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face to face encounters in Tanjung Puting, Kalimantan

Written Wednesday 8th June on looooong car journey from Surabaya airport to Bromo, about Monday 6th June (morning). 

We’re alive! We didn’t get eaten by giant tarantulas or set upon my rampaging monkeys in the night. Read more

drawn close by noise, humidity and orangutans, Tanjung Puting National Park, Kalimantan

Written at Rimba Lodge on  Sunday 5th June about that day.

I slept my first full eight hours since arriving in Indonesia last night. But only because I had spongy earplugs, rather than the sound of the jungle filling my ears. Emma summed it up as we sat watching orangutans munching through pile after pile of bananas earlier:

“I was thinking last night on the boat, it’s like the forest is whispering to you. Like it’s vibrating with life”.

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Let It Go, in Kalimantan

Written on the Sekonyer River (on Sunday 5th June 2016), about Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June. Photos to follow with any luck!  

“Look at where we woke up!” I say to Emma as we sit perched on two bean bags, aboard a boat floating on the Sungai (river) Sekonyer, next to a sign which says:

 

‘No Feeding Of Wildlife!
(includes orangutans and macaques)’ Read more