5 DAYS TOUR TANGKAHAN

Day 1: Medan – Tangkahan
After you arrive at Polonia Airport in Medan the capital of North Sumatra, we will pick you up with our travel car and drive you to Tangkahan. It takes about 4 hours driving. Arrive in the Visitor Center of Tangkahan. We should cross the Batang river using traditional raft in order to check in to the Tangkahan Inn, the newest and best hostel in Tangkahan.

Day 2: Tangkahan (Trekking & Camping)
After breakfast at hostel, you will explore the beautifulness of Tangkahan, where you can found many animals like gibbons, slow loris, etc. In trekking track you will passing by Kalong and Kambing Cave, where bat can be easily found there. We will trekking the jungle tour over one night. We will trek and camp in the forest until the next day and we back to the hostel to take time for relax.

Day 3: Tangkahan (Trekking, Swimming & Tubing)
After breakfast at the camp we will trek few more hours before we back to the hostel to take time for relax. The rest of the day can be fill out with swimming and tubing in Buluh or Batang river.

Day 4: Tangkahan (Elephant Bathing and Elephant Trekking)
After breakfast at hostel, we will visit the elephant jungle patrol unit, where you can see the elephant and the keeper (mahout) that regularly doing jungle patrol to protect the national park. It’s about 30 minutes walking from the hostel before we arrive at the location. We will bathing the elephant and after that we will doing elephant trekking for about three hours.

Day 5: Tangkahan – Medan
Breakfast at hostel, and return to Medan. The trip will take about 4 hours drive passing by town of Stabat, on the way you can see palm oil and rubber plantation. Arrive in Medan, free program at your own leisure, until time to leave for airport.

How to go to Bukit Lawang

There are tourist buses leaving from most towns in North Sumatra to Bukit Lawang. In Medan you have the option of catching a local bus, very large, slow and crowded but very cheap, 10,000Rp. It will take 3.5 to 4 hours in the local bus as it also stops many times along the way to drop and pick up locals. You will need to get a becak or taxi to the bus depot in Medan - Pinang Baris. It will cost around 35,000Rp for a becak. A taxi will cost aroun 70,000 - 80,000Rp from the centre of Medan to get to Pinang Baris Bus Terminal.

You can also take a mini-bus from Pinang Baris for 20,000Rp. The mini-buses take around 3 hours to get to Bukit Lawang as they do not stop as many times along the way. The mini-buses do not leave from the main bus terminal. Travel down the road that runs past the bus terminal a few hundred meters and your will find the mini-buses outside the large pastry store (you can't miss it).

Private Transport from Medan to Bukit Lawang

If you would like a car to collect you from your hotel in Medan or from the airport and be taken to Bukit Lawang click here to contact us. Price is 600,000Rp (around 49 Euros) for up to 4 people. This is a quicker, safer trip of under 3 hours from your hotel or the airport. The vehicle used is a new air-conditioned "AVANZA"

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Sabtu, 27 Mei 2017

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