Kinabatangan

5:30 a.m. - We woke up early for the morning safari and it rained again.

6:30 a.m. - The morning safari started and we didn’t saw a lot of wild life because of the rain. Just eagle and a hornbill.

7:30 a.m. - We got back and got breakfast. After breakfast my friends surprised me with a cake, some balloons and a birthday hat for my birthday. I had to wear the hat all day long no matter for what. Furthermore they bought me a pack of fags as a present haha. Honestly I didn’t expected that. Anyways it was very lovely and kind of them. Afterwards I found out that they decorated my hole bed with balloons. Sadly we had to say goodbye to Lars. He just stayed one night because he got a flight to Jakarta the next day. I am still very bad in goodbye’s but I learned most of the time it’s not a goodbye just a see you later. However it was sad because we traveled for about 3 weeks together.

9:30 a.m. - The plan was to go on a jungle trek. This time I chose the rubber boots from beginning. But our guide canceled the hike after 5min because of rain but there was no rain at all. He set another time to try a second time.

10:30 a.m. - We met up again and he wanted to cancel again because the weather was not predictable to him. He gave us the vibe that he just don’t want to do it and to convince us to no go. Anyways we wanted to go because we didn’t wanted to just sit around. The trek was round about 1h long. We didn’t saw anything and just walked in the water but at least we did some exercise. And it started to rain when we already were back at the lodge.

12:30 p.m. - We got another buffet for lunch and afterwards we had a deeptalk about life, metal health etc. Very interesting and emotional. Anyways the day started really bad so far and I was disappointed from the safari because you can see there wild pygmy elephants, orangutans and even crocodiles if you are lucky.

3:30 p.m. - We started our last river cruise a bit earlier than planned and went quite far down the river. Luckily we saw some cool birds like the stork billed kingfisher, hornbills and some others. Furthermore we also saw a lot of macaque monkeys with we skipped today and some proboscis monkeys again. Suddenly the ranger discovered a crocodile somewhere near to the shore. At first I thought he is joking but when we came closer I saw it. From far away it looks like a huge log in the water. We went really close to it and it was amazing. It was a huge one and just chilling in the river going with the current and we were near it. You could hear all the monkeys screaming to warn the others. It was breathtaking beautiful but a bit scary at the same time. I was already very happy and satisfied. The further we went down the river the more old orangutan nest’s we saw. Orangutans build every evening a new nest with leaves somewhere in the top of a tree. So I had the hope to see some wild orangutans and suddenly I discovered something brown in the trees. So I told the ranger to turn a round a have a closer look. It was actually a orangutan and not only one there were two. A mother orangutan and her almost grown our baby. I couldn’t imagine my luck. We could saw the just with our eyes but it was way better with binoculars. It was insane to see them so clear and just watch them. The mother taught the baby actually how to swing properly from one tree to the other. He tried and tried for a couple of times until it worked out and the mother was just watching and helping a bit. It was amazing so words needed. Another boat came to see the monkeys as well and the were stuck at the shore so we had to help them out.

6 p.m. - I was so happy when we went back to the lodge. So a day that started really bad turned out to one of the best in my life and it was my birthday as well. The rest of the evening we were just chatting with new arrivals and played some games. They even bought me a bottle of white wine and we just had a relaxed evening. Later we went for another night walk on the canopy walk but we saw nothing interesting that time.Read more