Turtles, monkeys and leeches!

August 26, 2007 - Sandakan, Malaysia

Hello!
Once again I can't find the wire to upload my photos but here is what we have been up to!
The first day Fenia was here we went to a shopping mall with an indoor amusement park! We went on quite a few rides until I felt really sick! That evening we went out in Kuala Lumpur with the two Swedish girls. Found a bar where happy hour meant free cocktails for an hour which was fine with us!
Next day we flew over to Borneo and on Tuesday we went to Sepilok Orangutan sanctuary which was cool, there were a lot of people there for feeding time but we sat around after and saw a few more monkeys as well. Next headed in to the jungle to Uncle Tans camp! This was amazing, one of the best things I have done in Asia. We had to take an hour boat ride into the jungle to get to our camp, which was very basic (we had to wash in brown river water!) But was lots of fun.We did boat trips to spot wildlife as well as treks. In our three days we spotted lots of different monkeys, frogs, tarantulas(!),huge lizards, snails, kingfishers and other pretty birds. We were kind of upset we didn't see an orangutan in the wild but as we were putting our bags in the boat to leave we saw one in the tree above us! Which was amazing and much different to seeing them in the sanctuary.
Fenia learnt a lesson about wearing low cut trousers in the jungle when she got a big leech stuck in her bum crack- much to my amusement.
Yesterday we headed off to turtle island for the night. We had the day snorkeling on the island. We saw this really weird fish that lives in a hole (you will have to wait for the photo to appreciate it!) In the evening we watched a film on turtles and had dinner than all had to wait around in the canteen for a turtle to turn up. Unfortunately because the weather wasn't too good they put all 40 of us in one big group so when a turtle did turn up we ran down to the beach and scared it off! So we all headed to the hatchery and saw them burying the eggs and where the baby turtles had hatched out of their nests. Then the babies were taken to the sea and released, which was very cute. Next there was a shout that another turtle had come on o the island! The stampede wasn't so bad this time so we managed to watch this huge green turtle lay about 80 eggs!! Which made it all worth while!
Now we are back in Sandakan and heading to Singapore in a couple of hours.
Lots of love
Claire

4 Comments

Grannie:
August 26, 2007
Another great experience Clare, I'm afraid you might find life back the U K a bit boring when you get back, you can always go & sit in Williams bedroom to recapture the wildlife atmosphere & you DO have the excitement of being a bridesmaid to look forward to so you will probably settle down quite quickly. We are hoping to go over to see Tordy & Martin at thier house this afternoon, might even pick up a paint brush. Lots of love, Grannie & Jackxxxxx
mim:
August 26, 2007
I've been to Sepilok! Can you bring me back a pet orangutan? I'm going home tomorrow! wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
see you soon xx
August 29, 2007
Thank goodness you were not wearing low cut trousers. What a super time you had seeing the turtles and all the other wild life, it will seem very tame back in Norfolk when you return, but then you have University to look forward to that will be another adventure!
Lots of Grandma and Grandadxxxxx
Jen:
September 3, 2007
Alright Dingle, this sounds great what you done in this adventure. I like the way Fen was trying to be cool wearing low cut trousers in the jungle and then a leech bit her bum! Just shows that trying to be cool does not impress jungle leeches!! I bet she screamed!
Im sure you'll be home soonish! Looking forward to seeing you!!

xxx

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