9.BAKO NATIONAL PARK, SARAWAK, MALAYSIA..

Did you now about Bako National Park ??? It is Sarawak’s oldest national park, covering 2,727 hectares of land at the tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula. It is hard to believe that Bako is one of the smallest national parks in Sarawak. With its rainforest housing interesting plant life and abundant wildlife, an extensive network of trekking trails leading to jungle streams and waterfalls, secluded beaches with a panoramic rocky shoreline… if Mother Nature were to seat herself on the coastline of Borneo, Bako would probably be her womb.

If you hang around longer in the Park, and go deeper into the forest, you might be lucky enough to spot other wildlife animals like the Bornean Bearded Pig (Sus barbatus), Bako’s largest mammal distinguishable from its prominent bristles; the Oriental Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea) and the Hairy-nosed Otter (Lutra sumatrana), delightful creatures found hanging in the waters and mangroves feeding on fish, frogs and other small animals; reptiles like the Common Water Monitor (Varanus salvator), the Green Crested Lizard (Bronchocela jubata), the Flying Lizard (Draco volans) and Wagler’s Pit Viper (Tropidolaemus wagleri); as well as up to 190 bird species to spot around the Park.

 There are also nocturnal creatures like Slow loris, Western tarsier, mouse deer, flying lemur, pangolin and various bats; creepy crawlies like spiders, glow worms and fireflies; and sea creatures like mudskippers, sky-blue fiddler crabs and shell-dwelling hermit crabs.