INDONESIA - Kalimantan - Tanjung Puting National Park
Tanjung Puting National Park is located in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan. The nearest main town is the capital of the Regency, Pangkalan Bun. The park is famous for its orangutan conservation. The park is composed of 416,040 hectares of dryland forest, swampforest mangrove, and secondary forest. The park may be accessed from Kumai by speedboat along the Kumai River and then the Sekonyer River to Camp Leakey, a journey that takes about 1.5 hours. Beyond that the peat forest has been removed to make way for oil palm plantations. Despite being a protected national park, approximately 65% of the park's primary forest is degraded. It is the loss of natural habitat that is the greatest threat to the wildlife.
We confirm that the forest along the river is exclusively secondary and sparse. Also, there is little wildlife unlike Sabah in Malaysia and most of the orang-utans we saw were half-wild and familiar with humans.
BEST TIME to VISIT KALIMANTAN
BEST TIME to TRAVEL to TANJUNG NP
From May to end August
Tanjung Puting National Park - Female and baby orangutans
Tanjung Puting National Park - Female and baby orangutans - swinging
Tanjung Puting National Park - Female and baby orangutans - bonding
Tanjung Puting National Park - male orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - male orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - impressive middle-age male orang-utan
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby milking
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby on her back
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby milking
Tanjung Puting National Park - orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - orangutans - female and a baby claiming for food
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby
Tanjung Puting National Park - female orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utan (female)
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans on the platform where bananas are served every day
Tanjung Puting National Park - orangutans
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby
Tanjung Puting National Park - male orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utans - female and baby
Tanjung Puting National Park - multiple klotoks are used by tourists to visit the park. The accessible river is short and you can do the trip in 2-3 days with a klotok and even 1 day with a speed boat from Kumai
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around - young boys playing in the water
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around
Tanjung Puting National Park - village around - couple outside of their house
Tanjung Puting National Park - river and boats
Tanjung Puting National Park - fishing
Tanjung Puting National Park - long tail boat on the river
Kumai harbour is the starting point to Tanjung Puting National Park
Tanjung Puting National Park - children playing in the water
Tanjung Puting National Park - pier at Kumai
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boat
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boat
Tanjung Puting National Park - baby Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - baby Orangutan handling a piece of banana with its leg
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan taking a short cut between 2 trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan taking a short cut between 2 trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan taking a short cut between 2 trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan taking a short cut between 2 trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boats are used by tourists to visit the park
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boats , like this one, are used by tourists to visit the park
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boat
Tanjung Puting National Park - Klotok boats offers basic confort for tourists
Tanjung Puting National Park - Orangutan landing on the food platform
Tanjung Puting National Park - Baby orangutan eating a banana
Tanjung Puting National Park - Orang-utans - here mother and baby taking a short cut in the air between 2 trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - shy baby orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - baby orangutan climbing a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - Long arms are very helpful for orangutans to move between trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - young orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - small orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - small orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - impressive orangutan moving from tree to tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - female orangutan moving between trees
Tanjung Puting National Park - two orangutans on a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - carnivorous plant
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - young boy swimming
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - lady with a rice sun-block
Tanjung Puting National Park - Entrance "gate"
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - lady smiling with a kid
Tanjung Puting National Park - an orangutan is hanging on the other side of this sideboard
Tanjung Puting National Park - Gibbon monkey on a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - sunset on the river
Tanjung Puting National Park - Rhinoceros hornbill
Tanjung Puting National Park - Female Proboscis
Tanjung Puting National Park - Giant Ant in the guide hand
Tanjung Puting National Park - Hawk
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutans
Tanjung Puting National Park - orang-utan
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - female Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - Orangutan on a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - Orangutan climbing
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - young Orangutan
Tanjung Puting National Park - Male proboscis screaming
Tanjung Puting National Park - Male proboscis screaming
Tanjung Puting National Park - Male proboscis screaming
Tanjung Puting National Park - Male proboscis screaming
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - kids playing
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - grocery store
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - house
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - houses
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - houses
Tanjung Puting National Park - village - house
Tanjung Puting National Park - Cruising on the river
Tanjung Puting National Park - Speed boat on the river
Tanjung Puting National Park - Cruising on the river
Klotok boats aren't so confortable for tourists but there is a laundry
Tanjung Puting National Park - Cruising on the river - one of the sailors
Tanjung Puting National Park - Cruising on the river - Sailors waiting for the tourists at the feeding station
Tanjung Puting National Park - Oriental pied hornbill
Tanjung Puting National Park - Rhinoceros hornbill
Tanjung Puting National Park - Oriental pied hornbill
Tanjung Puting National Park - large kingfisher
Tanjung Puting National Park - Oriental pied hornbill
Tanjung Puting National Park - warbler
Tanjung Puting National Park - female proboscis
Tanjung Puting National Park - pretty colorful birds
Tanjung Puting National Park - Proboscis - probably a young male
Tanjung Puting National Park - Gibbon on a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - Gibbon on a tree - they have incredible long arms and legs
Tanjung Puting National Park - Gibbon on a tree
Tanjung Puting National Park - female and a baby orang-utans
Tanjung Puting National Park - baby orang-utan in the arms of its mother
Tanjung Puting National Park - two females and a baby orang-utans
Tanjung National Park - tree on a small patch of primary forest
Tanjung National Park - tree on a small patch of primary forest
Tanjung National Park - tree on a small patch of primary forest
Tanjung National Park - tree on a small patch of primary forest