TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK
TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK
Tanjung puting nasional paek is an internationally famous
ecotourism destination, which is located in the southwest of central Kalimantan
peninsula. Visitors from foreign countries come to this park because of it’s
amazing nature. This is called a park, but unlike any park that you have seen
in your city, this is a jungle! It is a real jungle, which is home to the most
interesting animal in the world: orangutans.
Thought the park is home to many animals, seeing orangutans
is usually the visitor’s main reason to visit the park. Orangutans, which
literally mean the man of the forest, are the largest arboreal animal on the
planet. Most of their lives are spent in trees where orangutans travel from
branch to branch by climbing or swinging with their long arms.
To see orangutans, we should go to camp Leakey, which is
located in the heart of Tanjung Puting Nasional Park. Camp Leakey is a rehabilitation
place for ex – captive orangutans and also a preservation site. It is also a
famous center for research about orangutans which has been conducted by the
famous primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas since 1971. Here visitors can see
daily feedings to orangutans at jungle platforms as part of the rehabilitation
process to their natural habitat. This event gives them opportunity to see
orangutans up close.
To reach the place, we should take a boat down Sekonyer
river. The boat is popularly called perahu klotok which is a boathouse that can
accommodate four people. The trip by the boat to Camp Leakey takes three days
and two nights. You sleep, cook, and eat in that klotok, night and day during
your journey into the jungle.
The traveling in the boat offers an unforgettable
experience. In daylight, on your way to Camp Leakey, you can see trees filled
with proboscis monkeys, monkeys that have enormous snout which can only be
found in Kalimantan. The monkeys anxiously await klotok arrivals. Aa troop of
30 light – brown monkeys many plunge from of the boat. These monkeys know that
the boat’s engine noise and the threat of its propeller scare crocodiles, which
find these chubby monkeys delicious. At night, you can enjoy the clear sky and
the amazingly bright stars as the only lights for the night.
With such exotic nature, no wonder many tourists from
foreign countries who love ecotourism frequently visit Tanjung Puting National
Park.
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