THE 10 BEST Ipoh Nature & Wildlife Tours (Updated 2023)

Jorge G
12 contributions
People of the forest
Amazing effort to help protect
Orang Utans who have been hurt,abused,and affected by human encroachment of their forests.
Review of: Ipoh & Orang Utan Island Day Tour from Kuala Lumpur
Written 29 August 2023
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Jas C
Greenford, UK3 contributions
A great day out with Orang Utans and Mr Mavan
As a solo female traveller in KL for a few days I wanted to experience the best nature Malaysia has to offer.

I booked online and the communication was excellent and prompt. I was met at 7am by Mavan for the Orange Utan day tour. Mavan was brilliant company and had a vast knowledge, I learnt a lot about the fascinating history of Malaysia, agriculture and different cultural practices.

This will be one of my cherished memories of the trip.. We got up close to orangutan and visit and incredible cave temple. I'm a strict vegetarian and he also managed to find a vegan Chinese restaurant. This was so good. I greatly appreciated the effort he made to accommodate this for me - I've been on other tours since and not all tour operators can be so helpful.

I've had a great day trip and recommend Mavan highly.
Review of: Private Tour : Orang Utan Island & Perak Cave Temple from Kuala Lumpur
Written 17 May 2023
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Jaap_Schlejen
Eindhoven, The Netherlands17 contributions
Amazing visit Orang Utan recovey center
We (family of 4) booked a trip through TripAdvisor to visit the recovery center. First of all: booking through TripAdvisor was very easy and we were well updated regularly. I also believe the price was competitive.
We did not know what to expect from this trip and worried about the distance from KL to the center. True, the trip is long (2x 3-4 hours), but it is well worth it. The local tour operator and driver were very professional, well informed and the car was specious for 4 tall adults).
Arriving at the ferry to the center, it looked a bit surreal: there is a large lakeside landing and infrastructure, but it was empty and there were almost no people. We took the ferry and once we arrived at the recovery center (group of around 10 persons), we got briefed by our tourguide. We walked in a cage tunnel complex (a reversed Zoo: the apes are free and we were in cages) to see the apes; we were allowed to help feeding them and got amazingly close by the orang utans. There are about 15 apes, including some cute young ones. Our tourguide explained what they do to return the apes back to the wild: most apes are abused animals, recovered from poachers or were used as pets. They all do this without any goverment funding and depend on private donations, struggling to get by.
So we really recommend to go on this tour through TripAdvisor, if you are not afraid of a 3-4 hour trip (both ways): go there and donate to the Urang Utan recovery center.
Also: on the way back to KL, you visit a nice Buddhist cave temple with huge Buddha's with a long climb to the top.
Review of: Orang Utan Island and Perak Tong Cave Temple Day Tour from Kuala Lumpur
Written 24 May 2023
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sumesh r
2 contributions
The park hotel scenario
Early morning sunrise is the excellent scenario and wonderful gardens near the beach location sea view rooms.....
Review of: Orang Utan Island Day Tour
Written 19 January 2020
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rashdaa2020
London, UK17 contributions
Great day
Amazing to see the work of the sanctuary and see the orang-utans being looked after so well. The santuary relies on guests so you are contributing with your visit. Rajan our guide was very knowledgeable about the area, history and then later we stopped at the caves.

Great day
Review of: Orang Utan Island and Perak Tong Cave From Kuala Lumpur
Written 17 January 2020
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