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Borneo Package Tours
ORANGUTAN AND FLOATING MARKET

Duration: 04 Days/03 Nights
Mini participants : two persons

Tanjung Puting is announced as a national park on October 14, 1982 by Ministry of Forestry, covering an area about 300,040 hectares. It is a conservation area to protect rare animals such as; Orangutan (pongo pygmaeus), proboscis monkey (nasalis larvatus), hornbill, etc. The area is also a kind of ecosystem of lowland tropical rainforest, swamp and mangrove forest.

Banjarmasin town is river oriented, houses on stilts lined the waterways crisscross the capital. Cruising the canal by motorized boat, especially on the morning or afternoon hours, shows the town from the inside where people bathing, doing laundry, buying fruit, vegetable and fish from woman vendors in a tiny canoes.

The floating market is one of main tourism objects in this town. The market is available from 05:00 – 08:00 in the morning. At the location we can enjoy tradition of Banjarese people trading vegetables, fruit, drinks, cakes, and many kinds of other daily needs. Buyers can buy these commodities on board of their boats or from small port attached to the back of people house.

ITINERARY
Day 01 : ARRIVAL IN PANGKALAN BUN-KUMAI-TANJUNG PUTING PARK
Meet at Pangkalan Bun airport, then transfer to Kumai district for boating to Tanjung Puting National Park. Transfer Pangkalan Bun and Kumai, then continue cruise the Sekonyer river to Tanjung Puting National Park. The boat is a traditional Klotok wooden river boat about 6m by 2m with a roof which forms the upper deck where you can view the rain forest as it glides by. The guide's team includes the boatman, a cook and expert guide. In the peaceful afternoon we will slowly explore the quite river by the klotok while observe the monkeys along the riverside. Overnight and dining on the boat, with facilities; thin mattress, pillow, fine meals, bottled "mineral" water, mosquito net, kitchen, simple toilet available on boat besides the familiar - helpful guides and boatmen . (l,d)
Day 02 : PONDOK TANGGUY-CAMP LEAKEY-TANJUNG HARAPAN
After breakfast board the klotok to travel up river for about 2 hours boating and then up a side creek to Camp Leakey where the older orangutans are reintroduced into the rain forest. En route stop at Pondok Tanguy, the rehabilitation center for the new ex-captive orangutans. At Camp Leakey you will have opportunity to trek into the rain forest with your expert guide and the forestry rangers to appreciate the flora as well as perhaps sighting wild orangutans, gibbons, macaques, and birds. Lunch provided on boat. Afternoon visit the feeding station to see rehabilitate orangutans are given additional foods. We will then sail back down the river to overnight on the boat.(b,l,d)
Day 03 : KUMAI-PANGKALAN BUN-BANJARMASIN
Return to Kumai district by boat, transfer to Pangkalan Bun airport for flight to Banjarmasin. Overnight at hotel (b,l)
Day 04 : FLOATING MARKET-DEPARTURE
Early morning cruising to the floating market to see people trading from boat to boat, then joining the canal tour on the way back to the hotel, free program till the departure time. Tour end.(b)

AC land transportation, Accommodation based on twin share: # 02 nights at houseboat - # 01 night at Swiss Bel Hotel Banjarmasin, Entrance fee & refreshments, English speaking guide, Houseboat in Tanjung putting national park, Motorized boat for floating market tour, Meals as stated on program
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