Bob and I joined Hilary and David at 5:30 AM for breakfast of warm rolls with cheese and jam. We set off with Tien and his son in an open-air truck and drove further into the park. We had hoped to see some pheasants in the early morning. The forest is primary deciduous and particularly dry at the moment. We passed bamboo thickets and very straight, enormous trees, some encased in strangler fig vines.
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| Hil in front of a strangler fig |
We stopped to admire a rust-colored (probably poisonous) snake that Tien managed to corral in our direction so we could photograph it. The open-air truck is great for experiencing the forest, but we had to be careful to avoid the long spiny tendrils of vines hanging over the road which could severely wound someone in a truck like ours.
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| The innocent looking barbs on this vine will catch your skin and apparently tear into it! Duck !! |
We returned at 11 AM to avoid the heat of the day, and also because the bird action also slows down then. We had lunch of hard-boiled eggs with pomelo sections and rested until 4 PM when we went out again in a truck. We saw several groups of Black-Shanked Douc Langur monkeys which have made a substantial recovery and are well-protected in this park. Supposedly there are some elephants hidden away in the park, but we didn’t see any.
We returned for dinner and the last list at 6:30: great spring rolls followed by fried chicken fillets, cabbage and rice.
Tomorrow we pack up and drive to Ho Chi Minh City where we hope to have a quick city tour to at least get a brief idea of the city.
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