• Following pick up at Medan International Airport, we transfer (2.5 hrs. ) to Bukit Lawang, a small settlement on the border of Gunung Leuser National Park, one of Southeast Asia’s largest protected rainforest reserves.
  
  
• We check in to Eco Lodge and enjoy a delicious lunch before setting off on an afternoon trek through the oldest and richest rainforest on Earth. Wildlife encounters may include several species of hornbills, gliding lizards, langurs, macaque monkeys, black siamang (the world’s largest gibbons) and the real showstopper – Sumatran orangutans!

• We will schedule our hike to arrive at a feeding station deep in the forest where orphaned orangutans are fed twice a day as they are weaned back into the wild. Everyone in our group will don surgical masks for this close encounter to prevent the spread of human airborne viruses to these animals. The Sumatran orangutan is the world’s most endangered ape due to habitat destruction and we do not want to compound the problems these “red cousins” of ours face in their struggle for survival.

• Returning from our trek, there will be time to swim in the pristine Bohorok River before dinner and an evening of songs, games and stories around a riverside camp fire.

Overnight: Eco Lodge, Bukit Lawang