Sumatra tours, things to do and tickets

Explore the Sumatran rainforest in an ethical way, discover it's unique wildlife and share unforgettable moments with a friendly and experienced team!

Experience a night in the rainforest and feel the jungle vibes with this 2 days trek! After an amazing first trekking day full of discoveries, relax on our campsite near the river or the waterfall. Refresh yourself and take a swim before having a homemade dinner. Then enjoy a entertaining evening chatting and playing games with your guides around a bonfire. Fall asleep with jungle sounds. The next morning, enjoy a yummy breakfast and go deeper in the jungle to see more wildlife before going back to Bukit Lawang by tubing!

EcoTravel’s Orangutan trek is the most popular option to discover the Sumatran jungle. On a 2-day jungle trek you will have the big chance of seeing Sumatran orangutans and other wildlife up-close in their natural habitat. In the evening enjoy a delicious “jungle dinner“ on your campsite, then dream away to the melodies of the rainforest and wake up in the morning to the sounds of birds and monkeys. After your jungle trek your “jungle taxi” will take you back to your accommodation in Bukit Lawang by traditional tube-rafting down Bohorok River.

Unlike other providers in Bukit Lawang, our sustainable jungle treks and selected Sumatra tours focus on quality and safety rather than quantity. This is why our team has been awarded several times over the past few years e.g. “Eco Friendly Tour Operator of the Year 2018”, “Travel & Hospitality Award Winner” and received the “Hall Of Fame Status” (2019) and "Travellers Choice" (2020/2021) on TripAdvisor.

Lost in the depths of Sumatra, Bukit Lawang is a small riverside town built beside the rainforest of the vast Gunung Leuser National Park.

Orangutan is one of the most endangered species in the world, found only in Sumatra and Kalimantan, Bukit Lawang (‘gateway to the mountain’) is situated just 96kms northwest of Medan, making it one of the easiest, most accessible places to start your jungle adventure.

Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL)
The flora and fauna of Bukit Lawang Mountain and lowland forests are breath taking. Both are vitally important genetic resource and wildlife habitat. The "green gold" Bukit Lawang is situated at the eastern side of Gunung Leuser National Park (TNGL). This jungle is part of a larger section of jungle known as the Leuser Ecosystem. This region has an area of 2.6 million hectares which includes the area around TNGL which serves as a buffer zone.

In this sunrise tour, you will amazed with the beauty of Karo Highland from the top of Sibayak Volcano. Beautiful scenery surrounding by hills and valley

As we grew up in the area, we have excellent knowledge about the jungle and the animals who live in the Gunung Leuser National Park. You will get the chance to see some rare species of animals including the orangutan. Besides the beauty of the jungle we offer some extreme fun as well by tubing the river as the final part of your jungle trek. We will fully guide you on your jungle trek to make sure you have an unforgettable experience.

As we grew up in the area, we have excellent knowledge about the jungle and the animals who live in the Gunung Leuser National Park. You will get the chance to see some rare species of animals including the orangutan. Besides the beauty of the jungle, we offer some extreme fun as well by tubing the river as the final part of your jungle trek. We will fully guide you on your jungle trek to make sure you have an unforgettable experience.

Experience a full-day sightseeing on this private tour from Medan. You will visit Brastagi in the Karo Highlands which has two active volcanoes being Sinabung and Sibayak. Visit the fruit market and traditional Karo Batak Village with authentic houses which are still occupied by 8 families before continuing onto Sipisopiso waterfall where you can enjoy the beautiful view of Lake Toba.

This tour is very unique with Sunrise Hiking or just Hiking Tour on a Mount Sibayak combine with Waterfall and Hot Spring.

Monkey Business tours are always fun, educational and very personalised. We adapt to our audience and ensure you feel comfortable and safe during our tours. Also, we value improvement of our nature a lot: with our tours we make people more consious how to contribute to a better environment. Next to our tours, we focus on projects to support the education of the local children and ecofarming. Profits being made with our business are being used to support these projects!

Join this private, Guided trek to explore the small tourist village of Bukit Lawang. If you do not really like to stay overnight in the jungle, you still have a big chance to explore and search for wildlife such as orangutan, monkeys, gibbons, etc. Even just a one day trek it is still an a good experience for you to learn some things about the local flora and fauna. Return transportation is included from Medan

Our 2 day trek is made for people who are curious to go further into the rainforest of Gunung Leuser National Park and who would like to experience sleeping for 1 night in our camp under an impressive leaf roof of the jungle giants. In our rainforest discovering trek you will spot wild Orangutans, gibbons, up to 4 different monkey species, turtles, peacocks, lizards and a lot more incredible wildlife! Enjoy a traditional Indonesian dinner and a night full of interesting talks and playing games, while you are surrounded by the wonderful jungle sounds. A second day in North Sumatra’s rainforest is awaiting you…

Highlights:
- Our contribution to the jungle: We plant a tree on every trek!
- See Orangutans in the wild
- Enjoy stunning views over jungle mountains
- Observe the wildlife of Indonesians rainforest
- Swimm in a rainforest river or take a shower under waterfalls
- Sleep under the jungle sky for 1 night and let yourself be carried away by the special sounds of the jungle...

Experience the highlights of North Sumatra on this 7-day itinerary. Go hiking in Gunung Leuser National Park, climb Sibayak Volcano in Berastagi and relax at the world's largest crater lake. This route is a suggestion and will of course be adapted by us to your special wishes and general conditions.

NOTE: No short-term bookings within 14 days.

We are local people doing fantastic jungle trekking in bukit lawang national park, and we are born and growing up side of the jungle. So we know how about the jungle.
If you like to see the nature, jungle, and animals in wild life just coming here. Especially orang utan

In this tour, trekking in the jungle, hiking volcano & relaxing in the biggest volcanic lake is combine in one package.

Monkey Business tours are always fun, educational and very personalised. We adapt to our audience and ensure you feel comfortable and safe during our tours. Also, we value improvement of our nature a lot: with our tours we make people more consious how to contribute to a better environment. Next to our tours, we focus on projects to support the education of the local children and ecofarming. Profits being made with our business are being used to support these projects!

In this tour package Jungle Trekking, Hiking Volcano and Relaxing combine in one special package tour

Gunung Leuser park is one or the only places in the work where you can find orangutans in their natural habitat.

Hope to see you soon for this life changing experience that’s going to make you smile for a longtime.

We are a team doing fantastic jungle trekking in TAMAN NATIONAL GUNUNG LEUSER (bukit lawang), As we grew up in this area, we have excellent knowledge about the jungle and the animals who live in the Gunung Leuser National Park. You will get the chance to see some rare species of animals including the orangutan. Besides the beauty of the jungle we offer some extreme fun as well by tubing the river as the final part of your jungle trek. We will fully guide you on your jungle trek to make sure you have an unforgettable experience. We will do our best for the trip..In the trip ussualy we can see orang utan, thomas leaf monkey, white handed gibbon , long tail macaque. And other wild Animals. We hope we always lucky to meet them. ❤

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No one can say “I´m/we are perfect” but we can promise you that we are doing everything for your perfect stay in Bukit Lawang and for your satisfaction. From start to finish your trip, we take care about you – our customers.

we are a team born in Bukit Lawang and grew up here in a very extraordinary area with beautiful nature and flora and fauna. we are local tour guides (certificate) . And we will show YOU HOW beautiful our forests of national park

It brings you deeper into the Gunung Leuser National Park. in our trip we will searching and try finded the wildlife in their natural habitat, gibbons, thomas leaf monkeys, longtail and pigtail macaques, flying squirrels, Argusianus argus, hornbills and also wild orangutans might cross your way.
Enjoy the night in the real jungle in our campsite

Welcome to everyone with love.❤

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