Mentawai tribe is one of the oldest ethnic who lives in Sumatra, the Mentawai has a unique culture and tradition the philosophy of Mentawaian“AratSabulungan” was aimed a balance of human life and nature. The philoshopy that has they kept maintained since centuries ago from their ancestor and was made mentawaian really respect with their nature (jungle), and always had connection with their spirits and soul. For the mentawaian jungle has always places where for everything from plants, to rocks, animal, and, man, a great experience on your journey lives in the jungle with native Mentawai people to experience their culture, traditions and their way of life in the jungle.
The Program
The journey will start from padang at 07 ;00 am by local ferry, our journey will take approximately 5 hours ( including transit 1 hour at SikabaluannortSiberut ) when arrived in south Siberut ( port ) we will go through to muntei village for transit and take a rest. After preparing our stuff then start our journey by boat (wooden boat) to cross scenic jungle river, after we reached trekk point we’ll do trekking to reach mentawai clan house or “Uma”. After reached uma meet and greet whit the shaman and his family then free program, our team will provided dinner.
Day 2 until day 3 : Daily Activities in the Jungle with Mentawai Clan( B, L, D )
During these days we will stay in mentawai long house in the jungle for daily activities to knowing their culture, tradition and how they life in the jungle. The activities that we do is mentawai local activities with the shamans and also the family member in the jungle
Day 4 : Move to Another Mentawai Clan House ( B, L, D )
After breakfast, and preparing some belongings, we will trekk back to the river, take the motor canoe and move to the other clan house. Arrived at next “uma” and procced to lunch. After finish lunch time start doing activities with the shaman and family member in the jungle. then back to the uma cleaning some muddy stuff then free programs.
Day 5 : Back to Padang
We will do short trekk to the river and boat will pick up , then we straight away to muntai village for transit, take a rest and lunch. After lunch we will go to harbor catch the ferry and come back to Padang.