Amazing Trip To Tanjung Puting National Park

DAY 1:
ARRIVAL IN PANKALANBUN – KUMAI – HOUSE BOAT – TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK
After arrival at Pankalanbun Airport then the tour guide is happy to welcome you upon arrival in Pankalanbun/Central Kalimantan. It takes 30 minutes from Pankalanbun Airport to the harbour city of Kumai. In the harbour you will then board your personal house boat. Lunch will be served on board. You will start the tour by house boat from Kumai and enter the mouth of Sekonyer Rivers continuing upstream. You have the possibility to relax on the deck of your house boat and observe flora and fauna passing by. Tanjung Puting National Park is not only a habitat for Orang Utans but for uncountable different animals such as the long nose ape (Nasalis larvatus), rare bird species, and variety of colourful butterflies. The Sekonyer River is also a habitat for a very rare species of crocodiles (thus swimming in the river is not allowed!!!). Enjoy the silence as well as the sounds of nature aboard. The boat trip is amazing and has its varieties. Your personal chef on board is preparing a delicious lunch and dinner on the house boat. Clean mattresses are prepared for the night (on the deck/no cabins available). Shower/toilet facilities are very simple but efficient and very clean.

DAY 2:
TANJUNG PUTING NATIONAL PARK – PONDOK TANGGUI / ORANGUTAN FEEDING – CAMP LEAKEY / MUSEUM / ORANGUTAN FEEDING – KUMAI – PANKALANBUN
After breakfast on board of the house boat, we will visit the first highlight on Sekonyer River. You will visit Pondok Tanggui, which is our first stop at Tanjung Puting National Park. Here the Orang Utans are observed and registered. After you have reached Pondok Tunggui, you take part in the feeding of Orang Utans. You will reach the feeding place of Pondok Tunggui in guidance of a ranger after having a 30 minutes soft trekking tour through the rain forest. Now it is time to wait for the rehabilitated and wild Orang Utans to reach the feeding place, once you have arrived at the feeding place. After this fascinating experience, you return to the starting point and continue aboard the house boat upstream to Camp Leakey.  Lunch is served on board. You will reach Camp Leakey after a 2 hours journey through lush rain forest vegetation, where the museum and documentation centre of Camp Leakey/Tanjung Puting National Park was established by Mrs. Dr. Biruté Galdikas (to get information about the Orang Utan Foundation International). First you will visit the museum and then continue to the feeding place of the Orang Utans in guidance of a ranger at Camp Leakey late afternoon. The trekking tour to the feeding place of the Orang Utans. You will reach the feeding place at Camp Leakey after 45 minutes trekking through the jungle. You always have to follow the instruction of your ranger. Many wild Orang Utans will also come to the feeding place during dry season. Please do not feed the Orang Utans by yourself and do not eat or drink in front of them. This is your chance to observe the feeding of Orang Utans in the forest. Afterwards you will return to Camp Leakey and board your house boat again. After that continue downstream from Camp Leakey to Kumai. Dinner will be served on board. You will reach the harbour of Kumai.  Then you will be transferred from Kumai to Pankalanbun, where you will stay overnight at hotel.

DAY 3:
PANGKALAN BUN – TRANSFER TO THE AIRPORT
You will check out from Blue Kecubung Hotel after breakfast. Transfer to Pankalanbun airport, where your journey ends. (Suitable for flights from Pankalanbun to Semarang).

More info: centralkalimantan@indonesia-tourism.com