Hi Everyone, We just finished a two day trip deep in the Borneo Rainforest with Judy and Paul Mason and Sue and Andy Moore. We had an amazing trip. We started our journey by flying from KotoKinabalu to Sandakan on Wednesday am. The skies were clear so we got a great view of Mt. Kinabalu which is ~ 4,086 meters above sea level. The topography is very hilly with winding rivers throughout. All the rivers are brown in colour due to the excessive logging that was done by the Russians years earlier. We arrived at Sandakan airport and was greated by a guide from Borneo Eco tour. A minibus took a group of ~10 of us to the Sipilock OrangUtang Rehabilitation centre where they rescue OrangUtangs from the wild who are sick or who have been captured illegally a kept as pets. We saw 5 OrangUtangs who were feeding along with Macac monkeys. On the way back to the Info centre one stray Orang Utan came to check us out. They are so human like it is unreal. After the rehab centre we took a jetty for 2 1/2 hours upstream to our lodge. We passed many villages along the way who live in very simple huts. After we settled into our new accomodations, a small wooden boat picked us up at the dock and took us for a ride down the river to see wildlife. We cannot swim in the river because it is crocodile infested. We saw lots of proboscis monkeys who are fairly big in size and have long noses and longtails. They live in two groups. A haram group where one male will live with several females and then the Bachelor group which are all the male monkeys who have been kicked out of the harum group who are looking for females. They are amazing jumpers. We also saw long tailed macac monkeys and a herd of 20 Pygmy elephants. They were cool to watch and can be heard from our accomodation at night. We saw several birds such as the hornbill, king fishers, oriental darters and white cranes. We also saw a croc's head peaking from out of the river. That evening we took another night cruise looking for nocturnal animals. That was pretty eary listening to all the sounds of the jungle. We saw baby crocs and more monkeys and elephants and an owl. lThe next day we got up early at 5:30 to cruise along the river again to see all the wildlife waking up. We saw a baby Orang Utan high in the trees while its Mother was still in the nest. They can travel miles a day and make up to 5 nests a day. Next we took a trek through the jungle and learned about the flora and fauna of the Borneo rainforest. We spent the afternoon lounging before taking another cruise just before supper. We had great fun and the wildlife was amazing!