To Tabin Wildlife Reserve

We were picked up at our hotel at 8:00 for the 1 1/2 hour drive to Tabin. The drive took us through more palm oil plantations.
Having settled into our room we sat on the balcony overlooking a little stream and the surrounding forest.
We were soon rewarded with good sightings of some Gibbons swinging through the trees.
Shortly afterwards a 2m monitor lizard slowly swam down the stream.
All the while pig tailed Macaques moved back and forth.
In the afternoon we went to a mud “volcano” where water slowly bubbles up through the mud. This brings with it salt that attracts the wildlife. Whilst we didn’t see any animals we could see quite a few hoof prints in the mud.
After dinner we went for a night drive and saw a variety of animals including civets, flying squirrels, a slow loris and a bear cat. They were all pretty hard to photograph.
The black flying squirrel we saw gliding from one tree to another was very special.Read more