Saturday, 21 April 2012

Day 104 Semenggoh wildlife centre

Hired a scooter last night so we could leave early & be out at the park in time to see the Orangutans come in for feeding at 9am. They are wild and only come so regularly at this time of year because food is scarce in the jungle so we were told. Viewing time was limited to an hour while they fed at 9am & at 3pm outside of this its everyone out.
We were told to look for Richie, he was the big guy & we saw him. Richie ate first while a dozen others watched him from the trees around us waiting for their turn.
It was great to see them and awesome to watch how smoothly they glide through the branches of trees but the experience was spoilt a little with the amount of people, probably close to 100 in a small area, many were kids and the rangers repeated reminders to be quiet fell on deaf ears.
Sent another package home today, the 1st one sent 6 weeks ago in Vietnam hasn't arrived yet so hopefully this one arrives before Christmas!






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