Nature's the 星／主役にする at The Datai 訴える手段／行楽地 in Malaysia. But... beware the monkeys （警察の）手入れ，急襲ing the minibar!

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My 木造の 郊外住宅 stands on stilts, surrounded by 非常に高い trees that obscure the 見解（をとる）?to the ocean 200 yards away. At night, 巨大（な） squirrels thud の上に the shingle roof.

By day, long-tailed macaques perch 総計費, throwing ジャングル 破片 at each other. They are ever 希望に満ちた that I might leave my balcony door open.

‘Macaques 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がる creature 慰安s,’ 警告するs my host, ‘and wouldn’t hesitate to （警察の）手入れ，急襲 your minibar and throw a party in your 郊外住宅.’

I am on the Malaysian island of Langkawi, staying at The Datai, which just celebrated its 30th 周年記念日, having 始める，決める the 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 for 高級な when it opened.

The 65-acre 場所／位置 lies 深い within a rainforest and mangrove 押し寄せる／沼地 that creep up to a 三日月 of caramel sand on the Andaman Sea, home to more than 250 bird and 500 バタフライ 種類.

Teresa Levonian Cole checks into?The Datai on the Malaysian island of Langkawi. Above is the 訴える手段／行楽地's two-bedroom Beach 郊外住宅??

Like most guests, I barely 投機・賭ける beyond the hotel grounds, a pristine microcosm of an island that became a Unesco 全世界の Geopark in 2007.

That Langkawi has not been overdeveloped is 予定 in part to the legend of Mahsuri’s 悪口を言う／悪態.

‘In the late 1800s, a beautiful bride was wrongly （刑事）被告 of 姦通 by jealous 村人s and put to death,’ explains Irshad Mobarak, Datai’s 長，率いる naturalist, during a walk to a rockpool for an 早期に-morning 下落する.

‘With her dying breath she 悪口を言う／悪態d the island for seven 世代s.’

The island of?Langkawi (pictured) became a Unesco 全世界の Geopark in 2007, 明らかにする／漏らすs Teresa

恐れるing the 悪口を言う／悪態, people stayed away until it ‘満了する／死ぬd’ in the 中央の-1980s ? and then 観光旅行，事業 took off.

自然保護 of this 環境 is central to The Datai’s philosophy, with 率先s covering land, sea and 地元の community.

So it is that one day I find myself with Dr Ravinder Kaur from Gaia, a social 企業 which has teamed up with The Datai for the 保護 of hornbills on the island.

The birds ? known as nature’s gardeners for their habit of regurgitating seeds ? are 脅すd by poachers and 森林伐採.

Prime 位置／汚点／見つけ出す: The Datai is tucked away on a 三日月 of sand on the Andaman Sea

We 位置／汚点／見つけ出す a male and wait for him to visit his nesting partner, bringing her the choicest fruit he can find. She has enclosed herself in the hollow of a tree, but the 用心深い bird, having spotted our presence, does not want to 明らかにする／漏らす its 場所.

When I do see one it is by chance, over breakfast.

An oriental pied hornbill is making a flurry of trips to a keruing tree by the main pool.

It starts a 急ぐ for cameras の中で guests ? and opens up 適切な時期s for the thieving macaques.

Teresa tries the freshest catch ? grouper, snapper, pomfret ? for lunch at the Beach Club, pictured above

A walk through the ten million-year-old rainforest with nature centre 経営者／支配人 Dev Dass 明らかにする／漏らすs more wonders.

Trying not to trip over roots in the shaded forest 床に打ち倒す, I see tiny orchids and hardwoods rising over 100 ft.

Wedged in the cleft of one tree, a rare colugo ? the only ‘飛行機で行くing’ 大主教 ? slumbers, his fur blending with the bark.

‘Poachers 追跡（する） for 批判的に 危うくするd animals and 削減（する） 負かす／撃墜する precious agar trees as the 支持を得ようと努めるd fetches £2,500 per キロ,’ says Dev. ‘We 雇う 35 安全 guards to 保護する our rainforest.’

Cheeky: Teresa discovers that macaques (pictured) roam the 訴える手段／行楽地, waiting to get into guest rooms and （警察の）手入れ，急襲 the minibar

Teresa 秘かに調査するs an oriental pied hornbill, like the one pictured here, making a flurry of trips to a keruing tree by the main pool

It is midday now and I have an 任命 to go kayaking in the mangroves.

Through a 狭くする channel I paddle into another world ? sun-dappled and still but for the insistent whirr of cicadas and the squawk and trill of birds. I glide and duck under 支店s.

A collared kingfisher takes flight as a spectacled langur leaps through the canopy. いっそう少なく cuddly are reticulated pythons, which also haunt the mangroves.

The next day, I feel the call of the ocean. I have the freshest catch ? grouper, snapper, pomfret ? for lunch at the Beach Club.

As the tide ebbs, I watch tiny sand bubbler crabs 始める，決める to work, creating their granular artworks, like a mantilla of lace.

‘Heaven is under our feet 同様に as over our 長，率いるs,’ 布告するd American naturalist Henry David Thoreau. I would agree with that.