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Tanjung Puting National Park

The Reserve is a heritage of Nature, has several ecosystems as lowland tropical rain forest, dryland forest, freshwater swamp forest, mangrove forest, coastal forest, and secondary forest. Tanjung Puting National Park is the most easiest way to experience an Adventure Tour to the orangutans in their natural habitat at Kalimantan. The Park of Tanjung Puting can be easily reached from Pangkalanbun by Klotok houseboat which sail the Sekonyer River through the forest and guarentee plenty of wildlife primates during your journey in the heart of darkness at Tanjung Puting Reserve. You can count on seeing proboscis monkeys, and troops of light brown monkeys jump from 10 meters in-to the river in front of the Klotok houseboat, the macaques hanging in the trees, gibbons, clouded leopards, sambar deer and orangutans on the riverside branches.

The Park is dominated by lowland forest plants like jelutung (Dyera costulata), ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), meranti (Shorea sp.), keruing (Dipterocarpus sp.), and rattans.

Endangered and protected animal species inhabiting Tanjung Puting National Park, include the orangutan (Pongo satyrus), proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), maroon leaf monkey (Presbytis rubicunda rubida), sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus), lesser Malay mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus klossii), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), and leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis borneoensis).

This Park was the first place in Indonesia to become a rehabilitation centre for orangutans. There are now three orangutan rehabilitation locations, Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui, and Camp Leakey.

Tourism Attractions Tanjung Puting National Park

Tanjung Harapan is the first station in the orangutan rehabilitation process. Situated in the midst of secondary and swamp forest, it has a guesthouse, an information centre, and trails.

Pondok Tanggui: orangutans that have passed the semi-wild phase are moved to Pondok Tanggui. There, they are closely monitored from a distance, and human contact is avoided.

Camp Leakey: founded in 1971 in the middle of primary forest, this is the location for semi-wild and wild orangutans, and for younger orangutans from birth until three years of age.

There are two main activities at Tanjung Puting National Park. One involves cruising with the local boats for a exploration of the river system surrounding Camp Leakey and visits feeding stations at Camp Leakey. This area will give you the rare opportunity to get very close and interact with the orangutans. The local boats, called "Klotok Houseboats" which are large and have their own bathroom onboard, and sail to nearby feeding stations, which are all quite easy to reach on foot.