In the jungle
Hello everyone!
So today we visited Bako National Park, that is part of a peninsula which is surrounded by the South China Sea. We left the house at 8am and arrived at the park at 9am.
We took a boat from the park entrance (or HQ) to get inside the park's boundaries. When we arrived at the park, we met with our guide and decided which route we wanted to take for the jungle trek. We decided to take the 1.5km route (there was one route that would've taken 7 hours!!!! #nobro) which would take just over an hour.
When we set off into the rainforest I was completely geeking out (being the geographer that I am) looking at the sandy trail (the guide said Bako has a sandstone geology) and the tropical vegetation. There was one point when we met the border between fresh water and saline water and our guide asked us what we thought brackish water meant, I thought it was something to do with vegetation because there were mangroves, but brackish water is the mixing of fresh and saline water. It's a good job I didn't tell him that I'm studying geography at uni!
When we walked through the jungle it became very hot and humid. I'd wanted to visit a tropical rainforest ever since Geography in Year 9 and I was completely mesmerised by the fact that I was actually walking through a tropical rainforest! I'm so happy that I finally got to see the rainforest and hopefully I'll go to another one in the future!
Looking up into the canopy layer.
A path we took through the jungle.
When we came out of the jungle, we walked along this beach.
The South China Sea.