orang means person

I think that it if were up to me I may have called them Orangutans as well. We went to Bukit Lawang today in North Sumatra (that's the province name). It is the entrance to a massive animal preserve that someday I hope to spend days exploring, but for now only had three hours. We went for the main purpose of seeing orangutans, so that was fulfilled, although the opportunity of seeing elephants, tigers, gibbons, and hundreds of other critters was so tantalizing...too bad it was kinda impossible today with our short amount of time...that's why I say NEXT TIME!

So, after a little hike a little orange hairy gal came climbing down a massive tree to greet us. She was the cutest ugly thing; well i won't go into physical description since I attached a photo. Apparently she was one of the ones that had been rehabilitated and released into the wild, so she was friendlier than others, but still wild and curious. Not wild enough not to try and steal anything she could get her hands on and also not wild enough to deny a little scratch on the head. Anyway, she was the first and the second was the same, just larger. Between the two of them we spent an hour watching, photographing and just enjoying another one of God's amazing creatures.

Other than that the day was spent driving.....driving..........driving............POTHOLES............more POTHOLES........driving............... POTHOLES; yeah you get the picture. Actually for a while there the potholes were the norm and having a bit of road kinda got in the way. Close to 8 hours probably spent in the far weaving in and out of trucks, cars, humans, bikes, motorcycles, beceks (bikes or motorcylces with sidecars), cows, chickens, goats, you name it we had to get around it today. Traffic here is absolutely nuts!

Saturday night, I'm staying at my friend's office which is in the city, so I think that I'll go out and see the crazy saturday evening night life of Medan.