Back from Camp Leakey!

Wow!

Too much emotions in a few days... what should explain first??...

First we went to the "Care Center", the place where the new orphan orangutans arrive to take care on it. They will be there till they'll be not less than 6 or 7 years old. There are a lots and lots of young orangutans that arrive everyday from everywhere. Is so sad... but afortunately they are people like Orangutan Foundation who takes care about them and work hard to try to release again once they are enoug strong and ready to try to live in the jungle (but near the foundation's guys). There, in Care Center, we've been able to touch and hold on baby orangutans... it's something amazing to feel how strong they hold you... it's a shame that they will never feel the touch and the protection of her mother again...

We've been 5 days in Camp Leakey, the place that Orangutan Foundation has in the middle of Tanjung Puting National Park, like a center to release orangutans. There you can found all the peace that the jungle offers, and also, a group of released orangutans who live in the area near the camp. Some of the orangutans are living in Camp Leakey, but another ones only can be seen from time to time (they are free, so only go to the camp when they want, and as less they go to the camp is a good new, because that means that they are enoug selfeficient to look for food by themselves..)

Well... I've seen lots of them. From the riverboat, at the camp, at the feeding platform... lots! I'm so happy!

One day, "Princess", living legend of Orangutan Foundation (she was the first orangutan who learns how to talk with humans trough symbols, pictures and signs with her hands). Well...Princess was near the Team House (were we've been living in Camp Leakey), and when nobody was taking care of the door, she goes in. She takes a bag from one of the volunteers andtry to hide. I try to take the bag frm her hands, and "during the battle", she bites my leg. I will survive, but I promise... she's really strong!! Just a couple of minuites before that she bites me, I took a picture with her (the one which our faces are really close...), and just after the bite, we were friends again. No problem. No regrets!!

The day before, walking on the camp, we meet Akhmet and Atlas (th baby). They were really quiet and, surprisingly, Atlas left the mother for a moment and try to touch mi foot. Just a moment later, he walks from her mother to my leg and give a kiss to the bruce that the day before Princess makes me with a bite! Something amazing!

Today, coming back from Cam,p Leakey, It has been raining a lot, and my backpack is now completely wet. All my clothes, my sleeping bag, my books... everything is wet. But... welcome to the jungle!!!