Adventures in the jungle, Uncle Tan's and Orang- utan sanctuary.

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Pip and i headed by bus(6hours) over to eastern Sabah to Sandakan.
The city was not our favourite place but the wildlife was amazing, Orang-utan, elephants, monkeys and big bugs.....see below for the evidence.....

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Photos

Orang-utan santuary
These animals have full access to whats left of Borneo jungle, the more tame orang's come fwd for feeding at 10 am and 3 pm daily. And as you can see they are stunning creatures.

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These animals have full access to whats left of Borneo jungle, the more tame orang\'s come fwd for feeding at 10 am and 3 pm daily. And as you can see they are stunning creatures.Me and the orangs

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These animals have full access to whats left of Borneo jungle, the more tame orang\\\'s come fwd for feeding at 10 am and 3 pm daily. And as you can see they are stunning creatures.pip and the orang's...

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kisses and cuddles...

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This is G he is 25 years old and as big as his feeder, these animals were not shy as you can see in the next few shots...

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As i said not shy, these 'monyet' competed with the Orang's for food and the Orang's played with them and teased them.

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As i said not shy, these \'monyet\' competed with the Orang\'s for food and the Orang\'s played with them and teased them.they came right up to us a little scarey.

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At the gates.

Uncle tan's 'wet' jungle camp..
We depated the Orangs for a jungle camp up river. the rain had flooded everthing so we were up to our knees in water.

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But the sunset was worth it

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see...very wet...those are the huts we sleep in...

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but we havemany friends, you were never alone out here, the sound of the jungle was deafening!

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the elephant...this is a very rare sight...oil palms have cut the jungle right back so all the animals around the river...we were so lucky to see him.

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The monyet arrivied every morning to steel our breakfast, favourite was condensed milk.

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very wet...as i said...

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very wet...as i said...very

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for the mum's...

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the camp staff and travellers.. the staff were all locals, great guys, we did very well with our Malay..

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we saw 8 Orang in the wild it was beautiful, and good to know they are still out there.