Ever venture into
the western part of Java Island, Indonesia? Well, in this place, located a
national park called Ujung Kulon National Park, which is covering an area of 1.206 km2, which is the first
national park was inaugurated in Indonesia. This national park consists of
Krakatau island cluster and the small islands around it, such as handeuleum
island and Peucang island. This national territory consists of its 443 km2 of
marine area, which starts from The Cape of Ujung Kulon to the Indian Ocean.
In 1992, Ujung Kulon National Park was inaugurated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site that is
protected. At the beginning of this region is an agricultural area. But when
Krakatoa erupted on August 27, 1883, this area was devastated and turned back
into forest. National Park which has beautiful natural scenery is now a
conservation center to protect the Java Rhinoceros which the number is getting less.
Currently at least 50 rhinos are in this conservation center.
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Classification of Ujung Kulon National Park as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Country : Indonesia
Category : Nature
Criteria :
VII, IX
Region : Asia Pacific
Official
Inscription : 1991
National Park The
Park is representative of the tropical rain forest ecosystem which is the
largest lowland in West Java. In addition to special habitat for the rhino, the
park is also used as a marine aquatic ecosystems, coastal and terrestrial
ecosystems. In this place, there are at least 35 species of mammals, 5 species
of primates, 59 species of reptiles, 22 species of amphibians, 240 species of
birds, 72 species of insects, 142 species of fish and 33 species of coral. There
are approximately 700 species of plants are protected in this place, and 57
types of which are rare plants such as Bengang ( Lagerstroemiaspeciosa ) and Luminous ( Pterospermum Diversifolium ).
In addition to
nature conservation center, Ujung Kulon National Park also offers many other
attractions. You not only spoiled by a variety of rare animals, but also can
enjoy a river with rapids sharp, waterfalls, white sand beaches, hot springs,
marine parks and cultural heritage and history are unique and interesting, such
as Ganesha statue on Mount Mercury, Panaitan Island.
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Address Ujung Kulon National Park
Jl. No Independence
Pioneers. 51, Labuan, Pandeglang 42 264 West Java - Indonesia
Walk
around the city of Bogor, it would not be complete without visiting Bogor Botanical Garden. Bogor Botanical Gardens is a large botanical gardens in Bogor
city, has an area of 87 hectares.
Besides being known as a botanical garden is cool and shady, this garden has a
collection of 15,000 species of trees and plants. Since opening as the tourism
spot, the Botanical Garden is one of the favorite tourist destinations in West
Java are very crowded, especially on Saturdays and Sundays.
History of the Botanical Garden
Long
before it became the Botanical Gardens we know today, the Botanical Garden was
originally a part of “samida” or
artificial forest, in the era of Sunda Empire around the year 1474 to 1513.
Artificial forest was made to preserve the environment as a place to nurture
the seeds of the rare wood. In early 1800 - an, the Governor-General Thomas
Stamford Raffles who inhabit the Bogor Palace has a huge interest in botany
that intend to develop the Bogor Palace yard a beautiful garden. With the help
of the botanist, Raffles conjure palace became a classic English-style
botanical garden. Here's an idea that became the forerunner of the birth of the
Botanical Garden and pretty, green and cool.
Establishment
of Bogor Botanical Gardens started the development of science in Indonesia.
From this was born a few other scientific institutions, such as the Bibliotheca
Bogoriensis (1842), Herbarium Bogoriense (1844), Cibodas Botanical Garden
(1860), Laboratory Treub (1884) and the Museum and Laboratory of Zoology
(1894). On May 30, 1868, the Botanical Garden was officially separated the
management is with the Bogor Palace yard.
Enjoying Exotic architecture around Europe
Once
visitors enter the gates of the Botanical Garden, the tourists will immediately
be spoiled with European-style architectural beauty that glows in the garden
area. Bogor Botanical Gardens was known to be cool place because there are many
large trees that shade. On the way around of Botanical Garden, then we will see
Lady Raffles monument, which is a monument in memory of Lady Olivia Mariamne
Raffles, wife of General Thomas Stamford Raffles (1811-1816).
Throughout
the Bogor Botanical Gardens, there are many huge trees hundreds of years old.
This tree is a cool place to take shelter and at once the object of interest
for the photography. In addition, we are also given the opportunity to enjoy
the beauty of the Bogor Palace, which is one of six palaces in Indonesia. The
palace has some unique architecture, among others, the beautiful deer imported
directly from Nepal.
Pull the Bogor Botanical Gardens
One
appeal of the Botanical Garden is the presence of Carrion Flower (Amorphophalus Titanum), which is one of
the typical flowers of Indonesia. When approaching a flower, the corpse flower
will release a very pungent smell of carrion. The flower can achieve high rates
2meter and is the world's largest compound flower plants. In addition, there is
also the oldest palm trees in Southeast Asia are still alive today.
* Address Bogor Botanical Gardens:
Jl.
Ir. H. No Juanda. PO BOX 309 13 16 003 Bogor, West Java - Indonesia
During long holiday,
it’s the right time to prepare yourself for some vacation. Not only for
refreshing mind and body, vacation will change your mood at the sudden and give
you satisfaction. Indonesia offers you many choice : Toba Lake in North Sumatra,
Kuta
Beach in Bali or even Komodo National Park.
To have maximum
benefit from vacation, we should have good preparation before travelling. Good
preparation also avoid you from unnecessary thing, such as out of budget, bad
transportation, etc. How to have a good preparation for vacation? Well, simply
follow this tips guide you to prepare great vacation :
1.Do Plan!
Make sure you have plan your vacation
before, at least you must do survey before and know what will you do then. Go
vacation without good preparation will set you in trouble. Consider several
thing in your plan : cost, transportation, accommodation, people, suitcase,
map, guide, etc. If you use travel agent service, make sure that the travel
agent you choose has good reputation and trustworthy. If you travel by plane,
make sure you reserve the ticket minimum two weeks before, to get the cheaper
price.
2.Only Bring What You Need!
Always remember, you go vacation for
have fun and enjoy your quality time. Bring only what you need will help you to
waste your time handling your suitcase. Heavy suitcase will make you holiday
become unenjoyable and annoying, so it’s always important to be selective to
bring stuff in your suitcase. Camera, phone and glasses are must bring stuff!
3.Do Checklist
Involve checklist as your important
stuff during vacation. Checklist is very important for you since your depart
and leave the vacation spot. Checklist remind you the small thing which
sometimes becomes very important. Checklist should contain the suitcase you
bring, what-to-do & what-to-see schedule, people, etc.
4.Check This Important
Stuff!
For last preparation, check below
important stuff :
·Vacation destination, make sure that
this spot is legal to visit and not in dangerous situation in last minutes you
visit.
·How long time to travel, don’t forget
to predict traffic jam that may occur. It’s also anticipate you when you bring
the big number of people. More time consume during travel, more cost you must
spent.
·The weather, some vacation spot is not
friendly with particular weather, so make sure that you’re going to vacation
spot consider this thing.
·How many people you bring, communicate
schedule and plan with them is very important.
·Extra cost to spent.
Well, it doesn’t take
a long time for you to prepare 4 points above. Good preparation before vacation
will help you to enjoy your holiday more and more and bring you the rejoice and
satisfaction. Happy holiday, readers!!
Administratively,
Green Canyon located in the southern coast of Ciamis, West Java. To reach this
place, tourist can travel a distance for about five hours by motorcycle from
Bandung, the capital city of West Java. Unlike the Grand Canyon which offer the
rock cliffs scenery, Indonesia Green Canyon is a long green river views that
can be traced by the boat. Along the green river, tourist will be lulled by the
beauty of the trees along the left bank and right bank. It’s amazing sight each
moment you through by the boat.
By
hiring the boat on the spot of Green Canyon, tourist can enjoy the beauty
around Green Canyon. The hire cost is relatively cheap, it’s about Rp 75.000*/
boat or about $8,5*/ boat. This boat can carry up to five peopl, which means
you can bring your family or friend together in a row enjoy the beautiful of
Green Canyon.
In West Java, Green Canyon is
one of the favorite tourist destinations, so that when the holiday comes, this
place becomes more crowded than usual. Green Canyon is open every day
at 7:30 to 16:00, except Friday 1:00 p.m. to 16:00. The best season to visit Green
Canyon is a dry season, because during the dry season in the Green Canyon will
be more beautiful to be enjoyed and will feel cool weather. In addition to the cliffs along
the river green with beautiful trees, tourists can also enjoy the beauty of the
Green Canyon caves and beautiful waterfalls. It's
really interesting to visit, right?
Several
years ago, this tourism park is frequently promoted as one of tourism park in
Indonesia and you will hear it often through the glass screen. Mekarsari Tourism Park is very good vacation destination suggestion when you got
stuck with your daily activities. Green place with nature valuable views and
family park that warm you. It’s a beautiful place and right place to spend with
family or friend, especially in the weekend.
Mekarsari
Tourism Park is 264
hectares park which is not only a garden plant but also the preservation of
cultivation ( agronomy ), breeding and the multiplication of seeds that also
distributed to farmer and the general public. It’s located on Cileungsi, Bogor,
West Java province. This place is getting crowded by tourist, both local and
foreign tourist. Mekarsari Tourism Park is like the miniature of forest.
Tourist can enjoy regular walk around the plant or trees, getting closer to the
nature in the cool and green place, far away from the pollution and noise of
the city. Green space is now getting hard to found in the city, so once you
visit Mekarsari Tourism Park, you will definitely want to come back and feel
the same sensation of green space.
What to Do in Mekarsari Tourism Park
Here is several
activity which tourist can enjoy in Mekarsari Tourism Park :
·Plant Crops
·Melon Garden Tour
·Salak ( Bark ) & Star fruit Garden
Tour
·Countryside Tour ( enjoy the rural
atmosphere )
·Eco Tourism Education
·Cultivating Nature
·Canal Tour
·Kids Tour
·Spotted Deer Conservation
·Water Recreation
·Outbond
·Discovery Rare Plants
·Etc
Woow… so many
choice and that’s all involve the nature on it? Mekarsari Park can be a nice
place to visiting with family and best friend.
Discovery The Rare Plants
Mekarsari TourismPark offer tourist the opportunity to discover the rare plant which is unique
and interesting. Beyond that, you are also allowed to know the suprerior
product of fruit that have been cultivated by the expert of Mekarsari park,
such as sawo putih (casimiroa edulis )from Central
America, water king guava ( Syzgium Samarangense ) derive from Thailand, shucks
water guava, jackfruit bulb ( Artocarpus Heterophyllus ) which having a shape
like a ball, skinless jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), etc. Mekarsari
Tourism Park is the park where you can see melon with unique shape, such as
shape of stars, heart and cubes. The melon taste sweet and the colour is very beautiful.
For some fruits with those unique shape, you can pack it and bring it home.
During
enjoy your long holiday to East Java, The National Park of Bromo-Tengger-Semeru will be a wonderful place
for you to visit. Besides enjoying the natural
beauty of the park, tourists can also feel the exotic atmosphere of Mount Bromo
and Mount Semeru, which is an integral part of.
Mount Semeru is the highest
mountain in Java, height of 3676 meters above sea level. Mount
Semeru is very interesting and become one of the favorite hiking destination in
Indonesia. To conquer Semeru volcano, the
ascent starts from Ranu Pane. In this place there is a post
where the climbers must report to the officer before making the ascent. Ranu Pane is one of the
interesting region with beautiful scenery. In Ranu Pane, there are two
beautiful lakes located nearby, the Ranu Pane and Ranu Regulo. In English, Ranu means Lake.
When climbing Mount Semeru, the
first rest post on Mount Semeru is Ranu Gumbolo, it’s within 5 - 6 minutes walk
from Ranu Pane. Ranu Gumbolo identical to the
larger and beautiful lake. In this post there is a bungalow
that is located below The Cliff of Love. The name of cliff sounds unique
regarding unique story related with it. It was said, to get a mate for hill
climbing in cliff of love, we must not stop and look back. It is a myth that has existed
since a long time, you may believe, may well not.
After successfully climbing The
Cliff of Love, the climbers will arrive at the Oro-Oro Ombo, which is a fairly
broad savannas. From Oro-Oro Ombo, we will
arrive at Cemoro Kandang area and move on up to Kali Mati. In Kali Mati, tourist can find
the spring where the water is
potable. In Kali Mati, there is a climbing hut (bungalow ) so hikers can rest
and spend the night, before finally reaching Arcopodo. Arcopodo is the last stop before
reaching the peak of Semeru.
The best time to climb to the
top or summit is in the early morning attack, so when arrive at the peak of
Mount Semeru, tourists can enjoy the sensation of the beautiful sunrise, which
is an obligatory scene to be enjoyed while at the top of Semeru. Is an amazing experience to be
able to reach the summit of Mount Semeru. If you are a nature lover, then
Mount Semeru is one of the “must” list vacation spot for you.
Gedung Sate is one of the old heritage bilding located
in Bandung, West Java. Gedung Sate in English translated as Satay/
Sate Building (Satay or Sate is
an Indonesian traditional food in the form of flesh pierced with a small wooden
stick, which is called by sujen or tusuk sate or skewer). Gedung Sate was built
in 1920 - 1924 in the Wilhelmina Boulevard or now known as Jalan Diponegoro.
Gedung Sate is a monumental work of architect Ir. Gerber. This
building has a mix of traditional architecture and construction techniques of
Western and Indonesia, which is often referred to as Indo Eropeesche
Architectuurstijln. Gedung Sate architecture is a blend of Italian and Moorish
architectural styles from the Renaissance to the Hindu and Islamic styles.
Traditionally characterized as ornaments on a Hindu temple there is the bottom
wall of the building, while in the middle like a batch-roofed towers placed
Meru in Bali, something common in the Islamic architectural styles. Ornaments
six pole with sphere-like satay skewers placed on the roof top batch, as a symbol of Gedung
Sate construction cost of 6 million guilders.
Sate building formerly known as Gouvernements Bedrijven
(GB). But later changed its name to Gedung Sate, according to the top of the
ornament on the roof. Gedung Sate is currently used as offices of the Governor
of West Java. If tourists want to visit this building, tourists should come on
a day off because the building was only opened to the public when the holiday.
Gedung Sate is one of the favorite tourist attraction of
foreign tourists in Bandung, since it has strong relationship of emotion and
history of this building. The linkage of emotion and history will probably feel
more complete if you climb the stairs one at a time that is available to the
tower Gedung Sate. There are six steps that must be passed by each of 10 steps
that must be climbed.
Besides full of historical significance, this building
also has a beautiful garden, so often used as a location of family photos,
wedding photos and video clips used commercially for the shooting.
West Java is known as one of Indonesia tourist destination which offer many tourism object, spread on several city and regency. One of tourism object in West Java is natural tourism type. Mount Ciremai National Park is one of them.
Mount Ciremai National Park, known as TNGC or Taman Nasional Gunung Ciremai ( Indonesian ), is a nature conservation area which functioned to protect living resources and the environment in the region of Mount Ciremai. This place formerly was Protected Forest, but then officially declared as the national park since October 19th 2004 through Forestry Ministry Decree of Indonesia no. 424/Menhut-II/2004.
Mount Ciremai National Park location is belong to Kuningan regency ( 8.931,27 ha ) and Majalengka regency ( 6.927,9 ha ). It has unique topography, 64% undulating, 22% steep, mountainous and had highest peak at an altitude of 3078 above the sea level. This national park had three protrusions extending similar promontory in the north, west and south-west.
Mount Ciremai National Park is very rich with flora and fauna. Forest in the lowland ( below 1.000 m ), tourist will find it as the home for tusam plantations and several other species of timber trees. While the highland of the forest, at an altitude of 1.000 m is protected forest. Based on the condition of climate, forests of the national park can be distinguished on wet upland forests in the south ( Cigugur and surrounding areas ) and the upland forest in the dry northern ( Setianegara and surrounding areas ).
Forest surrounding Cigugur is very rich with many kind of trees species. At least you can find the types of Saninten ( Castanopsis Argentea, C. Javanica, C. Tungurrut ) and Pasang ( Lithocarpus Elegans and L. Sundaicus ), Mara ( Macaranga Denticulata ), Kareumbi ( Omalanthus Populneus ), etc. Otherwise, Setianegara area is dominated with other types of civil or medang ( Litsea spp. ), Saninten ( C. Argentea and C. Javanica ), Mara ( Macaranga Tanarius ), Mareme ( Clochidin sp. ), Bingbin ( Pinanga Javana ) and Mountain Pandanus ( Pandanus sp. ).
Mount Ciremai National Park is important place for animal or wildlife in West Java, especially bird. There are several endemic bird which preserve here. Some of bird which had vulnerable status also preserve here, such as Celepuk Jawa Bird/ Plop Java Bird ( Otus Angelinae ) and Ciung-Mungkal Java ( Cochoa Azurea ). Mount Ciremai National Park also had at least 18 other species of birds with the status of limited spread ( restricted area bird ) such as Java Quail-Bark ( Arborophila Javanica ), Head Violet Walik ( Ptilinopolus Porphyreus ), Takur Batutut ( Megalaima Corvina ), Java Opior ( Lophozosterops Javanicus ) and Malay Walnuts ( Serinus Estherae ).
Here are several collection of mammals preserve on Mount Ciremai National Park : Macan Tutul ( Panthera Pardus ), Surili ( Presbytis Comata ), Lutung Budeng ( Trachypithecus Auratus ), etc.