Itinerary

1. Day 1: Sungai Penuh to Lempur

   • Get up early and travel from Sungai Penuh for one hour south to Lempur.

   • Meet your guide there, and begin the trek to Renah Kemumu. As you keep an eye out for wildlife and their tracks, the guides will point out edible forest fruits and greens and offer a few survival skill tips.

   • Make camp along a cool mountain stream in the middle of the rainforest as the evening begins to creep in.

2. Day 2: Renah Kemumu

   • Have an early breakfast, pack up the camp in the cool breeze of the morning, and set off for the village. If you are using the camera trap and had set it up the night before, pick it up on the way (or, leave it a few nights for pick up when you return).

   • Continue your trek to the village.

   • After your arrival, spend what’s left of the day checking out the village, fields, or maybe playing football with the kids.

   • Spend the night in a local family’s home in Renah Kemumu.

3. Day 3: Hot Springs

   • Spend the day in Renah Kemumu touring the surrounding area and/or involving yourself in village life. An impressive hot spring is located about 1.5 - 2 hours outside of the village and is an idyllic place to spend a few hours refreshing from the long hike of the previous day. The boiling hot water from the hot spring mixes with the cool mountain water of a passing river, creating a kind of warm hot tub in the middle of the rainforest, perfect for resting your aching bones while you consider that you are now, very very likely, further off the beaten path than any other traveller on Sumatra. 

   • Also near the village are remnants of older, abandoned villages, gravesites, an ancient, carved, megalithic stone, and even their mini hydroelectric generator.

   • Additionally, you could hang out with your host family around the village, optionally visit the local school, participate in agricultural work or other village tasks, prep and cook traditional dishes, and learn about the history and culture of this unique community.

4. Day 4: Return to Lempur

   • Head back into the rainforest early in the morning for your return trek. The goal is to make it back to the jungle stream where you camped the first night.

5. Day 5: Return to Sungai Penuh

   • Continue along forest trails looking for birds, wildlife and signs of other animals as you make your way back to the road.

   • Arrive back in Lempur generally by late afternoon or early evening. Stay in a homestay in Lempur, or continue an hour’s drive back to Sungai Penuh to a hotel.