17/11/2024
Sumatra Tour
Great : Easy
Start : France - Indonesia
Activities : Enjoying jungle trekking immensely with your beloved children in Sumatra, lots of walking on Mount Leuser National Park, observing the critically endangered wild orangutan in its natural habitat, swimming in the unimaginably delicious cool water of a fresh mountain stream, sleeping overnight in the tropical rainforest, eating local food in the jungle, going back to the guesthouse by river.
Place to visit : Bukit Lawang, Berastagi, Lake Toba
Day 1 - Medan Airport - Bukit Lawang
Upon arrival at Medan airport you will be picked up by driver, the airport to Bukit Lawang hotel
Go around Bukit Lawang villange by tuktuk on afternoon.
Day 2 - Bukit Lawang - National Park
Bukit Lawang jungle trekking in Sumatra is one of the most famous ways to see orangutans in the wild. Thousands of tourists flock to this small village on the border of the National Park every year, drawn by the no-fail guarantee of getting up close and personal with a Sumatran orangutan.While the Bukit Lawang orangutans are now wild-living, many of them are ex-captive; their behaviour is hugely different from that of truly wild orangutans.
9am: Your guide will meet you at your guesthouse, and you will join with the other guests joining the trek.
9:15am (approximate): Walk to the entrance to the national park, near the Ecolodge guesthouse.
9:30am (approximate): Enter into the national park, trek through the jungle, keeping an eye out for wildlife including of course orangutans.
Noon: break for lunch. Typically fried rice, which we bring from the village, plus a variety of tropical fruit (depending on the season), such as pineapple, passion fruit, bananas, rambutan and tangerines.
1pm: trek to our overnight camp, keeping an eye out for wildlife along the way.
4-5pm: arrive at the camp. Our guides will prepare a fire, and cook your dinner of curry, rice, and other local foods, with tea, coffee, and fresh water. After dinner you can relax, chat, talking.
Bedtime: sleep under our 'jungle tent', a large wooden frame covered with a plastic sheet.
Day 3 - Mount Leuser National Park
9am: We eat breakfast together
10am: trek from the day 1 campsite towards second campsite.
Noon: lunch - fruit, noodles
1pm: continue walking
3pm: Go to second campsite,
5 pm: Swimming pure river, relex
7pm : Eeating local food, a camp fire singalong, or play games such as cards or dominoes, sleeping overnight in the jungle.
Bedtime: sleep under our 'jungle tent', a large wooden frame covered with a plastic sheet.
Day 4 - Mount Leuser National Park to Berastagi
9am: We eat breakfast together
10am: trek from the day 2 campsite towards rafting point.
Noon: lunch - fruit, noodles
1pm: continue walking to rafting point
Going back from the jungle to the guesthouse by river.
Bukit Lawang to Berastagi
Drive to Berastagi on the way we stop to see view nature, ghost village by mount Sinabung volcano 🌋
Check in Berastagi hotel.
Day 5 - Hiking Mount Sibayak & Exploring Berastagi
After breakfast we go for hiking mount Sibayak and than swimming in the hotspring to see the Sikulikap water, traditional house batak Karo culture, fruits market and on and on.
Check in Berastagi hotel
Day 6 - Exploring Sipiso-piso - Tonging
After breakfast in the morning and packing your luggage, we will explore Tonging areas, on the way to Tongging, we visit small village by Karo Dokan, Sipiso-piso waterfall
and panorama by lake.
Check in Tonging hotel
Day 7 - Exploring Samosir Island
Breakfast at the Hotel
Tour Samosir Island ( private car)
Huta siallagan
Batuhoda beach
Kampung Ulos
Pangururan ( lunch)
Pusuk buhit
Holbung.
Sibeabea
Tomok
Back to Hotel
Dinner at local Restaurant
Day 8 - Samosir to the airport (Medan hotel)
Wake up in the morning, have breakfast,
Check out hotel at samosir
Cross to parapat by ferry
we're going to drop you off to the airport for your flight.
Note: itinerary is indicative only, variations are possible due to weather conditions (in the rainy season we will try to reach camp earlier, as it normally rains in later afternoon) and the characteristics of the group (e.g., we can make the trek longer or shorter according to your physical condition).
Not included: Tipping
Documentation
Souvenier
.. Flight ticket
