Sumatra Half-Day Orangutan Trek from Bukit Lawang
Bohorok, Indonesia
Trip Type: Walking Tours
Duration: 4 hours
Set off with your guide for your 4-hour small group adventure in Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra to trek in the jungle around the old feeding platform area. Try to spot some semi wild orangutans and wild orangutans foraging in their natural habitat as well as other wildlife such as macaques, gibbons and thomas leaf monkeys. You may also be lucky to hear or see the elusive Sumatran peacock or monitor lizard. Stop to enjoy a delicious jungle fruit snack before continuing your trek for more animal spotting and returning to your guesthouse or agreed drop off point.
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Set off with your guide for your 4-hour small group adventure in Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra to trek in the jungle around the old feeding platform area. Try to spot some semi wild orangutans and wild orangutans foraging in their natural habitat as well as other wildlife such as macaques, gibbons and thomas leaf monkeys. You may also be lucky to hear or see the elusive Sumatran peacock or monitor lizard. Stop to enjoy a delicious jungle fruit snack before continuing your trek for more animal spotting and returning to your guesthouse or agreed drop off point.
Depart from your guest house in Bukit Lawang or from the agreed meeting point to start your trek into Gunung Leuser National Park, one of the largest national parks in the world containing over 800,000 hectares of rain forest in this UNESCO World Heritage site.
The journey takes you to the top of the mountain, where you can enjoy the fresh mountain air. Trek further up into the forest while you are enjoying the beautiful scenery and tropical plants, including the enormous rainforest trees, twisting lianas, palms and ferns. The trek leads you along the mountain ridge and around the old orangutan feeding ground area, where you will have the opportunity to search for and spot animals and orangutans in the wild Sumatran jungle. (The trek normally takes 4 hours in total depending on stops and fitness levels. The same distance is covered on each trek).
Your tour concludes in the village of Bukit Lawang where you will then be taken back to your guest house or the agreed drop off point.
Depart from your guest house in Bukit Lawang or from the agreed meeting point to start your trek into Gunung Leuser National Park, one of the largest national parks in the world containing over 800,000 hectares of rain forest in this UNESCO World Heritage site.
The journey takes you to the top of the mountain, where you can enjoy the fresh mountain air. Trek further up into the forest while you are enjoying the beautiful scenery and tropical plants, including the enormous rainforest trees, twisting lianas, palms and ferns. The trek leads you along the mountain ridge and around the old orangutan feeding ground area, where you will have the opportunity to search for and spot animals and orangutans in the wild Sumatran jungle. (The trek normally takes 4 hours in total depending on stops and fitness levels. The same distance is covered on each trek).
Your tour concludes in the village of Bukit Lawang where you will then be taken back to your guest house or the agreed drop off point.
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