Buket Lewang is this incredible little villiage in the North side of Sumatra. Incredible in SO many ways. Starting, it was an incredibly LONG journey to get there... Next time I will bring my four wheeler.... I think it would have been a little faster arrival and more fun! The roads are pretty much inexistent.
The villiage is incredible because of its serene beauty out in the middle of nowhere. It is incredible because it is the last Orangutan reserve in the world. And it is incredible because it was completely flooded a few years back in the middle of the night, and so many were wiped out among their livelihoods, yet they can still smile and flurish in the river today. I cried when I read the stories. I called this picture the hill of survivors... because this is where they climbed from the building below to survive... those who were awake at midnight... In some ways this incredible city was actually very haunting for me.
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