I've just had the most brilliant week.
I spent 3 days at a river lodge on Kinabatangan River earlier this week and it was absolutely brilliant! Saw wild orang utans, proboscis monkeys (the pot-bellied big-nosed ones), macaques, silvered langurs, all sorts of hornbills, snakes, crocodiles, lots of insects, and went for an impromptu swim in the river. With all my clothes, camera and binoculars. Oops. Incredibly, both the binoculars and camera have survived it intact!
Then I've just returned from going up Mt Kinabalu which was excellent. We actually got views, which is really lucky in the current monsoon season. It was a long, rainy trudge up 6 km of 'steps', climbing 1800m on the first day, and then a more exciting dry very early morning trudge up 2.7km of rock, climbing the final 800 odd m today. (we started at 1800m ish which totals the 4095m).
I've then gone and done the most random thing and taken up a really really good opportunity: volunteering as an assistant guide type person for a couple of weeks at the river lodge in the jungle I stayed at earlier this week. The people who work there are great, it's an amazing place, incredible wildlife, completely away from everything and should be a lot of fun. I know it's a bit last minute and random, but I figure I won't get the chance again. I'm pretty excited about it! As long as Emirates will let me shift my flights...
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