Proboscis Monkey

Klias River is two hour’s drive from Kota Kinabalu. The star attraction of Klias River is the Proboscis monkey. I am quite amaze to see a lot of people come to this part of the world just to see the monkey. The scenery along the journey to the river is quite spectacular. However, you need to be careful as buffaloes may suddenly cross the road and because of they are buffaloes, they will not use the zebra crossing

The monkey did not actually do anything amazing. The Monkey just sits lazily on top of the trees doing their own thing. However, the mere sight of the monkey stirs a lot of excitement to the spectators. Our boat stops every time we spotted the monkey. Just imagine if we can fully exploit this monkey to attract more tourists to Sabah. I am thinking of better facilities, extensive promotions, merchandise etc. It is always our weakness...we have the product but we do not how to market our product.

We take a break for delicious dinner at the jetty. The chicken curry and the chicken soup was enough to recharge my battery. At 7pm, it is already dark. We took the same boat to see another wonder of Klias river; the fireflies. Clusters of male ‘light bugs’ trying to attract the females are ‘lighting’ up the trees along the river. I sure hope that these fireflies will not meet the same fate as their ‘brothers’ at Kuala Selangor.

By 8pm, we started our journey back to KK. The journey can be very tiring but it is worth it!

Tomorrow…Kundasang!