Great Orangutan Klotok Borneo Wild Animal Borneo Bird

Day 1: PANGKALAN BUN – KUMAI PORT – TANJUNG HARAPAN TREKKING

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. After visiting the feeding camp, you will do the planting of the trees and then continue trekking inside the jungle for about an hour. It is an opportunity to enjoy more intensely the endemics of the area, the orangutans, the sounds of the night, the vegetation, etc. Once the camps are assembled, you will have dinner, and if you want, you can do some hiking at night to see the nocturnal fauna with your guide.

Meals                         : Lunch – Dinner

Accommodation      : Camping in the jungle

Day 2: TANJUNG HARAPAN VILLAGE – CAMP LEAKEY TREKKING

After tidying up the tent, you will continue our trekking to the river, where the motor canoe will pick us up and take us to the boat. You will cruise the river with a motor canoe, and then you will have breakfast and freshen up on the boat. Take a rest a bit, then 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 continued our journey to Camp Leakey feeding camp.

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.

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 TREKKING – PROBOSCIS TOUR

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 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. 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      : -

INCLUDED:

- 2-nights accommodation based on a private klotok (traditional wooden boat to cruise rivers with bathroom) and 1-night camping in the jungle

- 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 (except dinner on day 1, which is picnic style in the camp)

- 1x tree planting activity

- A unique experience!

NOT INCLUDED:

- Domestic/international flights

- Travel Insurance (Highly Recommended)

- Alcohol, soft drinks, personal expenses

- 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)