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4 Day House Boat Tour In Pangkalan Bun & Tanjung Puting National Park
  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Bird Watching, Jungle Expedition, Wildlife

  • Duration

    4 Days

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

This 4-day Orangutan House Boat Tour is not only a holiday but rather a smart journey to understanding human evolution, forest, and biodiversity. Cruise into the old legendary forest of Borneo, watching wildlife, and stay overnight in the House Boat- a floating homestay called Kelotok. The itinerary also includeds 3 Orangutan Feeding Camp: Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui and Camp Leakey. 

Highlights
  • Tour around in a houseboat
  • Observe the endemic flora and fauna
  • Visit 3 Orangutan Feeding Camps
  • Day 1: Airport - Kumai - Tanjung Harapan - Nypah Habitat expand_more
    • Upon arrival in Pangkalan Bun, you’ll be met and transferred to Kumai for boarding to the Kelotok. 

    • Leaving Kumai River, you’ll have an opportunity to see riverfront life. Borneo has so many rivers so the boat is the main transportation here. 

    • May you also see a thousand high buildings hotel with tiny holes, such as semi-wild swift poultry to harvest its nest. 

    • Then, cruise to Sekonyer River, the estuarine habitat with unique vegetation called mangrove, before your first stop at Tanjung Harapan Camp to watch Orangutan feeding at 15.00 o’clock. 

    • Watch along with the river bands for wildlife such as Proboscis Monkey-the endemic monkey in Borneo, Long-tailed Macaque, Red-leaf Monkey, Silvered Langur, or birdlife along the riverside. 

    • After watching Orangutan, then cruising downstream for watching groups of Proboscis monkey- the endemic primate in Borneo. 

    • Looking for a good place to angle boat and sleep overnight in the Kelotok beneath fireflies. If the weather good (no rain, no wind) we can see a million fireflies like a Christmas tree, but we can't guarantee this. We will try to do our best effort and find out the best place. 

    Dinner beneath fireflies. Meals Provided B L D

  • Day 2: Nypah Habitat - Camp Leakey - Sekonyer Kanan expand_more
    • After a sunrise breakfast, cruising up the river. 

    • You’ll have time to relax, enjoying the fresh air, or do some primate spotting in the roosting tree while the boat finds out a good place to tie up.

    • Next destination is Camp Leakey, the legendary Orangutan Rehabilitation Camp, where Prof. Birute MF. Galdikas starting her study in early 1971.

    • Boating a side creek through tea-colored water where you will see the magnificent reflection from the vegetation along the river, when lucky with you, the freshwater crocodile and other wildlife attraction could find a long river band. 

    • After having lunch and departing in Camp Leakey, we can spend the rest of the day hiking through the Borneo rainforest, exploring peat swamp forest, lowland dipterocarp habitat, searching wildlife, or enjoying varieties of fungi, orchid, slipper orchid, mosses, and ferns, then enjoying Orangutan feeding time at 2.00 pm. 

    Stay overnight on the boat. Meals Provided B L D

    *Canoeing may provide on the second day before Visiting Camp Leakey.

    *You have the choice to stay overnight in the black water river then having a night trekking in Pondok Ambung Research Station for nocturnal wildlife.

  • Day 3: Sekonyer Kanan - Pondok Tanggui - Sekonyer Village - Tanjung Harapan expand_more
    • After having breakfast, the boat will drive to Pondok Tanggui.

    • Orangutan feeding will be at 09.00 in the morning. This place is nice, even the orangutan does not attend the feeding platform sometimes in the fruit season, but this is excellent news for ecotourism.

    • It means orangutans prefer to have a natural food and can survive in the jungle. 

    • After watching Orangutan, we will continue to Tanjung Harapan (first station) to see orangutan feeding at 15.00. The point is spotting wildlife during slow cruising between Pondok Tanggui – Tanjung Harapan. Sleep overnight in Pesalat. 

    • Meals provided: BLD

    • Optional activities will be offered. You can choose what you like to do after visiting Orangutan Feeding Camp, such as:

    * Have a 2 hours trekking in Pondok Tanggui, conducted after watching Orangutan Feeding

    * Go to Sekonyer Village, walk around, and Canoeing into Sekonyer River and Village

    * Repeating to see Orangutan Feeding Camp in Tanjung Harapan

  • Day 4: Pesalat - Kumai - Airport expand_more
    • After breakfast, You’ll have short trekking on the wooden jetty, then visiting a forest tree seedling.

    • After planting the tree, back to the boat. Enjoying your coffee in the boat while exploring the river in the morning.

    • Meet Orangutan foraging in the tree around the river bank. It will offer you an incredible experience. Long-snout Crocodile also often busking on the sun in the river bank when the weather really good. Lunch will serve on the boat.

    • Departing Kumai in the afternoon, you’ll be transferred to Pangkalan Bun (Hotel/airport), possible to visit our Orangutan souvenir and handicraft gallery before your next destination.

What's Included
  • Return transfer from Pangkalan Bun (transfer in and out at the Airport)
  • Clean and Proper Kelotok: A wooden houseboat with its accommodation (bed arrangement, mosquito net, toilet. Not including personal stuff)
  • English speaking Indonesian guide
  • Good Cook for serving meals on boat
  • Meals and drinks (main meals, snack, mineral water, tea/coffee)
  • Admission fee
  • Park entrance permit (tourist and boat entrance)
  • Ranger donation
What's Excluded
  • Personal expense

  • Hotel/homestay accomodation

  • Alcoholic drink

  • Insurance

  • Tipping

  • Stay in the Homestay, additional price $60/night

  • There are homestays in the village around the National Park, managed by local people. Simple room with fan. Stay in Rimba Lodge, the additional price of $140/night

  • Permit for Filming

Know before you go

Surrounded by forest and accessed only by boat, the lodge is a great spot for enjoying the natural wonder of Indonesian Borneo, from the troop of Macaques that call the site home to the Probosci's monkeys across the water and the Orangutan that can be observed at the Tanjung Harapan feeding station, just a few minutes boat ride away. The Lodge provides a base from which you can explore the surrounding rainforest and Tanjung Putting National Park. Take a walk from your room along the bird walk, hear the plaintive cry of Gibbons, early birdsong, and the resident Macaque monkey troop from your comfortable room set right on the edge of the gently flowing Sekonyer river. You will be accommodated on the Emerald Cabin, which has AC and hot water.

We are very welcome with any proposed tour. 


Bed Arrangement on the boat
Boat maximum capacity for 6-8 people sleeping on the boat. After dinner, the crew will set up the mattress, clean pillow, and mosquito net. Each people will have a mattress. All sides of the boat will be covered, and only left one or two as a ventilate window to keep the fresh air.

Meeting Point

Lapangan Terbang Iskandar, Jalan Iskandar, Pasir Panjang, West Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Adult
2 To 6 USD 333 Per Person

This is a private tour

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USD 333 / person