Our bungalow was 1km from the HQ. There were a number of semi-domesticated animals living there including this spectacular giant hornbill. As you can see it's not very shy.
This was not the only creature that lived there. We also met sambar, porcupine and macaques who frequented the litterbins outside the bungalows. On the last night, Bernard and I were outside the bungalow getting ready to eat takeaway Pad Thai. Bernard had just had his bath and was stark naked. Suddenly the cute monkey sitting on the hill started striding purposefully towards us. I called to Nicholas but he was in the shower. Before I knew it I had retreated with Bernard into the bungalow and locked the door. One of the packs of noodles happened to be in my hand but I had left the other on the table - the monkey casually jumped onto our deck and ran off with the noodles, the next-door-neighbours in hot and noisy pursuit. It was rather frightening and I was glad to be inside our cosy hut with at least half our supper intact.
Getting ready to go out took a lot of time and patience.
Bernard likes walking along roads but doesn't always like holding hands. "Khong", no, is our favourite word at the moment.
A challenging method of getting across the ''wet'', as Bernard calls it.
