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Travel Blogs from Bako National Park, Malaysia
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Bako trails and beaches
This is a top pick! ... I have been bitten constantly by all manner of insects but it's still a price worth paying to be able to stay in this fantastic national park. The trails are hard going (9km / 6 hours today) in the jungle heat but the views are magnificent. There is so ...
Trying to Keep My Mind on Bako
This is a top pick! ... The story gave no more information and my google searches have been fruitless. We just got back from an overnight stay at Bako National Park on Sarawak's north coast. We saw silver-leaf monkeys, macaques, a pair of pit viper's, bearded pigs and proboscis ...
Bako, Home of the Proboscis Monkey
This is a top pick! ... (proboscis) and a permanent woody. I'm glad we got a chance to see them because it was the main reason I came here to Bako National Park. Later in the afternoon, we spotted a large male proboscis near the pier and tracked him all the way back to HQ. I ...
Jungle trekking again
This is a top pick! 6th March - Managed to find the right bus from the many at the station and headed out to Bako National Park. The bus fare was only 2.50RM each for the 45 minute journey but when we got to the jetty we were the only ones who wanted a boat so had to decide ...
Welcome to the - Bako - Jungle
... seks om morgenen, dyrt morgenbrød på Hilton (vores genbo) og afsted med bussen mod truende mørke skyer, der lå tungt over Bako Nationalpark, som var dagens destination. En time senere skiftede vi fra bus over til en lille båd, som skulle sejle os en ...
Bornean Beauty in Bako
... Sunday 27th May 2012 Getting up early I grabbed some tea and toast from breakfast and jumped on the bus bound for Bako National Park. From there I needed to get a boat to the Park proper. Unfortunately this costs a small fortune to do alone ...
A Walk on the Wild Side
... to thirty minutes on the boat on rough seas took us around to the north part of the peninsula and into Sarawak's oldest National Park where sedimentary sand stone cliffs and sea stacks rose out of the churning (croc infested?) waters. Within about one ...
Our last rainforest (for a while)
... when the tide came in - it would have been about 300 metres. Liz and Arian, think your local beach! Bako National Park is Sarawak's oldest national park and is a jagged peninsula between the mouths of the Sarawak and Bako Rivers, jutting out ...
In the jungle, the mighty jungle...
... ) the views became amazing. Blue sea and sky, backed by the jungle along the cliffs was just superb. This National Park is only accessible by boat and not by the mainland and is fairly basic but at the same time well-established ...
Monkey See Monkey Do
... to get down they swing closer and closer to the ground or use straight trees like fire fighter poles! It's like National Geographic on our doorstep! There are many warnings about these particular monkeys around. We cannot leave doors or windows open ...
Which one is the monkey?
... the hole of ignorance was mindboggling: "If that snake doesn't climb down this tree right now i will sue you and the Malaysian park service!" Who did this tart think she was? Cleo-fucking-patra? I couldnt help thinking, and if it does come down, ...
Broodje-aap-verhalen
... wild boar (soort varken met lange baard) rond. Ik kan het goed vinden met Kemley en we trekken samen door het park. Het is heet en vochtig in Bako, maar het regent gelukkig niet. We are very luckey; het heeft al twee dagen niet geregend. Na de eerste ...
Monkey Business!
... fun evening at the huge Weekend Market, where we sampled all kinds of sweet treats. I really enjoyed these two days - Bako National Park is a fantastic place, well organised with easy to follow trails and the amazing fact that if you stay the night ...
Lots of strange creatures
From Kuching we went for 2 days to Bako National Park, which is famous for the large amount of wildlife they have there. Hopeful that we would see some, we booked ourselves a jungle cabin and set off on the bus. At the river, we had to take a boat for ...
Back where we feel most at home
... hours later we arrive at the Bako NP Boat terminal. Yes, that's right, it's now 1pm and we still aren't actually at the park. We register for our accommodation, pay the entrance fees (10RMs total, thank you ISIC!) and arrange for a boatman (47RMs) to ...
Not the best time to get ill!
Went to the park and developed flu. Managed to see the Probocis monkeys at ...
Blissful Bako
From Joanna And this is even better. We are in Bako National Park, on the cafeteria veranda, having a beer and watching the sun go down over the South China Sea. From Kuching it was only a hop (on the local bus for an hour), skip (down the jetty onto a ...
Monkey mayhem
We've said it before on this trip... but we'll say it again... wow. Bako National Park was heralded as one of the best spots to see wildlife up close and it did not disappoint. We headed off from Kuching in a cab for the 30 minute drive north ...
At One With Nature
... us a good price for a ride. After five minutes of trying to start the car we were on our way to the port for Bako National Park. We passed the bus not long after we started driving. At the entrance to Bako NP we were met with the rudest Malay we have ...
"Naaawdy liddle monkey!.."
Sunday morning, we decided to go to Bako National Park, which is about an hour North of Kuching. The plan was to go there, do loads of trekking and beaching and come back after spending a night there. We got a bus followed by a boat and was amazed and how ...
Where did you get that nose?
... to Kuching (free lift from our host, great!) only to jump straight back on a local bus to visit the jungle at the Bako National Park. Leaving the bus at the river jetty we looked for other folks to share the cost of a boat. Taking note of the crocodile ...
The Treasures of Bako National Park
... on public transport (I think it's the yellow bus 6A) to Kampong Bako, a quiant little village where boats depart frequently for Bako National Park HQ.. The RM47 boat ride is not cheap if there's only 2 of you but fortunately, there were 2 other couples ...
Chasing fireflies and warding off macaques in Bako
To end off our stay around the Kuching area, Emily and I had booked for one night at Bako National Park to do some hiking and some nature-observing. We were really fortunate to have the manager of our hostel give us a ride to the jetty where we needed to ...
Seriously cute, pot bellied, big nosed, monkeys
... on the way to the boat terminal. Once we arrived and had paid our fees, we set off in a little speed boat over to Bako National Park. We had only been there for a minute when we saw our first proboscis monkey … an orange haired creature, with a big ...
macaques, probiscus, snakes and bearded pigs.
Short and sweet... I'm pooped! OK! So, Bako National Park, out on the coast, and I'd booked a night there...so I did get me one night in the rainforest. Easy as pie to get there...don't bother with the shuttle (yet again), 2RM get's you the 1hour bus ride ...
Among monkeys
"You have food! The monkeys will attack you." One of the park guides greets us as we walk in the door of the Bako National Park Visitors Centre in Sarawak. It is a little late for that information however, as we have just hopped off a twenty minute boat ...
Bako National Park
Hi We are going to Bako National park today, so another early start at 5.50am as we need to catch the 7.00am bus. We wouldn't be so tired if some idiot hadn’t decided to start playing his stupid guitar and singing really loudly right outside our ...
First jungle experience
... 2 smaller trails, where we had some close encounters with macaques, nice up-close pictures coming up soon. A one night stay at Bako NP: highly recommended !! Accommodation is pretty basic, but hey you're staying in the middle of the jungle. Around 15:30 ...
...survive a night in the jungle.
Equipment: Tent Sleeping bag Hiking gear Headlamp 7 liters of water Camera Map A big set of Balls Hop a boat to Bako national park in West Borneo. Spend the the first day getting to know the area with a 5km hike to see a couple of beaches. Finish ...
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