Pangkalan Bun (or Pangkalanbun) is a city in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia and best known as gateway city for orangutan watching.

Get in

• 1 Iskandar Airport (PKN  ^IATA). 4 airlines offer flights to 7 domestic destinations, including cities in Java and elsewhere in Kalimantan.  

If one prefers land travel there are buses to and from Pontianak and Palangkaraya.

Do

• Visit Tanjung Puting National Park to see orangutan.

Sleep

There are at least a dozen hotels in town.

• Hotel Bahagia. rooms from Rp 50K to 100K+ 
• Swiss Belinn. rooms from US$ 45 to US$ 90