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Day 01 MEDAN - BOHOROK (LD)
Morning meet at the airport (on arrival) or hotel in Medan and proceed for short city sightseeing of
Medan. After lunch in Medan, drive through the plantation road to Bukit Lawang. Stop enroute at
Crocodile Farm in Medan, palm oil and rubber plantations. Dinner and overnight at simple hotel in Bukit
Lawang.
Day 02 BOHOROK - MEDAN (BL)
After breakfast, walk along the river to the river crossing
point. Then crossing the river by small canoe to Bohorok
Orangutan rehabilitation center located on the other
side of the river. Hiking up the hill through the rain
forest to the feeding site for the orangutans. return
to Bukit Lawang. After lunch, drive back to Medan on
the same road. On arrival in Medan proceed to your destination or hotel.
| Rate Per Person |
Minimum Participant |
Single Supplement |
| US$ 350.00 |
2 Persons |
US$ 105.00 |
Price includes Accommodation based on twin sharing, 1 x breakfast, 2 x lunch and 1 x dinner, sightseeing transfers and tours with AC minivan, Guide, entrance, parking, donation fees.
Price excludes Airline tickets, airport taxes, personal expenses and others are not mentioned above. Check any special rate availability |
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Bohorok is a small part of 9000 square kilometers
of the Gunung Leisure National Park. Bohorok exactly
located in Bukit Lawang village in Langkat reserve,
around 2 hours drive from medan city or approximate
76 kms. Bohorok is also well known as Sumatra orangutans
rehabilitation center. In Indonesia there are only two
places of orangutans habitat, one in Bohorok North Sumatra
and the other one in Borneo at Tanjung Puting National
Park and well known as the Camp
Leaky Orangutans rehabilitation center. Bohorok
is actually the place for adventurous accessible through
Sumatra's inland wilderness crossing rivers and steep
hills. During exploring orangutans in Bohorok, you are
only able to overnight at very simple accommodation
with very limited facilities. It is a real basic accommodation
and you can not expect the international hotel facilities
and services like hotels in beach destination. For observing
the life of Sumatra orangutans in their wild habitat
or the park of rehabilitation center, at least 1 or
2 nights is needed. Many tourist coming to Bohorok orangutans
rehabilitation center for observing how the Orangutans
life in their wild habitat and also to enjoy the greenery
of Sumatra rain forest. During weekend many local tourist
from Medan visit Bohorok for holidays. Normally the
foreigner who visit Sumatra wants to see more of Sumatra's
interesting places, and some of them combine their tour
program between Bohorok orangutans and Lake Toba tour
which can be organized within 5 days / 4 nights. Some
of them also explore more about Sumatra by doing tours
combination between Medan Sumatra and Bukittinggi or
Padang of west Sumatra. For this program, they called
the best
of Sumatra overland tours which program includes
visit to Lake Toba the native Sumatra Batak village,
Berastagi the cool climate mountain resort, Bukittinggi
where many colonial era heritages such as Japanese tunnel,
Dutch Fort de Kock and beautiful scenery of Ngarai Sianok
(Sianok canyon), rumah gadang the original architecture
of Minangkabau tribe. Minangkabau is the community and
family life based on a matrilineal system which clusters
around mosques and the traditional adat houses. | | |
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The principle population of North Sumatra is the Batak.
They have their own dialect, tradition, and history. The most interesting from Batak land is Batak house is called "Uma" or "Jabu" Toba, which shows they have same root with Balinese and other Indonesian ethnics. The Uma or Jabu is built on many wooden poles, but do not as high as those house on stilt on the islands. Their wooden board wall is made sloping, with roof made of palm black fibres. The size around 10 to 10 meters elongated east-west orientation. Doors are constructed on the west and east sides at Karo and Simalungun, while at Toba entrance is from the roof, and on the west and east side of the house have high caps the place to put buffalo horns. The peak of the house is made half circle. At Karo there is an ayo beside on Uma. An ayo is decorated with geometric ornamentations with colors red, white, yellow and black. On the right and left are put sculptures, human head or lion's head sculptures. The wall is tied with rope made of black palm fibre to look like lizard. A typical aspect of Karo house which can not be found at other Batak houses is the bamboo terrace constructed at the front of the house as the place of the girl to meet with youth for a visit. A Batak house in general is a home for more than one families connected on genealogy, only in Toba that a house is for big families, as they live in virilocal system. In general the Batak live as farmer, grow rice with irrigation system, except at Karo and Simalungun there are still working at dry land by clearing and burn forest. At the dry land the owner of the land is the Kuta or huta, they have the right on the land, but there also land owned individually, for example what is called panjaean land, which is given to their son after his marriage as the capital for their life while pauseang land is the land given to a daughter after her marriage with same purpose as Panjaean.
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