Mount of Palung National Park Borneo Explore 5days

Mount of Palung National Park Borneo Explore 5days

This area has a high biodiversity and consists of various types of ecosystems. The forests in this national park area consist of swamp forest, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forest, tropical mapah forest, mangrove forest, and mountain forests.

Some of the existing plants in the Gunung Palung National Park are jelutung (Dyera costulata), ramin (Gonistylus bancamus), resin (Agathis berneensis), pulai (Alstonia scholaris), rengas (Gluta renghas), ulin wood (Eusideroxylon zwageri), plant mangroves (Rhizopora spp. ), kendeka (Bruguiera spp. ), and various medicinal plants.

Day 01. PANGKALAN BUN, KETAPANG, TELOK MELANE (LD)

Depart in the morning by flight or Boat to Ketapang, then on to Teluk Melano by coach. Stay overnight at a simple accommodation.

Day 02. TELOK MELANE, SEMANJAK PALUNG NATIONAL PARK (BLD)

Depart to Semanjak by motorboat, then by rowing boat along meandering river to Gunung Palung National Park. Stay at the base camp. ( Semanjak to the site may take approx. a nine-hour boat trip, depending on river condition)

Day 03. GUNUNG PALUNG NATIONAL PARK (BLD)

Jungle trekking, bird watching, seeing different types of ecosystem with different flora and fauna (see orang utans if we are lucky)

Day 04. GUNUNG PALUNG NATIONAL PARK, TELOK MELANO (BLD)

Depart early morning via same route to Telok Melano. Late afternoon, take a long boat to Kampung Baru to see proboscis monkeys soaring on trees by the river. Stay overnight at Telok Melano.

Day 05. TELOK MELANO, PANGKALAN BUN  (BL)

Take an express boat to Pontianak or by Flight to Pangkalan Bun or Jakarta