We arrived late in the afternoon so after checking in, we had a walk down to the waterfront and had some food there before heading back to the hostel for an early night.
The next day we went to Semenggoh Nature Reserve. This is one of the best places to see semi-wild orangutans. They have feeding times where the rangers have lots of bananas and coconuts for them. Apparently from speaking to other people, they don’t always come for feeding but we were lucky as about 8 or 9 came and they were so close to us. It was an amazing experience.
The next day we went to Kubah National Park and hiked to a waterfall which took around 1 hour 20 minutes. And good news… Jonho’s foot survived this, didn’t hurt or swell up! The waterfall was really cool as it was just the two of us there and we could go right under the waterfall and swim in the little pools around. In the evening there was a huge storm so we stayed in the hostel waiting for it to stop before braving it and heading out to eat!
On our final day we woke up at 6am and there was another storm. We thought as they usually only last around an hour or two – we would still go to Bako National Park. This is one of the best places to spot Proboscis monkey’s in the wild. We got there and the rain had calmed down so we were glad about that and even happier that within seconds of arriving there was a few Proboscis monkey’s in the trees around the park headquarters. We did three walking trails, taking us around 3 hours and along each trail, we didn’t see ANY proboscis monkeys. However, we did see other monkeys and bearded pigs and went to a nice view point and beach along the way. On one of the trails, Kerry decided she was brave and walked across a wooden plank which had clearly collapsed and wasn’t safe… and went down with a bang, brusing her arm, leg and cutting her hand. This is when we decided to get the boat back to the headquarters. We were glad we did as it was actually a really nice boat ride, we got a little tour of the national park by boat. Back at the headquarters, there were tonnes of proboscis monkeys again! We spent ages watching them jump from tree to tree, looking for food. They are funny looking things!!
The next day we went to the airport for our flight to Miri.
Kerry and Jonho's Travels 