In this Borneo Orangutan & Reforestation Tour, you will get away from the world in one of our traditional boats through the rivers and forests of Borneo, one of the last refuges of our cousins the Orangutans.
You can also see proboscis monkeys, long-tailed macaques, monitor lizards, crocodiles, gibbons, wild boars and endemic birds. Understand what life in the jungle is like on this three-night Eco tour from one of our local guides as you explore the jungle of the third largest island on the planet. Let the adventure begin!
Your “Orangutan & Reforestation Tour” begins upon arrival at Pangkalan Bun on the island of Borneo, better known by the Indonesians as Kalimantan. Upon arrival at the airport your guide will be waiting for you to transfer to the port of Kumai in about 15-20 minutes by car, where we will embark on a great adventure! We will arrive at our traditional, wooden boat, called a ‘klotok’.Our guide will reconfirm to our crew that everything is ready to go, and the cruise upstream starts on the famous Sekonyer river abroad a klotok.
If your flight arrives early (before 12.00AM), we can arrive on time at the Tanjung Harapan rehabilitation centre where at 3 in the afternoon, the orangutans are fed by the Rangers of the National Park and you can have the first close encounters with them. The meaning of ‘Tanjung Harapan’ is ‘Cape of Hope’. This first camp has more wetlands and therefore has more mosquitos in the afternoon, 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 your journey upriver- resting on the boat while we look for animals in the nearness of the Sekonyer River. In the afternoon it is very common to see groups of proboscis monkeys and macaques in the treetops, jumping from one tree branch to another, or to even see crocodiles or lizards in the shallow waters on the sides of the river.
Prepare for the sunset and enjoy the exquisite food prepared by our jungle crew. The boat is moored on the side of the river to spend the night.Tonight, we can take a walk through the jungle to look for nocturnal animals such as snakes, tarantulas or even if we are lucky, we can find luminescent mushrooms or tarsier monkeys.
Meals: Lunch – Dinner
Accommodation: Klotok boat
After an extraordinary breakfast, we prepare the backpacks to start a trekking in the Pesalat area where we can more intensely enjoy the endemism of the area, search for wild orangutans, but above all here we will have two objectives; one will be to see birds and another will be to be part of the conservation of the National Park, visiting the reforestation center of the Friends of the National Park Foundation (FNPF) where you can volunteer to Plant a tree and thus take the pride that you have contributed to the conservation to over there.
On the way we will have the opportunity to learn a lot about the jungle from our local guides, of whom some of them were born in the jungle. They’ll explain how to look for animals or plants, and you can listen to their experience of life in the jungle. The jungles of Borneo, that have given life and shelter to its inhabitants for millions of years, are jungles that under the watch of their ancestors, are still capable of fulfilling every single individual’s needs. Food, water, medicines, etc… But never throw anything in your mouth without your guide’s recommendation.
Back at the klotok, we start our journey upriver, delving further into the jungle. You will see how the color of the river changes and you will have the opportunity to see crocodiles and large monitor lizards, together with Gibbons and Proboscis Monkeys. Arrival at Camp Leakey, the old center for research and rehabilitation of orangutans since 1971, when a student at UCLA University from Los Angeles, called Birutte Galdikas began to study the Orangutans in it, the name Camp Leaky comes from Birutte’s own professor, the Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.
At least 200 orangutans have already been cured and returned to the forests thanks to this center, however since 1995, the Government of Indonesia has prohibited the introduction of more Orangutans in this camp, so the Orangutans are adapting more and more to freedom.
Today, this camp is used for behavioral and feeding research of Orangutans. 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. In the afternoon, if it doesn’t rain, the boat will dock near a congregation of fireflies and you can enjoy the spectacle of their 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
After an extraordinary breakfast on board, we will arrive on time to visit the Tanggui Camp at the feeding time for animals (9 AM). Little by little, you will see how the treetops begin to move and then you will see the silhouettes of the orangutans gradually reaching the feeding platform.
Tanggui was a release camp for young orangutans that we rehabilitated- preventing the orangutans from moving away due to a lack of food and ending up outside the National Park, with the following risks of falling into traps of settlers or palm oil plantation fields. After lunch, we will have the opportunity to repeat feeding camp, Camp Leaky. It is a unique opportunity to spend more time observing and discovering more wild animals, along with the Orangutans.
Note: If your return flight leaves early in the morning (around 7 a.m.), tonight the klotok will sleep closer to the port in order to get you to the airport in time.
Meals: Breakfast – Lunch – Dinner
Accommodation: Klotok boat
Today we end our stay in the jungles of Borneo. Our “Orangutan & Reforestation Tour” is about to finish. In the early morning we will have breakfast on the boat, to then go to the port and in turn, be transferred to the airport. The boat departure will be at the latest at 10am, but we adapt to your flights if your flight leaves earlier in the morning. If you decide to take an afternoon flight, we can take you directly to the airport at 10 or if you want a city tour in the Arut village to drop you off at the airport later, it could be arranged at extra cost.
Meals: Breakfast
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