Nine days across northern Sumatra: jungle trekking in Gunung Leuser National Park to find wild orangutans, sunrise on Mount Sibayak, and the vast caldera of Lake Toba with its Batak culture on Samosir Island.
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Bukit Lawang — jungle trekking for wild orangutans
A chaotic 1 a.m. arrival, then three days trekking Gunung Leuser: wild orangutans within minutes, leeches, a macaque raid on our treehouse, a jungle thunderstorm and a rain-swollen river ride out.
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