What a day! It was absolutely gorgeous! We left in the morning to Kampung Bako to catch a boat to go the river to Bako National Park. Leaving the jetty we were already graced by the sight of a crocodile. In the park itself we decided to make the 6 kilometers Lintang trail. We are relatively good walkers having walked places like the Cradle Mountains in a record time but I must admit the heat killed us and I personally ended the trail on my knees! But it was very rewarding. Regarding the fauna, we first saw dozens of common macaques and just a few hundred meters into the trail we saw the famous proboscis monkeys with their funny noses which are quite a rare and unique sight. And for the flora, we are not specialists but we obviously encountered some interesting species including many different types of nepenthes. The ones above are the nepenthes ampullaria which are very distcinctive from any other species in the genus and they also probably are the only ones to have moved away carnivory.
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