We were up at 5:45am for an early morning trek before breakfast.
It was another cool trek through the rainforest, but without seeing many animals. It's very different from African safaris, where you see huge herds of ungulates. A major difference is in Africa you're on the plains of the Serengeti, not the thick jungle. It is much more difficult to spot the big animals in Borneo - a lot of it is luck.
We had another trek after breakfast. We had a couple leeches on our shoes after the trek, but the leech socks did their job and kept the leeches on the outside. (The fabric is dense enough to prevent leeches from passing through).
Our last trek of the day didn't start until 5:45pm so Heather and I walked out to the canopy walk again. Once again we were the only people on it; although there were only 8 guests in total this night at the lodge so we had almost the entire conservation area to ourselves.
The evening walk was cool. We started at dusk, and heard the "6 o'clock cicadas" - they are the rainforest's evening alarm clock. The sounds slowly changed from the day creatures to the nocturnal ones. It was really cool.
The trek then turned into another freaky walk at night. This time we also had little bats flying around. It was very Blair Witch-like. We saw a strange spider that even the guide had never seen before.
Back at the lodge we had another big dinner, and then showered and crashed.
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