3 Days 2 Nights Batang Ai Iban Longhouse

Itinerary:

Day 1                  ORANG UTAN – BATANG AI                                                  (L/D)

8.00 am Meet our friendly guide at hotel lobby.  Then proceed to Semenggoh Orang Utan Centre which is about 22 km from Kuching.  It is the only one of its kind in Sarawak.  Set up in 1975, this 7.4 sq km of virgin forest is home to orang utans.  This tour provides an opportunity of a lifetime to observe how the orang utans are being rehabilitated and trained to fend for themselves in the centre.  Visitors are allowed to study and observe the orang utans at a distance.

(Feeding Time:  9.00 am – 10.00 am)

Then proceed to Serian Town, a brief stop at the Serian Market before the journey continues to Lauchau for lunch and buy some gifts for the Longhouse folks.

On the way the guide will stop the pepper farm before reaching Lauchau.

After lunch, proceed to Batang Ai Dam jetty.

At the jetty take the longboat to the Iban Longhouse.

Upon reaching the longhouse, you are free to tour the longhouse.

Dinner will be served in the longhouse. 

After dinner, relax and watch the Iban Cultural performance.  Then get together and learn more about their life style in the forest, before retire to sleep.

                                                                                                               

DAY 2                  BATANG AI IBAN LONGHOUSE                                                  

 (B/L/D)

After breakfast, proceed to jungle walk, passing through the rainforest and the padi field, looking for wild fern.

Then walking along the stream to the waterfall for relaxing and dipping in the cool clear water.

Lunch will be prepared by them, but you are encourage to join to help and learn about how the way they are cooking.

After lunch proceed back to the longhouse.  In the longhouse, free and easy.

Dinner will be served in the longhouse.  After dinner relax till bed time.

DAY 3                  BATANG AI LONGHOUSE  - KUCHING AIRPORT               (B/L)

After breakfast, get really for departure.  Before leaving the longhouse the Iban will demonstrate how to use of the blowpipe in the olden days.

Then farewell to the people.

Same route back to Kuching – en route for lunch before reaching Kuching.

      

 

Advice:  For this trip you are recommended to travel light. (Personal belonging in a small backpack/sling pack and under a plastic wrap)  Bring along mosquitoes repellent, sun cream, torchlight, towel, toiletries, swim-wear and kampun adiddas shoes if possible, as to walk in the forest and in the stream.

Tour Inclusive of:                                                                             Tour Exclusive of:

Transportation                                                                                      Personal expenses and travelling insurance

Guide                                                                                                      Accommodation (Hotel)

Entrance Fees as Itinerary                                                                   Air  Tickets and Taxes

Meals:  2 Breakfast, 3 lunches and 2 dinners                                   Alcohol, Carbonation Drink and Juice

(Tea or Coffee for breakfast, 1 drinking water for                           Tipping for Guide / Driver (min. RM20.00 per person)

   Every meal)    

Rate:  

RM1080.00  per adult

RM550.00    per child  (5 - 11 years old)

Below 4 years old Free

Discount for 4 adults and above