Orangutan [North Sumatra unpublished]

As mentioned in my post here, I am inspired to share with you my travel to Bukit Lawang to visit Orangutan  & Lake Toba -the biggest crater lake in the world. Both are completely different place and separated by kilometers away.

Bukit Lawang is a small village at the bank of Bahorok River in North Sumatra (Sumatra is one of the big island in the Indonesian archipelago) approximately 86 km north-west of Medan (capital city of North Sumatra). Bukit Lawang is known for the largest animal sanctuary of  Sumatran orangutan (around 5,000 orangutans occupy the area -or maybe less), and also the main access point to the Leuser Montain National Park (coming from the east side).

Medan city

When you are visiting Medan city in North Sumatra, you might want to visit the iconic Deli Sultanate the Maimun Palace. The Maimun palace itself was designed by an Italian architecture and built as a house by the Deli Sultan, Sultan Mahmud Al Rasyid. Sultan Mahmud was crowned King of Deli and was considered as the pioneer of tobacco plantations in the Dutch East Indies.