Dr Nancy Priston

I’ve been on another big jungle trek again – back up to that new area of forest. It’s such a beautiful bit of forest so I just couldn’t resist going back there we’ve had a lot of rain recently so the the conditions were slippery to say the least and it was leechtastic! But I don’t really mind the leeches – they’re really rather beautiful and very cool the way they hang on on leaves waiting for passing mammals! Also saw a snake, monitor lizard, an footprint (endemic dwarf buffalo – very rare!) and some monkeys. The monkeys were about 40m up in the canopy – a big adult male and a sub-adult. Very skittish though and didn’t hang around for long. We walked up to ‘bukit senyum’ – smile mountain, which had a pretty good view over the forest – breathtaking 🙂