The highlight of our day was a visit to the Semenggah Nature Center to see the orangutans. Here they are in the wild and there are no fences so there is no quarantee that you will see them but it was our lucky day indeed. We spent a good couple of hours with permanent grins on our faces first watching three young adults play and eat and then we went for a short trek where we then got to meet the dominant and largest male living at the Center. Weighing in at over 200 kgs he was quite impressive. When we thought we were more than lucky and heading out a mom appeared with her two month old baby. We could not have had a more perfect visit!
As we were in Borneo to make our visit complete we went to visit the longhouse home of the descendants of the Borneo headhunters. They were not canibals, they collected the heads as trophies when outsiders tried to come onto their land. They would put the head in a basket in the river and leave it there until the fish had cleaned it to a skull and that is what they hung in ther longhouse. Thankfully this practice ended many years ago though the longhouse itself could use some updating.
Chinese cemetery in Kuching where each grave is like a giant chair
Some of the remaining heads from the head hunters of Borneo
Pretty rustic kitchen facility
Longhouse is raised and the floor is made of bamboo
Mother and baby coming into view
Enjoying his coconut
Probably thinks we are all pretty funny looking
The faces are so expressive and darned near human
Aerobics class should be so easy
He is so big I would not want to meet up with him in the forest
He is definitely smiling
You have to love the hair style
Enjoying a bite of lunch
Don’t you dare try and touch my food
I have a feeling that waterfront property is a little more reasonable here than at home
Some of the local fish boats were so colourful that one could not resist taking pictures
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