 
THE KUBU FOREST PEOPLE
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Day 01 AIRPORT - PADANG - BUKITTINGGI (LD)
Morning meet at the airport (on arrival) or hotel in Padang. This is the home of the gentle and refined Minangkabau
people. Their ancient matrilineal family system with a firm adherence of Islam is a unique combination that
they still maintain until now. Then proceed to Bukittinggi via Padang Panjang with en route stop at Anai Valley
and also visit Balimbing village to see a glimpse of the way of life of the Minangkabau Tribe with their
typical houses and Pagaruyung to see the palace which rebuilt on the ruin of the bygone Pagaruyung Empire.
Lunch of specific Minangkabau cuisine will be served en route. Dinner and overnight at Hotel Pusako Bukittinggi.
Day 02 BUKITTINGGI - BANGKO (BLD)
After breakfast, drive via Solok and Sungai Dareh through the Trans sumatra highway passing Cinnamon forest to
the land of the Kubu. Stops en route at interesting places along the way. Picnic lunch en route. Dinner
and overnight at Suslinda Inn (simple lodge) in Bangko.
Day 03 BANGKO - MUSI RAWAS (BLD)
After breakfast, drive through oil palm and rubber plantations to Paku Aji and proceed by foot through
the secondary forest with the possibility to see the Kubu and their unique community. Lunch en route.
Later return by foot to paku Aji and drive to Musi Rawas. Dinner and overnight at Musi Rawas Lodge.
Day 04 MUSI RAWAS - PULAU KIDAK - NAPALICIN (BLD)
After breakfast, drive to Pulau Kidak (2 hours) where a boat is prepared to transfer you to the upper
river (3,5 hours). On the way along the river, chance to stop and see the canoe making, people looking
for gold on the river bank, wild animals such as amphibian and many kind of monkeys. Picnic lunch will
be served en route. Afternoon, arrive at Kubu Resort for dinner and overnight.
Day 05 NAPALICIN - KUBU RESORT (BLD)
After breakfast, crossing the river then trekking into the forest to see the forest vegetation and
chance to see birds and wild animals (7-8 hours). enjoy the sight and sound of the jungle. Picnic lunch
is included. Dinner and overnight at Kubu Resort.
Day 06 NAPALICIN - KUBU RESORT (BLD)
After breakfast, by foot visit Napalicin Village across then river. See their way of life of the villagers nearby,
working as fishermen and farmers. This village is mostly populated by children. Picnic lunch en route. Dinner
and overnight at Kubu Resort.
Day 07 KUBU RESORT - PULAU KIDAK - KERSIK TUO (BLD)
After breakfast, return to Pulau Kidak by boat. Then drive through Bangko entering Kerinci National Park
for overnight at Kersik Tuo located nearby a tea plantation. Reroute stop at a village Semerup Hot Spring, Lake Kerinci,
Tea plantation, etc. Picnic lunch will be served en route. Dinner and overnight at simple lodge in Kersik
Tuo with a view of Mount Kerinci, the highest mountain in sumatra.
Day 08 KERSIK TUO - PADANG (BL)
After breakfast, drive along Bukit Barisan Range, the mountain range that run the entire length of sumatra,
through Kerinci Seblat National Park via Alahan Panjang to Padang, with en route stop at Lake Diatas (Upper
lake) and Lake Dibawah (Lower lake). Picnic lunch will be served en route. Overnight at Hotel Bumi Minang Padang.
Day 09 PADANG - HOTEL - AIRPORT (B).
Breakfast at hotel. At appropriate time, transfer to the airport for your next destination.
| Rate Per Person |
Minimum Participant |
Meals |
| US$ 1,095.00 |
2 Persons |
included |
Price includes Accommodation based on twin sharing, daily breakfast, 8 x lunch and 7 x dinner, sightseeing transfers and tours with AC minivan, Guide, entrance, parking, donation fees.
Price excludes Airline tickets, airport taxes, personal expenses and |
 
 
Please take note that possibility to meet the Kubu people in this trip is by greatly chance,
because they reject life in settling manner in the form of village life. The heavily workers in the wild fields
moving from spot to spot or nomad life, they obey strict rule of life and numerous obligations as a member of
group. They do not want to join government program of up grading their life knowledge and welfare such as sending
their children to school, economic system and political participation in the country. This program seems to
have given frightening session to the life of the Kubu. That is why the Kubu do not accept houses offered to
them although there have been sample of settling system of life by new comers from other island of Indonesia
through the program of transmigration, yet the government has been doing hard to persuade them to live in more
civilized manner such as forming a permanent resettlement. The problem is that until now the effort of making them
more aware of the need of more organized living is still not much in success, they still prefer freedom of their
own in the forest, living on the margin of civilization as odd-job laborers in the nearby farms. The Kubu is
proud of their chosen way of life and would say : "We Kubu prefer the forest and we prefer to live in freedom
moving from one place to other places" yet they enjoy modern electronic communication such as radio
which they brought every where they go, and enjoy dancing together with their member when rest by hearing the
music from the radio.
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