Welcome to Indonesia, we arrived in Sumatra!!! From Kuala Lumpur we took a flight to Medan and then we continued directly to Bukit Lawang, a small village with many hotels, next to the Taman Nasional Gunung Leiser (National Park). The village is situated on the board of a river which was full with local people, playing, tubing, etc. (it was weekend time...). (By the way, this river isn't always so nice and quiet, in 2003 a flood killed here 280 people.)
But that isn't all which this place can offer you. The national park is famous for the last remaining Orang-Utans in Sumatra! And here in Bukit Lawang is the Orang-Utan Viewing Center where rangers look after Orang-Utans and feed them twice daily. These Orang-Utans are semi wild, but further inside the Jungle are many more wild one's. During this morning we could see 3 Orang-Utans, one of them with a baby!
During the waiting time (to find the next Orang-Utan), some other monkeys were around and played a lot, it's always funny to see them (they also tried to steal the food for the Orang-Utans).
Unfortunately we didn't go on a trekking tour to see more monkeys and other animals because the trips they offered were all very expensive and so we stayed here only 1 day.
During the waiting time (to find the next Orang-Utan), some other monkeys were around and played a lot, it's always funny to see them (they also tried to steal the food for the Orang-Utans).
Unfortunately we didn't go on a trekking tour to see more monkeys and other animals because the trips they offered were all very expensive and so we stayed here only 1 day.
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