Gateway to Kalimantan orangutan and wildlife jungle
Tanjung Putting National Park is a home for several endangered and protected animals that live in the rainforest area. Some of the animals you might see include the orangutan (Pongo satyrus), proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), maroon leaf monkey (Presbytis rubicunda rubida), sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus), Lesser Malay mouse deer (Tragulus javanicus klossii), clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), and leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis borneoensis).Tanjung Puting Park became the first place in Indonesia to care for orangutans when Camp Leakey was set up in 1971 by Dr. Birute Galdikas.
Today, there are three places where orangutans are being helped: Tanjung Harapan, Pondok Tanggui, and Camp Leakey. The orangutans at Tanjung Puting Park in Kalimantan have dark red fur and no tail. As they grow older, the males' cheeks get thicker, looking like cushions. As they age, these cheek flanges grow bigger, making them look more fierce.
On your tour through Tanjung Putting Park, the main attraction is the orangutans.
Other animals you might see include the longnose proboscis monkeys, which are only found in Borneo, long-tailed macaques, agile gibbons, wild boars, clouded leopards, civets, Malaysian sun bears, three types of deer, and wild cattle known as banteng. In the swampy waterways, you can find crocodiles, water monitors, turtles, and some rare frogs and fish. The forest is filled with a wide variety of plants, and hornbills live high up in the trees. All these things make the park a great destination for tourists.
When you visit, you'll take a boat called a klotok to explore the jungle rivers, which serve as the main roads through the swamp and rainforest.
This boat also acts as your place to stay. It has two decks the top one is for guests and is used for meals and relaxing during the day with coffee, and at night it becomes a comfortable sleeping area with mattresses and mosquito nets. The tour guide, boat captain, and your private cook stay on the lower deck, where they can assist and serve you whenever needed.
Visit Orangutans at Camp Leakey
Tanjung Puting National Park has several ecosystems, the lowland tropical rain forest, dryland forest, freshwater swamp forest, mangrove forest, coastal forest, and secondary forest.
The Park is dominated by lowland forest vegetation as jelutung (Dyera costulata), ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), meranti trees (Shorea sp.), hard wooden keruing trees (Dipterocarpus sp.), and diverse rattan species.
Interesting locations/attractions at Tanjung Puting National Park:
Tanjung Harapan: is the first station in the orangutan rehabilitation process, situated in the midst of secondary and swamp forest, the camp has a guesthouse, an information centre, and jungle trails.Pondok Tanggui: orangutans that have passed the semi-wild phase are moved to Pondok Tanggui. There, they are closely monitored from a distance, and human contact is avoided.
Camp Leakey: founded by Birute Galdikas early seventies as a rehabilition center of Orangutans in the middle of Borneo 's primary forest, which could let them as former pets fast adobt with their natural habitat.
Klotok boat jungle cruise at Tanjung Puting, while sailing the Sekonyer River you can spot plenty of wildlife animals along the river in the rain forest of Indonesia Borneo.
