Sepilok

After arriving at the airport at about 11pm, I walked for about an hour (because I was too cheap to pay for a taxi) to the cheap hotel I'd reserved. I got up early and walked back to the airport to catch my domestic flight to Sandakan, on the east coast.
Sandakan is the closest airport to Sepilok, which is famous throughout SE Asia for its orangutan sanctuary. However I wasn't going to the sanctuary because I was hoping to spot orangutans in the wild later in my trip.

I was spending a night in Sepilok to visit the Rainforest Discovery Centre, before moving on to the next stage of my trip. The Centre was built to help educate Malaysian children about the importance of the rainforest, and now it's a huge swath of rainforest, with several hiking trails and lots of monkeys and birds.
There is a huge elevated walkway several hundred metres long that allows you to see the monkeys and birds at eye level or from above. The monkey in the picture above was relaxing on the walkway while being groomed by another monkey behind him.

Although I'm not a birder, and know nothing about the different species, I still like seeing some of the more exotic species. I have no idea what this little guy is, but his colour really stood out. I also saw a few hornbills, but as they were quite far off I couldn't get any pictures.