Kota- Awesome place. The week continued in the same vein, ie we drank and ate a lot, and did little. A visit to an orang-utang rehabilitation centre was necessary, where we got to watch 3 young (3-4yo) orang utangs come in to feed, or as we saw generally to swing around the trees as the local macaque population ate their food. They've been orphaned by the palm oil production and resultant destruction of rainforests, and these guys are raising multitude of orphans throughout the island every year. We also went on a sunset and fireflies cruise, which sounds a lot more romantic than the actual affair, which involved a local packing us into a small tinney, cruising down a rapidly widening river to its mouth, where we got off and watched the sunset, then spent the
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