Get ready to immerse yourself in the authentic wildlife of the Borneo rainforests on one of our sustainable boats. In this two-night Shared Borneo Orangutan Tour in the Tanjun Puting National Park you are collaborating with the environment, because together we reduce the number of boats and therefore the pollution of the river.
On board a traditional boat that we call klotok and together with a local crew and your guide, you will explore the wildlife that lives on the banks of the river. In this Biosphere reserve you will feel closely the passage of the Orangutans in their natural habitat and you will see hundreds of endemic Borneo proboscis monkeys, macaques, gibbons, hornbills, wild boars and hopefully some crocodile near your boat.
Get away from the world and immerse yourself in this adventure inside Borneo!
This Shared Orangutan 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! The entry time at the ship will be about 11.00am or earlier if the boat is already available.
Our boat is a typical 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. The ship will leave at about 12.00 (or earlier if you are already on board before that time). In case your flight was late and you can not make it at 12 in the Port, an assistant of Come2indonesia will be waiting to help you to hire a private boat to reach our boat, that will already be sailing with the rest of the group. This boat must be paid directly to the boat owner. The estimated price of the boat is 400,000 Rupiah (about 26 euros) and it can fit between 2-3 people per boat.
Once the Klotok leaves from the port, we will have a navigation of 2 and a half hours until we reach the rehabilitation center of Tanjung Harapan, where at 3 in the afternoon, the rangers of the National Park feed the Orangutans 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 Narigudos 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
Today you will wake up with the sounds and the colours of the jungle. Without a doubt, you will never forget how you woke up on the river, surrounded by the overflowing nature. After an extraordinary breakfast on board, we will arrive on time to visit the Tanggui Camp at the feeding time for animals (9AM).
Piece by piece, 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 the orangutans begin to leave, you will return to the klotok to continue further upstream. You will witness how the colour of the river changes and you will have the opportunity to see crocodiles and large monitor lizards, along with Gibones and Narigudos monkeys. Off course, you will enjoy your lunch in this lovely setting.
You will arrive at Camp Leakey, the old orangutan rehabilitation centre. It was founded in 1971, when a student at UCLA University in Los Angeles, called Birutte Galdikas, began studying the orangutans there. The name Camp Leakey comes from Birutte’s own professor, paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey.
At least 200 orangutans have already been cured and returned to the jungle thanks to this centre. However, since 1995 the Indonesian government has banned the introduction of more orangutans in this camp, so the orangutans are increasingly adapting to freedom. Today, this camp is used for behavioural and feeding research for orangutans. You can also visit the small museum founded by the scientist Dr. Birutte Galdikas.
After finishing the observing of orangutans in this camp, we will do a gentle trekking through the jungle back to the boat to search for free orangutans and other animals, if the weather conditions permit. 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 million 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. In the afternoon, if it does not rain, the boat will be docked near a congregation of fireflies 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.
*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 and our Shared Orangutan Tour. In the early morning you will have breakfast on the boat, go back to the port and return to the airport by transfer. The departure of the ship will be at last at 10am, but we adapt to your fight schedule in case that your flight leaves earlier in the morning. If you decide to take a flight in the afternoon, we can take you at 10 directly to the airport.
If you want a city tour in the town Arut to be transferred to the airport later, this can be organized at additional costs. Thank you for join us in this Borneo Orangutan Tour by Come2indonesia!
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