Add-on activities available through Indonesia Culture Exploration (

Tour/Volunteer at an Orphanage | Fitness Trek | Forest Trek | Travel Sumatra or Indonesia | Inner Tubes | Motorbike Lessons | Bat Cave

Add-ons are available to be added on into your programme before or during your participation of your stay for an additional fee. *Please note ICE cannot guarantee ICE staff to accompany you through Indonesia or guarantee of ICE staff accompanying you on the other add-on options if added on last minute. Last minute add-ons accompanied by ICE staff is only guaranteed if booked two weeks prior to your arrival and start with ICE to ensure ICE staff availability. Please bear in mind last minute extensive add-ons, such as travel, may not be guaranteed depending on availability of ICE staff. We will be able to work with you to create your travel plans within Indonesia if we are unable to accompany you to a different site.

Tour/Volunteer at an Orphanage
Depending on the schedule of the orphanage this option may or may not be available at the time of booking.

Fitness Trekking

This programme is trekking through the forest. The treks used in this programme will challenge anyone wanting to get in a great workout in nature. If you want a change to your workout, a change in pace, or a challenge this is fitness calling. Fitness trekking is suitable for anyone of any fitness level, as long as prior to joining ICE for Fitness Trekking they are physically active and gain approval from their physicians. You will be trekking treks that have been used to train the Indonesian army, forest patrols, remote emergency evacuation teams, and EMTs. *This programme requires permission from a physician prior to acceptance to ICEs Fitness Trekking.

Forest Trekking

Depending on where you wish to trek you will have the opportunity to walk on the same ground as, possibly view, and touch the same trees that wild orang-utans, siamangs, Sumatran tigers, civets, elephants, and rhinoceroses, Malayan Sunbears, Rafflesia, Amorphophalus

Titanum, strangling figs, bats, cassowaries, Argus Pheasants, hornbills, Lorikeets, parrots, owls, Dumeril's monitors, roughneck monitor lizards, Komodo Dragons, pythons, cobras, various toads, frogs, walking sticks, praying mantises, and more have touched. You tell us how long and where in Indonesia you wish to trek, or you can use our default location: Gunung National Forest near to Bukit Lawang, your budget, what animals you hope to see, and we will take care of the rest. *This programme requires you to gain permission from a physician prior to acceptance to Forest Trekking with ICE.

Travel to other sites in Sumatra or even Indonesia

(wherever and for however long your heart desires)

Tubing or Rafting with inner tubes

This add-on can be made into an hour long excursion or a full day excursion of with meals and snacks provided. You will get a choice of rapid waves or cool, calm, serene transportation suitable for meditation drifting down river. Your inner tube excursion will be with highly trained and qualified award winning guides from Indonesia. This programme is great paired with the Water programme.

Motorbike Lessons
You can be taught by expert riders how to ride a motorbike, the local choice of transportation.

Bat Cave
Explore bat caves while bats are resting. This is a restful trek, not too taxing.

ICEs programmes are great tools in aiding you in your independent research projects. You will attain first-hand and second-hand knowledge and gain everlasting relationships between the people you interact with. Come and explore the mysteries of a land you have only ever dreamt about.

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( Denotes programmes that require insurance. You must show proof of insurance before participation of programme. Trek and Travel programmes require that programme participants must provide a signed and notarized Release of Liabilities form turned in 2 weeks prior your participation in the Trek and Travel programmes. ICE will provide the Release of Liabilities form to be filled out by programme participant. However, if for some reason you did not automatically receive a Release of Liabilities form please request A.S.A.P. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have returned all documents to ICE. Due to the amount of planning that takes place to organize these programmes ICE must have ample time to schedule forest entries and treks.