Bats were a big part of our experience in Bali. We stayed at this wonderful hotel in Manduk, a high altitude village where many people go for trekking.
The rain forest is teaming with life up there and, while our hotel was neat and clean, we liked to keep the windows open at night to let some cool fresh air in, and this unfortunately also invited in a number of guests from the rain forest to visit us each night.
One night an entire nest of flying ants decided our bed would be their new nest, while we were still sleeping in it!
There were the usual geckos and spiders, but the real excitement came when a bat decided to come in and circle around our heads for a while. We thought it had left, but when I awoke in the night to go to the bathroom and flipped on the light switch, there he was, hanging from the ceiling, yikes !
In this hilarious video, Nok accuses me of screaming like a little girl ! LOL
Later in our trip we made friends with a massive bat who had a hurt wing and therefore just hung around in a tree all day eating fruit that people brought him. We thought he was so adorable that we would visit him every day in his tree.
Check out the video, I’m sure you’ll agree, bats can be kind of cute.
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This post is to Nok .. lol
I can relate to you with the “screaming like a girl” ..
When we were in Mexico a very large beetle felt the need to fly into our bedroom, hit the ceiling fan and fell … where … we did not know .. but both me and my b/f … in perfect unison, flipped the covers over our heads .. and I would describe the sounds coming out of him as “squealing” …
and we then continued and argued over who would “peek out” of the covers to see where it landed and get rid of it … lol