The Stanleys and I were in a hurry to leave Medan so I spent a lot of money and got a private car to pick us up and take us to Bukit Lawang.
On the way, we drove past a lot of Palm Trees. Companies are cutting down the jungle to grow palm trees so they can make palm oil. Maybe you can do some research and find out what happens to the animals when their homes are cut down or burnt so palm trees can be grown. You could also do some research to find out what palm oil is used for. I think you will be surprised how many different foods and products it is used in.
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| Palm trees |
Bukit Lawang is a small village on the edge of the Gunung Lesuser National Park.
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| The view from our room |
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| Breakfast time visitors. One cheeky monkey even ran across the table in front of me. |
Here are some of the sights I saw when I was trekking:
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| A Viper that had been relocated from the village |
When I went on a jungle trek, I saw 8 Orangutans; 3 rehabilitated females, each with a baby and 2 wild males.
Orangutans get rehabilitated and released into back into the jungle if they have been kept as pets (which is now illegal) or injured. Bukit Lawang used to have a feeding station where the rehabilitated Orangutans could come twice a day for food if they were unable to forage for enough in the jungle. The people running the feeding station kept the food boring to encourage to Orangutans to fend for themselves.
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| Long Tail Monkeys (Macaque) |
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| You can see the cuts villages have made to collect rubber. |
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| Fruit snack in the jungle |
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| Picnic lunch Rice, vegetables, fish, noodles and rice crackers |
This guy was attached to the back of my shoulder. It had a good feed of my blood but it still looks hungry.
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| Termites |
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| Bukit Lawang Village. |
The locals swim, wash themselves and their clothes in the river.
Tourists from other places in Indonesia come to go rafting on the river in rubber tubes.
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| My 'Jungle Taxi' that carried me through the rapids back to the village. It was made of a large tube tied together with two smaller tubes. |
