Dayak Culture and Orangutan Tour (6D/5N)
Find
out the unique culture of Dayak tribe, visit the museum, live in a long house
(traditional house), and interact with the traditional people and their real
life. Explore the beautiful nature, trekking in the forest, rafting on the
cascade, and meet with orangutan.
Day
1: Arriving in Palangka Raya -
Balanga Museum – Hampapak Forest
You will arrive in
Cilik Riwut Air port, Palangka Raya. By visiting Balanga Museum, you will know
more about history, art, and culture of Dayak Tribe. Dayak tribe is known as
one of the most unique tribe and culture in Indonesia. There are Sandung or
bone houses, gongs and musical instruments that always accompany traditional rituals,
masks, Mandau or traditional swords, and the other unique local culture
collections. After visiting the museum, we will travel to Hampapak forest. It
will take about two hours by a speed boat from Palangka Raya. We will do trekking
around the forest. It is a peat-swamp forest and one of tourism forests of
central Borneo. It was a nice forest, but it was reduced by fire and some
illegal activities such as illegal logging and illegal mining. Now, it has been
a wildlife sanctuary and conservation.
Day 2: Tumbang Melahoi – Long House
(Rumah Betang) – Dayak Art Performance
We
will go to Tumbang Melahoi, a small village on the bank of Rungan River. It
will take about five hours ride from Palangka Raya. We can drive from Palangka
Raya, but it is off road. We may ride speed boat or Klotok (traditional boat)
if the water of Rungan River is high. We will visit this village to find a
longhouse or Betang, the Traditional house of Dayak. It is about 30 meters
length, and 3 meters height. It stands on magnificent iron wood. Its walls are
made of the trees bark. It is located at Tumbang Melahoi village. In front of
the Longhouse you will find statues and Sandung (bone houses), containing the
bones of the family members in the past. We will stay for a night at the
traditional longhouse and enjoy Dayak art performance which will conduct a
beautiful night and a memorable experience for us. We will also live in the
real condition of its residents and their traditional life.
Day
3: Rubber tapping – Rungan
Cascade – Sampit
They
will also show you rubber tapping or
rubber plantation process. It is one of the most livelihoods of Dayak people. They plant the rubber trees, and then
tap the trees in order to get the rubber. Then, we will travel by Klotok to
Rungan River Cascade. You will be relaxed by the beauty of Rungan River, sound
of water splashing, and its tropical rain forest. After that, we will travel to
Sampit.
Day
4: Sampit - Pangkalanbun -
Kumai
From
Sampit, we will travel to Pangkalanbun and Kumai. We will go up Sekunyer River
to Tanjung Puting National Park from Kumai Harbour by Klotok (traditional
boat).
Day
5: Tanjung Puting National Park
Tanjung
Puting National Park is one of the natural wonders of the world. The best known
animals in Tanjung Puting are orangutans. You will meet orangutans in their
real habitat, interact with them, and watch orangutans feeding time. You will
feel the purity of the air, live on Klotok (traditional motor boat), and see
the sunsets. This National Park has
several ecosystem types, such as lowland tropical forest, heath forest, peat
swamp forests, mangroves, coastal forests and secondary forests. We will be
there to stay and enjoy the beauty of flora and fauna of the National Park. It
must be awesome.
