We were taken for 5hours by Man and his bus through kilometers of palm oil plantation to a muddy road. A road where we infact got stuck seeing as we were in a 20 seater bus that was basically two wheel drive and Man really didn't have much off road driving experience. No fear Omar the Superman waded away through the orange mud and bribed a plantation worker to drive us in the back of his fourwheel pickup truck. So we all climbed off our struggling bus and hopped, or rather fell ungraciously covered in mud, onto the back of Mr Plantation man's truck. After about half an hour Man managed to free the bus from the mud and we all got back on to be driven to a jetty, where some people decided to wash their muddy feet in the crocodile littered waters of the river. A boat took is to Kinabatang Jungle Camp which looked a lot like Nuts Huts apart from it wasn't as nice.
Stuck in the mud
Heather, Lee, Crusty and Lynn
We stayed there for two nights and went on loads of boat safaris down the river. We saw so many wild animals, like Proboscis monkeys, Crocodiles, Kingfishers, Snakes and a WILD ORANG UTAN. Do you realise how incredible that is?? Orangs are nearing extinction and the chances of seeing a fully grown dominant male in the wild rainforest is extremely rare. So we were really lucky.
Proboscis Monkey
Crocodile.. yes we were this close
Cool bird
Giant lizard 
Oscar and Renee in the back. The four of us were the "people from cold countries crew".
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