OK I suspect that none of you are speaking to me because you’re just WAY too jealous of our trip. I don’t blame you. I’d be the same. So, I’m not going to put all the photos up at the same time because you won’t cope…I’ll do a photo gallery when I’m back in London that you can take sneaky peeks at for brief moments of time.
But. I have to tell you about our Orang Utan experience. For a start I didn’t know that officially, because their name means “People of the forest” that it is two words and not one. In addition, did you know that the DNA of an Orang Utan is 97.4% like ours?
Orang Utans are only found in Borneo in the wild in the whole entire world. We were lucky enough to see them at the Semenggoh Wildlife Centre about 24km from Kuching, the capital of Sarawak. It was a completely amazing experience to watch them appear through the trees, branches crashing and bending under their weight to feed on the bananas left for them on a feeding platform. We observed three of them for about an hour. I’ll tell you all about it when I’m back, but for now, here are some of my photos – I had a horrendous moment just after they arrived when some complete arsehole’s mobile phone went off and everyone was looking around angrily, myself included until everyone was suddenly glaring at me…..it couldn’t have been a worse moment to have had a call from the UK – can you imagine if I had scared them off?-
….and then down came the baby – all fluffy:-
Where he stuffed about six bananas in his mouth at the same time:-
Jane Alexander
October 30, 2012Totally not speaking to you, not now, not ever! This looks just beyond awesome. And, hey, what’s not to love about creatures that share my hair colouring? Us gingers need to stick together, huh? I could do the banana trick (possibly) but not while hanging upside down from a tree.
Seriously though, FABULOUS pictures and the place looks just amazing. Sigh. Meanwhile I go to cold Italian spas and have colonics. Something is very wrong with this. 🙂
Looking forward to seeing more. I’ve never been to Malaysia but you’re certainly making me wish I could.
Expat Mum
November 1, 2012Oooh, those orang utans are lovely. So balletic. What a great treat to see them.
Jon Storey
November 6, 2012No, not speaking to you, but a general comment. Isn’t it so sad that these creatures are on the endangered species list, perhaps they will not be around for the next generation but one to see?
Family Affairs
November 6, 2012Lets hope that is not the case and that we can do something about ensuring that their habitat does not diminish any further L x