Fantastic Orangutan experience - Spent a full day trekking Bukit Lawang on a private tour. My guides Ucok & Kanan from BukitLawang trekking ( WhatsApp +62821-3474-0414 ) were fantastic. Organized hotel pick up & return from Medan. The experience was incredible. Close up experiences with Orangutans, Baboons & monkeys. Highly recommend using this company.

11/10 trek with Tondi - Tondi was an incredibly kind, fun, and knowledgeable guide. Best jungle experience ever. Saw so many orangutan, gibbon, bird, etc.

Great experience - It was a great experiance to visit the park. Our guide was really experienced and he knows the jungle very well. We would say thay our day trip was bit more difficult then the others, but it was great because he introduced us real jungle and we saw many orangutans on our way. Our driver was great as well. He waited for us at 7:00 and he was on time. After 3 hours we reached Bukit Lawang. The village is niced and we swam in the river for sometime after our trip. Definitely take your antimosquito and long socks. It was really special and we really recommend the trip.

Jungle Trek, Jungle Trek, Jungle all the way! - We had an amazing day on this jungle trek. Our guides Tondi and Karan were polite, professional, knowledgeable and kind. They gave us lots of interesting information about the rainforest and were very understanding of our need to rest. It is obvious that they are part of a community that really cares for and revolves around the rainforest. They are passionate about showing guests the wonders of the rainforest and of course the Orangutans. The guides all work together to pass on information about where Orangutans are and we saw four separate groups and had plenty of opportunity to take pictures. The apes are not at all bothered by the people and they continue going about their business in the trees above. Things you might want to know: 1) the drive from Medan is pretty awful for the most part so prepare yourself for that. For us it thankfully only took two and a half hours each way but I am told it can take up to four. 2) You will get very wet even if you don’t chose the rafting option (which was brilliant) and will have the opportunity to swim in the river. 3) Lunch was really good and there was absolutely loads of fresh fruit. So no need to take extra. 4) the trip starts and ends in the eco-village where there are bars and restaurants, we really enjoyed a cold beer before setting off on our journey back to Medan. 5) the trekking is hot and in some places steep (both up and down). My 9 year old daughter coped with it but was wiped out by the end of the day. I would say that you do need to be in OK shape to enjoy it. 6) tips are gratefully received and I did not see an ATM. Overall I cannot recommend this trip highly enough. It was superb.

Bukit lawang jungle trek - Awesome day out with a cool as guide who’s very knowledgeable. Saw heaps of animals and really up close. Food was amazing too.Would highly recommend

Amazing! - Initially i waa a bit worried because its a long drive and the driver spoke no English so i wasnt certain how things were going to go. When we got to Bukit Lawang we picked up the guide and Tondi was amazing! So patient. I saw so many animals and got amazing pic and videos!

Nature pure :-) - It was just amazing! Everything went well, from the pick up at the hostel to the car ride to Bukit Lawang and the trekking. My guide Ucok did a great job, I saw orang utans and many other animals. He knows a lot about wildlife and the nature as he is a local guide. He speaks well english and is really passionated about the nature of this protected area. I can fully recommend him and this tour!

A memory for life - I and my 14 year old son did this trip from Medan. We were fetched from our house at 7 in the morning and had a pleasant drive in a big comfortable car with AC. At Bukit Lawang we were met up by our excellent guide Tondi (Tony). He is a young guy of 25 years, full of energy, speaks excellent English and really loves his work... He was very knowledge about the forest, the plants and the animals and did his utmost to give us a memory for life. The hike was adapted to our wishes - we are both quite fit so we could take a longer walk through more difficult terrain. We saw Orangutans at about 10 different occasions during the day - sometimes coming really close! We were served an excellent (and still hot!) lunch with traditional Nasi Goreng and a wonderful array of fresh fruits as dessert. As an added bonus / adventure our lunch was cut a bit short when a female orangutan decided she also wanted some of our fruits - here we were got really close to the orangutan (a power feeling!) - but we still felt safe as our guide kept us at the right distance. Apart from the orangutans we saw an abundance of other primates such as Thomas' leaf monkey, macaques and baboons. There is also a wonderful amount of different birds, trees, terminates, ants and smaller insects. Both myself and my boy also had the "joy" of getting a leech each that sucked our blood - it's all included in the experience. In the late afternoon when we returned from the hike we took a refreshing swim in the rather turbulent river passing through the small village. The water in the river was very high so Tondi had earlier advised us against doing river rafting back to the village which is otherwise an option - having the safety of the guests in mind. We returned to Medan around 19-20. Some tips - bring water (lots of water! 1.5-2 L per person), sturdy shoes that you can throw away (they get really dirty), long pants, hat and mosquito repellent. Also bring along swimwear and a complete change of clothes - you will be soaking wet with sweat and mud after the hike. If your are in Sumatra and have the possibility I would recommend this tour - you won't regret it. My 14 year old son absolutely loved it!

Wonderful hike and viewing experience - Had a couple of extra days to spend in Southeast Asia and booked a last munute trip to Medan and this tour. Everything went as planned and enjoyed spending time with the orangutans. Ucok was my guide for a solo trip and was helpful in finding the orangutans and Thomas monkeys and describing the park and the local community. I am recovering from a back injury and Ucok allowed for me to operate at a careful pace and have a successful visit.

simply amazing - we only learned about Sumatran orangutans from a surprise conversation a few days before we left home. Doing this trek and tour from Medan in one day, made for a very long, somewhat strenuous day. The trek isn't easy, but we managed, even in the mud, even in rubber sandals. Ocok, was our guide. He is amazing. I want to come back and do longer tours with him...and just spend more time with him. He did a great job. Even though we aren't promised that we'll see orangutans, we saw at least seven in our trek, including a group within our first few minutes starting out. And, when we stopped for lunch, we had another come very close to us. This was quite exciting. And there was much to see besides just orangutans, but we would have been disappointed had we missed them.