Pangkalan Bun Trip Overview
We offering a small group tour, sharing with another traveler. Every small group will need a maximum of 15 people.
We will use a big boat and sharing accommodation on the boat.
River cruising into the Borneo legendary rainforest. Staying on the typical boat called kelotok, your floating homestay.
Visiting 3 Orangutan feeding station: Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui and the most historical Camp Leakey- first research of Bornean Orangutan started.
Packs of endemic primate in Borneo: Proboscis Monkey-big nose and fatty bellied, Sundaic-silvered Langur with their golden baby.
Cruising into the black water river-Simpang Kanan river
you will understand why DR. Birute M.F. Galdikas wrote her book: Reflection of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans in Borneo.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days 2 hours 59 minutes
Starts: Pangkalan Bun, Indonesia
Trip Category: Multi-day & Extended Tours >> Multi-day Cruises
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What to Expect When Visiting Pangkalan Bun, Kalimantan, Indonesia
We offering a small group tour, sharing with another traveler. Every small group will need a maximum of 15 people.
We will use a big boat and sharing accommodation on the boat.
River cruising into the Borneo legendary rainforest. Staying on the typical boat called kelotok, your floating homestay.
Visiting 3 Orangutan feeding station: Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui and the most historical Camp Leakey- first research of Bornean Orangutan started.
Packs of endemic primate in Borneo: Proboscis Monkey-big nose and fatty bellied, Sundaic-silvered Langur with their golden baby.
Cruising into the black water river-Simpang Kanan river
you will understand why DR. Birute M.F. Galdikas wrote her book: Reflection of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans in Borneo.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Tanjung Puting National Park, 74111 Indonesia
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 building like a hotel with tiny holes, such as semi-wild swift poultry to harvest its nest. Then, cruising to Sekonyer River, the estuarine habitat with unique vegetation called mangrove, before your first stop to 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 continue on cruising up for overnight in the Kelotok. You’ll have time to relax, enjoying fresh air or do some primate spotting in the roosting tree while the boat find out a good place to tie up
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Tanjung Harapan Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, Tanjung Puting National Park West Kotawaringin Regency Indonesia
DAY 1 : Pangkalan Bun – Kumai – Tanjung Harapan Camp
Leaving Kumai River, you’ll have an opportunity to see riverfront life. Then, cruising to Sekonyer River, the estuarine habitat with unique vegetation called mangrove, before your first stop to Tanjung Harapan Camp to watch Orangutan feeding at 15.00 o’clock. Watch along 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 continue on cruising up for overnight in the Kelotok. You’ll have time to relax, enjoying fresh air or do some primate spotting in the roosting tree while the boat find out a good place to tie up. Meals Provided L D
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Pondok Tanggui Orangutan Rehabilitation Center, Tanjung Puting National Park West Kotawaringin Regency, Kumai Indonesia
DAY 2 : Pondok Tanggui – Camp Leakey – Pondok Ambung
After a sunrise breakfast, cruising up the river to Pondok Tanggui, Orangutan feeding time at 09.00 am, then continue on to 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 fresh water crocodile and other wildlife attraction could find a long river bands. After having lunch and departing in Camp Leakey, we can spend the rest of the day by 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 14.00 pm. Stay overnight on the boat. Meals Provided B L D
Duration: 2 hours
Pass By: Camp Leakey, Tanjung Puting Reserve Indonesia
Since the New Normal during Pandemic Covid-19, Tanjung Puting National Park Authority only reactivated 2 Camps: Tanjung Harapan and Pondok Tanggui. So, since we still can not visit Camp Leakey, this chapter will be replaced by some alternative activities that you can choose such as jungle day walk, visiting the village, or repeating to the Feeding Station. I will keep you update
Stop At: Tanjung Puting National Park, 74111 Indonesia
Enjoying your coffee in the boat while exploring the river in the morning, may you 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. Departing Kumai, you’ll be transferred to Pangkalan Bun, possible to visit our Orangutan souvenir and handicraft gallery before your next destination.
Duration: 2 hours
