My second trip-report on this forum will be about my trip to Malaysia. I went there for 4 weeks and visited beautiful national parks on Borneo and I visited Pulau Tioman. It is a lot of work to proces and edit all the photos and write a report. My report will be in smaller parts on my website, but I will give you a little bit more.
I just finished my first part about Mount Kinabalu and Crocker Range. You can find it here:
http://ronaldzimmerman.nl/malaysia-mt-k ... ker-range/
Now time for some highlights
Mount Kinabalu
A great experience with beautiful species. A very beautiful national park with a lot of primary rainforest and montane species.
Some highlights:
Kinabalu Crested Dragon (Hypsicalotes kinabaluensis)
Speckle-bellied Keelback Snake (Rhabdophis chrysargos)
Can someone ID this gecko?
Crocker Range
Don't go there. You can not walk into the primary rainforest. Skip this national park. I did see this beautiful frog!
Dring’s Slender Litter Frog (Leptolalax dringi)
Gunung Mulu National Park
Very touristic but a great experience! Primary rainforest was beautiful. I also recommend the 'Garden Of Eden Walk'. It is a walk through caves, 3 million bats, crawling though guano (yes it smells), walking through the river and a beautiful waterfall! I also saw a Brown-tailed Racer (Gonyosoma oxycephalum) near the waterfall! The nightwalk (and doing nightwalks yourself) are also worth for slow loris More about this later. I have a photo of the easy to spot adult Bornean Keeled Green Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus subannulatus)
Bako National Park
A great spot for monkeys like the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), but also for herping. We saw some saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) and other beauties. More about this later.
Kubah National Park
This park is not very famous. There is only a small text about it in the Lonely Planet. It is a small national park, but it is a park with primary rainforest. For frog-lovers this should be your number one spot! On Borneo everything was hard to find and you had to work hard to find things. In Kubah it was the same during daytime, but at nighttime it was a different world. So many frogs! It was like a job to see and photograph all species that were easy available! I needed more days! The only disadvantage are the accommodations, because we became spoiled with the restaurants at the national parks (I love the food). At Kubah you have to cook your own meals (so go to the supermarket first).
Harlequin tree frog (Rhacophorus pardalis), Wallace Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus) and Bornean Horned Frog (Megophrys nasuta) are my absolute highlights together with this photo:
Dark-eared Tree Frog (Polypedates macrotis)
More photos later..
Pulau Tioman
I was here mainly to relax and for snorkeling, but also the the Water Monitor (Varanus salvator). I saw more great species during night walks, but also a Oriental Vine Snake (Ahaetulla prasina). I tried the more creative approach in this photo. My mother and girlfriend call it a 'sperm cell snake'.
Oriental Vine Snake (Ahaetulla prasina)
I will continue to update this topic with blog updates, photos and my complete list of species (still working on that one) of this trip.
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