The journey to Tanjung Puting continues.

We arrive on the klotok around dusk as we motor on down the river on the sides of the banks the palms were decorated with fire flies they even flew onto our boat where Kyle held one glowing in his hand. Saw fireflies on the edges of the river. We sleep on the deck of the boat after dinner on our carpet –Indonesian style, under a mosquito net. The sounds of the put-put of the boat is exchanged for the sound of the jungle. It is almost full moon it was warm when we go to bed and as the night goes on we are cold. I wish I’d brought a blanket! Tomorrow night I’ll wear my jeans and long sleeve top to bed!!

Banana pancakes, eggs, mango, banana, and water melon breakfast yum.

Now to see the orangutans – we stop at two sites for the feeding all the klotoks are bunched up together at the landing area. You need to walk across boats to get to the landing or people are walking across yours.

Camp Leakey is the most comprehensive of the the feeding stations as it has an information centre, a variety of animals near the rangers quarters – wild pigs a gibbon cats and oranghutans who don’t want to be bothered with the feeding platform about ¾ kilometre away.

The orangutans are used to this daily ritual of feeding at the platform, the rangers and guides call to let them know that bananas and milk is a happening thing on the deck. It is amazing seeing orangutans so close they move from tree to tree – it sounds like crashing in the treetops.

One tetchy orangutan played scare the tourist. Had our group worried it then divided our group and then chased me Sharon and Kyle for a short way into the jungle. Both Sharon and I tripped over. This orangutan Siswi came with a reputation, bitten five tourists in one year!! I was thinking I would be tourist number six!!! With help we got onto main track but it was an adrenaline rush as well as being downright scary.

On the way back Thomas spots a crocodile – no one swims in the river because of them and they are unusual to see.