Based in Tanjung Puting National Park, in a comfortable eco-lodge overlooking the Sekonyer River, you will have the chance to explore this fascinating environment and spend most days visiting Camp Leakey, the historic research site established by Dr Galdikas.
Highlights include:
- Gain an insight into orangutan conservation with experts from the Orangutan Foundation UK
- Spend 9 days exploring the forests of Borneo staying in one of the region's best eco-lodges
- Enjoy easy walking in remote orangutan areas.
Comfortably based at Rimba Lodge in Tanjung Puting National Park, you will have the chance to explore this fascinating environment and spend most days visiting Camp Leakey, the historic research site established by Dr Galdikas. From here you will be taken on guided walks through the rainforest, keeping a watchful eye in the trees for wild orangutans and if lucky enough to encounter them, will track the Great Apes through the park.
You will also spend time at one of the numerous feeding platforms frequented by ex-captive orangutans living in the wild, which gives you the opportunity for some incredibly close encounters.
You will also have the chance to journey along the Sekonyer River and explore the fascinating rainforest itself as well as the chance to visit one of the gold mines in the region. In joining this tour not only will you have the privilege of seeing these gentle apes in the wild but you will also help in the fight against their extinction and see the issues and threats they face on a daily basis.
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Modern orangutans originated during the Pleistocene period, 2 million to 100,000 years ago. They now face extinction.
At the turn of the last century around 315,000 orangutans existed in the wild. Orangutan numbers are now down by 92% compared with a century ago and have been reduced by half in Northern Sumatra between 1993 and 2000.
To enquire about Orangutan Conservation projects, please click here