Dehradun, Nov. 2 -- Place where the bite probably happened - on the forest floor

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

Last Sunday I mentioned that I actually sat down on the rainforest floor in Borneo to take images of a Western Tarsier, the second smallest primate in the world. Now that wasn't too wise, especially since I wasn't wearing anti-bite gaiters on my legs and didn't have my solid waterproof Gore-Tex shoes on that night. Maybe I should soon write a feature on the minimum gear required for rainforests given that I am heading to another one now, in some remote part of the world (will reveal soon).

And so, for that moment in the Bornean equatorial rainforest, I was fine and happily taking images of the Tarsier. And wh...