Photojournalist Jason Houston is on the road with writer William duBuys visiting the Pride site of Eddy Santoso in Borneo! Continue to follow Jason’s journey.  

We spent most of today doing a few video interviews with Togu, the Director of the conservation group Yayorin, and Eddy, the Pride campaign manager of the site. The rest of the day we planned and prepped for our four-day trek into the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve and surrounding buffer zone.

Tasks included begging a permission letter from a local official and charging all of the batteries we can. We leave in the morning by boat, traveling several hours upriver to remote research camps with no electricity or other services. The excursion is to see the place this Pride campaign is working to save (and, with luck, some of the orangutans as well), but also to witness many of the threats the reserve faces. I’ll post a full report and lots of pictures when we return.

In the mean time, here, just for fun, are a few images of things we’ve eaten:

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Dried fish laid out on the boardwalk above the river’s edge in Pangkalan Bun.

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Fresh papaya from Yayorin’s demonstration gardens. A part of Yayorin’s mission is to share empowering knowledge with local communities, such as how to grow many different fruits and vegetables well and sustainably in Kalimantan’s poor, sandy soil (including such temperate crops as cabbage and strawberries!)

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More dried fish in a local market stand.

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Coconuts

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Whole, deep-fried fish in a local restaurant.

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Bananas

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The mini-bar at the Blue Kecubung Hotel in Pangkalan Bun (where alcohol has been banned).

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