Our Program

 3 Days 2 Nights Trip

                                           Ultimate Orangutan Wildlife House Boat Tour Program

# Day 1

We will pick you up at the airport and take you to Kumai sub-district about 25 minutes from the airport, Kumai is a port village west of Tanjung Puting National Park and also the entrance to Tanjung Puting national park. After arriving in Kumai we can go straight to klotok and we will introduce the klotok crew who will accompany and serve you during the trip. If everything is ready, we can start the journey to tanjung puting. It takes two hours before we arrive in the area, it is very possible for you to see some animals such as several types of birds, monkeys, water lizards and wild orangutans along the way on the river to the first station if we are lucky.

Airport pick up by our guide

 After arriving at the first station we can immediately go see the orangutan feeding at 3 pm, there you can see around 5 or 15 orangutans if you are lucky. After that we return to the klotok and continue the journey on the river to see monkeys that are very easy to see in the trees around the river such as long-tailed monkeys, Probusces monkeys / long-nosed monkeys and Lutung / silver monkeys. After dinner (or before dinner) if the weather is good we can also take a night walk to look for nocturnal animals and mashroom / night mushrooms that glow in the dark forest which can usually be found in the rainy season.

Summary : Airport-Kumai Pier-Kelotok (wooden boat)-Lunch-Orangutan Feeding at Camp Tanjung Harapan (15.00 WIB)-Look for Proboscis monkeys on the river side- Night Trekking.

# Day 2

You can wake up early to enjoy and listen to the sounds of animals such as birds, monkeys or the long calls of male orangutans, after breakfast and coffee we can continue the journey to station 2 to see the orangutan feeding at 09.00 am.

Trekking to Orangutan Feeding

After seeing the feeding at station 2 we can continue the journey to station 3, and if we leave early, we might be able to see crocodiles and some animals along the way to station 3. The 3rd station we call Camp Leakey to see the orangutan feeding at 2 pm, Camp Leakey is the last camp where it is located upstream of the Sekonyer river at the right intersection where the water is black. When we go along the black river, often if we are lucky we can see freshwater crocodiles / crocodiles and also long-nosed monkeys and wild orangutans.

Camp Leakey

At Camp Leakey there is an Information Center which is usually open from 12.30 to 14.00 WIB where we can see pictures of orangutan families that have been released there and some research results in Tanjung Puting and other options we can do if we don't want to visit the information center and we can do a little forest trekking before we see the orangutan feeding at 2 pm.

See Orangutan in their habitat

After we saw the feeding we went back to the klotok and went to the nipah area near the exit to see the fireflies and moored our klotok around them and slept near the firefly tree.

Summary : Breakfast- Orangutan Feeding at Camp Pondok Tanggui (09.00 WIB)-Kelotok at Sekonyer River- Lunch-Orangutan Feeding at Camp Leakey (14.00 WIB)- Sunset- Dinner- Fireflies Area

# Day 3

In the morning after breakfast and taking a bath in the river where we spend the night, we continue our journey home and on the way home we can still see our last animals before arriving at Kumai village again and ending our tour. Around 9.00 we arrive in Kumai, and we will take you back to the airport or to the hotel if you want to spend the night again in Pangkalan Bun.

Enjoy the nature in the morning at Kelotok

Summary : Breakfast-Back to Kumai Pier-Airpor/hotel

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ABOUT JENIE SUBARU

My name is Jenie Subaru, born on June 5 1982. I have 9 siblings and 4 of them are local guides in Tanjung Puting National Park. My oldest brother was also the first guide there. The first time I worked there was when I was still in junior high school, especially during the long school holidays. I did all that for my and my siblings' school fees and to help my family financially. At first I only worked as a kelotok (wooden ship) crew, but I focused on completing my high school. After that in 2001, I returned to work in tourism as a cook and kelotok captain.  A few months later I learned English and started a new job as a tour guide in 2002. I got my official certificate as a legal tour guide a few years later.

Me with the Orangutan Baby

I used to work as a freelance guide who works at a travel agent here even though they are not local agents, today I decided to work alone because I was not too happy with the increasing number of foreign agent which is not employ local peoples .I want to establish my own travel agent so i can invite local people to work with me as a guide or klotok crew. 

Work in Tanjung Puting National Park not only to earn a living but because this place is my life. My parents lived here a long time ago, so I was born and raised in Tanjung Puting National Park before it even became a National Park. This also made me think about helping other local people, especially young people, to study and be able to do work in our own area to help our family's income and a better life. Just like I have done since I was young.

Teaching about english together in a small hut in my yard. 

Many things are not easy when teaching and training young people around the Tanjung Puting National Park area. I not only teach them how to speak English, but also how to survive. This is done so that these people are able to meet standards and safety when they carry out their work as tour guides.

Teaching how to survive with dangerous animal

Then, my goal is not only to focus on empowering local communities, but also on the environment. Therefore, together with friends with the same goal, we formed an association to protect the environment, especially in the Tanjung Puting National Park area. Sadly, we lost large area of our forest because the expansion of Palm Oil plantation company, and now we can found the palm oil plantation near the national park. And about 4 months ago I started to collect donations from all peoples and tourists that I used to buy land to save the forests and habitats around the Tanjung Puting National Park, now I've managed to buy 2 hectare of land for animal habitat , and hope i can expand more land soon. i will use some of the tour profit for the conservation, and if you want to donate you can contact me by email at jeniesubaru@gmail.com . we will be grateful for all of your donations and help.

Exploring the Sekonyer River with Getek (boat with engine)

Now I am one of the boards of the Green Orangutan Foundation, as a technical field coordinator who is responsible for managing and administering people who work according to the program. Yayasan Orangutan Hijau Kalimantan (YOHK) is a non-profit organization based in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, dedicated to the conservation of orangutans and the tropical rainforests of Borneo. This foundation is based on sustainable ecotourism.

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