I stayed at Bako National Park for the past 5 nights. The park is one hour outside Kuching city by bus then a 20 min boat ride up the river. The park has amazing wildlife and great trials for hiking.
While I was there I saw three different kinds of monkey, many wild bores, two snakes, birds, bees, ants (some were hudge ants the size of my pinkie, red ones, mini fat black ones, so many differnt kinds of ants), spiders, and many other little creepy crawlers. I hiked about 5-7 hours a day!
I had planed to only spend two nights in the dorms because they were booked with a school for the following three nights. On the day I planed to leave I met a very nice man named Lao. Lao worked on the island and lived there with this wife and two year old daughter. I had dinner that night with his family. They lent me their tent for the next three nights. I was able to hike to the more remote beaches and camp over night.
I brought a bag of cooked rice and my steripen and headed into the jungle! Lao had taught me where to find mussels and crabs and how to cook them over the fire.
It was so nice to be out in nature all by myself, no cars, no people, only monkeys! Every day on his way to work Lao would stop at the beach (he traveled by boat) and check "i want to see if you alive!" He told me that I reminded him and his wife of their oldest daughter, "too crazy, always want to go everywhere and see things." She is going to university in Singapore so I didn't get to meet her.
My favorite time was waking up around 5 or 6 and going for a swim!
Home sweet home! This rain cover actually sucked! The second night of camping was horrible! There was a big rain storm. The cover worked for about 10 min then the rain started to come in!
This is the probicis monkey. He only can be found in Borneo! Out of all the monkys I encountered on the island he was the nicest!
The grey and brown monkeys were evil! They would get into my bag and come up and start screaming at me!
This was the best sunset iv ever seen.
I was very lucky to have met Lao. Him and his family made my trip to Bako very special!
I arrived to Kuching this afternoon. When I arrived to my guesthouse and opened my backpack I was discussed by the smell; days of sweaty jungle grime filled the dorm room. I am lucky that I am the only one here! And the worst part is I can't use the washer until tomorrow becuse it's currently raining and I'd need to dry the clothes outside. So I am I will be inhaling toxic jungle sweat all night long.
I am staying at a guesthouse called GoREST until July 2nd. There are many musumes and other national parks I want to check out. I also need to figure out my plan for the next couple of months!
Stay tuned for more adventures!
