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What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Gunung Leuser National Park
Arrive in Gunung Leuser National Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. The Sumatran orangutan is one of the most endangered apes alive, and Leuser is its last great stronghold.
Gunung Leuser National Park
Walk the forest for gibbons, leaf monkeys and hornbills. A longer forest day deeper into Leuser, then the river.
Gunung Leuser National Park
A longer forest day deeper into Leuser, then the river. Trek the rainforest from Bukit Lawang for wild orangutans.
Gunung Leuser National Park
Trek the rainforest from Bukit Lawang for wild orangutans.
Gunung Leuser National Park
Walk the forest for gibbons, leaf monkeys and hornbills.
To Kerinci Seblat National Park
Transfer to Kerinci Seblat National Park. Bird the montane forest for Schneider's pitta and the highland endemics. Work the volcano's slopes for cochoas and pittas.
Kerinci Seblat National Park
Work the volcano's slopes for cochoas and pittas. A dawn start for the montane specialities below Mount Kerinci. Kerinci holds the largest population of Sumatran tigers — the rarest tiger subspecies on earth.
Kerinci Seblat National Park
A dawn start for the montane specialities below Mount Kerinci.
To Way Kambas National Park
Transfer to Way Kambas National Park. Boat the Way Kanan river for white-winged duck and Storm's stork. Bird the lowland forest for pittas and visit the elephant centre.
Way Kambas National Park
Bird the lowland forest for pittas and visit the elephant centre. A full day mixing river and forest for the lowland specialities. Way Kambas holds the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary — the front line in saving the most endangered rhino on earth.
Way Kambas National Park
A full day mixing river and forest for the lowland specialities.
Way Kambas National Park
Boat the Way Kanan river for white-winged duck and Storm's stork.
Way Kambas National Park
Bird the lowland forest for pittas and visit the elephant centre.
Departure
A final morning in Way Kambas National Park — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
Drier months — the most comfortable for trekking the rainforest.
Good season
Equatorial forest delivers all year; expect rain in any month.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Satwa Elephant Eco Lodge
A comfortable eco lodge on the edge of Way Kambas, well-placed for the river and elephant centre.
Ecolodge Bukit Lawang
A riverside eco lodge at Bukit Lawang, the classic base for Gunung Leuser orangutan treks.
Kerinci Lodge
A basic montane lodge below Mount Kerinci, a base for the pitta trails.
Way Kambas Lodge
A simple lodge by the park, built around the lowland birding and river trips.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.