Kubu Peoples tours Surulangun South Sumatra Indonesia

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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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The island of Sumatra is the longest island of Indonesia, more then 2000 kms from the north tip to the southern tip. The island is known to have second biggest tropical forest after Kalimantan, and the only habitat of Asian tiger until today. The rain forest is along the slope of bukit Barisan or chain of mountain along the island. The habitat of the tiger is from west Sumatra up to the area of Lampung in south Sumatra, while the habitat of orangutans is on Leuser National park north sumatra, bordering with Aceh Province. Sumatra with some smaller islands on the west and east coasts records some ethnic groups such as the Aceh, the Batak, the Nias, the Mentawai, and the forest people of Kubu. North Sumatra province, as the home of Batak people is one of the most interesting country with the existence of beautiful lake Toba, Orangutans and the culture of Batak themselves who continues their ancestors tradition, although they are now mostly Christian. Lake Toba with Samosir island in it which is as big as Singapore is one of the nature's oddity that on such a narrow land was ever a super volcanic eruption which was happened 70,000 years ago.

West Sumatra, known as the home of Minagkabau people was a Hindu kingdom around 13 to 14th century and have a close relation with Pajajaran kingdom in west Java. It is not clear up to now if Sumatra under Sriwijaya kingdom was controlling Pajajaran or Majapahit of Java controlled Sriwijaya by ordering Pajakaran to supervise Sriwijaya. Proof of Sriwijaya ever control over west Java is presence in the present region of Banten. As a result of ever controlled by Hindu kingdom west Sumatra has unique culture, especially the art and historical places. Although in basic concept of house architecture for example almost the same as Batak, but the Minangkabau house which is called Rumah Gadang has beautiful carving and decoration. The historic monument of king Adidyavarman in Pagaruyung, the museum of art are of traditional interests beside nature beauties such as Ngarai Sianok or Sianok canyon just on the west side of Bukit Tinggi city the capital of Minangkabau land. Bukit Tinggi city itself preserves the heritages from Dutch colonial era, and Japanese occupation such as Gua Jepang or under soil resistance, just on the west side of the city. In the field of social and living art Minangkabau has not much to offer as the people already Moslem.