Tuesday 14th Oh dear, I'm going to be one day behind with this blog for the rest of the trip, I can tell. Yesterday we got up early for a 6am breakfast. The gibbons in the primate sanctuary across the river set off singing as we sat gazing into the dawn-lit forest from our restaurant balcony. I was sure I could hear one gibbon answering them from our side of the river, and this was confirmed by a Brit know-all birder we met later in the day who said he'd seen a ...

Yesterday morning we got picked up at the Logde after breakfast for a guided trek to "Crocodile Lake". We travelled down the road a few miles on the back of a truck, the road soon turning into a bumpy dirt track. Our guide was a young bloke not much older than 20. He lead us down a narrow jungle path deep into thick forest. He was good on some birds, but my confidence wavered when he told us a coucal calling from high in the canopy was a moorhen. However, he did ...