Tanjung Puting National Park, located in the south of central Kalimantan, is covered by a complex mosaic of diverse lowland habitats. It contains 3,040 km2 of low-lying swampy terrain punctuated by black-water rivers which flow into the Java Sea. At the mouth of these rivers and along the sea coast are found mangrove swamps. Tanjung Puting also includes tall dry ground tropical rain forest, primarily tropical heath forest, with a canopy of 30 meters with “emergents” exceeding 50 meters in height.
Camp Leakey – a research center where visitors can observe ex-captive orangutans that have been returned to the wild but are not entirely independent. In the 1970s and 1980s, Camp Leakey also served as a rehabilitation center. The orangutans we saw are the last of those rehabilitated at Camp Leakey, as well as their offspring and possibly wild orangutans as well.