The Golden Road to Samarkand We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow Across that angry or that glimmering sea. Surely we are brave who take the Golden Road to Samarkand. - Hassan by James E. Flecker

MALAYSIA | Thursday, 3 January 2013 | Views [1197] | View Smaller Image

If he could talk what would he say? Stop destroying my habitat? The expression of sadness on this male Proboscis monkey says it all. Very soon, in order to see one of these bizarre looking mammels you will have no choice but to visit a zoo or a "sanctuary".

This was taken in the Klias Wetlands in Borneo and is an increasingly rare image, to be able to see a Proboscis monkey in the wild. Not many people know that they are more endangered than the Orang-utan. There are fewer than 60,000 Orang-utans left and only around 15,000 Proboscis Monkeys.

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This is the entrance to Labuk Bay Proboscis monkey sanctuary. Not very impressive and not very interesting you might say. I should title this picture

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The Golden Road to Samarkand We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go Always a little further: it may be beyond the last blue mountain barred with snow Across that angry or that glimmering sea. Surely we are brave who take the Golden Road to Samarkand. - Hassan by James E. Flecker

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