Here’s something that will make you give up ur shark’s fin soup. If it’s placed right in front of you during the traditional Chinese wedding dinners, i doubt you will have the appetite to savour it. Instead of the bad rep that most sharks carry ” man-eating sharks”, it’s man who’s the predator now. Man eating sharks.

there’s a better video here about shark finning featuring the song “I’ll Stand By you” by The Pretenders, but i wasn’t able to embed it here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-D4ntqtsB4
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ROFL!!! omg, i can’t stop laughing~ forgive me, i adore them but the mother’s reaction is just too funny. i think if i were there, i would have been shocked like the mother too! haha…. >_<

And so i’m back in one piece!

Day 1 : Singapore - Chengdu ( Silkair flight 5hr )
Day 2 : Chengdu - Huanglong/JiuZhaiGou ( Air China flight 45min ), taxi ride for 3 hours to Huanglong and then another 2 hr ride to Jiu Zhai Gou
Day 3 - Day 5 : Jiu Zhai Gou
Day 6 : Jiu Zhai Gou - Chengdu ( Air China flight 45min )
Day 7 : Chengdu - Wolong ( 5hrs taxi ride of 200km of rocky one-lane-two-way-traffic mountain road )
Day 8 : Wolong Panda Nature Reserve
Day 9 : Wolong - Chengdu ( another 5 hrs of bumpy ride )
Day 10 : Chengdu - Singapore ( Silkair flight 5hr )

Made an unexpected trip to Huanglong ( which is near Jiu Zhai Gou but at higher altitude of more than 3200m at the entrance ) on our 2nd day of the trip.

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Sigh, my guide living back at Kinabatangan River, Sabah, Borneo is telling me that the river wouldn’t survive the impact of it all. They did a river pollution survey and here are the terrible findings….

River sand and stone extraction, effluent from oxidation pond, hundreds of canals from plantations on the riparian reserve, mass palm oil spillage at pipelines when tranfer from mills and tanker to barge etc etc…

I think the next time they do a river survey, i shall fly there to photograph the evidence big and clear with my 80-400mm zoom lens….

On a brighter note, and the Bornean pygmy elephants are back at my guide’s hut. Herd of 90!!! Quite a few baby elephants too! Wish they were there while i was there few months back! It will be so cool to have them around the hut and every morning when i wake up, i can see them playing by the river. sigh, how perfect would that be

Well, i could always fly back if i have the time…. and money of course…
I think i can find the time… maybe a visit by the end of this year again even though my original plan was to visit next year since i’ve visited Borneo like three times this year alone already!! lol…

And yup, hopefully i will meet my wild orangutans on my next visit. They sure are elusive

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