This is a post which I'd missed out and almost being forgotten. I went to Bako National Park for my last sampling trip during February. My friend and I went there for 2 days 1 night while the rest of the zoology students stayed there for a week. We got there by boat and it took us 15-20 minutes to reach the island.
Riding the boat was an exciting experience when there were waves. It was more like riding on a horse I guess =D The weather was fine when we arrived at our destination.
We set up the tents but we didn't have the chance to sleep in it because it rained quite heavily that night and the tents were flooded. Here goes the long story: Our tents were flooded and we had no place to sleep. Then there's an abandoned old wooden cabin just beside the place where we collected our samples but it was locked. The daring guys banged and hit and kicked the door with all their might until the wooden door broke into pieces and collapsed. I was like, "Oh my, isn't this vandalism?" but thanks to them, we had somewhere to sleep.
Surprisingly, the inside of the cabin was small although the cabin itself looks big from the outside. An abandoned house is expected to be dusty with spider webs everywhere right? So we did some cleaning before we could go to sleep. We had to squeezed ourselves while sleeping on the floor, with the 7 of us (girls). I didn't sleep well because the mosquitoes were bloody starving and they didn't care if you had a thick layer of insect repellent on your skin or not. So yeah..the next day, my arms and legs were covered with red bumps. When I recalled back, I find it funny and interesting. I guess such experience would only happened once in my life.
The next morning, we were greeted by baby wild boars! They got their way through the fence and came digging the ground of the camping site for food. Luckily they were harmless.
After breakfast, my friend and I sneaked out of the camping site and went for a walk. We had to leave the island in the afternoon so we put our work aside and had a look around first. We met the monkeys, a huge family of them from baby monkeys to great grandpa monkeys (with long white beard). The monkeys at Bako are famous for their...snatching ability. They snatch whatever which appears to be food to them. I was cautious at first and kept a distance from them but when I took out my camera and went closer towards them, they ran away. They were camera shy perhaps? Proboscis monkeys can be found there too but what a pity that we didn't see any of them.
This is the swampy area with dead mangrove trees. What a sight, it looks like the place where witches or villains usually live (in cartoons).
Those were the same baby wild boars which dug the ground that morning. Mama wild boar was calling them back.
There are many gigantic rocks on the beach. They are beautiful and that's what makes the beach unique.
There're other hiking trails which will lead us to the top of the cliff where we can watch the ocean but too bad we didn't have the time to go. I'm sure there're many other interesting things to see. I will definitely go there again, for vacation of course. Anyway, this post ends here. Thanks for reading~
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