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The Human Element
I woke up this morning at 5:30am to the sound of monkeys running across my roof. I go outside to see what they are doing to make all this noise and they are challenging each other to wrestling matches. I figure there's no way I’m going to sleep through the monkey WWF on my roof so I get ready, lather myself with mosquito repellant and go get …
People from the Jungle
In Bahasa, "Orang" means people, and “utan” from the jungle. I totally get why they are called that after seeing how human like these animals are up close today.
After breakfast, Hakim and I head out for Camp Leakey, the orangutan rehab center another 2 ½ hours into the jungle. On the way, we spot a female orangutan with her …
Borneo Bound
I had a one-way ticket to Borneo, as the rinky dink airline that flies to the tiny little jungle town of Pankgalan Bun hadn't figured their **** out for the return flight yet. They have no website and don’t take credit cards and so I had to walk up to the window at the airport and pay cash for my return ticket. And then after insisting that I …
Into the jungle..
After a blisteringly hot 2hr taxi ride and a 50 min flight we arrived in Borneo. We were met at the airport by our guide Kris who drove us to the dock via the passport office to get our forest admission passes. Kris had read our passports with surname first and so decided that Claire's first name was called Irons (which he pronounced with two …
Overlanding 1: Ship to Borneo
The journey from Java to Borneo shows the ups and downs of overlanding quite nicely. To Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo (North East) from Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia) took just over a week of constant travel on boats, buses and cars. There were no tourists and no tourist attractions, no comfort (no bed even), but, there was real life on show everywhere and when you get there, you know how far you've been.
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