Orang U-glad we made it to Sepilok?

Now we're in Borneo, so we have to see at least one Orang Utan. After the thrills and spills of our rafting adventure, we set off across Sabah to the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary.

NB - Not a real Orang Utan

Real Orang Utan

Orang Utan + Baby

Feeding time - yum, but look out for the crafty, thieving Macaques!

The sanctuary rescues Orang Utans and rehabilitates them so they can return to live in the jungle. Here the newly re homed ones can follow the ropes back to this feeding platform, where they are guaranteed food if they need it.

Now we had a taste for wildlife! Booking ourselves onto a 3 day river boat trip, we went into the wilderness to see the rare and endangered species of Borneo's diminishing rain forest.

Our river lodge

Proboscis monkeys :)

After our evening trip up the river seeing hornbills, egrets, macaques and proboscis monkeys, we headed back to land and got dressed up all sexy like for a jungle night walk.

'They call me sexy leech sock Matt round here'

Big Worm

We spent the next day riding up and down the river looking at the various wildlife there - unfortunately we never saw the fabled pygmy elephants :(. Most of our group left the next day and undertook a Heart of Darkness style mission through the jungle to an Oxbow lake.

Jenny at Oxbow lake

Fishing for our lunch

Our lunch!

The muddy trek home

For dinner, after our long day, we were invited to a neighbour's house in the area to celebrate Hari Raya - a Muslim festival. The villagers weren't Muslim, but they liked a good celebration and invited everyone in the area to eat cakes, ice cream and biscuits. And drink rice wine. And dance to bizarre pop videos...Pamela one la la la...

The next day it was time for us to leave the jungle, but we decided to leave a little piece of ourselves behind, by planting a tree. Rudyard Sapling.

On the way home, our driver dropped us at a nearby park where you could learn about the rainforest.

Indiana Jenny

Paddington Matt

After a brief and exhilarating visit to Borneo, we booked a flight to exotic Bali for our last 9 days in South East Asia.