A room with a view

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Le Medridien in Kota Kinabalu

The North Borneo Railway

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The engine runs on wood


Everywhere children waving as the train passes villages

How do you like my new hat?
In the early 1900s' the britsh build a railway at this part of Borneo and nowadays on Saturday the steam locomotive is taking tourists from Kota Kinabalu to  Papar and return. It was an excellent quite colonial train voyage through the jungle and mangrove forests.

An afternoon at pulau manukan

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Not bad for $1.00

The day I renamed Zomoto in something much better...

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No Durian!

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The Durian is a Borneo fruit that smells like used gym socks - but taste like ripe Mango... Everywhere it is sold here - however seldom you can bring it inside a shop, restaurant or a bus.

Niah National Park

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Crossing the croc invested river

millipede

Boardwalk in the cave
Sun Cave

We did a daytrip from Miri to the Niah Caves. Here you will find thousands of Swifts nesting on the ceiling (a pity that there nests are being "harvested" for bird nest soup - not sure whether I enjoy that by the way) and bats flying around while producing sonar sounds. In the caves it is pitch dark so you need a torch light to get along. In the light you can see trizillions of bugs flying around you - so better not watch to closely and be happy for your ample usage of DEET (50%).
Because we were the only visitors it was also quite silent (except for the birds and bats that is) The humidity was even higher then in Bako Park so we were soaked when leaving the cave.

Borneo butterflies

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Borneo must be butterfly paradise - I never saw so many varieties of Butterflies as here in the jungle while walking around. All colors, sizes and patterns. I guess if I wasn't dripping of DEET they would sit on my shoulders while I am admiring them...

A day in Bako National Park

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Nice boat ride on the South Chinese Ocean

Safety First!

proboscis monkey

an other proboscis monkey

Humidity 1000%

Jungle Trail

Huge trees and Ferns

On the beach

Nice rocks

Baby boar

Mangroves (Bako in Malay)

Colorful rocks
The proboscis monkey or Orang Blanda (Dutch Ape) in Malay is named for his big nose and belly - so Eddie blended in very easily today :-). he only lives in Borneo and here in Bako Park you can find him if you are lucky - and lucky we were :-)
Bako means Mangrove and it is full with wild life and a super real jungle with simmering temperatures, huge ferns, lots of termites and streams and the occasional Salt water Croc. We spend a full day here and with all the jungle sounds and bright colors it was like we were walking in a David Attenborough nature episode. Which was actually true. Eddie tried the nibble fish whom eat dead skin cells are a common in sallow pools here and luckily all his fingers are still accounted for...

At the Kuching Orchid Garden

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