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Up early (an everyday occurrence) and headed to a village. On the way there was much commotion on a dirt road traveling along a rocky mountain. We pulled over and everyone - including locals - was watching a showdown between a leopard and two porcupines.

The porcupines ended up running away, and the leopard did not give chase - the leopard simply turned into the tall grass and disappeared.
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This morning we were to photograph the villagers of a very small collection of homes within a 30-minute drive from the hotel.

The early morning activities seem to involve milking the cows.
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A son milks while his mother looks on.
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A portrait of the mother
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Milking and making sure you are in the picture
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A village elder - who sold the land to build our hotel.
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A local man - whose turban looks long - but then we saw another guy with a turban even larger.
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Lots of cows to milk - so it was nonstop
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Another man milking with the larger turban.
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This young lady avoided our lenses - she had no problem moving the cows around.
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Stopped milking for a portrait.
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Now this is a large turban!!
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His beard wraps up around his ears!
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Finally she poses for a quick portrait
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After the village we drove over to the Jawai Dam and Reservoir

A crocodile resting on the shore.
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The area around the lake was very pleasant
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An osprey flying above the reservoir.
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The mountains came right down to the lake.
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The Jawai Reservoir
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We then went back for lunch and a rest before starting out again. Half of us (3) wanted to see more leopard and the other half wanted to visit another village. I went with the leopard half.

While we waited for a leopard mother and two cubs (different from yesterday but on a different mountain), a woman walked by driving cows and carrying sticks.
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Finally the leopards showed themselves!!!

Mom is on the left and one of the cubs is on the right
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The cub stretches.
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Now the whole family is together - very hard to see the leopards in the rock - we are a very long way off. The owner of the hotel let me borrow a 600mm lens which got me much closer but still they are hard to see.
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Mom is tired

After the yawn they disappeared into the boulders. Our trackers followed then to the other side of the mountain - driving like crazy to keep up. We pretty much lost them, but we knew where they were in general.
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It was too dark to take pictures and I told the tracker we could go back. He said no that he had a light and pulled out a spotlight. We then looked for reflecting eyes. We had exited out of the jeep to perform a search of the area below us.

We saw eyes and I just had time to bring up my camera and take one shot as the leopard ran not 100 feet in front of us.
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