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Bookmark & shareImagine yourself a little hairier and better with your toes and you've got Bukit Lawang's main attraction: the orang-utan.
Bukit Lawang is one of the most accessible places to spot this reclusive primate, thanks to an orang-utan conservation programme that has been operating on the eastern edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park since the 1970s. The national park is one of the orang-utan's last remaining strongholds, with more than 5000 animals thought to be living in the wild.
Since the village is only 96km northwest of Medan, Bukit Lawang is also one of the easiest places from which to make the leap into the jungle, a diverse and rugged forest crisscrossed by clear, fast-flowing rivers.
Fast Facts
Electrical Plugs
127/230V 50Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Indonesian
Country Dialing Code
+62
Weights & Measures
Metric
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