Southeast Asia - Clean Breaks: 500 New Ways to See the World - page 306

Lower Kinabatangan. You'll
go on river cruises and hikes
into the jungle with naturalist
guides, where you might come
across gibbons, lemurs, tarsiers,
some of the two hundred bird
species or perhaps the bizarre-
looking proboscis monkey, with
its long, protruding nose and
large belly.

Need to know Batu Puteh is
1.5hr by road from Sandakan
or 5hr from Kota Kinabalu. For
prices and reservations see
W www.misowalaihomestay.com;
T [phone].

416 Visit an Iban
longhouse, Sarawak, Malaysia
Beyond the towns and cities, the majority of the
population of Sarawak lead a traditional life
that revolves around the longhouse (a communal
wooden house on stilts) and the river. There are
several disingenuous showcase village tours,
but for a more authentic experience head for
the Nanga Sumpa longhouse - located a two-
hour longtail-boat ride from the Batan Ai jetty
on the Ulu Ai River. For the last twenty years,
Kuching-based Borneo Adventure has developed
tours with the owners of the longhouse, home to
about thirty Iban families who provide guests
with river transportation, local guides and cooks.
Based at a nearby jungle lodge, you'll go fishing
with the Iban, hike through jungle trails to
waterfalls and visit the longhouse for an insight
into today's rural Iban lifestyle.

Orang-Utan in Tanjung
Putting national park, Central
Kalimantan; Iban tribe houses,
Malaysia, Borneo

in Kalimantan, home to one of the largest
buffooneries of orang-utans in the world. Stay at
Rimba Lodge, a simple and comfortable 35-room
lodge by the Sekonyer River, from where you can
hire guides and walk into the park...cautiously.

Need to know Three-day trips depart from
Kuching. For prices and reservations see W www.
borneoadventure.com; T [phone].

Need to know For details about visiting the park
either on your own or as part of a tour group, as
well as information about volunteering with the
Orangutan Foundation, see W www.orangutan.
org.uk. For prices, directions and reservations for
Rimba Lodge see W www.rimbalodge.com; T + 62
5326 710 589.

417 Face to face with an orang-
utan, Kalimantan, Indonesia
One orang-utan has the strength of seven
men. To see these rare creatures in the wild
(from a respectable distance) go to the lowland
rainforest of the Tanjung Putin National Park