Sabah Jan 2015

   This is the most I saw of the famous Probiscus Monkey. Was on a river boat to see them in the wild, too far away. However, as night fell, the lightening bugs came out. Thousands of them, surrounding us and the trees on the river side were lit like Macy's at Christmas.  A fairy land. 

    I went to Sabah to see the Orangtangs. The only place I could see them were at a feeding station at a resort. It was the crowd faction to get a glimpse of them. Disappointed, yes. I did have expectations. Even so, I did see two come in for food. 

    Mt. Kinabalu is a rising mountain caused by tectonic plates pushing together, after I left, there was a big earthquake and part of the top fell off. I am ahead of the disasters.

   The Rafflesia flower is named for Raffle. It is the biggest flower in the world and supposed to smell like dead flesh, and dies very quickly. They are protected by the government and will live on. 

    Some unusual foods: Tarap- segmented fruit similar to Jack fruit, bread made green from a long rush type of plant. 

   Thought I would walk to the movie theater, as I could not find the bus stop. It got way too hot and it was much further than I estimated, tried to ask shop keepers to call me a taxi, they could not figure it out, directed to another area. Maybe there would be a taxi, now I was on a construction site. Was so glad to finally reach the theater with air conditioning. Perhaps a room closer to the center would be better.