Bat Cave & Landak River Eco Tour

The bat cave is quite magnificent, beautiful openings and rock formations

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The bat cave is a short walk or motorbike ride from Bukit Lawang, bringing you past the Ecolodge Bamboo Restaurant, through rubber and oil palm plantations and the beautiful orphanage gardens, taking 20-30 minutes.

Along the way you may be lucky to see Thomas-leaf monkeys in the rubber plantations. 

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Once you arrive, your guide will pay the entrance and will take you down to the cave opening, with dangling lianas and stragling fig roots. Perfect place for a photo!

Once in the first cavern, a beam of light shines through a hole in the roof. Walking through, you will then enter complete darkness. Your guide with take you through the cave, scrambling over and sqeezing through rocks to enter the other two caverns where you will hear and see bats. You may also see swallows nesting, crickets, spiders or even a snake.

To expore the cave takes about 1 hour. After a rest, you'll take another short walk (or motorbike) to Landak River, where natural beauty and calmness will hit you. Your guide will take you to one of the beautiful lagoons. Here you can relax, swim and eat lunch. 

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If guests decided for the BBQ option, your guide will have brought everything with them. They will make a fire for the BBQ, make a tasty marinade for your chosen food, (chicken, fish, sweetcorn, aubergine, tofu, tempe). Sit back and relax whilst your food is cooked.

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* Combine a tour of the bat cave with a half day trek to enjoy money off! See notes below

Tour Highlights

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Cost: IDR 300,000 (BBQ extra 60,000) per person

        Bat Cave only IDR 150,000

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Start Time: Bat Cave first 10am/Landak River first 11 am

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Duration: 4 -5 hours

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Included: Guide, entrance fee, torch, lunch, seasonal fruits 

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Group Size: 1 - 4 (minimum 2)

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What to Bring: Comfortable gribbing shoes, head torch/torch, swimming clothes, suncream, insect repellant  

Bat Cave & Ship Rock Eco Tour

More interested in spending the day discovering caves, huge rock formations that are geological interesting? Join this tour!

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The tour will start with a short walk or motorbike ride from Bukit Lawang, through small agricultural land, rubber and oil palm plantations, arriving at the Bat Cave. If your lucky, you might spot an orangutan in the trees above. Your guide will pay the entrance fee and take you down to the cave.

The cave opening is massive with dangling roots. As you walk through the first cavern, you will come into complete darkness....time to put your torch on! Squeeze through rocks and scramble over rock formations to reach the other caverns. You will be able to see bats hanging from the ceilings. To explore the cave takes about an 1 hour. 

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Leaving the cave, you will make you way to the beautiful landak river. Here your guide will find a suitable spot swimming spot to relax, swim and eat lunch.

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After lunch, you will walk alongside landak river, passing rubber plantations, small karonese dwellings before walking up to Ship Rock. Ship rock is surrounded by rubber plantations, so its likely you'll see Thomas-leaf monkeys and Macaques.

Within and on top of the huge rocks and cave system, sits a fragmented forest. If your really lucky, there may be a wild orangutan resting in one of the trees. Your guide will take you through the huge over-hanging rock. You will clamber up a rock to sit looking out onto the mountains. Be amazed by the different rock formations and how they are placed.

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* if you want to discover and explore the huge rock and cave system at Batu Kapal fully, have a look at the Eco Adventure Trek.

Tour Highlights

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Cost: IDR 500,000 per person (with motobike extra 50,000) min 2 people

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Start Time: Walking 9am/Motorbike 10am 

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Duration: 6 - 7 hours

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Included: Guide, local guide, entrance fee, torch, lunch, seasonal fruits

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Group Size: 1 - 4 (mimimum 2) *

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What to Bring: Comfortable gribbing shoes, head torch/torch, swimming clothes, suncream, insect repellant 

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* if a solo person wants to go, then the cost if more... having to pay 1/2 of the second person

Ship Rock & Selang Pangeran Waterfall

Want to combine interesting geological formations with natural beauty.... then this 1 day tour/trek is for you!

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There is a beautiful waterfall in the National Park at Selang Pangeran, about 7km from Bukit Lawang.  This tour will bring you to the peaceful landak river, incredible rock formations and through different habitats. Ready for a long walk or cheat and go by motorbike!

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This tour will take you through small rubber and oil palm plantations before reaching the remote landak river, where peacefulness and nature greets you. Taking a short walk from the river to the towering Ship Rock. Your guide will take you into the cave system to see the amazing rock formations.

The tour will then continue alongside landak river which has so much wildlife living amongst it. Watch butterflies drink the minerals from the sand or watch bee-eaters and swallows catching insects. Walk through oil palm plantations for roughly 2 hours before reaching the secluded Selang Pangeran.

Relax by the river and eat lunch before entering the National Park and making a hike to the first a small waterfall. Take a dip in the refreshing water before making the final uphill hike to the big waterfall (about 30-40 mins). Sit under the refreshing waterfall, relax and take in the rainforests surroundings.

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After, take a slow trek down the mountain, taking rest before walking again through monoculture agriculture to the road to take a bus back to bukit Lawang.

Tour Highlights

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Cost: IDR 700,000 (with motorbike extra 75,000)

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Duration:  8 hours

Start: 8am if walking/ 9am by motorbike

Group Size: 2 - 4 (minimum 2)

Included: guide,local guide, entrance fees, lunch, fruits, hot drink, return local bus

Fitness: Average +

* This is a long walk with a reasonably strenous trek uphill to the waterfall, finishing with a 40 minute walk to the main road to catch a bus. 

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* if a solo person wants to go, then the cost if more... having to pay 1/2 of the second person