Borneo: 7 amazing facts

Borneo is the third-largest island in the world, covered with prehistoric forest and inhabited by amazing animals, many of which you can not find anywhere more. In the same time, Borneo has good roads, beautiful beaches, and even a cat city! Borneo is wild, Borneo is huge, Borneo is unbelievably beautiful!

You can find some travel tips below this video :)

Borneo, Sepilok: the People of Forest

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. 

That is the way of a whole human being.” 

(Abraham Lincoln)

It is told that the eyes are the mirror of the soul...

Of course I knew that, according to with the last scientific researches, the orangutans can experience complex feelings such are love, depression, etc.; that they are able to do a lot of things such are riding a boat or washing clothes, use and make some tools; that they express self-awareness and self- recognition and can solve complex cognitive tasks that previously considered to be possible only for humans.

But when I was looking to the eyes of the alive orangutan, I was seeing not only that. I've seen the intelligence and deep sorrow. I've seen the eyes of the creature which resigned himself with the fact that he is, probably, one of the last representatives of his ancient lineage.

Borneo, Sepilok: The Sun Bear Village

Everyone knows what a panda is, but do you know anything about sun bears?

I heard nothing about them until my visit to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, where I saw the sign that attracted my attention. Following the directions, I found a wooden platform from which one can observe a piece of the forest with these cute, little jet-black bears.

They took their name thank to a big pale patch on their chests is reminiscent of the rising sun. They are the smallest and rarest representatives of the bear family, with short tails and extremely long tongues that can reach 25 cm!

The adult male is about 150 cm long and 70 cm high, and the babies weigh just 280–350 g at birth; they are born hairless and blind, and for the first 18 months of their lives, they cannot survive without their mother.