Borneo Indonesia Tour

EXPLORE BORNEO - EAST KALIMANTAN
EXPLORE BORNEO
Duration 09 Days / 08 Nights

Day 01 : PONTIANAK ARRIVAL (LD)
Upon arrival at Pontinak airport, meeting service and directly transfer by bus / minibus to check in at Hotel Kapuas, After Lunch at Local Chinese restaurant, sightseeing at Pontianak, afterwards dinner at Local Restaurant, and back to hotel for overnight.

Day 02 : PONTIANAK, PANGKALAMBUN by DERAYA 07:30 – 09:00, CAMP LEAKEY ( BLD )
After breakfast, transit to airport for your flight to Pangkalambun. Upon arrival at Pangkalanbun, to Kumai harbor to board a slow boat cruising up 3 hours Sekonyer river to enter Tanjung Puting National Park which is 305.000 hectares of Tropical Rainforest & Wildlife. Dinner and overnight at Boat / Rimba Lodge.

Day 03 : CAMP LEAKEY, PANGKALAMBUN ( BLD )
Breakfast at Boat / Rimba Lodge, in the morning trekking to the tropical rainforest, and then return by slow boat downstream the Sekonyer River to Pangkalanbun. Meals at Local Indonesian restaurant and overnight at hotel Kecabung or similar.

Day 04 : PANGKALAMBUN, BANJARMASIN by DAS 09:00 – 12:00, CEMPAKA, MARTAPURA, ( BLD )
After breakfast, direct transfer to the airport where you will fly to Banjarmasin airport and then transfer to check - in at the Hotel Barito***, Lunch at Local Indonesian restaurant, in the afternoon visiting Cempaka diamond mining, which is a famouse place where diamonds and stones are found since hundreds of years and digged at a traditional way of by using "linggangan" to sort sand and mud and stones, Lunch at a Local Indonesian restaurant enroute, afterwards visit Martapura traditional diamond jewelry shops, dinner at local restauarant return to hotel for overnight.dinner at local restaurant.

Day 5 BANJARMASIN, BALIKPAPAN ( BLD )
After breakfast visiting the floating market, where you can see the traditional Banjarnese way of selling dishes, fruit and vegatables the products in the harbor by using motorcanoes, till departure time to the airport for the onward flight to Balikpapan, upon arrival direct transfer to Loa Janan for boarding houseboat to cruise upstream Mahakam River to Muara Muntai which will take about 12 hours. On the way, you will pass Tenggarong City the Kutainese Culture center of East Kalimantan, and will see the daily life of the people which are living at the river bank, Indonesian Meals provided in the kitchen on board, overnight on the houseboat.

Day 6 : MUARA MUNTAI, MANCONG, TANJUNG ISUY ( BLD )
Morning arrival in Muara Muntai, sightseeing in villages where you will see and pass the hard woodeen road. Then crossing the river to Jempang lake to Mancong where you can see one of the oldest longhouses of East Kalimantan then continue by motorcanoe to reach Tanjung Isuy. A welcome ceremony and dance will be presented, overnight at Long House.

Day 7 : TANJUNG ISUY, MANCONG ( BLD )
After breakfast by motorcanoe to Mancong where you can see one of the oldest longhouses of East Kalimantan then continue, crossing the ohong creek back to the Houseboat for boarding downstream to Tenggarong, Indonesian dinner and overnight on board.

Day 8 : TENGGARONG, BALIKPAPAN ( BLD )
Arrive at Tenggarong, visiting the former palace of Sultan Kutai Kertanegara. Where you will see the Sultan's impressive collection of heirlooms, china ceramics, dayak's art and culture items, etc in that Museum. Afterwards return to houseboat for Indonesian lunch and downstreams to Samarinda, upon arrival direct transfer to Balikpapan for check in at Benakutai hotel for overnight and Chinese dinner at restaurant.

Day 9 : BALIKPAPAN ( B )
After breakfast Balikpapan sightseeing and transfer to airport for flight to your next destination.