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- Solo trip: IDR 6,350,000
- 2 - 4 people: IDR 5,300,000 / pax
- 5 - 8 people: IDR 4,450,000 / pax
- 9 -12 people: IDR 3,850,000 / pax
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1-12 person per pax
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5D4N Mentawai Tribe Authentic Trip Package
Meet the Mentawai people in the heart of Jungle Siberut, Mentawai. Immersion with the Mentawai tribe will give you the impression that time has stopped among these people who never left his native forest. Discover this mysterious tribe, share daily life, joining different families in their Uma (traditional house) through the forest (by motor canoe and trek). This trip will take you to witness their knowledge about the forest, medicine herbs, traditions, and lifestyle.
Activities Highlight
- Learning about Mentawai culture, life perspective, traditions, and beliefs system
- Experience living traditionally in the jungle at the same time hunting, fishing, hunter, and gather
- Learning how to process traditional Mentawai poison
- Making traditional clothes from bark trees that the Mentawai shaman use
- Jungle life skills
- Learning about Mentawai's perspective of living in harmony with the nature
Include
- Ferry ticket Padang - Siberut 2x
- Transportation in Siberut's port
- Permit (Siberut National Park)
- Logistics (All meals, and drinks during our trip)
- Motor canoe 2 x (Crossing Siberut jungle river)
- Porter
- Accommodation in Mentawai traditional house (Uma)
- Local guide
Exclude
- Flights
- Accommodation in Padang city
- Insurance
- Personal expenses
Notes
This off the beaten track trip will stretch your comfort zone, they don’t always feature the itinerary or the tourist highlights, but deep dive deeper into local life and culture, sometimes if we are lucky we can attend/see some Shamanic rituals (we will keep update the information about rituals)
Itinerary
Day 1: Padang – Siberut island- Mentawai Clan House
- 06:30 a.m: Hotel pick up in Padang
- 07:00 a.m: Departing to Siberut island with the Fast Ferry
- 11:00 a.m: Arrive in North Siberut (Pokkai) and transit for 1 hour (loading on/off goods and passager, during this transit we will have lunch at the local restaurant)
- Noon: Continue to South Siberut with the same ferry
- 1:50 p.m: Arrival in South Siberut (our destination)
- 2:20 p.m: Travel straight to the local village (Rokdok village) by Minivan
- 15:20 p.m: Arrival in Rokdok village, loading our stuff and taking the motor canoe
- 3:30 p.m: Crossing the Siberut jungle river heading to the Butui Jungle area (Approx 2.5 hours)
- 5:30 p.m: Arrival at our trek point and trekking to the Mentawai tribe family (50 minutes)
- 6:20 p.m: Arrive in Mentawai traditional house
- 6:30 p.m: Meet and greet with the Mentawai family
- 8:00 p.m: Dinner and evening
Day 2: Stay with the Mentawai Clan in the jungle, explore the remote village, and experience local life in Mentawai
- Experiencing living traditionally at the same time hunting, fishing, and gathering with a thousand-year-old belief makes you feel back to the Neolithic era
- Learning how to process the Mentawai traditional poison
- Learning how to make and set up traps in the jungle
- During our stay with the family, you can ask them anything you would like to know about their way of living, culture, and traditions that they open want to talk it and answer your question.
Day 3 - 4: Stay with the Mentawai Clan in the jungle, explore the remote village, and experience local life Mentawai
Explore the jungle area of the remote village and visit another clan family house, and meet another Mentawai clan. Participating in their daily activities, activities that we will do such as (making traditional clothes, sago processing as primer food, hand weaving from Ratan, or even learning how to process Mentawai traditional herbs and medicine.
Day 5: Leaving remote village - Siberut port and come back to Padang
After breakfast farewell to the family, and prepare to leave the jungle remote village and trek back to the bank of the river motor canoe will ride back to Muntei village. On arrival at Muntei village transit la local house, take rest and cleaning or wash our stuff and depart to Mailepet harbor and proceed to lunch at a local restaurant. Transfer to Padang by fast ferry, estimated time arrive in Padang 07:00 pm.
Direct impact
- Life-changing experience. This trip might not stay in a fancy star hotel but this trip definitely will teach you the meaning of life and how to live in harmony with nature
- Bringing benefits to local communities. When it comes to boosting their economic and social, teaching them about the tourism industry, as well as helping local children with ongoing education
- Preserve the culture through sustainable ecotourism
Indirect impact
- Promoting good practice to spread the idea of being responsible for traveling. Working with expert local guides and partners to achieve sustainable goals and practices
- Raise awareness of the local people and community about eco-sustainable living
- All your bookings with Bumi Journey include mangrove conservation by CarbonEthics Foundation to make it more climate friendly
Sustainability Commitment
- In order to preserve our environment, we committed to taking back/bringing back our plastic trash on every trip
- No shampoo or soaps are allowed in the river