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The 4 day Pangkalan Bun National Park tour on a traditional Klotok boat was wonderful, afterwards we stayed at the hotel which was good, but there wasn’t a lot to do/see in the city Pangkalan Bun.

Pangkalan bun is a city where an airport from where we aim for river tour to visit national park where tropical rainforest fauna conservation has been conducted. I wish I could have enjoyed some local cultural activities or artifacts there.

As most foreign tourist who come to Pangkalan Bun, I was there to catch a Klotok into the Tanjung Puting National Park to see the Orangutans and other animals that live in Kalimantan. The town itself is very much like other Indonesian towns I have been in: an expansive place where you must have a motorbike to go anywhere. I did not get to see much of the town, but I did walk around the hotel for a bit. A very curious phenomenon are the 'houses' that Chinese investors have created for swifts to build their nests so they can be harvested for 'bird's nest soup'. These are tall buildings with barely any openings on their walls (other than the slits or small apertures that the birds use to get in) and they have a continuous tape playing a very loud recording of swift calls. What a crazy place to live next to!

It was a technical overnight stop for us on the way to the National Park. It's a clean, sizable place with a modern shopping centre and a University. It's an OK place but I wouldn't go out of my way to visit.