MAHAKAM RIVER HOLIDAY III


6 DAYS / 5 NIGHTS

TOUR CODE BTSKAL 04



 

Day 1 AIRPORT - LOA JANAN - MAHAKAM RIVER

You will be met on arrival at Balikpapan's Sepinggan airport, and transfer immediately to Loa Janan on the lower Mahakam River, where you will board a comfortable house boat for exciting tour on the Mahakam River which is like a multi- lane highway to the interior of Kalimantan, complete with many riverside towns and floating road houses.

Full board while on the boat.


Day 2 MUARA MUNTAI - MANCONG - TANJUNG ISUY

After breakfast on boat, you will make a stop at Muara Muntai, a town of the Kutai people, to enable you to observe the way of the inhabitants as they go about their life in this town with streets and foot paths made of hardwood planks. Continue the trip by motorized canoe over Jempang Lake, passing beautiful scenery along the river banks, before arriving at Mancong. On arrival a welcome ceremony will be performed for you by the Benuaq Dayak people in front of their ceremonial longhouse. After the performance and an inspection of the village, you will travel on to Tanjung Isuy where you will spend the night in a Longhouse. Picnic lunch, dinner and overnight at long house.


Day 3 TANJUNG ISUY - MINTA - MELAK

Breakfast at the long house before spending a bit of time observing village life. Return to the house boat and cruise up to the important trading town of Melak. A stop will be made en route at Minta village, to watch the local people making palm sugar, before continuing on to Melak. Meals and overnight on boat.


Day 4 MELAK - EHENG - TREK - KERSIK LUWAY - MAHAKAM

Breakfast on boat then a full day excursion by jeep to visiting the Old communal Tunjung Dayak longhouse at Eheng village, which is a centre for magnificent wood carving. You may also have an opportunity for a bit of jungle trekking to observe the huge trees of the lowland rainforest. Return to Kersik Luway to visit the Black Orchid Forest and back to the boat down river. Picnic lunch, dinner and overnight on boat.


Day 5 TENGGARONG - LOA JANAN - BALIKPAPAN

Breakfast on your boat prior to visiting the royal cemetery, Museum of Kutai Kertanegara and the remains of the Sultans Palace at the Kutai centre of Tenggarong. Afterwards, you will return to the boat and head further down the river to Loa Janan. After lunch, transfer to Balikpapan where you will spend the night.

Lunch on boat, dinner and overnight at hotel

Day 6 HOTEL - AIRPORT

Breakfast at hotel, morning free, till transfer to the airport for your next destination.



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