HURRAY! WE HAVE MADE IT! FINALLY! One of the initial places on the original "must do" list - Borneo, Sepilok and the amazing Orang Utans. Once found throughout Southeast Asia, this species of ape now survives only in small populations across the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. The orang utan is the largest tree dwelling mammal.Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre was founded in 1964, to rehabilitate orphan orang utans. The site is 43 sq km of protected land at the edge of Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve and today around 60 to 80 orang utans are living free in the reserve. The facility provides medical care for orphaned and confiscated orang utans as well as dozens of other wildlife species and there are also around 25 young orphan orang utans are housed in the nurseries, in addition to those free in the reserve.
A boardwalk leads us to a viewing gallery and feeding platform where the apes are fed milk and bananas twice a day at 10.00am and 3.00pm by rangers and our ticket allows us to stay and watch both slots! In fact we have such an amazing time on the first day we pay again and come back the following morning before we head back to Kota Kinabalu. At this point we should let the pictures speak for themselves - we took hundreds but these are some of the best! The first day....
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