What a sleep...there must be something about Brunei that lets me sleep amazing. Up about 10:00, showered, then said adios to the Florida couple, then the German couple and me went to the tourist place to book the proboscis monkey tour for 4:00 this afternoon. Then we hit Pizza Hut for their $5 lunch, then DQ, then I went back to my room to grab my journal, then to internet for over an hour, then back to the tourist place to find out how to get to Kota Kinabalu tomorrow, then met the German couple at the tourist place at 3:45 for the proboscis monkey tour.
An older Japanese couple was along with us, along with a younger Japanese girl, being the translator for them. It was a boat tour along the river; the monkeys live in the mangroves on either side of the river. The proboscis monkey is only found on Borneo, and Brunei has the largest population, over 10,000. Apparently the monkey is declining in population in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo because of hunting and loss of habitat, but Brunei protects its enviornment much better than the other countries (especially Indonesia).
We saw a crocodile, lots of proboscis monkeys (they're the ones with the big, floppy nose and big beer belly), also saw a blurry macague (sp?) as it swang away from us, and lots of egrets (birds) and some eagles.
Finished tour about 6:40, we went back to the hostel for a minute, then to Pizza Hut for their all you can eat buffet.
Back to the room, packed my stuff, wrote in journal, read and to bed.
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