2/12 of #top12 Orang Utan Eating a Fig  Foto: Jens Hauser

I got inspired so I thought of selecting my Top 12 photos of 2017. Some of them I selected because I liked the photo and others the experience in taking them but for all of them it is a way to remember some of the places I have visited but mostly the people I have met. My second photo comes from the Pin Supu Forest Reserve not very far from Batu Puteh village, Borneo, Malaysia. I and my wonderful and skilled guide Mohd Faijan Mustapah walked up and down the muddy steep slopes of the limestone hill looking for mammals and interesting things to photograph when we suddenly heard a crashing noise from the trees above us. We stopped and soon found out that an Orang Utan had lunch in the fig tree. He was as curious of us as we were of him and he even played hide and seek with us when we photographed him. It was almost like he was shy but he always peeks out behind the branches and leaves so that we could see him. A special thanks goes to Martin Vogel, Adam, Faijan, Fikri and the rest of the ingredible staff at KOPEL/MESCOT, http://www.mescot.org.