After a few days in Kuching we have decided to spent a night at Bako Nationa Park. It's about a 1 hour bus ride outside Kuching followed by a 30 minute boat ride to the park.
On arrival we were greeted by screeching aggresive macaques barring our way along the path. Not a good greeting.
The park is beautiful though with wooden chalets and dorms dotted in among the trees.
We decided to take the 5km circuitous route which is supposed to take about 3 hours. It was a great walk although it was pretty arduous. The ground is covered in tree roots so you spend most of your time looking down so that you don't break your neck. This means that you probably miss quite a lot of wildlife up in the trees! We did get to see a pretty big monitor lizard, loads of birds, butterflys (as big as my hand), loads of great plants, including two kinds of carnivorous ones and also the famed proboscis monkeys (they are the good looking ones with big round noses).
The walk was really good although we all came back looking the worse for wear! We hoped to have a nice hearty dinner at the canteen (the only place to eat on the island) but the food was incredibly bad (beetles in the noodles and hair in the spinach) so we had to settle for a packet of biscuits.
After dinner it rained for quite a while which meant that when it stopped there were lots of frogs etc to see. We were lucky enough to have a frog, snake and lizard enthusiast in the dorm with us and after dark we all went out with torches to see what we could find. It was really good fun and we saw lots of frogs and even a big spider (I was not so impressed with this).
The next morning we headed back to Kuching and a decent breakfast!
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