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This place was not easy to get to by any stretch of the imagine! but it was so worth it! After 4 hours travelling to Medan we got on aother bus for 4 hours to get here. We arrived at night after all day travelling (We really will cry if we see another bus!) and fell into the first hotel we found. The next day we got up early and hiked up the river for 30 minutes to a canoe that took us over the river and up to the....wait for it.....Orangutan Feeding Centre! woohoo! We walked up with the other people there talking about how if no wild orangutans turn up then we'll pay to do a trek into the jungle and try and see them...and then i stopped dead in my tracks and started hitting Dan and saying "Look Look!" and there was a female orangutan walking down in the path in front of us with a baby clinging on underneath her! After we finally picked our chins of the floor and waited for her to pass us, we carried on climbing up a very steep path to a platform where the guides sat and tapped the wood with a stick to call the rest of them. We waited for a fewminutes and had almost resigned ourselves to the fact that we wouldnt see anymore when a rustling from behind turned into a male orangutan climbing down passed us and onto the feeding site, where he began eating a whole bucket of bananas, vomiting them up and then sucking them up again! Gross. After a while, the mother and baby climbed up to join us too and we got some brilliant photos! (was still kicking myself for not taking my own camera as they would have been really amazing!, no offence Becs but your camera really isnt worth the scrap metal its made from, why did you buy it!? thanks for lending it to me though! ;))

It was the most amazing thing ever, just waiting in the jungle for wild orangutans to turn up! and they did! They have been freed here after years of illegal poaching had kept them in a cage. Some were still in quarantine cages as we saw when we went back down, but the guide said some were released and never came back (which is good as it means the project is 100% successful) I'm so jealous of the people that work there! and so grateful that i got to see wild orangutans after seeing so many in crap cages in zoos. How amazing. Hope you enjoy the photos.

So today we travelled back 4 hours to Medan, as we fly to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. We got here at 1 in the afternoon so after finding a hotel, we walked over to the plaza over the street, played bowling and had a beer and brought you up to date on what we've been doing! and thats about it really. Didnt mean to leave it so long again but some parts have no internet places at all. Tomorrow we have to get used to another currency again, but at least they speak Bahasa still. We are going to travel around Malaysia for a while now and maybe go to Singapore...will let you know where we are soon.

Love to all xxxxx