Micheal had contacted a jungle camp on the Kinabatangan River, off the beaten track a bit. So they picked us up from the ferry terminal after we got back from turtle island. Josh was sick, spewing part way through the 2.5 hour un air conditioned van ride. Travel till you spew! we were dropped off at a wharf then took a boat to this hut way in the virgin rainforest. It has alarmed electric fences to prevent elephants waking you at night inside the camp. This place was incredible!
We had 3 boat rides, all about 2-3 hours long. One afternoon, one at night and one at dawn. Phew! We saw baby crocodiles, a huge elephant herd, 3 varieties of monkey, a snake, exotic birds all over the show, wowow wee wow.
We alighted here and got up as close to the elephants on foot as we could, while they gorged themselves.
Birds are blind at night, so we could go up and touch them like this.
After our morning boat ride we were dropped back at the zoo-like sepilok oran utan rehab centre near sandakan for one night. Leeches were everywhere here! Claire and I braved them for a brief walk in torrential rain through the forest.
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