Where to Go
Gunung Leuser National Park
Bukit Lawang
Tangkahan
Lake Toba
Berastagi
Mt. Sibayak volcano
Mt. Sinabung volcano
Sipisopiso Waterfall
Tongging
Ketembe
Lake Kawar
Medan

What to Do
Jungle Trekking
Elephant Trekking
White-Water Rafting
River-Tubing
Volcano Climbing
Bohorok Orangutan Centre
Maimoon Palace

What to Know
About "Hello Mister Travel"
Introduction to Sumatra
Topography
History
Getting to Sumatra
Getting Around Sumatra
Terms & Conditions

Accommodation
Bukit Lawang
Tangkahan
Berastagi
Tongging
Tuk Tuk
Ketembe

The Tours
Bukit Lawang Short Stay
The Jungle Trail
The Toba Trail
The North Sumatran Trail

Ketembe

Ketembe tends to get over-looked and over-shadowed by its more accessible rival, Bukit Lawang. Situated thirty kilometres north of the closest town of any signifcance, Kutacane, it takes at least seven hours to get there by public bus from Medan. It's an atrocious road through some wonderful scenery and once there, all of Gunung Leuser National Park lies open to you.

The village itself is tiny with no facilities other than a few guesthouses but it is from here that you can organise hiking trips into the jungle and catch sight of wild orang-utans rather than the tame ones found near Bukit Lawang; also rafting, tubing and kayaking Please see the information on Gunung Leuser National Park for details on the many other kinds of wildlife that can be found here.

For information about accommodation in Ketembe, click here...