Nick (father) and Andrew (son) Naughton’s Super Sabah Safari (Good Old Friends from Germany and the U.K.) 23 September – 12 October 2002
Around Kota Kinabalu
First stop a few hours after landing: Monsopiad Cultural Village. Monsopiad’s descendants own and operate the village	Cultural dance	Nick and Andrew performing a Kadazan Dance	Nick doing stick dance	In the House of Skulls Monsopiad, the Kadazan warrior, collected 42 heads more than 200 years ago
Skulls	View of Kota Kinabalu from Signal Hill	University of Malaysia Sabah (UMS)	Kota Kinabalu city mosque	UMS mosque
Sabah state mosque	At one of several Buddhist temples	KK Bird Sanctuary	KK Bird Sanctuary	Mangrove swamp in KK Bird Sanctuary
Near Hyatt Hotel in KK	KK street	Grace Ville Where Doug Lives	Courtyard in Doug’s Block
Mount Kinabalu and Poring Hot Springs (Andrew climbed Mt. Kinabalu and Nick and I went to Poring Hot Springs and the Rafflesia Conservation Garden.)
On way to top of highest mountain in SE Asia (4095.2 m)	Sunrise from summit	Andrew at summit	View from summit	View from summit
Resthouse near summit (day 1: climb from park entrance to resthouse; day 2: resthouse to summit)	View of Mt. Kinabalu from park entrance	Nick at Poring Hot Springs	Rafflesia Conservation Garden Rafflesia grow in forest behind family’s house	Nick and Rafflesia Rafflesia have the largest flowers in the world and are parasites of lianas
Rafflesia in bloom Only lasts a few days, so we were lucky to see	Rafflesia bud
Danum Valley Jungle
Danum Valley Field Centre (DVFC)	View of DVFC from hanging bridge	Jungle beside Segama River	Young orangutan	Orangutan
Orangutan	Nick, Andrew, and guide	Hanging bridge over Segama River	Giant orchid	Millipede balled-up
Ladder to tree observation deck (120 foot climb)	View of jungle from 120 feet	400 year-old coffins of the River People (bones still in some)	Nick and Andrew wading across the Segama River	Room at Field Centre
Madai Caves
Entrance to caves	Locals collect swallow nests (bird nest soup)	Inside	Local children They do not know what that hand gesture means
Tabin Wildlife Reserve
Entrance	Pretty bird	Pig-tail macaque	Civet cat Saw several kinds	Monitor lizard
Water monitor	Rhinoceros hornbill	Nick’s favorite tree	Waterfall	Nick and Andrew swimming at waterfall
Strangler fig	Mud volcano	Unknown flowers	Unknown tree with hanging fruit	River
SOS Rhino Headquarters Ms. Leni T. Thomas is the field coordinator (dilleniaexcelsia@hotmail.com) The very few remaining Rhinos in Borneo – perhaps only 20 - occur only in two locations: Danum Valley and Tabin Wildlife Reserve.	Mother of all bugs!	New Tabin Resort	Our cabin	Dining area
Our room	Our toilet	Animals seen but not photographed: 3 sun bears (including mother with cub), gibbons, slow Loris, wild pigs
River People Burial Caves beside Segama River Several hundred years old
Nick and Andrew inside one of the caves	Coffins	Coffins	View from cave with coffins	Another view from cave
Bats
Gomontong Caves
Entrance	Inside	Inside	Countless cockroaches	Green lizard
Mother and baby monkey	Mother and baby monkey	Lizard in cave	An adult orangutan was foraging in fruit trees in the park, but we did not see
Sukau (Kinabatangan and Menungal Rivers)
Kinabatangan River	Elephants crossing Menungal River	Elephants crossing river	Elephant crossing river	Proboscis monkey troop (too far to see clearly)
Proboscis monkey	Owl	Bird	To Oxbow lake	Baby crocodile (Large one near because half a pig floated by)
Long-tail macaque	Menungal River Tributary of Kinabatangan River
Turtle (Silingan) Island Sea turtles lay eggs here throughout the year
Sea turtle	Laying eggs	Dusty hatchlings Nick and Andrew carried them to the sea	Hatchlings on beach	Personal photo, not a postcard
Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in Sepilok Orphans and illegal captives are taught to live in the wild
Entrance	Feeding platform	Orangutan	Orangutan	Orangutan
Pulau Tiga (Three Islands) Swimming, diving, coral, small mud volcano, snakes, monkeys
The TV show Survivor filmed here		Sea snake	Andrew on boat	Nick’s favorite table
Nick’s Trip to Tenom, Sabah After Andrew returned to the U.K. on 5 October, Nick went to the agricultural town of Tenom in the interior
View of Crocker Range from KK to Tambunan, on way to Tenom	Washout on mountain road	Resort in Tambunan	Fish at Tambunan Resort	Murut Cultural Center
Murut Cultural Center with David Inbaraj (Janet’s brother in law)	View of the agricultural town of Tenom from the Perkasa Hotel	Award-winning Tenom Hospital garden with Mike and Lucina Lease (Janet’s brother in law and sister)	Tenom Hospital playground	Tenom Hospital garden
Tenom Hospital garden	Tenom Hospital garden	Tenom Agricultural Park	Park	Park
Cactus garden at park	Pitcher plants at park	Lotus at park	Nick at park	Orchid Conservation Centre at park
Giant crocodile caught as a baby years ago by a local	Nick drinking home-brewed rice wine the traditional way at Mike and Lucina’s home