The advantage of living in Sangata is having the nature as our backyard. Besides having monkeys, lizards, hornbill birds even snakes as neighbors, we are closed to one the largest rain forest area on earth. The area is known as Taman Nasional Kutai (Kutai National Park). It is home of the famous Orang Utan.Today, on the sunny Saturday morning, I visited the forest. I had my colleagues joining me. To get there, we have to ride a boat. So, with life jacket on, we were on a 20 minutes boat ride.
Nice scenery from the boat.
Then we arrived at ‘Camp Kakap’ where the researchers and rangers stay or transit.
After leaving our life jacket in the camp, we started our ‘jungle trek’ accompanied by two guides. The sun was up, but we were lucky that it was a quiet dense forest, we have the trees protecting us from the heat.
There are some small rivers in the forest. So we got to pass the bridges.
We also found many kind of trees.Giant tree.
Snake tree (The snaky branch is actually the root).
Even hairy trees … :)
We really wanted to see Orang Utan which usually comes by around the trekking area. That morning, we found a mother and her baby sleeping on top of a high tree. A bit disappointing, because we could not see them clearly. So, we left them alone and carried on with our walk.
When were walking back from the giant tree, our guide got a call from other guide that the Orang Utans were awake and moving. So, we run to get to where they were.
And there they were …
First, we saw the mother.
Then we saw the baby, it was hanging on a tree branch …
So cute....
It was a good two hours jungle walk.
No comments:
Post a Comment