Tangkoko Batuangas Reserve
22.09.2023 - 22.09.2023
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Having gone to bed with a fever and slept since lunchtime yesterday, I wake up at some stage in the night with a warm feeling in my nether regions and a desperate urge to poo. Too late. I try to clear up the mess as best as I can from the bed, my nightdress, the floor, and the toilet, before going back to sleep. The same thing happens a short while later. I can’t remember the last time I felt so ill, and messing the bed has only ever happened to me once before in the 40+ years I have travelled with severe IBS. I am mortified. I make a further eight visits to the toilet before the alarm goes off at 05:00, by which time I feel like a wet rag.
I leave a tip and an apology for the maid
Tangkoko Batuangas Reserve
At 05:30, David goes off with Landy, the local wildlife guide, for another exploration of the national park. Egi (our guide here in north Sulawesi) stays behind in case I feel well enough to venture out. I don’t. The following photos are screen prints from David’s video.
The park entrance
Nice wide and even paths, at least initially
Cuscus Bear
Orche Bellied Boobook Owl
Black Naped Oriole
Red Backed Mountain Thrush
Knobbed Hornbill
Sulawesi Dwarfed Kingfisher
Spot Railed Sparrowhawk
Crested Macaque
Plantain Squirrel
Green Backed Kingfisher
Tarsier
Breakfast
When the explorers return, I join David for breakfast, eating a small omelette and half a slice of dry bread. Egi offers us the opportunity to visit a local village, but I decline and go back to bed, where I spend the rest of the day
We both miss lunch, but David does go to dinner, and even remembers to take photos of the food (and drink)
Rice, shredded vegetables, fish, squid, vegetable fritters and a Bintang. Plus papaya for dessert.
It’s days like this that I am incredibly grateful that we travel on a private tour, and with a reputable company that can make changes and alterations to the itinerary without affecting anyone else. Thank you Undiscovered Destinations and their local team for looking after me these last couple of days while I have been feeling poorly.
Posted by Grete Howard 12:56 Archived in Indonesia Tagged indonesia squirrel sulawesi macaque owl oriole tarsier diarrhea hornbill undiscovered_destinations upset_tummy thrush tangkoko tangkoko_batuangas_reserve ibs unwell cucscus_bear
So sad to read you are not well!!! This is the last thing you need on a trip but you are right, when traveling in group, you need to go on. My best friend travelled to the Philippines with her boyfriend on a private trip and loved it as well. Sadly when traveling on my own in far away places I prefer to go in group, but I get the benefits of private traveling 100 %.
by Ils1976