More from Borneo

Hello again from Borneo,

After getting down from Mt Kinabalu we headed South to Sepilok and the famous Orangutan sanctuary. We stayed there for a few nights so that we could go to more than one feeding. (we ended up getting addicted and going to 4 in the end) The Orangutan are incredible. They are so gentle and we were surprised to see that they were really scared of monkeys half their size. There is a feeding platform and twice a day the park rangers bring out fruit from them to eat. The monkeys try to steal the food so the rangers have to stick around for a while to make sure the Orangutan get their fare share.












On the left is a photo of a mother and baby. We were really lucky to see the baby a few times. At one feeding we saw at least 8 Orangutan and 20-30 monkeys. It was quite a sight.
The other photo is of a monkey sneaking around a tree to steal some food!

After Sepilok we then headed to the Kinabatangan river and jungle. We stayed in a pretty basic jungle lodge with all sorts of bugs running around outside. The guide found a scorpion just outside our room. Thankfully the only thing that actually made it in to the room was a teeny little frog.

It's rained quite a lot since we've been here so the jungle was a giant mud swamp. We hired some wellies and leach socks for the trekking, but Matt still managed to get a leach attached to his hip. Here is a photo of his wound. It was quite a surprise how much blood there was!!

Fortunately it wasn't all trekking in the mud, we did have some very beautiful boat trips down the river. We saw Orangutan, Elephants, Proboscis monkeys, and a giant monitor lizard (and a ton of other stuff) The best bit was the really early morning trip for sunrise. Photo below.

We're diving all of this week so will be back to tell you all about that in a few days.

Hope you're all well :)