A chew of betel leaves:

We don’t care how pro you are..

We also don’t care how lack your skill on photograph you are..

And we don’t care how good your camera is..

Or, how simple your camera on your hand..

Just stay together with us to share a fun and be sure you are being a part..

In unite to combat environment and to prevent global warming

Upon own arrival in the Pangkalan Bun air port you will be picked up by our guide signing JavaBush or pick up service by the Blue Kecubung Hotel staff signing your name on the page. Check-in the hotel, free program.

Day 2 >> Pangkalan Bun – National Park - Boat/Rimba Lodge

After breakfast board the klotok to travel up river about 2 hours boating and the up a side drag to Camp Leakey where the older orangutan are reintroduced into the rain forest. En route stop at Pondok Tangguy, the rehabilitation center for the new exceptive orangutans, see feeding time at 09.00am. Then proceed to Camp Leakey. After lunch on the boat you will have opportunity to take small trek or see information center before see feeding time at 14.00pm for old rehabilitation orangutan given additional foods. On the way down you might seen fireflies along the nipah palm( depend to the moon and weather). Overnights in the Rimba Lodge near the river.

Day 3 >> Rimba Lodge – Pondok Tanggui – Camp Leakey

After breakfast board the klotok to travel up river about 2 hours boating and the up a side dreek to Camp Leakey where the older orangutan are reintroduced into the rain forest. En route stop at Pondok Tangguy, the rehabilitation center for the new exceptive orangutans, see feeding time at 09.00am. Then proceed to Camp Leakey. After lunch on the boat you will have opportunity to take small trek or see information center before see feeding time at 14.00pm for old rehabilitation orangutan given additional foods. On the way down you might seen fireflies along the nipah palm( depend to the moon and weather). Overnights in the Rimba Lodge near the river.

Day 4 >> Rimba Lodge – Pangkalan Bun Airport

After breakfast boating down to Kumai and transfer by car to Pangkalan Bun Airport for your next destination. (B)

Day 5 >> Surabaya - Bromo

Meet with our tour guide at Surabaya air port signing JavaBush or written your name on it. Our private comfort coach then takes you to Mt. Bromo, en routing to rural settlement and hilly road with green coloring of paddy field along the way will make your eyes fresh. Check-in the Cemara Indah Hotel, relax and free program.

Day 6 >> Bromo – Jember – Bande Alit Base Camp

Wake up at very early morning, making short preparation for Sun Rise tour, and then the private jeep 4x4WD will drive you up to Penanjakan Mountain 2774 asl as the highest place to the Sun Rise and amazing view of mountain range. You may become live witnesses how amazing Bromo view that spread in your naked eyes, the sun with pink color ray with gold-yellow silhouette drift on slowly from east horizon. It will grab you in to the different atmosphere and unforgettable moment that you never imagine before. After that, proceeding drive back to Bromo crater to witness the crater from close distance. Back to the hotel for breakfast, short back packing and heading to Jember around 3 hours.

In here we have been waited by our photography guide called Pak De, after short welcome addressed by Pak De, then we start to go to the base camp at Bande Alit coast. En-routing off-road track along 12 km from Tempur Rejo to Curah Nongko village. Arriving at Bande Alit coast, quick erecting tent and free program for the rest. On this occasion you have an opportunity to address some question to the Pak De relating to the certain tour i.e., wildlife, endangered plantation or photography technique.

Introducing Pak De is a senior photographer in Indonesia, more than 15 years as a journalist in Surabaya, and recently he teaches about photography technique, department of communication in the one of the famous college in Jember.

Note.

We strongly request you to have not take a Mandi (Take a bath) during the tour on the day 6 till the day 8 in order that our body’s aroma will not make the wild-life terrify since they were very sensitive to the strange fragrance.

Day 7 >> Bande Alit Base Camp

The tour starting at 04.00 early mornings, just before sun rise in order not to be preceded by the coffee-picker doing their daily activities. You will be lead to the spot where usually wild-life gather, you should comply to what your guide said since to get the target will not as easiest as your imagine. This session will finish around 09.00 am, back to the base camp for having breakfast and choked up a morning coffee. Next program will be continued to the coast for hunting panorama picture along the coast. With stretching white sand and beautiful landscape of the coast, you will have so many option of the object details about plantation, wild-life, rural activities and any other shooting object, subject to your own interest. Lunch would be served at 01.00 pm, relaxing time till late afternoon. In the time by the Sun Set, your guide will take you to the spot to perpetuate of sweet moment by making tons of click on your camera. After dinner, night hunt picture will begin, by the supplied with torch your guide will lead you to find wild-life through the darkness. If you are lucky, you will find the most rare bird “Javanese Eagle” called Garuda. The figure of this bird has adopted to be Indonesia State symbol.

Day 8 >> Bande Alit - Ijen

In the morning we will do the same program as mentioned in the day 7, hopefully we can find different wild-life as well as the different moment. Sun rise on the beach will be the first priority for the program today, besides the natural action of coffee picker activities. Back to the base camp for break-fast and morning coffee. After that we pack out the out-door gears and prepare to leave the area. Before leaving this area, you will have an opportunity to plant the seedling of trees to mark your consideration toward environment and conservation.

After everything is completely packed, then we drive you to Sempol Bondowoso to make another trip. Arrive in a very nice hotel “Ijen Resort”, check-in the hotel and having “Mandi” after three days your body have no deal with the water. Lunch at hotel, enjoy a very nice atmosphere in the Hotel, free program.

Day 9 >> Ijen - Surabaya

Early in the morning, well before sunrise, we drive a short way to the start of the trail that leads up to the active, beautiful crater of Kawah Ijen volcano (about 1 hr climbing) with its famous blue acid lake (the most acidic in the world!) and the hot, partly liquid sulphur deposits.
The fumaroles are so hot that sulphur comes out as green vapour. The vapour is collected by large pipes, through which the vapor condenses, and at the exit you see red rivulets of liquid sulphur, which then freeze to solid deposits. These deposits are quarried, in order to obtain huge blocks of pure sulphur. Ijen's sulphur deposits are infamous for the local workers who quarry the sulphur with primitive, health-devastating methods,- an incredibly difficult job.
Gas-masks are provided for your visit to the crater. After plenty of exploration time, we leave the Ijen Plateau transfer to Surabaya via northern route, en route stop at Tampora beach to explore the Sun set just from different angle. You should never miss it, since the sun set silhouette with the foreground of the biggest Power Station Building in Indonesia “Paiton Power Station” with its yellow twinkle light would be a unique picture. After that, we are heading to Surabaya to drop you off at Juanda Surabaya hotel to catch your own flight on the next day. End of Tour, Thank you. (hotel included)

Price : USD. 1577 * / Pax (1-2 Pax)

: USD. 1393* / Pax (3-4 Pax)

Minimum participant(s) : 2 (One) Person

Maximum participant(s) : 4 (Four) Person

*Include :

· Meals (Full Board)

· Refreshments

· Wooden Boat (Tanjung Puting)

· Well experienced guide (English, French and Deutsch speaking)

· Chauffeur (Jeep, light vehicle)

· Horse-back (Bromo)

· Hotel (Blue Kecubung – Borneo, Rimba Lodge – Borneo, Cemara Indah hotel - Bromo, Ijen Resort – Ijen, Juanda Hotel - Surabaya)

· Admission fee and entrance tickets for entire destination objects

· Gas Mask

· Out-door gears (Tent, Mattress, Sleeping bag, Hammock, Torch)

· Laptop/Netbook with internet (subject to network availability) base on share usage (during on Java)

· V.A.T 10%

· Smile 100%

*Exclude :

· Domestic flight To/From Pangkalan Bun

· Personal expenses (Soft drinks, Snacks, Cigarettes, Medicines, etc)

· Alcoholic beverage (Beer, Wine, etc.)

· Souvenirs

· Entertain (Karaoke, Massage, Spa, Movies, Pub, etc.)

· Camera gears

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SPECIAL OVERLAND ECO – PHOTO EXPEDITION 6D/5N

Tanjung Puting is one of the natural wonders of the world. You may not believe this after you have been there only one day or two days or three days, but after the fourth or fifth day something happens. You are captivated completely by the purity of the air, the openness of the night sky with the most remarkable view of the Milky Way, the magnificence and dignity of the gentle orangutans, the thundering downpours that instantly cool the air, and the clarity of the brilliant crimson sunsets. Dr. Birute M.F. Galdikas and Dr. Gary L. Shapiro

The Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park covers some 800 square kilometers in the centre of East Java. It is the largest volcanic region in the province and there stands Mt. Semeru, which rises 3676 meters above sea level. At its northern end is the spectacular Tengger Caldera, Java's largest, with its 10 km barren desert-like sea of sand. Within the caldera rise the deeply fissured volcanic cones of Batok and Bromo, the latter is still active with a cavernous crater from which smoke blows skyward. Temperatures at the top of mount Bromo range about 5 to 18 degrees Celcius . To the south is a rolling upland plateau dissected by valleys and dotted with several small scenic lakes, extending to the foot of Mount Semeru, a towering grey forest-skirted cone dominating the southern landscape

Upon arrival at Pangkalan Bun Airport you will be picked up by our guide signing JavaBush or written your name on it and directly heading to Kumai by a private car. Boating up the river to explore the great mangrove, nipah palm and wildlife along the Sekonyer river, lunch will be prepared on the boat. Late afternoon available observe the proboscis monkey and others primates along the river. Dinner and overnight on the boat or in Rimba Lodge near the river. (The boat is traditional boat wooden river boat about 14m by 2,5m with a roof where you can see the rain forest). JavaBush team includes the boatmen, cookery, fluency English and French speaking guide. On the boat, we have simple mattress, pillow, mosquito net, meals, fresh mineral water refreshment, kitchen, toilet, helpful guides and boatmen.

Day 2 : Boat / Rimba Lodge – Pondok Tanggui – Camp Leakey
After breakfast board the klotok to travel up river about 2 hours boating to Camp Leakey where the older orangutan are reintroduced into the rain forest. En route stop at Pondok Tangguy, the center of new exceptive orangutans rehabilitation, witness feeding time at 09.00am. Then proceed to Camp Leakey. After lunch on the boat you will have opportunity to take small trek or see information center before see feeding time at 14.00pm for old rehabilitation orangutan given additional foods. On the way down you might seen fireflies along the nipah palm (depend to the moon and weather permitted), overnights on the boat or in Rimba Lodge near the river.

Day 3 : Boat / Rimba Lodge – Pangkalan Bun Airport – Semarang – Borobudur Temple
After breakfast boating down to Kumai and transfer by car to Pangkalan Bun Airport to catch a flight to Semarang.

Meet with our tour guide, English and Deutsch speaking guide at Semarang air port signing JavaBush or written your name on it. Check-in the Hotel (Ibis hotel) continued to visiting Borobudur that is beautiful ancient capital with an old history and culture is, as the gateway to the two national archeological parks, Borobudur Temple and Prambanan Temple, Indonesia's third most prominent tourist city beside Bali and Jakarta. Back to hotel and take recess overnight.

Day 4 : Semarang – Bromo
After breakfast then we start to take long journey to Mt. Bromo, it takes about 7-8 hours drive en routing rural settlement with green coloring of paddy field along the way will make your eyes fresh, stop for picture taking will be an option subject to your interest. We will arrive in Bromo at late afternoon or early eve. Check in the hotel located at the last village, which it is directly facing to smokes Bromo crater.

Day 5 : Bromo – Ijen
Wake up at very early morning, making short preparation for Sun Rise tour, and then the private jeep 4x4WD will drive you up to Penanjakan Mountain 2774 asl as the highest place to see the Sun Rise and amazing view of mountain range. You may become live witnesses how amazing Bromo view that spread in your naked eyes, the sun with pink color ray with gold-yellow silhouette drift on slowly from east horizon. It will grab you in to the different atmosphere and unforgettable moment that you never imagine before. After that, proceeding drive back to Bromo crater to witness the crater from closed. Back to the hotel for breakfast, short back packing and heading to Ijen volcano in Bondowoso. Around 5 hours drive en routing flat and hilly curves road, stop for picture taking would be an option subject to your interest. Check-in the Catimor hotel and stay overnight.

Day 6 : Ijen – Bali – End of Tour
Early in the morning, well before sunrise, we drive a short way to the start of the trail that leads up to the active, beautiful crater of Kawah Ijen volcano (about 1 hr climbing) with its famous blue acid lake (the most acidic in the world!) and the hot, partly liquid sulphur deposits.
The fumaroles are so hot that sulphur comes out as green vapour. The vapour is collected by large pipes, through which the vapor condenses, and at the exit you see red rivulets of liquid sulphur, which then freeze to solid deposits. These deposits are quarried, in order to obtain huge blocks of pure sulphur. Ijen's sulphur deposits are infamous for the local workers who quarry the sulphur with primitive, health-devastating methods, that’s an incredibly difficult job.
Gas-masks are provided for your visit to the crater. After plenty of exploration time, we leave the Ijen Plateau transfer to Bali to drop you off at your certain hotel / airport.

>> End of Tour <<

Price : USD. 962* / Pax (1-2 Pax)

USD. 822*/ Pax (3-4 Pax)

Minimum Participant(s) : 2 Person

Maximum Participant(s) : 4 Person

*Include :

· Meals full board

· Refreshments

· Wooden Boat (Tanjung Puting)

· Well experienced guide (English, French and Deutsch speaking)

· Chauffeur (Jeep, light vehicle)

· Horse-back (Bromo)

· Hotel (Ibis Semarang, Cemara Indah hotel - Bromo, Ijen Resort – Ijen)

· Admission fee and entrance tickets for entire destination objects

· V.A.T 10%

· Smile 100%

*Exclude :

· Domestic flight To/From Pangkalan Bun

· Personal expenses (Soft drinks, Snacks, Cigarettes, Medicines, etc)

· Alcoholic beverage (Beer, Wine, etc.)

· Souvenirs

· Entertain (Karaoke, Massage, Spa, Movies, Pub, etc.)

Click here for reservation or tour modification as you need