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Like one glad to have made your acquaintance, a black monkey had a flat-nosed nose as the tail of the pig settled in the height of the tree, gaze at sharply to the side of the tourists.

The tree precisely in front of one of the walled huts the plank of the Mentawai station of the primate research in the Paleonan forest, North Siberut, Mentawai Island, West Sumatra, Simakobu, was like this the local name of the endemic Mentawai monkey, hurried to run headed dense the tree over the hut and disappeared.

The Paleonan forest was one of the locations was best for saw the population of the four endemic monkey kinds in his original habitat.

There, his population was relative many and was not yet disturbed the greed of humankind.

Of course apart from in the Siberut National Park region (TNS).

Nevertheless, was not easy for the tourists for a prolonged period to observe the activity the four of them.

Moreover, howling bilou that generally cans be heard every time in the morning then also did not wake up us.

As you know, rain became daily in Paleonan.

Like humankind, the primate then reluctantly emerged waited for the weather to be friendly.

If rain descended, the activity that necessarily could be carried out by us was forced to be stopped, while waiting for rain to abate we could relax in the main hut the Siberut Conservation station of the Project research (SCP).

Time was filled up chatted, discussed, read, drank tea/coffee, or played the chess.

From time to time we could use binocular or monocular to observe birds.

SCP was managed by the Centre of the Universities Gottingen Primate, Germany, took the Institute of Pertanian Bogor by the hand (IPB).

For the surfer, the West Coast Siberut was the appropriate challenge yield.

Culture of the original inhabitants Mentawai also became the tourist attraction.

In certain months, the surfers or the foreign diver leased the ship went for a trip from Padang or Australia.

The luxurious ships at the same time became the floating hotel that was ready to satisfy the heart of his leashes.

The Siberut island be at a distance 120 mile sea from the Padang City, was separated the Mentawai Strait.

Two motor boats (KM) and one fast ship of Mentawai Ekspres shared the schedule served the route of Siberut-Padang each one of his weeks.

For you that be enough time adapted the departure schedule of the fast ship at the same time not wanting for a prolonged period to divide the strait, Mentawai Ekspres was the only choice.

Sitting in the soft, four trip hours, and refrigerated air.

Certainly his tariff was more expensive than the motor boat.

Used the motor boat, the tariff IDR 80.000 per the significant person of sleep in the deck, whereas the tariff IDR 100,000 could the bed in the room had a capacity of 4-5 beds on the floor on the ship.

Did don't ask sultry him.

In the low deck, the passengers shared the place with ship cargo from various snack the stall, vegetables, staple supplies, to the motorcycle.

For you who passed the Estuary route of Siberut-Muara Sikabaluan or conversely, scenery interesting waited.

Several dolphin groups swam free while showing his back.

The Siberut island indeed kept the potential for nature, the culture, and extraordinary economics.

Unfortunately, all that was not yet dug up cleverly.

His existence precisely increasingly was threatened.

One of the threats the biggest him was the exploitation of the forest in large scale.

In fact, the forest was the root all exoticism Siberut, at the same time the heart and the community's original Mentawai breath.

Exoticism the endemic primate only a little the message of the importance maintained Siberut nature stayed lasting.