1st Trip:Proboscis Monkey Trip.

The Proboscis Monkey Trip is the first trip for Brunei Appreciation and Community Action Course(BEACA) and were held on last Sunday 9th August. This trip started at early morning around 8am however a friend mine Syahir said, we need to met at 'Tambing' area which is between Ideal cafe and Portview Restaurant around 7.45 because the boat were leaving at 8 am sharp. Earlier that day i manage to came at 7.15am and by the time 7.30am there are 2 boat waited for us one of the boat is big and its capacity is about 20passengers and the other boat is a bit smaller and i think its capacity about 12-15 passenger if I'm not mistaken. Before all of us off to the boat Dr Irene and Dr Hasma gave us a short briefing about the trip and after that we were given a life jacket each person for our safety but azry get a life jacket with a whistle on it which i think he got an extra safety.hehehe. All student of the BEACA were on the same boat and we were on the big boat and on the other hand the lecturers and some other student i guess were on the other boat. The journey of the trip took place along the Brunei river and the trip is really interesting for me because this is not only the first trip for the course but it's also the first trip for me myself along the Brunei river. We were accompanied by two men and they were also as the tour guide and boat driver.

zali our boat driver

Our journey starts and the first thing we saw was the 'Nakoda Ragam'. I don't really know how the story goes and as far as i concern it's only a myth story which is about a forbiden son who been disrespecful to his mother and he envoled to become a rock along with his ship.





view of Nakoda Ragam from distance and near

As we go deep into the wildlife its getting very interesting. Our boat driver is telling much info about the wildlife and i think his very experience with this kind of thing and he does really help. Zali our boat driver also told us that the monkey actually live across the river and at night they swim back and if they are lucky they survive but if not they might been eaten by crocodile or been drowned, plus he also added that the monkey always in a group and in each group there will be one leader who lead the smaller ones, So in this sense the bigger monkey is might be the leader. The proboscis monkey is really hard to be approach because they are really scared to people just only with the sound of the boat it is already hiding away from us so i don't manage to capture any picture of it. Along our way back i do manage spotted many kind of animals such as Monitor lizard or in malay 'Biawak', 'Burung kenawai', snake and syahir spotted a baby crocodile but all of us don't saw it.

As we went back we also saw many interesting sites such as rock mine site, Makam Luba which is believe to be the 17th sultan of Brunei grave yard, Istana Nurul Iman, mosque and many more.

The mangrove

Makam Luba

By the time around 9.30 i guess or 9.45 we manage get back to the boat owner house and they serve us many kind of 'kuih' and it delicious. I didn't manage to took picture of theire house because i was busy eating and chit chatting. We need to paid $10 for this trip so i think its really worth it for just only $10 and i can gain experiance with this trip so its very satisfying for me so i looking foward to have this kind of trip again this week.