After some Chinese-style pork buns en route, we headed straight for the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary for the 10am feeding. The park was started for rescue and rehabilitation of orphaned baby orangutans from logging sites, plantations, and illegal hunting. The orphaned orangutans are trained to survive again in the wild and are released as soon as ready. Only a few of them came out for the morning feed, but it was amazing. They majestically cross the rope from thee trees to the feeding platform.
On our way back to the main centre of the sanctuary, we encountered angry-looking monkeys looking for some food. Some of them were quite scary, but it was great seeing so many of them out in the wild no more than a few metres from us.
After chilling at our B&B for a few hours, Scotland, Dennis and I returned to the Sanctuary for the 3pm feed. And how good a decision was that! We saw loads of them, big and small ones. It's amazing how the parent carries the baby as he/she traverses across the rope. After the orangutans were done with the bananas that had been left out for them, dozens of monkeys turned up for the scraps. It was an incredible sight to see both monkeys and orangutans in one eyeshot in their natural environment.
We walked back to the B&B very happy people. The evening entertainment then began. First, a very competitive game of volleyball followd by a fantastic BBQ that the B&B had put on for us on request - lamb chops, sausages, chicken wings, potato salad, greens, corn on the cob, it was delicious. It then started to get messy as we played 'Pyramil' with Uno cards (Denmark taught us), a drinking game, and then musical chairs, 'Duck Goose', and finally darts. At around 2am, just as everyone was heading to bed, a couple of locals turned up with local drinks, which Kathleen said smelt like "babies' vomit" (she's a nurse). The same old foursome continued on for a few more hours until only Jackie and I were left. We were in mischievous mood. First, we formed a human pyramid with a couple of locals, and then Jackie was driven away in the back of a van for a bit before I went and got her. One of the locals took a liking to Jackie, but was never going to be successful telling her she was 'fat' and '28' when she is only 26. After the locals left, we decided it would be fun to climb on top of one of the rooms and then block a few room doors with tables and brooms. We finally hit the sack around 4am.
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