Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Sleeping
Louu Taman Jamrout $
(Jl Indonesia Australia; r per person 60,000Rp)
This longhouse is part craft centre, part
hostel and part stage. Travellers can commission a Dayak dance for 500,000Rp. Weavings
are available at reasonable prices. Rooms are boxlike and clean, with warm showers in
shared bathrooms, and share a lively communal dinner table.
LONGHOUSE
Losmen Wisata $
(Jl Indonesia Australia; s/d 35,000/50,000Rp)
About 500m from the jetty, offers rooms
with double beds and mosquito nets off a central dining area. The airy common space has
wall-to-wall windows for superior views.
LOSMEN
Getting There & Away
Tanjung Isuy is not on the
kapal biasa
route from Samarinda. Chartering a
ces
from
Muara Muntai (250,000Rp, 1½ to two hours) is the easiest way to get here. A public
ces
to Muara Muntai leaves daily in the early morning (from 75,000Rp, depending on number
of passengers). You can charter a
ces
direct to Kota Bangun (500,000Rp, three hours),
then catch a bus and be in Samarinda or Balikpapan that night. In dry season, Tanjung
Isuy is 30 minutes by
kijang
or
ojek
from Mancong.
MANCONG
For optimum jungle drama Mancong is best reached by boat on the Ohong river, meander-
ing past monitor lizards, sapphire-hued kingfishers, bulb-nosed proboscis monkeys and
marauding macaques. The journey beneath towering banyan trees, their roots foraging like
witches' fingers in the dark river, is as much a part of the experience as your arrival.
Sleeping
Mancong Longhouse $
(Mancong; per person 50,000Rp)
This exquisitely restored 1930s longhouse (no bedding,
food or electricity), surrounded by wood-carved sentinels, is the centrepiece of the village.
As in Tanjung Isuy, the locals oblige with welcome dances, available on request for
500,000Rp, and there's an interesting souvenir shop.
LONGHOUSE
