Bukit Lawang – Gistihús

Ania Austurríki

The owners plus the tour guides were awesome

Stefan Sviss

Best place for Orang Utan Trekking (we did 3 days / 2 nights). Staff and guide were great: very nice, knowledgeable, trustworthy and familiar - was a great experience that I can recommend to everyone! p.s. we were very lucky and were able to see 7 different orang utans

Francisco David Mexíkó

If you want to have a good time and SEE ORANGUTANS this is the place, the team (we had two guides) knows the place like the palm of their hand, they split and search, thus, 2x chance to see orangs!! I consider this an unbeatable technique. While on our tour, we met some people that told us they saw 2 orangs in 2 days, a couple that saw 1 in their whole tour, we saw 8 orangs in just 6 hours or so!! first we saw a teen orang that started following us from the tree tops, then we crossed paths with a mama orang and her baby orang, then a single male adult, then a couple male-female, one more young adult and, THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME IN A LONG TIME, we were tubing back down the river to the guest house and we saw this HUGE orang, it looked almost 2m and like +200lbs Breakfast was good, super good KopiSusu, omelette, banana pancakes, everything was delicious!

Sabina Bandaríkin

The owner was so kind. Let me stay in a slightly more expensive room inside without paying the difference and got a ride back to the guesthouse from the city center at night. I wasn’t there for long but definitely felt it was a good deal for the price. It is pretty far from the center of butik lawang. You can walk it in 20min or get a tuktuk for 30rp. The walk is nice. You get to see another side to the area.

Sophia Kanada

The accommodation is super cheap and the location is perfect, the owners will even pick you up from the bus station if you get to Bukit Lawang with a local bus

Rebeca Malasía

Very friendly and accommodating owners and great view of the rice paddies from the windows (that covered all the walls) of my room. Lived the true Sumatran shower experience: sluicing buckets of water down my body felt SO refreshing in the humid warm weather.  Also, loved the porch area just outside of the hotel!

Ilya Rússland

Very comfortable stay. One of the main reasons to visit Bukit Lawang again.

Andrea Ástralía

This is a big charming, wooden house unlike anything else we saw in Bukit Lawang. It’s beautiful and has a lot of character. The location is great, up many stairs but it’s worth it. Close to nearby restaurants and ‘Jack’s Bar’ which we loved for live music and awesome cocktails in a real jungle setting. The staff are so lovely and helped us with everything we needed, they organised a trek into the jungle for us and a day trip to their conservation site where we saw lots of orangutans. Banana pancakes for breakfast were so delicious too, thank you Ridho! Highly recommend staying here!

Archie Bretland

Jhony was a brilliant host and u ended up booking a two day one night jungle trek which was absolutely amazing, he is a very safe and responsible guide as he has been doing it for a long time. He took me to the spots to see the orangutans which was very special and we saw lots of other monkeys and animals as well. Yeh accommodation was very simple but for the price definitely worth it, couldn’t recommend more.

Julie Ástralía

Quiet guesthouse and restaurant right on the river in Bukit Lawang town centre. Loved the location. Two rooms only, which are awesome - spacious, super clean and the photos are exactly what you get. Super comfortable bed and great bathroom. Did a great overnight trek with guide Hendra based at Enter Point also.