Luggage ready, today the day has come to know one of the most important centers of biodiversity in the world and the third largest island on the planet. Borneo!!! After breakfast and at the right time you will have the transfer to the airport to catch the direct flight to Pangkalan Bun, on the island of Borneo, or better known by Indonesians as Kalimantan. 

Upon arrival at the airport, your guide will be waiting for you. You will transfer to the port of Kumai in about 15-20 minutes by car, where you will embark on a great adventure! You arrive at our traditional wooden boat, called a klotok. Our guide will reconfirm with the crew that everything is ready and start the cruise up the river in the famous Sekonyer River aboard a klotok. If your flight arrives early (before 11.30 AM), you can arrive in time to the rehabilitation center of Tanjung Harapan, where at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, the rangers of the national park feed the orangutans, and you can have your first close encounters with them. The translation of Tanjung Harapan is Cape of Hope. This first camp is one of the ones with more wetlands, and being in the afternoon has more mosquitoes, so make sure you put on enough mosquitorepellent. Here you also can do the reforestation, where you can be volunteers to plant a tree, and so take pride that you have contributed a grain of sand to conservation with your step over there. After visiting this Rangers Camp, you will continue upstream, resting on the boat, while you search for animals in the vicinity of the Sekonyer River. This afternoon, it is very frequent to see groups of proboscis monkeys and monkeys in the treetops, jumping from one branch to another, or even crocodiles, and lizards in the shallow waters of the sides of the river. Prepare for sunset. The boat moored on one side of the river to spend the night. Tonight, you can do a walk into the jungle to look for night animals like snakes, tarantulas or if you are lucky luminescent mushrooms or tarsiers.

After an extraordinary breakfast, you will go in time to see the Pondok Tanggui Camp at the time of feeding (9 AM). Sooner or later, you will see how the branches of the treetops begin to move, and then you will see the silhouettes of the Orangutans arriving at the feeding platform. Pondok Tanggui was a release camp for young Orangutans that were rehabilitated, and they continue to add food every day to prevent the Orangutans from leaving because of a lack of food. They end up outside the National Park, with the following risk of falling into traps of settlers or fields of palm oil plantations. After the Orangutans begin to leave, you will return to the klotok again to go further up the river. You will see how the coloration of the river changes, and you will have the opportunity to see crocodiles and large lizards, together with Gibbon’s and proboscis monkeys.

Arrival at Camp Leakey, the old orangutan research and rehabilitation center since 1971, when a student at UCLA Los Angeles University, Birutte Galdikas began studying the Orangutans there. The name Camp Leaky comes from Birutte’s own teacher, the Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey. At least 200 orangutans had already been cured and returned to the jungles, thanks to this center. However, since 1995, the Government of Indonesia has banned the introduction of more Orangutans into this camp, so Orangutans are increasingly adapting more to freedom. To this day, this camp is used as an investigation into the behavior and feeding of Orangutans. You will take advantage of your guide to explore the interiors of the jungle a bit to look for orangutans in freedom and other animals. At 14.00, you can see the feeding time of the Orangutans. You can also visit the small museum made by the scientist Dr. Birute Galdikas. When you are finished observing the orangutans in this camp, and if the weather and conditions permit, you will make a short trek through the jungle on our way back to the boat to look for wild orangutans and other animals. You will have the opportunity to learn from our local guides, some of whom were born in the jungle, how to look for animals or plants, or simply listen to their experience of life in the jungle. The jungles of Borneo have given life and have been home to the settlers for many years. The jungles, under the eyes of the grandparents, are able to give you everything you need. Food, water, medicines, etc. Yes... Never put anything in your mouth without the recommendation of your guide. In the afternoon, if the circumstances permit, the boat will be docked near a firefly congregation, and you can enjoy the show of its luminescence.

Notes:

The Birute Galdikas Museum at Camp Leaky is currently closed for maintenance purposes. Regrettably, visits to this site will not be possible until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated on the reopening of the museum.

If your return flight leaves early in the morning (around 7 a.m.), tonight the klotok will sleep closer to the port in order to get you to the airport in time.

This excursion will make us lose ourselves in the true magic of Yogyakarta. You will start your day with breakfast at the hotel and then head towards the heart of the city. We will visit the Keraton, known as the Sultan's Palace. The palace is a complex building, two centuries old, located in the heart of the city. The "freedom" song of the birds will be heard in the bird market, and we will visit the "Water Castle," which occupies the highest part of the vast complex of Taman Sari, Malioboro Street, Yogyakarta's main street, with its merchants, horse-drawn carts, bicycle taxis, and markets. An incredible experience that will make the hours fly by.

Finishing the tour in the center of the city of Yogyakarta, we will go northeast towards Candi Prambanan, the Hindu temple that has been classified as a World Heritage Site by Unesco since 1991. This temple was completed around the year 856 to commemorate the victory of the Sanjaya descendant of Siva, Rikai Pikatan, over the last ruler of Central Java, Sailendra. Take your time to enjoy each carving on the rocks and feel the spirituality emanating from each of the stones placed in this set of more than 200 Hindu temples that are dedicated to the Trimurti, the expression of God as the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer. After this day that you will never forget, we will take you to your hotel.

Prepare your suitcase.Your adventure continues. You will enjoy your well-deserved breakfast at the hotel. At the indicated time, depending on the time of your flight, you will have a transfer to the Bali airport, and then you will fly to the city of Labuan Bajo, a very interesting point due to its proximity to the Komodo National Park.

Arrival at the Komodo airport in Labuan Bajo, in the west of the island of Flores. Our guide will be waiting for you at the airport to transfer you to the Labuan Bajo pier. During this first day aboard a traditional boat, we will visit the Menjarite and Kalong islands.
We will sail for about 3 hours until we reach our first stop, Menjarite Island, where we can snorkel and relax. Then we will sail to Kelor Island, where, in addition to swimming in its beautiful waters, we will be able to take a short hike to the top of the hill to enjoy its impressive views. In the afternoon, we will go to Kalong Island (Flying Fox Island). Here you will be able to see the amazing thousands of flying foxes that come out of the mangroves at sunset time, 18:00–19:00. The beautiful sunset is really nice and can be seen from the boat. This is truly a spectacle of nature. We will end the day enjoying a delicious dinner.

After having breakfast on the boat, we will then sail to PADAR Island to do the trekking that takes us directly to the famous view of the three bays. We continue straight to Loh Liang, the Ranger station on Komodo Island. We will pass around many small islands, and in 2.5 hours we will reach the pier of Komodo Island. After checking in, we will do a gentle trek to see the giant rizard/komodo dragon and other wildlife such as Timor deer, wild boar, wild chicken, and many species of tropical birds. A local ranger will guide you during the walk. You will return to the ship to go to a pink sand beach (Pink Beach) to snorkel, swim, and relax. It is really spectacular, as is the virgin coral reef with many colorful fish. This is one of the best places to snorkel. Then you will sail to Manta Point to explore giant mantas while snorkeling, possibly even seeing them from the boat (although this cannot be guaranteed if the weather is bad or there are strong waves and currents). Lunch will be provided on board. We go to the port of Labuan Bajo in the afternoon and then to the hotel to rest from all of the sea and mountains. 

After breakfast, transfer to Labuan Bajo airport to take the flight to Lombok (via Denpasar). Upon arrival at Lombok airport, you will have the indicated transfer to the port, from where the boat will be taken to cross to Gili Island. Upon arrival, check in at the hotel. Rest of the day free.

Today is the end of your stay in Gili and also your last stay in this Nusantara Land. You will have your well-deserved breakfast at the hotel, and at the indicated time, depending on the time of your return to Lombok Island, then you will have transfer to the Lombok airport, to catch the flight to Jakarta.

Thank you for writing your adventure experience through Come2Indonesia. We wish you a happy and good trip. We wait for you in other excursions with other experiences. Sampai Jumpa…!!!