Sonntag, 11. April 2010

Sukau in the middle of the rain forest

Actually I wanted to make only a daytrip to the rain forest but than I liked it so much that I returned and stayed 4 more days.
The place I stayed was a small village called Sukau, around 2 1/2 hours away from Sandakan at the Kinabatangan river. I rented a room in a simple BB including all meals (there was no shop around) and basically did boat and walking trips all day starting from 6 am to 10 pm.
I took so many pictures of the animals around, saw different birds and monkeys and snakes.
Unfortunatly I didnt see a Orang Utan but there still living some in the forest even if the rainforest is cut more and more to make place for oilpalm plantage.

Ok, I dont remember all the names of the animals. My guide explaint very good.
This is an eagle.

That beautiful bird is a King Fisher. At night we could come very close wile it was sleeping.

kind of storch
And this called Hornbill

and of course monkeys monkeys monkeys... so funny!



... they even can fly
Thats really scary: a Phyton. This one was in a tree close to the river and around 4-5 meters according to my guide.



That was a part of the village and the house I stayed looked like this.

And more scary: this is a poison snake (as I remember Malaysian pit viper) just sitting one morning at the tree next to the breakfast place.

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