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Pretty rocks adorn the beaches |
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A school in tradition buffalo horn style |
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An upmarket house on the edge of town |
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Seeds and nuts are often dried on the roadside |
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New houses in cleared land within the ever expanding villages |
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A fine bridge over one of the larger rivers |
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Traditional dancers with hobby horses at a young man's circumcision ceromony |
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All the trees should have been as tall as this one. More and
more jungle is cleared for farming |
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Chris loitering ouside the shelter |
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Our first shelter before it got swept away |
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I decided to make my camp seperate, until I got rained out! |
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This was our loo |
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Tim and Mike in the bathroom |
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One of our cooks and guides rebuilds the shelter after the storms
with banana leaves |
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The first kitchen at camp one |
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We decided to rebuilt on level ground |
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The crew rebuilt from the contents of the jungle |
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Camp two still under construction |
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The finishing touches are done to camp two |
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This was our kitchen and the fire needed for cooking |
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Our camp, my clothes did not dry for two weeks, the humididy was
so great |
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Shattered after a hard treck and waiting for the rain to come at 4pm |
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We split up into two small groups and searched the jungle. One
place a primate made off in the canopy. It was alone, hid and
obviously it had been eating these figs |
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Cinnamon leaves |
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Chris is at a place where we found lean too like structures made
from ratan |
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Chris puts a sample in a bag |
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I found some scat on a leaf , possibly primate in origin.it was taken
in a file to be anylized later |
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The cleared areas of jungle have bridges across the many water
ways. some of them have fungi on the dead wood |
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Typical farming in the cleared land |
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Chillies were common crop grown |
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Dally shows mike how to strip a cinnamon trunk |
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The team interview an Orang Pendek witness |
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I sketched ape feet for the witness to remember |
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Making way through the vegetation looking for signs of
Orang Pendek |
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Tim and Dali falling down a ravine |
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Mike checks out a possible camera site |
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Ruby and Lisa |
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Rebecca and Lisa |
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One of the many strange footprints that we found |
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Dally and Mike at the footprint site amongst the tobacco plantation |
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Mike has administered plaster to a Orang Pendek print |
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A few of the Orang Pendek footprint casts |
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Cast 1 |
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Cast 2 |
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One of the many larger rivers |
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Tea plantations run as far as the eye can see in some places |
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The typical jungle at ground level |
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The whole of the western side of Sumatra has a long ridge of
mountains, and they can be seen throughout |
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Tree ferns adorn the cinnamon trees |
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Typical jungle at canopy level |
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This is the lean to we found, an animal ran from nearby but we
could nor see what it was |
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A motorbike man with durian fruit sells a few to us |
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Opening up the durian it looks nice but smells like urine and
tastes even worse |
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Typical vehicles and yards |
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Produce is put out to dry in the sun. These sights are everywhere |
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A wild caught bird was imprisoned. A common occupation to
bring in money |
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On the road |
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Padang centre |