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: TANJUNG HARAPAN VILLAGE – PROBOSCIS
TOUR – CAMP LEAKEY
After an extraordinary breakfast, you go to visit the village inside the
national park, named Tanjung Harapan Village. Here you will see the activities
of the locals. After the visit, you will return to the klotok cruise up to the
Seikonyer River. You will see nice vegetation around the river bank, including
Nipa Palm, Pandanus, and some kinds of trees that are growing up around the
river. See some wildlifes such as birds, Macaques, Proboscis Monkeys and
Orangutans. You will see how the coloration of the river changes, and you will
have the opportunity to see crocodiles and large monitor lizards.
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.
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: PONDOK TANGGUI – CAMP LEAKEY – BOAT
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
lunch, you will have the opportunity to repeat feeding camp at Camp Leaky. It
is a unique opportunity to dedicate more time to your observation and to
discover more wild animals, along with the Orangutans. 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.
Meals : Breakfast – Lunch –
Dinner
Accommodation : Klotok Boat
Day 4: 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 :
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INCLUDES:
- 3-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
- English speaking guide
- 3-Days permission of the police, rangers and the national
park
- Camera or video camera fees (personal use only)
- Water, Tea, Coffee, Cookies, Tropical Fruits
- Captain, captain assistant and cook
- 1x night trekking to the jungle
- All meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner are served on the
boat
- 1x tree planting activity
- A unique experience!
NOT INCLUDES:
- Domestic/international
flights
- Travel Insurance (Highly
Recommended)
- Alcohol, soft drinks,
personal expenses
- Surcharge of IDR
100,000/person/day/camp applicable
for every Sunday, national or public holiday and collective leave days must be
paid upon arrival
- Extra expenses occurred due
to causes beyond our control (force majeure),
such as cancellations of flights, natural disasters, diseases, etc
- Any extra-surcharge if the
government suddenly raises the fee or adds new
permits
Notes :
- The rate is
based on the klotok's capacity. If our small klotok (capacity of 1-2 pax) is
fully booked, then the other option is to use the bigger klotok, for an
additional charge of Big 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, please
- 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)