That's my mother in law by the way, and the bottom shot is taken from the balcony of our hut on Lake Kenyir in the north of peninsular Malaysia, not far from the Thai border. Largest man made lake in SE Asia (and it's really, really big) and the "hotel" was in the middle of nowhere. I mean really - nearest taxi driver was 40km away and he lived in a hut by the side of the road. The only place you could buy beer (except the hotel, naturally) was a good hours drive.
I know this because we did a beer run to avoid the extortionate prices!
The wildlife was insane, as you'd expect from 350 million year old rainforest, with giant Hornbills, monkeys and HUGE lizards. Oh and King Cobra but mercifully I didn't see any of those. Every day we got a massive storm about 3:30pm for an hour or so which cleared the air nicely - there's some cool video to come but I can't upload it from my work laptop which requires faff and hassle. Not things I am particularly enamoured with.
