Deluxe Houseboat River Cruise
Borneo Tour
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Day 1 - Departure from Home Airport - Arrival in Jakarta
Depart from your hometown airport en route to Indonesia, with a potential arrival the next day to Jakarta. Depending on your arrival time, you will either have a layover there for the evening, or move on to your next destination; Pangkalan Bun Airport.
Day 2 - Airport – Kumai - Proboscis Tour
Upon your arrival in Pangkalan Bun Airport, you will be greeted by our staff members, including your personal tour guide for the next 3 days. You will then get a direct transfer to Kumai, and it will take about 20 minutes to get there. Upon arrival, you will be taken directly to the houseboat, and Lunch will provided On board. Throughout the entire journey, you will have your own private English speaking guide onboard and on shore for each excursions. Afterwards, we will be boating down the Kumai River for approximately 15 minutes to reach the Seikonyer River, the main river in Tanjung Puting National Park. While cruising up the Seikonyer river, you will see nice vegetation around the river bank, Nipa Palm, Pandanus, and some kind of trees that growing up around the river. You will also see some wildlife such as birds, Macaque, Proboscis Monkeys and Orangutans, time permitted, you will visit Orangutan feeding in Tanjung Harapan at 3 PM. Then at 4pm, you will return back to the boat and continue boating up to observe and learn more about Proboscis monkeys along the river banks. Proboscis monkeys are endemic animals that can be seen only in Borneo. Lunch & Dinner included with an Overnight on the Deluxe or Super Deluxe Houseboat.
Day 3 - Pasalat Camp – Camp Leaky
After breakfast, proceed up the river to Pasalat Camp, here you will be hiking up on the board walk for 800 Meters and 200 meters you will walk on the ground. In this camp you will have chance to planting endemic fruit trees for orangutan and this is also the carbon offset program. This program supports the national park to replanting the trees around the ex-forest fire areas and to spread up the fruit trees for the animals in this park. Return back to the houseboat then boating up direct to Camp Leakey. Lunch will provide on board. On arrival in Camp Leakey, you will visit IC (Information Center) to see all work of DR. Birute Galdikas while she studies the orangutan here start from 1971 until today. Enjoy your time until 14.00, afterward continue trekking up into the forest to see orangutan feeding, enjoy the time till 16.00 back to the boat then boating down to Pondok Ambung. If the time permitted before dinner you will trekking into the forest for 2 hours to see the nocturnal animals like Tarsiers, tarantulas, etc. back to the houseboat. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included with and overnight on the houseboat.
Day 4 - Pondok Tangguy – Tanjung Harapan Village – Tanjung Harapan Camp
After breakfast, boating down to reach Pondok Tanggui, the second rehabilitation center for the orangutans. Visit the Orangutans feeding at 09.00 AM, enjoy your time while taking some pictures. Then at 10.00 AM return back to the houseboat and continue boating down direct to Tanjung Harapan village to see the Malayan settlement activities in the Afternoon. Lunch will be provided on board. Then, we will cross to Tanjung Harapan Camp to see the last orangutan feeding at 3PM, and you will stay there for about one hour. Afterwards, we will return to the boat and head down directly to Nipa Palm area to see thousands of fireflies. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner included, and overnight will be provied on the houseboat.
Day 5 - Kumai – Airport Transfer
After breakfast, we will be boating down towards Kumai, followed by a transfer to the Pangkalan Bun Airport for your next destination. Or, if you wish to do so, you could also extend your river cruise by any amount of days you wish. We will customize the tour to your satisfaction!