Around 9 am, after breakfast, your jungle guide will pick you up at your guesthouse. Follow him along the river through Bukit Lawang and then uphill across a rubber plantation to the entrance of Gunung Leuser National Park. Here you will have a great chance of spotting semiwild Orangutans as well as the lovely Thomas Leaf Monkeys and Long Tail Macaques. You will have some time to enjoy this impressive scenery of wild apes and monkeys swinging in the trees around you…
From here your guide will choose a route off the beaten track on the way to your first campsite. Meet up to 4 different monkey species, white handed Gibbons, turtles and the melodious peacock when you trek through the densely wooded mountains. Have a refreshing break after one or two hours of hiking with tropical fruits of the area. Find some comfort on the big buttress roots of the jungle giants and let the incredible jungle vibes around you sink in. Then continue hiking for a few more hours until lunch break, where you can restore your energy with a yummy lunch of nasi goreng. Depending on which way your guide chose, you might have the chance to take a refreshing swim under an impressive waterfall. When you feel ready explore more wildlife on your way to the first campsite, where you will arrive around 4 pm. Relax and refresh yourself after the impressions of your first day and have some tea or coffee with cookies while discovering the area around your campsite. The day will fade with a delicious homemade dinner and chatting or playing funny games with your guides and trekking mates around candles and bonfire. Fall asleep surrounded by the magical sound of the jungle….
The routine of the next days will be quite similar but never going to be boring! After breakfast at your campsite, which can be a jungle sandwich or pancake, pack your backpack and start hiking again. The deeper you go into the Gunung Leuser National Park, the higher become the chances of spotting rare wildlife, such as hornbills, wild Orangutans, siamangs, snakes and sun bears. Enjoy stunning views when you reach the top of Sumatra’s jungle hills, refresh yourself in small streams which flow through the mountain valleys and learn how to use lianas or roots for finding save steps while climbing through the Indonesian rainforest. On our 4 days trek you have the unique chance to learn all the details and history about the National Park and Indonesian’s rainforest in general and you get to know medical plants and their use if you are interested.
Every day your guide and his assistant will bring lunch for the trek while our porter and cook will prepare the next campsite for you. The nights at camp you can use for talking to your guides and listening to their adventures or going on a night walk to spot some nocturnal animals like slow loris, owls and snakes.
On your last day in the jungle, you can choose between relaxing at the campsite or doing a short last trek before going back to Bukit Lawang by rafting down the Bahorok River with our jungle taxi. It’s a lot of fun and will be a great last memory of your jungle adventure!
Note: On 4 days treks you will only stay at our prepared solid campsites, where we store soft mattresses, mosquito nets and cooking equipment. If you wish to go much deeper into the rainforest, we recommend you our 5 day trek (or even longer) or to let us know before the trek, so we can arrange an extra porter for the equipment needed in the deeper jungle.
