a much needed break- sepilok

we had guests!
Silke and Ralph from Germany :)

their lovely hostess from Melaka, jie May Yin brought them over to visit Sabah.
equipped with their Lonely Planet book, I felt more like the tourist.
Silke and jie May Yin were colleagues in Alaska.

we went to the Sepilok Orang Utan sanctuary.
which was definitely not Ralph's favorite-
too humid. he would prefer it 10 degrees cooler, and 10 times drier.
But he looks so happy in this photo it's unbelievable.
Taken at the sanctuary.

well, everyone was hot...

from the place we stayed- Sepilok Jungle Resort, we walked

to another resort called Uncle Tan's to ask for the tours offered.
it rained on our way back..
but it felt good to walk in the rain.

she roamed around the Uncle Tan's with her yellow smiley faced balloon.
i think her parents were in charged of the place.
i was shooting and she came along with a sweet smile.

there were toys scattered around the public area.
most probably the toys belonged to the little girl.
there was also a bicycle, and her yellow balloon kept bouncing around.

at the restaurant in SJR.
we had breakfast, lunch and dinner there.
we had lots of tomato ketchup, which goes very well with almost everything we ordered, like eggs, burger, fries, fried rice, nuggets, fried noodles, and hokkien mee

we then signed up for 1 day 1 night tour to Kinabatangan river and Gomantong cave.

a very lovely and loving couple.
they traveled together to a lot of places since their retirement and i really cant believe the man is 80!
i thought at 80, one should just hop on 5 start cruises and let everything and everyone do the rest, instead, here they are, in a tropical rainforest, jungle trekking and going for orang utan sight seeings.

i was looking out the window and a dog came along.

Silke on the Kinabatangan river cruise.

a small portion of the 1 million crocroaches in the cave.

inside the cave.

we waited for our bus back to kk outside this primary school.

i waved.. and they waved back..