Day 1: PANGKALAN BUN – KUMAI PORT – TANJUNG HARAPAN
Arrive at Pangkalan Bun
Airport, on the island of Borneo, better known by the Indonesians as
Kalimantan. Upon arrival at the airport, your guide will be waiting for you. You
will transfer to the port of Kumai in about 15-20 minutes by car, where you
will embark on a great adventure! You arrive at our traditional wooden boat,
called a klotok. Our guide will reconfirm with the crew that everything is
ready and start the cruise up the river in the famous Sekonyer River aboard a
klotok. If your flight arrives early (before 11.30 AM), you can arrive in time
to the rehabilitation center of Tanjung Harapan, where at 3 o’clock in the
afternoon, the rangers of the national park feed the orangutans, and you can
have your first close encounters with them. The translation of Tanjung Harapan
is Cape of Hope. This first camp is one of the ones with more wetlands, and
being in the afternoon has more mosquitoes, so make sure you put on enough
mosquito repellent. Here you also can do the reforestation, where you can be
volunteers to plant a tree, and so take pride that you have contributed a grain
of sand to conservation with your step over there. After visiting this Rangers
Camp, you will continue upstream, resting on the boat, while you search for
animals in the vicinity of the Sekonyer River. This afternoon, it is very
frequent to see groups of proboscis monkeys and monkeys in the treetops,
jumping from one branch to another, or even crocodiles, and lizards in the
shallow waters of the sides of the river. Prepare for sunset. The boat moored on
one side of the river to spend the night. Tonight, you can do a walk into the
jungle to look for night animals like snakes, tarantulas or if you are
lucky luminescent mushrooms or tarsiers.
Meals: Lunch – Dinner
Accommodation: Klotok Boat
Day 2: PONDOK TANGGUY – CAMP LEAKEY
After an extraordinary breakfast, you will go in time to see the Pondok
Tanggui Camp at the time of feeding (9 AM). Sooner or later, you will see how
the branches of the treetops begin to move, and then you will see the
silhouettes of the Orangutans arriving at the feeding platform. Pondok Tanggui
was a release camp for young Orangutans that were rehabilitated, and they
continue to add food every day to prevent the Orangutans from leaving because
of a lack of food. They end up outside the National Park, with the following
risk of falling into traps of settlers or fields of palm oil plantations. After
the Orangutans begin to leave, you will return to the klotok again to go
further up the river. You will see how the coloration of the river changes, and
you will have the opportunity to see crocodiles and large lizards, together
with Gibbon’s and proboscis monkeys.
Arrival
at Camp Leakey, the old orangutan research and rehabilitation center since 1971,
when a student at UCLA Los Angeles University, Birutte Galdikas began studying
the Orangutans there. The name Camp Leaky comes from Birutte’s own teacher, the
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. At least 200 orangutans had already been
cured and returned to the jungles, thanks to this center. However, since 1995,
the Government of Indonesia has banned the introduction of more Orangutans into
this camp, so Orangutans are increasingly adapting more to freedom. To this
day, this camp is used as an investigation into the behavior and feeding of
Orangutans. You will take advantage of your guide to explore the interiors of
the jungle a bit to look for orangutans in freedom and other animals. At 14.00,
you can see the feeding time of the Orangutans. You can also visit the small museum made by the
scientist Dr. Birute Galdikas.
When you are finished observing the orangutans
in this camp, and if the weather and conditions permit, you will make a short
trek through the jungle on our way back to the boat to look for wild orangutans
and other animals. You will have the opportunity to learn from our local
guides, some of whom were born in the jungle, how to look for animals or
plants, or simply listen to their experience of life in the jungle. The jungles
of Borneo have given life and have been home to the settlers for many years.
The jungles, under the eyes of the grandparents, are able to give you
everything you need. Food, water, medicines, etc. Yes... Never put anything in
your mouth without the recommendation of your guide. In the afternoon, if it
does not rain, the boat will be docked near a firefly congregation, and you can
enjoy the show of its luminescence.
Note: The Birate Galdikas Museum at Camp Leaky is
currently closed for maintenance purposes. Regrettably, visits to this site
will not be possible until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience
this may cause and will keep you updated on the reopening of the museum.
Meals: Breakfast – Lunch –
Dinner
Accommodation: Klotok Boat
Day 3: KUMAI PORT – PANGKALAN BUN
In the early morning you will enjoy the last moments of the sounds of
the jungle before heading to the port to, in turn, be transferred to the
airport.
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation:
-
INCLUDES
- 2-nights accommodation
based on a private klotok (traditional wooden boat to cruise rivers with
bathroom)
- Transfers Pangkalan Bun
Airport – Kumai Port – Pangkalan Bun Airport.
- Transfers in land and
river with English speaking guide
- Camera or video camera
fees (personal use only)
- Water, Tea, Coffee,
Cookies, Tropical Fruits
- Captain, captain assistant
and cook
- All meals: breakfast,
lunch, and dinner are served on the boat
- 1x night trekking to the
jungle
- 1x tree planting activity
- A
unique experience!
NOT INCLUDES
- Domestic/international
flight
Note:
- The rate is
based on the klotok's capacity. If our small klotok (capacity of 1-2 pax) is
fully booked, then if you need to use the bigger klotok, please contact us.
- The rate is
subject to change following any price increase that is beyond our control,
e.g., national park tickets, fuel surcharges, inflation, etc.
- Check-in time
Klotok at 10.30am, check-out time at 08.00am. Early check-in or late check-out
will be based on availability. Contact us!
- If you want to stay in Rimba Ecolodge, Please contact us.
- Conditions for
babies and children : 0-24 Months: 25%
charge from the price of adult
- Price of the
adult is based on the total of adults.
- Not operate
during Idul Fitri ( 08 April – 11 April) and Idul Adha (16 June – 17 June)
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