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Basaga is brilliant.  Swimming pool right outside our door, room for the kids, reasonable restaurant.  Service could be better, but it’s all done with a smile.

We sort of skip proper breakfast and go straight out in a taxi to the Orang Utan’s.  We swap taxi drivers in town because ours needs to go to sleep.

We take the bus back to town and walk around town a bit:

Monument to Brooke:

We walk to the taxi waiting place and bump into the taxi driver who took some people to Permai last week for one of the boat trips.  He recognizes us and we recognize him.  Kuching is a big town but I guess there are not that many taxi’s!

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There is a short botanical trail which we decide to do on our last morning before we fly to Kuching.

We see lots of plants and more variety of lizards than ever before:

Skinks:

Our trusty ATR-72 (the wings didn’t fall off in the missed approach in bad weather) and 3 hours later dinner in Basaga, which is also a popular restaurant and bar destination in Kuching.

Spider!:

Today it is time for our unguided jungle trek.  Any unaccompanied walking needs to be registered with security and the guy asks lots of questions about the kids.
We intend to walk to the waterfall where you can swim and then decide whether to continue or not.

We’re on our way to Paku waterfall.  Many of the plants here would do well as house plants.

Pretty dragonfly and Jane has a tiger leach:

Lots of trees like this one.  A millipede:

Swimming at the Paku waterfall:

Well camouflaged frog and another house plant:

Squirrel?

Almost done.  Mulu Village on the other side of the river:

Chicken at village and a small leach (that didn’t attach yet):

Some more lizards:

We complete the walk in 3.5 hours or so which is 2 hours quicker than we expected.