Wild About Borneo

Here's an interesting article for your reading pleasure from Patrick McDonald courtesy of The Advertiser, a daily newspaper from Australia about Sarawak Malaysia Borneo in particular:

AT first, you hear only their calls. The rest of the jungle goes quiet in anticipation, adding to the air of suspense as deep bellows echo through the rainforest for kilometres. Like a scene from an old monster movie, treetops in the distance begin to buckle and sway.

Branches creak and groan under the weight of an unseen force crashing through the foliage.

And then you see them: just silhouettes against the leafy canopy to begin with. Trees the height of office buildings, but as slender as saplings, bend to catapult them forward as elongated, hairy orange arms reach out to grasp the next vine.

These are the orang-utans of Sarawak, and this daily ritual is part of their rehabilitation into the wild. It is also just the first of many incredible, close-up encounters with nature which await in the wilds of Borneo.

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