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Orangutan & Mahakam 6D/5N

State/Province : East Borneo
Tour Price : USD for 1 Person | USD for 2 Person

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Tour departure daily

Tour price included :
all transfer in/out from/to airport, houseboat private, meals fullboard, english speaking guide, canoe trip, cultural dayak dance, entrance fee, museum fee, permit, accomodation std room at samboja lodge

Tour prices not included :
airport tax, loundry, personal expences


Tour Itenary :

Day 01  Balikpapan Airport - Samboja Lodge - Orangutan Island - Sun Bear - Black River - Samboja Lodge (L,D)
Upon arrival at International Airport in Balikpapan meeting service with our guide or staf, then transfer by car for an hours to Samboja Lodge. arrival check in to your beautifull room. Lunch will be serving at Lodge. Afterward visit the orangutan island, sun bear santuary project, and In the afternoon about 16.00pm visit the black river to observing the wild tropical plants, proboscis monkeys, wild birds, etc. Eveing about 18.00pm return to Samboja Lodge for your dinner and overnight.
Day 02  Samboja Lodge - Plant A Tree's - Canopy Bridge - Samarinda Hotel (BLD)
After breakfast in the morning, plant the fruit tree's for the future Orangutan foods, this area consisting about 2000 hectars and using strictly for the re-forestation, and conservation of the Orangutan, Gibbons, and the programm of local community for composting, where the fruits plant such as tropical tree's need a supply of the composting and how to make the tree's on the good condition to be grews in the land of this area. Than drive about 1 hours to visit Canopy Bridge at Bukit Bengkirai Area. where you may see the panorama of tropical rainforest on to the top of the canopy here, short treeking is available to explre the wild plants, etc. Afterward transfer to Samarinda for your dinner and overnight at hotel.
Day 03  Samarinda Hotel - Loajanan - Mahakam River (BLD)
After breakfast in the morning at 09.00am, guide will meet you than drive to Loajanan for half hours, than boarding to the houseboat for your adventure trip along the mighty Mahakam River. See the local daily life in the banck of the river Mahakam. Lunch and Dinner will provided on the houseboat by our cook, and snack, tropical fruits will serve for you. This cruise will take about 14 until 16 hours non stop to go up the river and arrival in the early morning at Muara Muntai.
Day 04  Muara Muntai - Mancong - Jantur fisherman village - Muara Ohong - Mahakam River (BLD)
After breakfast in the morning, sightseeing Muara Muntai village, see the old wooden road along the village and see the way of life loca people, etc. Than continue your trip by motorized canoe cross over the Jempang lake and passing the Jantur fisherman village. Passing the small river of Ohong than see the view and perhap can see the proboscis monkey and birds, and than upon arrival at Mancong village the dance performance of Dayak banuaq tribe will performed welcome ceremony in the front of their longhouse. Lunchbox provided. Dinner and overnight on the houseboat.
Day 05  Lekak Kidau - Tenggarong - Loajanan - Hotel in Balikpapan (B,L,D)
Early morning visit the Lekak Kidau village where you may see the Dayak Kenyah with Long ears and tattoes in there body as the head hunter and the beauty for dayak Kenyah womens. Afterward cruise down river to Tenggarong, than visit the museum of Mulawarman Kingdom and his collections, such as royal crown, statue, ceramics from several dinasty, than go for city tour around Tenggarong by walking. Lunch will be serving on boat. Upon arrival at Loajanan drive for 2,5 hours to Balikpapan. Dinner and overnight at Hotel.
Day 06  Balikpapan - Kebun Sayur - Next Destination (B)
After breakfast at hotel, visiting Kebun Sayur shopping archade where you may see kind of the handicrafts, Diamonds, Gold, stone such as Ruby, Safir, Ametis, Kecubung, and alot of kind of stones type from Kalimantan in this market with cheaper until the expensive stone available. Than we transfer to Airport for your next destination.

REMARK :
Flight Information : Garuda Airlines
Jakarta-Balikpapan
GA.510 (06.20-09.25) daily
GA.512 (09.00-12.05) daily
GA.514 (11.50-14.55) daily
Balikpapan-Jakarta
GA.517 (12.40-13.40) daily
GA.519 (15.30-16.30) daily
GA.521 (18.05-19.05) daily

SILKAIR (Singapore Airlines)
SIN-BPN  (monday,wednesday,thursday,saturday) MI.282 (07.55-10.20)
SIN-BPN  (tuesday,friday) MI.284 (01.50-16.15)
BPN-SIN  (monday,wednesday,thursday,saturday) MI.281 (11.10-13.25)
BPN-SIN (tuesday,friday) MI.282 (17.00-19.05)