A permit to enter Tanjung Putting National Park where Camp
Leakey Orangutans Rehabilitation Center is managed is needed,
please fax or mail to us your passport photocopy to us, and
to be received at least one month before your arrival
in Pangkalan Bun, the entrance to Orangutans Rehabilitation
Center at Camp Leakey. Touring Borneo is still somewhat an
adventure trip, with the minimum condition of transportation,
accommodation and on sea transportation. Schedules in so far
never experienced a great changes and still within the time
frame of the program. Small changes on schedules sometimes
unavoidable for the sake of clients and the best maintenance
of the program. Borneo is famous for tropical rain forest
and wildlife, so you will meet some insects geckos, cockroaches,
ants and other small animals throughout your way of touring
even some times around the accommodation in Camp Leakey. Most
of these insects and small animals are not dangerous except
green snakes and some vipers which your tour guide will inform
you properly during the tour orientation. Please make sure
that you get this information before going deep to your tour
of Orangutans in Camp Leakey. Light equipment, safety and
health are important to be bring along with you. All tour
packages are designed with soft until hard adventure, no specific
skill is needed to join the tour until the rehabilitation
center of Orangutans at Camp Leakey, all you need is just
the spirit of adventure and good health. On our expedition
safety is essential. Our team are consist of expert guide
in ecological adventure in Borneo with a well equipments that
will ensure your safety. For travelers we suggest to bring
lightweight medical aid, anti acid, skin protector from sun
burn, insect repellent or spray or cream as well as anti malaria
tablets. Private gear such as traveling bag, backpack, light
clothes or sport cloths, rain coat or jacket, sunglasses,
extra socks, emergency rations, sneakers/sandal,sports shoes,
compass, camera with telelens, binocular and other personal
needs. You might have to shop in the city for beer, cigarettes
or any personal need before your departure since during tour
you will not find any shop selling personal needs. Flight
from Semarang to Pangkalan Bun is still using small aircraft,
which is usually the CN 235 or CASSA with capacity around
18 to 36 persons, and it is non-jet flaying. Any delay or
changes in flight schedule rarely happened, and you are to
be ready to accept this condition, and we are not to be held
responsible for this. |
Upon
arrival at Pangkalan Bun airport, meeting service and direct
transfer to Kumai Boat anchorage by car for 30 minutes. Lunch
will be served en-route, then by slow boat called Klotok a
traditional wooden boat proceed to Tanjung Harapan rehabilitation
center for 1.5 hours trekking. See Orangutan around this station
and rangers doing the process of rehabilitation for the ex-captive
Orangutans to their natural habitat. Check in at Rimba lodge
a beautiful riverside accommodation on Sekonyer river. Exploring
the river around the lodge to watch Proboscis monkeys, long
tail macaques, birds and wonderful creatures of this area.
Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
forest.
Then proceed by boat up the river for one and half hours to
Camp Leakey the old and famous research and rehabilitation
center for Orangutan, which has been conducted by the famous
Primatologist Prof. Dr. MF Birute Galdikas since 1971. Trekking
through tropical rain forest and searching for the wild orangutan,
birds, agile gibbon and other primates beside exotic jungle
plants. Lunch will be served on the boat. Back to the Camp
Leakey at 2.30 pm to witness feeding time for orangutans rehabilitation.
Afterwards return to Rimba lodge, en-route you may be offered
a remarkable afternoon attraction by proboscis monkeys and
longtail macaques and other creatures. Dinner and overnight at Rimba lodge.
