Forest Apes!

We have just emerged from three days in the "jungle" (World Wildlife Fund hates this word and I agree that we should call it "rain forest"...but still). We stayed at Uncle Tan's Wildlife Camp on the Kinabatangas River and on various safaris by foot and boat we managed to see huge crocodiles, 2-meter monitor lizards, hornbills and many brilliantly colored tropical songbirds, and best of all, the ultra-bizarro proboscis monkey (do a google image search for this one) and two wild orangutans. We went on a night safari in a tropical downpour and found several tree frogs, a centipede, and a scorpion the size of my forearm. Anyway, we are still reeling from our wildlife encounters. This is why we came to Borneo...to Asia in fact, and just seeing those huge apes in what's left of their natural habitat made all the bad air and food and language problems totally worthwhile. More later, because tonight we are splurging on our first hot shower in three weeks and an air-conditioned hotel room (with Malaysian cable TV!).