A shed load of photos of orang-utans

Outside the Orangutan Rehabilitation Center

Today we woke up after yet again an amazing sleep in a dorm, had breakfast and met Neil and Reggie, who slept in a room instead of choosing the dorm option due to Chris’ snoring! We then got into a minibus to go to the Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre. There are 2 feeding times there, one at 10am and one at 3pm. We decided to go to both to make the most out of our ticket and it was awesome!

An orangutan hiding!

An orangutan holding on tight

An orangutan holding on by it's legs, whilst eating... impressive

Orangutan

Eating

Gorgeous orangutan

Monekys at it yet again....

Monekys at it again...

And again....

Monkeys once again....

Orangutan eating

Orangutan disgusted by the monekys in front of him

An old orangutan with a disgusting moneky's arse

Neil and a monkey

Basically, the centre is for rescued orang-utans either saved from being captured and then kept as pets or orphans alone in the jungle, and their aim is to eventually release them back into the wild when they are fit enough and able to do so, taking around 10 years to accomplish this.

An orangutan

Swinging

Orangutan

He looks like he's about to sneeze!

That pose looks painful

A very thoughtful expression

The orang-utans themselves are 96.4% human, according to the facts and they are just fascinating to watch.

A posing monkey

3 orangutans

The guy feeding the orphaned orangutans

Swinging

We actually got really close to them at feeding times, but the wild masque monkeys scared them away after about 10 minutes, which was irritating.

Eating

Orangutans scared of the monkeys

Orangutans

Full-on kiss

Ahhh...

Orangutans comforting each other from scary monkeys

You wouldn’t think they would be scared of them considering they are 3 times the size of the monkeys! At 4pm, we took a transfer back and relaxed in the bar for Reggie and Neil’s last night with us…

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chrischarly on May 13, 2011 from Sepilok, Malaysia

from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia

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