sepilok

Sepilok is the centre where orphan or sick orangutans receive help to grow healthy and then they learn how to live in the jungle on their own. Most of them are able to move back to the jungle later on.
Many people go there to visit their anchestors. That's why the visits to the park are limited now. You can go in just 2 times daily when the orangutans get their food. Sometimes you wonder who is watching whom? The primates the humans or the humans the primates? Sometimes you wonder who is the primate: the one behind or the one in front of the camera...
Anyhow, this project is something nice. Malaysia is really doing something to preserve the wildlife.

Now please guess: where are they from?





That was yesterday. Today morning i waited for the public bus to Sandakan. It was a nice drive with funny conversations. Just after arriving in Sandakan I knew it wasn't the place where i would stay even for a night. So i went to the tourist office just to learn that the only way out are some of those organized tours like jungle tours or rivercruises. Since this are always groups of 30 - 40 people i thought that this is nothing for me. So I left, thought about what to do and decided to go back to Kota Kinabalu. I will treat myself with 3 days of island hopping. It will be my last beaches for a while. After that i will not see the sea for long looooong time...