Chapter Three: Breakfast- Complimentary Creepy Crawlies and Sour Bean Milk

I awoke the next morning to find a nice giant spider in the bathroom, a bonus that they failed to inform us was included with the room:) After dousing myself in 100% deet and sunscreen and donning my polka dot bandanna, I was ready to tackle the jungle. Every jungle trekker needs a good breakfast to fuel them for the treacherous journey ahead of them. Good thing the Jungle Inn puts extra protein in their pineapple juice, yep there were some nice little orange bugs in my pineapple juice, but no worries because risk-taking Molly laughs in the face of swallowing unidentified insects. After breakfast we headed down to the river to go to orangutan reserve. We had to take a canoe across the river. It was hooked to cables, and was navigated by a man in his skivvies. Quite the sight at 8:00am in the morning, but also a rather nifty way to get across the river.

When we got to the other side it was breakfast time for the orangutans. There were a couple in cages when we first entered the reserve. We hiked further into the jungle to a platform where a dominant female name Suma was coming to eat. She was quite the character, giving us the eye every once in a while as she at her 25 bananas and dumped out her cup of sour bean milk. We found out later that she was pregnant which explained some of her moodiness and...eating habits. I had watched a show on Animal Planet a month or so ago on which Steve Irwin visited this same place. In honor of him, Emma and I had fun adding commentary to the amazing creatures we were going to observe. I will try and get footage of that, as humiliating as it will probably be:)

After visiting Suma, we separated from the rest of the tourists and embarked on our eight hour trek through the Sumatran Jungle.