Experience wild Borneo
Responsible, sustainable private tours
Our Adventure Tour packages have been carefully designed to build an awareness of ecotourism while taking safety and impact on the environment within Tanjung Puting National Park and wider Borneo into consideration.
We have spent most of our life in the deep jungle and rivers of Borneo and we grew up in the fields learning the skills to be wildlife and culture tour guides. We are also supported by the impressive and solid background of our families who have a deep knowledge of the land.
Our Difference
Build your tour
Wildlife is unpredictable, therefore unlike other tours within the region we don’t have a strict day by day itinerary. Instead, we offer you the opportunity of experiences and build your itinerary during the tour to make the most of the season, and most importantly the movements of the orangutans. Select from the experiences below, or let us know what you want to explore and we will tailor your tour around these!
Select from the experiences below
or let us know what you want to experience and we will tailor your tour around these!
Trekking
Trek through the thick of the jungle following the winding trails led by our knowledgeable tour guides. Learn about the native fauna and flora, traditional medicines and history of the land all while keeping an eye out for wild orangutans. Immerse yourself in 360º jungle sounds as you weave your way through with endless photo opportunities. This is your chance to get off the beaten track and absorb the beauty of this stunning corner of the world.
Now this is an experience not to miss. Be guided by a local ranger and our tour guides through the jungle with only a head torch to lead the way. As the nocturnal creatures such as tarsier and various snakes and spiders come out, succumb to the senses and experience the density of the jungle.
If you’re extremely lucky, you may have the opportunity to spot the endangered Clouded Leopard which has recently been spotted in the area by our tour guide!
Rehabilitation Camps
This camp meaning “cape of good hope” was originally designed as a training centre for ex-captive and orphaned baby orangutans. Also near the camp is a reforestation project which includes a botanical nursery used for growing seedlings. Follow the path loop and watch the orangutans make their way over the jungle canopy to the platform and then back into the dense jungle with a full belly.
This feeding station was once a release centre for pre-adolescent ex-captive and orphaned orangutans after they were rehabilitated.
Today the station is designed to provide supplemental food for the wild and semi-wild orangutans, which is important in order to maintain their nutrition especially when food is hard to come by during drought seasons.
You’ll be there to witness feeding time at 9.00am which is easily accessible via a short walk into the jungle.
A research centre for orangutans and one of the places where older orangutans are reintroduced into the rainforest, Camp Leakey is named after the legendary paleo-anthropologist, Louis Leakey.
This camp is located at the end of the black mirrored water of the Sekonyer River and is one of the most magical places on earth. Follow the boardwalk into the jungle where the local rehabilitated orangutans make their way to the feeding platforms at 2pm daily where fresh fruit and sugar cane is left by the rangers.
Culture
Sekonyer River village
Why not do your part for the forest, and plant some trees! Friends of the National Park Foundation works to protect Indonesia’s endangered wildlife while restoring forests and helping local communities become sustainable. Take a small trek from the river bank into a reforestation site where you can purchase native trees and plant them to increase the density and diversity on the planting site. All profits go straight to the foundation to continue their restoration and sustainability efforts within Indonesia.
Longboats are commonly used by locals to travel along the river, but not many tourists are seen onboard. Our tours offer you the chance to hop in and speed up the river and explore backwaters that aren’t accessible by the larger tour boats.
If the orangutans weren’t everyone’s tour highlight, then the food sure would be! Our onboard cook will walk you through traditional recipes from the region before you indulge in the meal. This is a great chance to cook and try new foods that are common within Asia that you may not have tried before such as cassava and okra.
Before you cruise down the river into the thick of the jungle, take a short walk around the streets of the riverside village with our local tour guide. Try some local foods, look behind the scenes and immerse yourself in the Indonesian culture to see how the locals live.
Highly recommended if this is your first time in Indonesia.
Conservation
Tree Planting with FNPF Borneo
Why not do your part for the forest, and plant some trees! Friends of the National Park Foundation works to protect Indonesia’s endangered wildlife while restoring forests and helping local communities become sustainable. Take a small trek from the river bank into a reforestation site where you can purchase native trees and plant them to increase the density and diversity on the planting site. All profits go straight to the foundation to continue their restoration and sustainability efforts within Indonesia.
Why visit feeding stations?
Orangutans who visit these platforms are free to roam the jungle, but have gained the habit of visiting the feeding station during their rehabilitation. Visiting the feeding stations allow visitors a near-guaranteed opportunity to see the semi-wild orangutans within close proximity.
Due to deforestation, the variety of fruit within the jungle is limited and hard to source for rehabilitated orangutans. The feeding stations offer the orangutans a chance to supplement their diets and a chance for the local rangers to keep an eye on their health and progression.
Orangutans at these feeding stations are in no way restricted from roaming into the jungle, and offer visitors the opportunity to get up closer to these magnificent creatures.
If visiting the feeding stations just isn’t for you, that is completely fine! We can spend more time looking for wild orangutans and other wildlife instead.
Get in touch with the Orangutan Trekking Tours team!
info@orangutantrekkingtours.com