Mum has asked me to write her blog this week. I'm not a good writer but I have time on my hands so here it goes. As you may know I arrived in Borneo on the 24th of March, just before Mum's birthday and we had a great celebration with her teacher friends from Ranau. The next weekend we went to Kudat, which is where the Tip of Borneo is. I got sunburned - I wonder will I ever learn from my mistakes!? During that weekend we met up with other mentors of the project, and ate lots of lovely seafood. The following week, Mum had a conference in KK and the hotel room was paid for so I tagged along! Managed to have a very relaxing time, maybe too relaxing as all I had to do was have breakfast, sit by the pool, have lunch, sit by the pool and so it went on. Still I'm getting lots of reading done which is nice since I never seem to have/make time for it. After our few days in KK, we were off to the Kinabatangang Jungle Camp for 2 nights. We had 3 boat trips along the Kinabatangang River and saw many animals: 3 crocodiles, 4 orang utans, 25 or so pygmy elephants, loads of hornbills, proboscis monkeys, macaques, bearded pigs, 1 fresh-water turtle, 1 snake, 1 civet cat, 1 silverleaf monkey. After our stay at the jungle we went off to Sandakan and took a boat out to Turtle Island where we saw a Green Turtle lay her eggs and then we went to the hatchery to watch the ranger bury them. After we watched some newly hatched green turtles being let out to the sea which was very cute! We've been back in Ranau since and today we went to Mount Kinabalu Park and had a wander and a short walk but it got very cloudy and rainy, as it seems to do daily here up in Ranau! I'm leaving on Wednesday and will be back to normal life in Glasgow. Dad will actually be there so I'm going from one parent to another! He is going to be renovating/decorating our new flat that I'll be living in next year so that's exciting. It has been nice to see with my own eyes what Mum has been talking about for so long, putting names to faces and places mostly! Hopefully I will be back but in the meanwhile I'm sure all her future visitors will have a great time, just I like I have!
Gen x
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