8D JAYAPURA – KOROWAI TOUR

Tour code : GPT.03-JKT
Departure : Daily
Grade : Moderate

Tour Itinerary :
Day.1 : JAYAPURA – DEKAI (B,L,D)
Upon your early arrival at Sentani airport of Jayapura from your Indonesia gate way, meeting service and the luggage clearance direct check in for local flight to Dekai – located at the upper reaches of brazza river, with estimation time Etd 13:00 pm. Eta 14:00. We will spend the night in Simple hotel or Losmen in Dekai, while your guide prepare enough food/logistic for during the tour and also report/get stamp for your travel permit (Surat Jalan). dinner will be served in a small warung (food stalls).

Day.2 : DEKAI – KOROWAI (B,L,D).
We have early breakfast, by car transfer to Lokpond harbour for about 45minutes to get a Motorized boat chartered for about 8-9 hours of drive are to be expected, amazing virgin forest all way down through the brazza river up to the river mouth of sirets, where we take a lunch break in the river band, then we continue our journey on upstream passing wild romantic open fluvial topography. The river sirets is getting wilder and wilder with pebble banks and rapids. Mighty trees are spread over the water and at some spot mighty dams of driftwood block nearly the whole course of the river. To get through this smoothly requires enough day light and a well experience coxswain. We expect to reach our stage goal in Mabul at 4 -5 o’clock for local time. Mabul is Korowai base here we arrange porters for the next day trekking into the jungle (b,l,d).

Day.3 : JUNGLE TREKKING (B,L,D).
Enjoy our breakfast prepared by our cook, then meet all crew, our complete luggage and food for the following days will be partitioned to the porters then we leave Mabul by trekking to the interior to explore Korowai clandestine about 4 hours to reach the destination. Late afternoon we will meet and warm greet with Korowai people and open our tent in the shelter while cook prepare food for dinner.

Day.4 : KOROWAI ACTIVITY (B,L,D).
Today we accompany day the Korowai family into the nearby sago trees (the family of palm), there we experience a spectacle from another world the forest nomad fell a hug sago palm tree and smash the pith totally.. Afterward the woman wash it in primitive washing ways or filtered process to separate flower and waste as for the basic food for the jungle people. In the afternoon back to the tree houses and in the evening our cook performs a real jungle dinner, maybe we have sago pancake es and plantain, every day the kitchen surprises us with different exotic jungle treats.

Day. 5 : JUNGLE TREKKING (B,L,D).
Enjoy our breakfast, our complete luggage and equipment will be partitioned to the porters, continue our trekking to explore the next korowai clandestine, trekking though the path with many wood and stream where our porters cut the trees organizing the temporary bridge we have to passthrough, The totally trekking about 4-5 hour to reach the village / clandestine. Stay the 2nd night in our tent. Time available to accompany korowai woman into the jungle to see how their daily life style and activity such gathering food/vegetable, to see how korowai woman catching fish and cooking by primitive ways, and korowai man searching sago warms and making a traps by traditional ways.

Day.6 : JUNGLE TRECKING BACK TO MABUL (B,L,D).
Breakfast, today have to say goodbye to the korowai people, and our complete luggage and equipment be partitioned to the porters, trekking back, sometimes we passing through different way back to the base MABUL. One night stay in Mabul and swimming, washing in the river.

Day.7 : KOROWAI – DEKAI (B,L,D)
Breakfast, complete luggage should be put into the boat, today we drive back to Dekai but the time for departure really depending on the condition of the river water. Arrive at Logpon harbor we expect the car coming on time to pick us transfer to the hotel in Dekai. We stay one night in hotel, dinner and overnight.

Day.8 : DEKAI – JAYAPURA (B,L,D)
Breakfast, free until transfer to the Airport to catch flight departure to Jayapura. Time available for excursion in Jayapura and its surroundings, back to hotel for check in dinner and overnight stay.

Day.9 : JAYAPURA – DEPARTURE (B).
Pre-down breakfast in your hotel, free until the time for transfer to the Airport Sentani to catch your flight departure to the next destination.
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