a boat like this 15 minutes to the park

Poles to set fishing nets.  these poles are made from a certain tall, straight tree we saw in the park

 Our skiff pulled up to the shore and we waded in knee high water to shore on a nice sandy beach.

Little crabs made these cool patterns in the sand

It was quite a walk on the sand to the park entrance where we could wash and dry our feet and put on hiking shoes.  We soon took off on a hot and humid hike in the jungle of Borneo.

Rocky shoreline

fuzzy photo of a pit viper way up in a tree

Spiky palms.  the lower leafy plant has a chemical that stops bleeding for birthing Mothers

Jungle jackfruit tree, which has many uses

The jungle trail

"Naughty monkeys around, watch out"

All the animals we might have seen in the park.

Black caterpillars with long fuzzy fur eating bark on a tree

Monitor lizard, cousin of the Komoso Dragon

Naughty monkeys.  They showed off for us and then one grabbed someone's bag.

Baby monkey

High tide with boats floating as we rode back to the landing site.

There were a few flowers.

We hiked in the jungle for about 4 hours!  We went up a very steep trail with lots of roots to an overlook of the shoreline with a mangrove forest.  Proboscus monkeys like to live there.  But in the heat of the day, they like shade better.  We think we heard one. We also heard some birds, but only saw the animals in my photos. We loved the hike in the jungle.  The groups who went to the Orangutang Sanctuary were disappointed, and I don't think they had a cool hike like we did.  

Sunset as we left port.

The Bako Park has nice cabins you can rent and many miles of trails, mostly over boardwalks.  It would be fun to stay a few days and really explore the area.