Orangutans Rehabilitation Bohorok Bukit Lawang Sumatra Indonesia

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 76km. 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.