Blogs from Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia, Asia

We arrived back from Libaran Island at around 9.30 in the morning, walked back to our car that we had parked in a parking garage in the nearby shopping mall, and headed off towards Sukau. We were got g to spend two nights in a lodge by the river Kinabatangan to see the wildlife in the area: different types of monkeys, birds, maybe even pygmy elephants or a clouded leopard. The distance is only around 100 km, but due to the road having only two lanes and being under construction in some parts it took us over 2.5 hours to get to Sukau, also partly due to heavy rain showers. The last part of the road had a lot of big potholes, but we made it to our destination alright. We parked the car next to ... read more

I started with an early morning at the RDC for my last morning here and it was quite a cool morning. The metal of the canopy walkway was actually cold to the touch and covered in condensation which is much better than the situation in the afternoon of minor burns to the touch. There were quite a number of birds seen from the canopy walkway including some new for Borneo but seen on the Peninsula like Long-tailed Parakeet, some completely new like Thick-billed Green Pigeon and Golden-faces Barbet and other not new but still extremely impressive like Rhinoceros Hornbill. Also extremely cool to watch was the resident pair of Wallace's Hawk Eagles right by the tower and one of them dived down to the canopy and came up with a Plantain Squirrel which it flew with ... read more

V noci ozaj dost velka zima. Na ranajky si davam nudle s kuratom a caj. Caj predrazeny na to ze bol sackovy. Majitel mi vracia zalohu 10rm za kluc a mozem sa pustit do stopovania, je 7.50 a moj ciel je sukau. Vcera som si na papier napisal destinacie. Najskor dzim v ruke mestecko telupid, neskor to otacam na text 20km a neskor nasadzujem klobuk. Ludia z aut bud ignoruju, zamavaju, vyvaluju oci alebo spomalia aby si precitali napis. Nieco po polhodine konecne prve auto. Ale iba do 6km vzdialenej dedinky kundasang. Ziadne kundy tu vsak nevidim. Zastavil mi stredoskolsky ucitel, na prednej sedacke mal babo. Z dedinky je fajn vyhlad na kinabalu ale iba chvilu, mraky prichadzaju. Opat dlha cakacka, okolo 20.min a pri tom dost velka premavka. Chlapik ang nevi ale bere ma do ... read more

Bilit 16-18 March 2016 What a fantastic 3 days we had at the Bilit Adventure Lodge which is on the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Malaysia. From the time we arrived to the time we departed, we did 4 river cruises which included 2 x 6.00am and 2 x 4.00pm cruises in aluminium boats. On all of these cruises our guide and driver were incredible spotters as you will see by the photos. On our morning cruises, we would come back at about 8.00am for breakfast. It was always cooler in the morning, so light, long sleeved was the go! The 1st night we were there, we went on a night-walk and spotted so many birds. Of course they were not flying at night so were easily photographed. We also saw several mouse deer which were too ... read more

Having dropped off Amana at her departure terminal(who incidentally passed backpacker bootcamp with honors) we boarded a plane to Kota Kinabalu (kk). We were starving at the airport and having seen the amazing food on offer outside our departure terminal we thought we may be getting a culinary treat (i.e mc Donald's) once we had checked in-no such luck, we made do with a packet of crisps and a snack on the plane. Kk is the main city in Borneo and we were flying here for two reasons 1) to spend some time with my mum and dad (caz and col) who very nicely had decided to come and see us whilst we were away and also 2) to go and meet/see some oraguatans. After a reasonable wait at immigration (not sure why we needed another ... read more