AL JO Wetland Safari

Today we drove around 2 hours from KK to Beaufort. Why are we going there? I learned that Beaufort is very well-known for it's sweet "gum". If you are clueless i understand because in chinese it's how we called it, in fact it is the green-skinned oranges. Usually it's sour but in Beaufort theirs are sweet. Mom bought lots of fruits, " We have to have at least 2 serving of fruits a day. Especially now when the H1N1 is on the rise!" yes mom. Thx to you we healthy haha XD.

Around 4pm we started to head for AL JO riverside cafe. It's around another 1 hour drive from Beaufort town IF you don't get lost. That's what happened to us, we missed a turning and drove 20 mins to a dead end. Finally we found the place and it started to rain.

Welcome

Snacks of pisang & keladi goreng were served before we start our adventure. Due to the rain it's no point starting early as the Pak Cik says even the monkeys would take shelter. We put on our ponchos and then our life jackets before we depart. It will be a 1 hour and a half boat ride..

Mom, Sid & Ray

We saw monkeys, proboscis monkeys, flying foxes, fireflies & wild water buffaloes. Actually there are so much more wildlife you can see along this river as i read from AL-JO's website, maybe it wasn't our luck that day. My first time seeing fireflies!! Like small christmas lights blinking in the trees. Fireflies are attracted to the hormone of certain trees along the river.

Boathouse

Other groups

A family of proboscis monkeys

Proboscis monkeys - an adult with a kid, best closest shot i got

Proboscis monkeys has got a long orange nose, a big belly and a strong white tail. They don't have bones to protect their internals like us humans we have our rib cage to protect our lungs and heart etc. that's why they're born with strong tails to swing from tree to tree. If they fall, they die because their internals rupture or bleed you know.

A beautiful sight

Going back

Water buffaloes

If it didn't rain, we would have seen the breathtaking sunset but not today. You look at the pictures my aunt took when she came to this river 3 years back. Man, the orange sky was like nothing i have ever seen. Back at the cafe, they served us dinner which definitely more that enough for the 4 of us. Chicken curry was damn good!

Dinner time!

This was an interesting experience for me. It's different from the fast-paced lifestyle back home in the city. I would love to explore nature again like this, get away from the hectic things in life and see nature as it is which has not as much worries as us? XD

AL-JO - http://www.aljocruise.com/aboutaljo.htm
KK tours - http://www.kktours.com/
My aunt's pictures - http://kristytsen.multiply.com