Orang Utan Kutai National Park Tour

Spend your time to observation the orangutan in wildlife. Find out their condition after the massive fire at Kutai National Park

 The park represents a number of principal vegetation types, including coastal/mangrove forest, freshwater swamp forest, kerangas forest, lowland flooding forest, ulin/meranti/kapur forest, and mixed Dipterocarpaceae forest. This Park is also part of the largest relatively pristine ulin forest in Indonesia.

Among the plants that grow in this Park are mangrove (Bruguiera sp.), cemara laut (Casuarina equisetifolia), simpur (Dillenia sp.), meranti (Shorea sp.), benuang (Octomeles sumatrana), ulin (Eusideroxylon zwageri), kapur (Dryobalanops sp.), 3 species of rafflesia, and various orchid species.

 An ulin tree in Sangkimah has a height without branches of 45 m, a diameter of 225 cm or a circle of 706 cm, and a volume of 150 m³. It is the highest and largest plant recorded in Indonesia.

As well as a variety of plants, this Park also has a high animal diversity. Primate groups like orangutan (Pongo satyrus), Mueller's Bornean grey gibbon (Hylobates muelleri), proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis), maroon leaf monkey (Presbytis rubicunda rubicunda), white-fronted leaf monkey (P. frontata frontata), pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina nemestrina), and slow loris (Nycticebus coucang borneanus) can be found in Teluk Kaba, Prevab-Mentoko and Sangkimah.

 

Kutai National Park Short Visit	duration : 2 days / 1 night
Kutai National Park Observation	duration : 3 days / 2 nights
Kutai National Park and Samboja Lodge	duration : 4 days / 3 nights
Orangutan and Mahakam Cruise	duration : 6 days / 5 nights

We have combined some of Kutai National Park packages with Mahakam Cruise and Samboja Lodge Orangutan project

Various of interest  :

At Kutai National Park :

Orangutan, Proboscis Monkeys, Barking and Sambar Deer, Mouse-deer, Banteng, Clouded Leopard, gibbons and leaf monkeys. More than 236 bird species have been recorded for the park like Rufous-bellied Eagle, Wallace’s Hawk-eagle, Crested Partridge, Crested Fireback, Great Argus, Large Green Pigeon, Large Frogmouth, seven species of Horbill (notably Wrinkled), blue-headed Pitta, Garnet Pitta, Bornean Wren-babbler, Bornean Bristlehead, Dusky Munia..

At Samboja Lodge :

Trekking to observe the Orangutans, and others wildlife habitats, sun bear around the lodge, re-forestation and protection rainforests, black river to observing monkeys, birds, wildlife's. etc. Feeding time of the Orangutan, wildlife at the sungai wain rainforest .

At Mahakam Cruise :

Mahakam River and it's creeks. Fisherman village and lakes. The life of Banjar tribe, Kutai tribe, Buginese tribe and Dayak tribe (Kenyah, Benuaq, Tunjung, Bahau) along the river bank. Floating houses and traditional markets. Traditional Longhouse (Lamin), Art and Ceremony of Dayak Tribe. Birds, Proboscis Monkey, Fresh Water Dolphin (Pesut) and Natural Orchids.

 Condition :

Grade	:  Easy
Transport	:  Land transport, houseboat, motorized canoe and some walking.
Accommodation	:  Camp, Lodge and houseboat (depend of the program).
Meals	:  Full board meals during on the trip.
Schedule	:  Available on requests.