Bukit Lawang II

Today we started the 3 days jungle trekking with our two guides Bim and Paris (not sure they are written this way haha). We saw immediately more than one Orangutans, which were hanging on the trees very close to us. There were lot of other tour guides so many people gathered around, which was a bit disappointing, but the more we walked deep into the jungle the less people we found. Interestingly the name Orangutan means Man of the Jungle ( Orang= person and Utan=jungle in Bahasa indonesian). We saw many Orangutan females with one baby, they were learning how to climb on trees.
We saw also endemic monkeys Thomas’s Langur, Pig-tail Macaque, Gibbons and long-tail macaque. We saw also birds such as the Rangkong Badak (Horbill) and the Kuau (a sort of peacock).
The camp we were staying at was very rudimental but good enough for sleeping: a mattress, pillow, mosquito net and a sleeping bag. The food they gave us was AMAZING, it was the best I had so far. The chef, was this peculiar guy who told us that survived in the indian ocean near Sri Lanka for 12 days after a shipwreck before he was saved by a German cargo ship. He showed us the pictures and the stories he was saying were crazy haha but he was very happy and very grateful, like all the indonesian people I met so far. In the night we went with the chef fishing, we walked along the river and he started swimming looking for jungle fish. He caught many while we were looking around for snakes (we didn’t see any unfortunately). It was just amazing to be in the complete darkness in the middle of the jungle, listening to the sounds of the animals, just breathtaking. Then we went back and chatted a bit more with the guides and ready to be bed cause the next day we had to walk more :)Read more