Batu Katak - Discovering North Sumatra's Secret Jungle Paradise (PART 1)
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- Come visit one of our absolute FAVOURITE jungle villages with us - Batu Katak in North Sumatra.
This little village is tucked away on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park. Although it's just 30 minutes from the more well-known jungle trekking spot of Bukit Lawang, this enchanting village feels like a different world.
Perched on the edge of the Berkail River, Batu Katak is the gateway to not only the precious Leuser Ecosystem, but home to a unique area of karst forest. Both these gorgeous habitats are home to an impressive array of flora and fauna - from orangutans and gibbons to the mindblowing enormous flowers (Rafflesia and Titan arum - coming in a future video!)
From the family-run, friendly guesthouses, you can wake up to the sounds of gibbons calling, swim in the pristine river, and head off to the Sumatran rainforest in search of adventures.
In this video, we show you around the first guesthouse we stayed at, Jungle River, then wander down the gorgeous river to take a look around the colourful village before winding up with a refreshing swim.
Next week, we take you jungle trekking into the Gunung Leuser National Park in search of the giant flowers found ONLY in Sumatra!
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Hi, I'm Agung, I live in Lake Toba, Sumatra (Indonesia) with my wife Carly. I was born in Sumatra, so love sharing all my local knowledge with visitors. Carly has been a traveller to Sumatra since 2009, and has been living here the last few years. We now live in Tuktuk village on Samosir Island in Lake Toba, North Sumatra. Together, we create content to help share the beauty of incredible Sumatra with the world.
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▬▬▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
0:00 Staying at Jungle River Guesthouse, Batu Katak
2:05 Wandering Downriver to the Village
4:00 Orchid Bungalows
6:30 Batu Katak Village Centre
9:20 Riverside Karaoke!
10:40 Heading Across the Bridge
12:45 Visiting Batu Katak Gibbon Guesthouse
14:23 A Refreshing Swim in the Berkail River
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Watching your adventure made me laugh so much I needed a pith! 😂
Hahaha - we know just the place for you! 😉
What an awesome place, I wanna swim in that river so bad!
Can’t wait to see the next video! 😁
That river is absolute heaven! Bathroom showers just can't compare :)
What great timing, we're off to Medan very soon to visit family and I was looking for a quiet rural place to take my kids. Batu Katak is now on my list.
Great work with the videos.
Oh that's awesome! So glad you discovered this vlog - Batu Katak is an excellent chilled out place to take the kids! Thank you for watching. Hope you have an amazing trip. 😀
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Thank you 😀🙏
Batu Katak❤
Can't wait for the next trip!
thanks, i wish we had time to visit this place.
Ahh it's so hard to fit it all in when there's so many great places to visit 😧
Love love love it - all of it - Agung in his happy place (and you too Carly - happy cos Agung is happy) Love the "natural' village - not tarted up for tourists but a REAL experience 🐒🌴🌳🍉🍹💚🧡
Totally a happy place for both of us. We would have stayed much longer if we could have brought the cats along! Total paradise - the people, the nature, the vibes. And yes, very authentic! 😍
Thank you for your great videos! Inspiring me to make travel plans to Sumatra.....which I last visited about 30 years ago!
Wow that’s so great to hear! Really happy to hear that you’re enjoying what you doing and wanting to revisit Sumatra. Where did you go last time?
Oh and thank you SO MUCH for the support with buying us some “coffee” - cat food! It is hugely appreciated and really made our day. Thank you from our 6 fur kids! ☺️☺️☺️
@@ExploringSumatra Medan and Lake Toba, in the late 80s actually with my parents. Very interested in the Sumatran Orang Utan, which is a different species that the Bornean, and hope to see them one day.
@@ravipararajasingam5715 Oh wow - we would love to see what Medan and Toba were like back in the 80s! Sumatran orangutans are very very cool - hope you get to see them when you make it back here.
Selemat Malam, Carly & Agung! Looking forward to hearing a gibbon call me just spoke with a friend, former prof rafting teacher with Sobek who rates Sumatra no. 1, Borneo, No. 2. Love from Cookie
Do they still have Rafting in Sumatra? Great filming!
Hello Liz! We tried to film the gibbon calls on our first morning but our GoPro had major tech issues, so we missed the whole thing! But I think we managed to get some audio of them on the last morning. That's great to hear that Sumatra is top rated - we haven't been to Borneo but I'm sure it's incredible too! There is a company that does white water rafting on the Asahan river a few hours from Toba - it looks amazing! 😀
@@ExploringSumatra Hi Carly, never knew Sumatra was famous 4 white-water rafting!
Tech disasters happening here everyday. Looking forward to gibbons on your travels.
More adventures await you & Agung. You both know the places & can hand-pick your trips & plan 4 tech clutches. Keep the river in your adventures! Very exciting. Starting to train Cookie on a lease & take her in the car.
@@lizcarlyle2477 Yes - I think last year there was a big white water kayak competition where all the top athletes from the world came to the Asahan river. It looked amazing! Yes - tech disasters are an all too common part of life, especially as a creator haha. So many amazing places to explore - we feel very lucky to be based here! Yay for Cookie and her adventures too! 😃