The Tangkahan elephant day trip starts from Bukit Lawang in the morning, you will travel around 2.5 hours on unsurfaced roads. The other traffic is the occasional motorbike. We will pass through undeveloped villages and past large palm oil plantations, a distance of around 40km in total to reach Tangkahan. Our back route saves you a seven hour journey backtracking via Medan.

Upon arrival we will visit and bathe the elephants.

You will then have some time to explore the beautiful surroundings of Tangkahan. You can visit the butterfly beach and explore the two rivers (Batang and Buluh), which meet at Tangkahan.

Lunch is included in your trip price and will be taken in a riverside guesthouse.

After lunch we will head to Gelugur, which is around 15 minutes drive away. Here, at the edge of the jungle, there is a multi-layered waterfall in the crystal-clear cool mountain river. You can enjoy the cool waters of this river in the afternoon before, as the sun goes down, bathing in the hot spring, which feeds directly into the river here, hence you can control the heat by sitting closer to or further from the source. You can bring some eggs, and boil them here!

In the evening there may be fireflies, creating a romantic atmosphere at the river. You will eat dinner, prepared here, before heading back to Bukit Lawang. Arrival time in Bukit Lawang will be around 10pm.