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Tropical jungle, wildlife and ancient traditions<\/h2>\n

The equator runs right through Kalimantan<\/strong>, the Indonesian part of Borneo<\/strong>, so you will always enjoy tropical sunshine. The climate makes it a unique landscape where, unlike in the rest of Indonesia<\/strong><\/a>, you won’t find volcanoes, but you will find ancient forests with towering trees that are home to some of the world’s most unusual animal species.<\/p>\n

It is a paradise for nature lovers. For example, orangutans live in the national parks of Tanjung Puting, Kayan Mentarang and Danau Sentarum<\/strong> but also the endemic proboscis monkeys, proboscis monkeys, gibbons, sun bears numerous bird species have found their home here.<\/p>\n

Kalimantan is also called “the island of a thousand rivers. Take a beautiful boat ride on the pristine Sungai Mahakam<\/strong> River and look for animals like hornbills and crocodiles on the bank along the way and visit the floating market of Benjarmasin<\/strong>, also called the “Venice of Asia,” where locals trade food from small boats.<\/p>\n

In the interior live the original inhabitants of Kalimantan, the Dayak,<\/strong> who live by the principle that everything has a soul and worship spirits and animals. Get to know their culture while visiting the traditional longhouse in Tanjung Isuy village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unspoiled and natural Indonesian Borneo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":290381,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"country":[247],"highlight_category":[600],"continent_category":[217],"class_list":["post-290385","highlights","type-highlights","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country-indonesia","highlight_category-hoogtepunt-en","continent_category-asia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/290385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/highlights"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlights\/290385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=290385"},{"taxonomy":"highlight_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/highlight_category?post=290385"},{"taxonomy":"continent_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.untamedtravelling.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/continent_category?post=290385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}