Hotel Sandakan

... to talk too. <br><br>The first night it was raining and we went on a jungle trek. We saw<br>a lot of birds, a skunk, tracks of about 50 elephants that had been<br>there about 3 night before, two snakes, and numerous leeches. The best<br>part of it was seeing the Green Pit Viper that was about 3 feet away<br>from the bungalows. They said it was very, very poisonous ...

... was clearly on a commission from one of the operators and was trying to trick us on to a bus that didn't leave for over two hours! Team Bird quickly spotted this and headed for the Tung Ma Express stand that had a bus leaving in the next few minutes.<br><br>Team Bird 1 Tricky Locals 0.<br> <br> The journey was much better than I expected with great scenery as we skirted around the edge of the Kinabalu National Park on winding roads that took us up to an ear popping 6 ...

... lightening in the background. We had some dinner, then had a walk around the camp in torrential rain. Even though there were two drunken Dutch ********s shouting every couple of minutes we saw plenty of birds, lizards and even a civet, well the eyes anyway. Soaked to the skin we climbed back under our mosquito net, dried off and slept.<br><br>1st September:<br><br>We were supposed to go on another boat trip but Alice wasn&#8217;t feeling too well, so we got up around 8 ...

Sub-title: Faulty Towers Jungle Style.<br><br>Well, those alarm bells turned out to be fully valid and as we checked into the jungle huts we could see we were in for some basic standards. The hut had just a bed with a mattress on boards with some boards missing! There was a mozzie net with some holes in it (which we repaired with some of Martyn&#8217;s fantastic gaffer tape!) there was a loo (which leaked water out of the cistern continually and if you flushed you had to jump as ...

... there flight tickets they were allowed to stay. We had no option to move on and took a bus to Chinatown and stayed at a backpackers lodge complete with a squeaky bunkbed. We had a day to pass shopping around the market for t shirts and tight shorts for shelley before we would catch the bus to the Perhentians.<br> Getting a long distance bus to Kota Bharu the jump of point for the islands turned out to be quite a chore. Stupidly and somewhat naively thinking we could just ...

... racoon but he was one of the lucky ones and got away. Heading back to camp and our beds we laughed and joked about Janes antics but one thing was clear. At first we w**e unsure of the geek but now we w**e all fond of h** and she made the treks fun. She lent us h** binoculars and knew all about the animals. It turns out h** and h** husband have been travelling the globe spotting all mann** of creature from Africa to the Antarctic. It was good to see someone with a real passion for something.

... på øen, hvor de ikke er så udsatte for rovdyr og hvor temepraturen kan kontrolleres med skygge. Ved lav temperatur ved æggene bliver 70% til hanner og ved høj temperatur bliver 70% til hunner. Efter æggene var begravet blev et kuld nyudklæggede skilpadder sat ud i vandet. Der var 55 unger i dette kuld. 1-3% vil overleve og blive til voksne skildpadder. Den nat var der 26 skildpaddder der lagde æg og der blev lagt over 2000 æg. 25.-26 marts 2009

... breath to see them appear - it was great - it felt a bit like jurassic park but not so scary. The rehabilitation workers basically go up to the feeding platform with some buckets of food and sit with the orangutans while they eat - they are at eye level about ten metres away. They eat bananas and milk and other fruits and just watching them eat and interact is mesmerising. They are so human like as well - one of the mums was playing with her baby ...