Eric and I spend the next couple of days exploring Bako National Park.
The only way to access the park is by boat and there is only one place to eat - a canteen that serves the same food every day. The excitement at meal time comes from the long-tailed macaques, which will literally run up and steal the food off of your plate. The park rangers have slingshots on standby to keep the monkeys at bay, although one still manages to steal my fried egg our first morning.
Thankfully I was finished eating!
The highlight for both Eric and I is seeing the proboscis monkeys. They are the largest monkey in the world! We stumble upon them as they are hanging out along the edge of the beach eating.
Our second night, we take a guided walk with one of the rangers and see a civet, which is a wild cat that lives in the trees of the jungle. It’s a rare sighting - the ranger has only seen one once before – so we're very excited.
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