From Perak, With Love: Part I can be found here.

Second day at Perak greeted us warmly with the sun shining happily at us. The plan was to go to as many attractions as possible seeing that the next day, we’ll be leaving for Kuala Lumpur. We had breakfast at Kafe Le Lac and as expected, there weren’t many people around. I have a hunch that probably most of the people that were there were Singaporeans too seeing that the school holidays in Malaysia were already over. After breakfast, we took a stroll at the jetty, where we the guests could actually buy food to feed the ducks there. We didn’t buy any though. We were already content with looking at others feeding the ducks and hearing the ducks quacking out of tune.

The whole family was anxious to check out the attractions available, so after a short u-turn back to our hotel rooms to get some stuff, we were off again on the jetty. Bapak decided that we all should take the ferry and visit the Orang Utan Island. Now, that’s something interesting.

After waiting for more passengers on the ferry-namely the Japanese-, we were off!

The ferry trip was only for a few minutes since the Orang Utan Island was not that far.

Basically, the Orang Utan Island is a movement made by someone-I forgot his name-to save these endangered species. The orangutans are allowed to live freely there on the island. And when there are visitors there on the island, it is us, who will be in cage looking out at the Oran Utans instead of them being in the cages. Some of the orangutans there have been taken from other parts of Asis while some were taken in when they were found abandoned by their mothers. The place is really informative and I got to know that oranutans resemble human beings as much as 98%. The orangutans are taken care of there as if they’re really human beings. There is an ICU for the babies and I even saw one that was in the incubator due to premature birth. There are ’schools’ for the infants and it is only when they are adults that they are allowed to live free on their own. In my opinion, I think it really does help people to be more aware about the danger that these species are experiencing. We spent about 45 minutes there and then we waited for the half an hour frequent ferry to come.

Next stop, the EcoPark!