On the Spot (2009)

Eszter and András, their six-year-old son and 8-month-old daughter discover the wonders of the archipelago from aboard a traditional Indonesian sailboat. Eight Indonesian sailors and the captain help them on the more than one-week voyage to get to know the paradise believed to be lost, the 1,500 small, mostly uninhabited islands of Raja Ampat. Where they swim with sharks, where they look for birds of paradise in the rainforest, get to know the inhabitants of the local pearl fishing colonies and meet a Papuan chieftain at the sacred river of the Mayan tribe.

In the second part of the series, the crew of On the Spot anchors in the southernmost tip of Raja Ampat: here the staff of the Misool Foundation put an end to the brutal practice and dynamite fishing at the site of a shark fin processing camp in order to bring sharks back from the brink of extinction to the most beautiful coral reefs in the world. The fishermen, who used to eat turtle meat, now work as game guards, artificially try to restore the coral reef that was blown up with dynamite, and collect 17 tons of garbage a month from the world's most beautiful untouched beaches, where currents from all over Indonesia throw tons of plastic ashore.

The protagonists of the third part of Back to nature are the Komodo dragons and the dedicated young rangers who protect them in the Komodo National Park, where the crew of On the Spot reached by boat in the Flores Sea in Indonesia. Eszter Cseke, András S. Takács and their two children spent two weeks around the last few islands on Earth where Komodo dragons can still be found. Only a few thousand specimens are known, and the rare Komodo monitor lizards live only in this national park.

The fourth episode of Back to nature was shot on the largest island in Asia, Borneo, by Eszter Cseke and András S. Takács, in the land of the orangutans. They traveled to a magical 70-million-year-old primeval forest that had never been logged. While they discovered the forest, which according to the locals provides a solution to all the problems and troubles of human existence, András persistently observed a wild orangutan for several days. The time spent with the humanoid and the big meeting at the end was the experience of a lifetime. But as uplifting as this family adventure was, it sheds light on such a dramatic story, because on the island of Borneo, almost half of the rainforest has disappeared without a trace in recent decades, and deforestation continues to this day, so the orangutans' habitat is shrinking day by day.