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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Breakfast at hotel, morning free, till transfer to the airport for your next
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1 AIRPORT - LOA JANAN
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MAHAKAM RIVER
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2 MUARA MUNTAI - MANCONG - TANJUNG ISUY
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3 TANJUNG ISUY - MINTA - MELAK
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4 MELAK - EHENG - TREK - KERSIK LUWAY -
MAHAKAM
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5 TENGGARONG - LOA JANAN - BALIKPAPAN
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