This is a unique and unforgettable experience to see this critically endangered Bornean Orangutan (Pongo Pygmaeus) in the wild.
You will see orangutans in their natural habitat, feeding, making nests, playing with their young or traversing the tree tops.

Educational
This is an opportunity to learn more about the orangutan and understand why they are so close to extinction from your experienced guide.

What you could expect to see on your OrangutanTour

• Ex-captive orangutans now living in the wild, social behaviour, making daily nests and feeding
• Wild Orangutans
• Bornean bearded Pigs / Wild Boar
• Black handed Gibbons
• Long and short tailed Macaques
• Silvered Langur
• Maroon Langur / Red Leaf Mongkeys
• Hornbills- Asian Pied, Rhinoceros Hornbill
• King Fishers
• Monitor lizards, Flying Lizard
• Green tree frogs
• Honey bears
• plus many different tropical insects
• Crocodiles (Estuarine Crocodiles & Malayan False Gharial)
• Amazing plant diversity
• There are approximately 600 types of tree and almost 250 species of bird and is home to a globally significant population of orangutans, reptile, mammals, and amphibians that live in the newly classified World Heritage Tanjung Puting National Park.

Recommended for those that:
have a medium to high degree of fitness
are comfortable being in nature and love the sounds of Nature
who are concerned about the plight of the Bornean Orangutan, Proboscis Monkey and Hornbills.
are culturally and environmentally aware
like an adventure!

How this Tour benefits Bornean Orangutans, Proboscis Monkey and the National Park
By taking this tour you are:
Supporting local trekking guides, who also act as Government forest rangers, living on simple wages.
You will come away knowing more about the plight of the orangutan � maybe you will be inspired to help, or at least pass on your new knowledge to others
Supporting local alternative income and helps them to place value on their natural resources and help to safe guard their future.
A donation from your trek fee is given to the Park Ranger
Supporting us to protect the lowland rain forest.

New Program is Carbon Offsetting program.
This program is kind of payment for the carbon you had produced before you reach this national park (for example you had paid lots of money for your flight to reach this national park, your flight produces a lot of carbon). Then here you will have time to exchange the carbon from your flight or all the transportation you had used with growing new trees that will produce Oxygen from their photosynthesis.

This program is co-operated with the villagers near the National Park. The villagers will prepare the endemic trees on the plastic bag. Then we will buy the trees from them as an alternative income. We hope that this program will help to encourage their income and it is also an educational program both for the local people and the tourist. At the same time we are also recycle the plastic bag from their village as well. This program is mutual benefit for everybody and the environment. This program will support us to:
Reduce carbon effect

Grow more trees in the National Park (one man one tree)
Encourage an alternative income for the local village near the Park. (They used to be really depending on wood product or illegal logging, now we will help them with something new that worth for their future).
Help to grow new habitat for the orangutans and other animals.
Learning process to replanting the trees for the visitor.
As memorable trees, etc.

More people grow the trees and more trees we have for the future of the world.

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Hi.

We just want to thank you and your employees for a fantastic trip.

From the very beginning we took contact to you, you have giving us the best service ever. You have answered any question right away, and helped us with everything.

And a special thanks to Andreas and the crew, they made the trip much better than expected, and what KINDNESS :-) :-). I do not think we ever have experience such helpfulness and service EVER, this was amazing, so please give them a big HELLO AND THANKS from all of us.

This was absolutely the best thing we have done in many years, and so different than other things. You get so close to nature :-) :-)

We will give you the best recommendations.

Thanks again

 

Tour on March 15 – 18, 2013

Dear Danson,

I would like to thank

you for the wonderful trip my husband and I had this week with Agus and his crew.  He is a wonderful guide.  His knowledge is exceptional.   The boat is very comfortable.  The chef made us delicious meals.  The captain and his mate helped to ensure our safety and our comfort.   But it was Agus who made our trip so memorable.  He is a fine person and it was our honor to spend some time with him and learn from him.

Best regards,

Kathy Brooks

 

Dear Danson,

Just wanted to thank you very much for all your invaluable help! We had a wonderful time on the boat, with the orangutans and all the other monkeys/animals that we saw and met. Everything worked perfectly and we now have many extraordinary memories from Tanjung Puting. Also, our time on Derawan and Maratua was absolutely amazing, swiminng  with lots of turtles, rainbow coloured fish, jellyfish, dolphins, and beautiful corals  (my son diving, I was snorkeling). Even the weather was great! So thank you! If you ever needed a testimonial I'd be very happy to provide one.

With thanks and warm regards,
Anna

Hello Danson,

How are you ?

We’re sorry that it took a little longer than said when we finally got the time to mail you.
Our honeymoon was a journey never to forget!  We are still amazed about the beautiful jungle and its inhabitants, namely ‘the Men of the Forest’. Our trip together with you and the crew of the boat was an unforgettable experience. We enjoyed each moment of it, even the rain
Your experience and your fine explanation about the live and character of the Orang Utans, made it very instructive for us & even our family at home when watching our videos.

You’re a joyful, well studied and kind guide who teached us a lot of new things about all the monkeys in the jungle, and other creatures and plants of the jungle. We will always remember your nice smile and courtesy!!!
We loved every minute of being close to our nearest relatives… the Orang Utan!  Especially Tom made a BIG impression!!!  Please say hi to him. We made a lot of pictures during our tour (600 !!!), and some are real precious to us because you see a lot of details of the small babies.
On Animal Planet on TV we saw an episode of ‘Orang Utan Island’ …of which doctor Nole Nielsson(?) was the founder.   We again dreamed about being in Kalimantan…

Also the fact that you introduced us to Dinson’s family at the dayak’s village, made it very special to us.  We want to thank you again for all the translations, and the guiding around the villages, the good organization and the good laughs we had in the house during the ceremony.
The pictures with all the children at the house, will be framed and enlarged to have a special place in our house, so that a part of Kalimantan is always near to us.
It was a once in a life time experience to be the guest at Dinson’s house, and that we could overnight after the wonderful ceremony he & you organized for us.
The great cooking of Ari made our trip a feast too!  Please say hi to Ari too, he was a wonderful & creative cook!

After the tour in the jungle, and seeing the orang utans, we changed our habits very much at home … no spilling of water, and telling people that we urgently need to change our way of behavior towards nature & animals … each plant is of great importance, each wrong act of human being can have disastrous consequences on the other side of the world.

We really hope that people realize very soon that we should protect every square meter of remaining rain forest in order to keep those habitats for animal.
Danson, you did a great job & we loved having you as our guide!
Some friends of ours are doing a trip now in Indonesia, and maybe they will contact you or already contacted you to do the same tour as us.
We are sure they will enjoy every bit of it too! Their names are Jo & Alexandra Torbeyns.  
We will try to send you pictures by mail, each mail will include one picture … We really hope you receive them and that you can use them for your website.

Kind greetings,

Filiep & Sarah Verhelst-Temmerman

Introduction
BORNEOECOTOUR.COM is under flag of licensed Tours and Travel, PT. Borneo Lestari. We operated our all tour programs from our home based office in Pangkalan Bun of Central Kalimantan - Indonesia. Pangkalan Bun is the gate to see Orangutan in Tanjung Puting National Park that located in central west of Borneo Island. It take about 55 minutes by plane from Semarang or about 1 and a half hour from Jakarta.

Police & National Park Permit:
At least prior to arrival, We require your copy of Passport and Visa or Kitas to obtain the police and the park permit.
Booking Information And Conditions
If you would like to book a trip on BORNEOECOTOUR.COM, please e-mail us to request a details trip itinerary. Space for our houseboat or Kelotok is limited on each trip and many adventure trips sell out early. We recommend you to reserve a place as soon as you know when you want to travel. We will still accept your booking 2 days prior departure subject to space availability. Regarding to the high season in June, July and August we would be please to received your booking 3 month before your arrival to save your booking and the availability. During Muslim big event Ramadan most flight ticket to and from Pangkalan Bun sold out earlier so please let us know if you need us to arrange the flight ticket.

AccommodationsAll participants on BORNEOECOTOUR.COM trip most stay in small hotels, guesthouses, lodge, local house and on boat for Orangutan tour. In some cases you have an options to stay variety of finest hotel. These will vary from place to palce but in all cases the accommodation will usually be owned and operated by local people. This way, your money will be directly reach the local people of the place you are visiting and not large corporations. Your money will also suport us to gain alternative income for the local people and help to protect their tradition.
we had built new houseboat for Orangutan Tour in Tanjung Puting National Park named "BorneoEcoTour" our houseboat lengt is 16 meters and 3 meter wide. we have one Cabin with the Air Conditioning and Open Deck. An electricity on BorneoEcoTour we use solar panel and battery. Regarding to the electricity really depend on the sun light and as we are an Eco Tourism, Air Condition is an optional use only. when ever you fill you need them you could turn them on. Water in BorneoEcoTour is a clean water but not drinkable directly from the tap. all water we have we bring out from Kumai for your shower and wash and we do not use water from the river. you will have hot water and cool water for shower. 

 
Food
On BORNEOECOTOUR.COM trips, you will receive daily breakfast and refreshments en route. For lunches and dinners, you will be advised by our tour guides of recommended restaurants owned and operated by locals. In many cases, water will be provided for free, however, in some areas drinking normal water would be a good idea. We highly recommend bringing a water bottle with an in-line filter system. In Tanjung Puting National Park for orangutan tour you will accompanyed by a cook who will serve fresh food for you. Although you will have the opportunity to order food which is like that you normally eat at home, we recommend trying all the local specialties. After all, food is a major part of any vacation or trip, as well as a major part of any country is culture and you just may discover a few new favorites.

Tour Guides
Our guides knowledge about spots is profound and experienced. Our guide team are a local people as our main goals to helping in contribution of their income.

Transportation
We have included private transportation. The size of transportation will depend on the number of participants in a trip. All participants will be transported in a non air-conditioned coach for group and air-conditioned mini van for individual. For trips to Komodo, Rinca, and orangutan trip, we will use a cabin or non cabin houseboat that has been designed to carry tourists. For the trips in Papua will transported in a non air-conditioned coach.

Flight reservation and Luggage:
To block your confirm flight, please advise us your names at least one month before arrival date. We recommended you to purchase domestic airline tickets locally in remote destination in Indonesia. BORNEOECOTOUR.COM can assist in reserving and securing a seat for you (we are not able to responsible for flight cancellation and delay but we are able to rescheduled the flight and your accomodation). in high season June, July and August you have to purchase the air ticket 3 month before your arrival. Would you please let us know if you need us to arrange your flight ticket.

BorneoEcoTour Deluxe Houseboat: ( Facilities Only for booking in Deluxe BorneoEcoTour Houseboat) this boat are different then Standard Houseboat.

BorneoEcoTour Houseboat is our new houseboat set up with Cabin Room and Open Deck for sleeping. Open deck during a day time is a place for our clients to see monkey and animals or even bird watching from the up deck of the boat. But at night it would be setting up as a private room with spring bed and mosquito net and both side and front of the deck will be closed. In Cabin room we provide an Air Condition and Fan. Air Condition is an Optional use only regarding it is not good for our environment, you could use fan or open the big windows and close it with the mosquito screen to avoid the insect come into the cabin. Regarding the electricity power really limited (with little generator and Solar power) and it is really depended on the sun light. You could use Air condition when you are inside the cabin room and the Air Condition should be turned off at 9 pm. Then from 9 PM up to midnight will use fan with the battery power to make sure that it is least noise and the power could be down automatically when the battery is empty. Generator only used during a day time or Afternoon when you are on board as it is allowed until 9 PM to least noise from the generator so it is not disturb our wildlife. Please do not waste the power during a night time as we should respect the environment and the wildlife surrounding us.

BorneoEcoTour Deluxe Houseboat provide clean water about 2.200 Litters from the water tank inside the boat so we do not use water from the river for shower, cleaning all kitchen stuff. We have hot water and Cold water shower provided on board. Bath room for the clients are separated with the Crews. There are 4 staffs who will accompany you on board: Driver, Driver Assistance, Guide and Chef.

Payment:
To avoid hassle prior to departure from your country, initial deposit 50% or full payment transfer is required as soon as your booking is confirmed direct to our bank account as bellow:

Bank Name : Bank Mandiri Cab. Pangkalan Bun
Account Name: PT. Borneo Lestari Tour & Travel
Account : 159-00-0050765-6
Swift Code : BMRIIDJA

 

Bank Name : Bank Mandiri Cab. Pangkalan Bun
Account Name: PELTANA DANSON
Account : 031-00-0439157-2
Swift Code : BMRIIDJA

 

 

Bank Name : Bank Central Asia KCP. Pangkalan Bun
Account Name: PELTANADANSON
Account : 8 5 8 5 0 0 3 7 8 2
Swift Code : CENAIDJA

Full payment will be required during the meeting service with our representative prior to joining the trip. As such a CASH payment only will be accepted during the meeting service. Payment can be made in IDR, Euro,US Dollar based on the official exchange rate at the time of transaction.

Cancellation and Refund:
Please let us know at least 10 days before arrival date if you want to cancel your reservation. But 25% cancellation fee will be applied within the 24 hours prior departure or in case of no show. If your airline tickets were purchased through our office, you will receive whatever refund is allowable by the airlines. But most cases the airline ticket are unrefundable. BORNEOECOTOUR.COM reserves the right to cancel any trip for any reason of force majoure, including insufficient participants or logistical problems such as natural disasters or uncontrollable condition which may impede tirp operations. In this case a full refund of the land cost would release BORNEOECOTOUR.COM from any further liability. BORNEOECOTOUR.COM is not responsible for additional expenses such as non-refundable air tickets, visa costs,etc.

Health & Insurance:
No specification skill needed to join our trip, all you need is just spirit of adventure and good healthy. It is essential that persons with any medical problems or dietary restrictions make them known to us well before departure. We can consul you on whether the adventure trip you have selected is right for you. Our tour escort has the right to disqualify any time for the participant that he or she feels physically incapable or they will jeopardize either the individual involved or the group. There will be no refund give under these circumstances. Hospital facilities for serious medical problems in Komodo, Rinca, Tanjung Puting National Park, Papua or other remote areas are unavailable. BORNEOECOTOUR.COM assumes no liability regarding the provision of medical care. Make sure you have good insurance that covering medical evacuation, as health care of an International standard in Pangkalan Bun or other remote area is not available. Make Sure your travel insurance covers airline Cancellations, as if your fight is cancelled and you miss your tour, you would not receive a refund of your tour payment. Due to our packages are not covered to your insurance. BORNEOECOTOUR.COM not responsible for travelers who do not carry travels insurance.

BORNEOECOTOUR.COM will not be liable for:
Expenses such as additional hotel nights and meals not stated in the itineraries caused by airline scheduling changes, canceled flights, miss flight connections or by other factors under our control.
Expenses in recovering luggage lost by airlines, belongings left behind on the trip, or shipping it home from abroad.
Expenses for your over luggage, Injury or property damage for any reason,

Lightweight Equipment:
For BORNEOECOTOUR.COM clients who attend the trip, We suggest to bring suntan lotion, hat, rucksack, rain jacket or small umbrella, compass, watch, pocket knife, sun-glasses, light clothes such as trousers and long shirt for trekking, trekking shoes, underwear, long socks plus extra, sandals, flash light (torch), mosquito repellent, emergency rations,binocular, camera plus extra film and battery, medicine or other personal things. For souvenier and other personal expenses, please bring Rupiah with you.

Borneo Eco Tour offer customisable private tour arrangement for all adventure tour in Borneo Kalimantan not include to Malaysian site. we are specialized only in Borneo Kalimantan start from West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and East Kalimantan.

High Season tour for Orangutan tour in Tanjung Puting national Park is on June, July and August. Regarding most of our tour is a private tour and to save the reservation and availability, would you please kindly make the reservation earlier at least 3 month before your arrival as most people could not get the houseboat on their arrival. Request our Orangutan Tour in Tanjung Puting National Park you could contact direct to our email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. We could provide sharing tour to get more cheaper price, but you have to stay in the hotel in Pangkalan Bun and depart depend on the other who like to share their trip. when we have no other sharing group, the tour charge as normal private tour price. 

We provide domestik flight ticket to and from Pangkalan Bun

Transfer in and out

Comfortable boat transportation ( standard and deluxe wooden boat )

Speedboat transportation

Entrance permit for the park and other objects

Tent for overnight in Tanjung Puting National Park (tracking)

Full board meals

Soft drinks, mineral water, snack, coffee, tea, milk, fruits

Accommodation: at lodge, villager house, long house

English speaking guide, Spanish Speaking guide.

National Park donation

Camera charge