After much persuading on Steves part, I agreed that it would be fun to take a boat down the Kinabatangan river into the heart of Borneo rainforest. We were put up in a jungle lodge which turned out to be a really nice room and did two boat safari's, one at sunset and the other at sunrise. My fears of tarantulas were laughed away by our guide who said that they dont live there. Put at ease I actually started to enjoy myself. The rainforest is home to the proboscis monkey and Sabah is the only place in the world that you can see them in the wild. It is also home to long tailed macaques, crocodiles, snakes, gibbons, leopards and elephants but the last three are very elusive. We got to see a crocodile in
... read more