- Idilesi: Jalan Labuk Sandakan Sabah, Batu 14, Sabah, Sepilok, 90009 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
- Ifowuni: +60 89-531-180
- Ummandla: iimitha zesikwere ezingama-43. km
- Unyaka wesiseko: 1964
- Iiyure zokuvula: 09: 00-18: 00
Isifunda saseMalaysia saseSabah sihlala kwikhaya elidala kunazo zonke kwiSepilok Orphanage Sanctuary (i-Orang Utan Sanctuary), isikhungo sokuhlaziya i-orangutans (i-Pongo pygmaeus) esonakaliswe ngezandla zabantu.
Ulwazi jikelele
I-Sapilok yasungulwa ngo-1964 kwaye ikhona kwintsimi enemihlathi yamadlelo kunye namahlathi emvula. Ikhuselwe yimimandla kunye nemibutho eyahlukeneyo (i-Kabili Sepilok Forest Reserve). Ummandla weziko li-43 square metres. km. Abasebenzi beziko bahlinzekela i-primate kunye noncedo lwezonyango, bancedise ukuba bajonge kwiimeko zemvelo baze bafundise ubomi ngaphandle.
Inombolo ye-orang-utans ehlala kwiziko ihluka ukusuka kuma-60 ukuya kuma-80 abantu. Izilwanyana zabantu abadala zihamba ngokukhululekile kwintsimi ye-Sepilok, kwaye abantwana bahlala kwiindawo zokubeletha ezikhethekileyo. Ama-orangutan amancinci aqeqeshwa yiinkwenkwe eziye zafumana ukuvuselelwa. Benza indawo zezintandane kunye nonina kwaye batshintshe izakhono zabo kwisizukulwana esincinane.
Abasebenzi beziko ba landela ngokukhawuleza uphuhliso kunye nombuso wezilwanyana. Ngokomzekelo, ii-orangutan zinikwa isidlo esisisigxina (ubhanana nobisi) ukuze bafunde indlela yokufumana ukutya ngokwabo. Abo baphilile ngokupheleleyo kwaye bahlonyelwe ubomi baya kukhutshwa kwikululeko. Le nkqubo ithatha iminyaka engama-7. Iimonki, ezingazange zivumelaniswe nemvelo yasendle, zishiywe kwi-nursery ngonaphakade. Ngokuqhelekileyo izilwanyana ezinjalo zigcinwe kwiivenkile zasekhaya okanye zixhatshazwe.
Imigaqo yokuziphatha
Xa u tyelela abatyelelo be-Sepilok kufuneka balandele imithetho ethile:
- Ukuhamba phakathi kweziko kunokwenzeka kuphela kwiindlela ezibekwe ngokuthe ngqo, ubude obude buyi-5 km;
- Ukuba unobanda, awuvumelekanga ukuba uye kwii-orangutan, kuba izilwanyana zitheleleka kalula kubantu;
- Ukusondela kwezilwanyana kunye nokuthintela kungavumelekile, ngoko akubanga bangela ukulimala.
Yintoni oyenzayo ngexesha lokutyelela?
Ngexesha lokundwendwela iindwendwe:
- Qaphela inkqubo yokondla iibhondi kwindawo ekhethekileyo yokuxhobisa oku. Oku kwenzeka 2 amaxesha ngosuku (10:00, 15:00). Iibhaboni, i-langurs kunye nama-macaque nazo ziza ukutya.
- Jonga ukuba iinkwenkwezi zinjani ukufunda ukunyuka imithi kunye nokudlala kwiindawo zokudlala. Umrhumo uya kuvunyelwa ukuba ukondle ii cubs.
- Jonga kwi-Szepiloka ifilimu zengqondo-zengqondo malunga nokuziphatha nokuphila kweenkwenkwezi, ukuba ziyabanjwa njani kwaye zibulewe ngabazingeli, kunye nokufunda ngomsebenzi weziko lokubuyisela. Iifilimu zifakiwe zonke iiyure ezingama-2.
- Ukubona kwintsimi yenkwenkwezi yaseSumatran, iindlovu, iibhere, iintaka ezahlukeneyo, izilwanyana ezinwabuzelayo kunye nezinambuzane. Izilwanyana zinikezelwa ngononophelo lwempilo.
- Thatha uhambo phakathi kwehlathi, apho imithi ethile inokuphakama kwama-70 m, kwaye izityalo ziyamangaliswa nemibala yazo eqaqambileyo kunye namaqabunga angavamile.
Izinto zokutyelela
Ukuya kuhambo lwe-Sepilok, thabatha izihlwele kunye nezicathulo ezikhululekile kunye nawe, kuba uya kufuneka uhambe nge-softening decking. Izinto zobuqu, ngaphandle kweekhamera, shiya kwigumbi lokugcina ukuze ama-primates abo angawathabathi.
Kukho ivenkile yokuthengisa okuthengiswayo. Umrhumo wokungena kwiziko le-Sepilok okanye i-orangutan yokuvuselela i-$ 7 ngabantu abadala kunye ne-3.50 yabantwana kubantwana abaneminyaka emi-5. Ukuhlawulwa ngokukhethekileyo kwisithombe kunye nevidiyo-malunga ne-$ 2. Unokuza apha imihla ngemihla ukususela ngo-09: 00 ukuya ku-18: 00, ngokukhethekileyo ngexesha lonyaka owomileyo.
Ndingafika njani?
Ukusuka kwisixeko saseSandakan ukuya kwisiko ungathatha iteksi (malunga needola ezingama-20 kwimiba yomibini) kwindlela ye-22 (Jalan Sapi Nangoh). Umgama u-25 km. Ibhasi leBhasi 14 liya apha. Liphuma kwiBhunga leSixeko, uhambo lubiza i-$ 0.5. Ukusuka kwindawo yokuma kufuneka uhambe 1.5 km.