Borneo Orangutan Tour Tanjung Puting
- 3 Days / 2 Nights
- Wildlife
Easy-Moderate
Borneo Orangutan Tour Tanjung Puting National Park is one of our best-selling travel destinations. Adventure Indonesia Orangutan tour is more than simply bringing visitors to see the Orangutan. In addition to experiencing the lush rainforest of central Kalimantan, visitors can also take part in keeping the home of Orangutans safe. In the past years, a worrying number of Orangutans kept decreasing, as people took away their habitat and turned them into plantations. We believe that enjoying your adventure in Tanjung Puting safely helps to spread love toward the brilliant creature, as well as raise awareness against the threats they are facing right now. You could also participate in orangutan adoption.
Best Time to Visit Borneo Orangutan
There is no special condition required to fully enjoy this magical Orangutan trip. Visit any time of the year, dry or wet season. You will find different beauty of nature in both kinds of weather.
On this Borneo Orangutan tour, klotok will be the main transportation. It is a traditional boat made of wood. From the klotok houseboat upper deck, you can view the rainforest as it glides by. You have a better opportunity of seeing birds, Proboscis Monkeys, and crocodiles at the riverside. When you wake up at dawn to the “morning concert ” of tropical rainforest creatures. It will be full of exciting experiences.
Let’s have a visit to Tanjung Puting National Park, where you can see all the flora and fauna of the island. You also can experience lots of new things. From meeting Orangutans to cruising the river using Klotok, the traditional boat of Borneo. It is common for tourists to stay over at Klotok for several days during the trip. Waken up by the sound of the jungle and sleep under the stars.
Camp Leakey Trekking
Easy Trekking at Camp Leakey on Day 2 for birdwatching and to visit the feeding station for the ex-captive orangutans. You will explore and trek deeper into the jungle or on different trails to see other animals and exotic fauna. Afternoon visits to the feeding station to see the ranger give additional food to the rehabilitated orangutan.
- Upon arrival at Pangkalan Bun Airport, you will be picked up by our local staff.
- Transfer to Kumai, board the houseboat. The houseboat is a traditional wooden riverboat with a roof that forms the upper deck where you can view the rainforest as it glides by. The guide's team includes the boatman, a cook, and an expert guide.
- In the peaceful afternoon, we will slowly explore the quite river by the klotok while observing the proboscis monkeys along the riverside.
- Dinner on the boat
- Overnight on the klotok houseboat or riverside eco-lodge. While overnight on the boat we serve thin mattresses, pillows, fine meals, bottled "mineral" water, mosquito net, kitchen, simple toilet available on the boat besides the familiar - helpful guides and boatmen.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner on Boat
Overnight: Klotok Boat or Riverside Lodge
- Breakfast
- Travel up the river for about 2 hours boating and then up a side creek to Camp Leakey where the older orangutans were reintroduced into the rain forest.
- En route stop at Pondok Tanguy, the former rehabilitation center for the new ex-captive orangutans. At Camp Leakey, you will have the opportunity to trek into the rain forest with your expert guide and the forestry rangers to appreciate the flora as well as perhaps sighting wild orangutans, gibbons, macaques, and birds.
- Lunch provided on boat.
- Afternoon visits the feeding station to see rehabilitate orangutans are given additional foods. We will then sail back down the river to overnight on the klotok houseboat or riverside eco-lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Overnight: Klotok Boat or Riverside Lodge
- Breakfast and boating down to Kumai
- Transfer by car to Pangkalan Bun airport for your next destination.
Meals : Breakfast
Formerly functions as orangutans rehabilitation center, Camp Leakey was set up in 1971 by Louis Leakey to support research activities in Tanjung Puting Wildlife Reserve.
The camp and surrounding area is designated as a special utility zone. Over the years, the camp has served the research efforts of several scientist and students. Tourist will be able to walk on certain trails of the trail system without disturbing the research activities. On the way to Camp Leakey (on Sekonyer Simpang Kanan river), you may occasionally see crocodiles and the false gavials.
Pondok Tanguy, a rehabilitation center for formerly captive orangutanss who are being reintroduced to the wild. Here you can do some short hiking and observe the staff ’s interactions with the orangutanss. There are several feeding stations set up around Tanjung Puting National Park and once a day, at each location, park rangers bring bananas, durian and other fruit to feed the orangutans that live in the area. The feeding stations were set up to rehabilitate displaced and orphaned orangutans whose existence has been threatened by the rapid elimination of the rainforest through abusive logging and mining methods practiced mainly by the local Dayak people who, though their livelihood, are destroying the rain forest. Regular interactions with humans have made the orangutans, who live in the wild, accustomed to the presence of people. Though the orangutans will likely come close, you are not allowed to touch them or interfere with their feeding.
- English Speaking Guide
- Meals as stated on itinerary B ( Breakfast ), L ( Lunch ), D ( Dinner )
- Accomodation on Klotok Boat or River Lodge
- AC Transportation
- Transfer in / out
- National Park Entrance Fee
- Police permit
- Ranger fee
