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Of course, it's not about any forest, but about the most original rainforest, which wanted to experience!<\/p>\n

That's why we first drove to the Danum Valley and spent time and time with a bunch of biologists, ornithologists and other soul mates of this human race. Each one of them has at least one lens worth the value of a small car and that is why these people have made amazingly great wildlife photos and I virtually do not have any. Grmpf.<\/p>\n

Afterwards we were on the Kinabatangan River, where alone the accommodation (in the Tungog Rainforest Eco Camp) was worth the trip. We had our own hut in the middle of the trees and it seemed as if it had been built so that no tree would die for it. We even had a hole in our veranda through which trees grew! What a sensational natural sound day and night! Without electricity and light ... When the sun goes down, it's dark. (Contrary to the habit of taking a few photos of our great accommodation below.)<\/p>\n

As already mentioned, no or only bad photos of the actual stars:
\nMacaques of all kinds (especially the long-tailed), crocodiles, tufted broads and oriental pied and red-and-black hornbills (plus hornbills ... plus even more weird birds, whose German names are completely confused, eg "India snakebird"), maximum yellow pigmented kingfishers, a giant tortoise, eagle and proboscis monkeys and silver hooded langurs. Also Kleinkantschile, also called Hirschferkel, the smallest Paarhufer type of the world (with the aptly English name "mouse deer").
\nOne of our favorite animals was the Plumploris (English "slow loris")! The part (primate) moves without joke completely in slow motion ... Looks sensational!
\nAnother favorite animal: The Pill Beetle! Below are two photos of it, once "extended", once in the "protection mode" and then indistinguishable from a chestnut.<\/p>\n

Marieke's favorite animals clearly the leeches, she has magically attracted them (a proof photo below). Due to the extreme drought, the rainforest was not even so rainy, but it still brought it to three intimate contacts with Egeln!<\/p>\n