Blogs from Ketapang, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Asia

The hair at the back of my head stood up, in the trees above me was this large orange haired gentleman of the forest, swinging carelessly from tree to tree, rustling the branches wildly as he made his way in an airborne manner down the hill. The adrenalin coursed through me for here in total visual was what I had hoped to see - a wild orangutan in his natural habitat. My son managed a photo - not sure how he did that, because I was just transfixed, even though a camera was clutched firmly in my hand. We were on Kubang Hill in Gunung Palung National Park, in Indonesia's Kalimantan Barat province. This location is one of the very few places where its possible to see orangutan in the wild. There is another location in ... read more