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My 1st time on an Airplane ride had brought be to the most magical place my eyes never expected to witness. The long rides passing wooden local's houses on the sideways gave me a new perspective of a traditional architecture of the country i've been living in for almost 20 years. Now i still cant believe i'm exhaling the humid air of Kalimantan. A land of a thousand riddles and its eternal folktale about their inhumane conflicts between their local tribes of Dayak with Madura tribes of East Java. The surface of my skin constantly react as this taxi brought me closer to Tanjung Puting National Park. A smiley bald man welcomed us with his megawatt smile and started to take us to his boat called "Klotok". We're going to live aboard for 4 days here and my head start playing those scenes from Anaconda movie but more dramatic as i actually surrounded by 16 thousands of Vegetations with the sound of Primates echoing here and there. This place is a "home to gibbons, macaques, clouded leopards, sun bears, wild boars, porcupines, and sambar deer. The park also features many reptiles, including crocodiles, monitor lizards, and pythons, birds, including hornbills and kingfishers, and insects, such as the giant Bornean butterfly." Do you think i knew all of this? No. I read this from wikipedia 3 weeks before i came here. This is also where i get the awareness of consuming Malaria Pills 2 weeks in a row to protect myself from getting unwated bites from an insect i'm not familiar with. First couple hours of river cruising completely relaxed my mind and i feel very much connected to the black river in front of me that reflected the whole forest into a majestic landscape. I still didnt get enough courage to touch the water as i often see it splash unreasonably in some corners. I enjoy a very delightful lunch aboard before our boat step aside to start our first trekking into the deep rain forest of Tanjung Harapan and watch the feeding orangutan. It wasn't so easy because it starts raining and getting off from the boat became very challenging and somehow visitors need to stay silent for avoiding the living species get disturbed. Next, to reach the feeding orangutan spots requires us to walk in the middle of a heavy rain, passing off the slippery muds, jump over lots of big roots that show up to the ground Bow and bent over the Branches to keep our raincoat from being ripped or snagged until we finally arrive to a spot where those orangutans come to find their foods. Their eyes shows emotions, their body show strength, they know how to smile and laugh. These primates had made everyone fall for them just by existing. The guides told me that these animals are facing a quite terrible trauma since the palm oil industry had burnt down some parts of these forest. I went back to the boat for having another satisfying dinner cooked by the "klotok crew". Evening river cruising feels more serene and even more magical when the firefly start to lights up the bush, and make it like a very beautiful christmas trees .