Proboscis Monkey and Firefly Tour Kota Kinabalu

The Jetty at Night

One of the most recommended tourist stuff to do in Kota Kinabalu is the Proboscis Monkey and firefly tour. If you do a search for the Proboscis monkey, you'll find it very weird looking. They are also called long-nosed monkeys. Also known as "bekantan" in Malay, they are reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkey that is endemic to the south-east Asian island of Borneo.

The monkey also goes by the Malay name monyet belanda ("Dutch monkey"), or even orang belanda ("Dutchman"), as Indonesians remarked that the Dutch colonisers often had a similarly large belly and nose.

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