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A wild and beautiful expanse of riverine forest, coastal swamp and peat bogs bursting with wildlife, TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK is Kalimantan at its best. The park's fame rests on the efforts of Dr Birute Galdikas, who in 1971 founded Camp Leakey here as an orang-utan rehabilitation centre for animals that had been orphaned or sold as pets and needed to be taught how to forage. Tanjung Puting is also home to owa-owa, the vocal, long-armed gibbon, and to troupes of big-nosed proboscis monkeys. Along the rivers, look for monitor lizards and false ghavials, a narrow-nosed crocodile which grows to about 3m, plus scores of birds; on land, hikers need to be aware of potentially dangerous snakes.
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