tropical rainforest expedition ujung kulon central java-indonesia
fuji film provia iso 200 slide
expedition december 2003
The morning arrived in Jakarta, continued to move on to the lebak bulus bus station
After that we look for the bus destination port, travel about 3 or 6 hours from Jakarta, when we get into the labuhan we replace public transportation to the Sumur and taman jaya, Taman jaya is a glorious entrance to the tropical rain forest west end, when I got into the taman jaya management of nature reserve areas in the west end where the office we have a guide and paid admission (last entry of 2500 rupiah tickets per person and the guide 50 thousand rupiahs per day)
Of our taman jaya in between cikawung with transportation to cikawung (currently've no direct transportation from port to cikawung, not to be deceived transportation to reply only on the well ---- wrote transport code to the code cikawung RM or BM costs about 30rb per person) after arriving on foot cikawung information about 3 KM to the last village where there is a village in the nature reserve areas west end, the village of Legon pakis, in this village we spent a short break before entering the woods
kijang liar di taman nasional
wait Mr sorhim , our guide, who both members RMPU (monitoring rhino protection units) with black uniforms like the military, carrying automatic rifles made by FN of Germany, according to Mr. sorhim until now mainly forest plundering Java rhino hunter weapon more sophisticated than the This cop, but especially for members of the Arm RMPU with special equipment and specific tasks, namely to supervise, installation of a video camera traps and traps to observe the behavior of Java and rhino in this conservation area, the other tasks of the Java rhino protect all types of threats Java rhino because amount currently no more than 100 tails nearly extinct, this one-horned rhino habitats in the world it is only one at the west end of this.
After hearted moment with the family began to pack our sorhim subsequent preparation and we start the real journey, long journey through this tropical rain forest
from legon pakis of us walk through the forest and through the Legon piARA((northern coastal forests Java)), then came back into the woods to the south cutting travel here BECAUSE hard enough just to rely on frequent street through rhino until this forest integumental cut open and the island of Java, from north to south, until the karang ranjang(south coast of Java), after that we stayed in this place because not possible to continue the journey on the river have caused the sea tide and flood water (during the month of December, the rainy season klo recommended to this place April during the dry season)) in the forest during the primary threat is malaria mosquitoes, is endemic tropical forests ... ..
As the sun show his face in the morning we packed up and continued down the beach all 2 KM then go back into the mountainous jungle in the hills of tanjung trtleng him at the seaside into the woods toward bandawoh, travel approximately 6 hours or less than 5km along the protected forest with large tree and shrubs are high enough, the way we always hear the loud beating of wings sounded like a giant bird that turned out to west end of the typical bird, the white beak rangkok, similar to typical bird in borneo island, Borneo difference wrote on red beaked, said local people It's a big bird and its width reaches 2 meters, large enough for the size of the bird ... ...
After several break we finally arrived at the beach again, the bandawoh, well this is where the journey began to feel like hell, walking along the beach along the 16 KM, crossing the estuary 3 large and loose sand beaches make enough of this trip, plus the rain .... heat up until the clothes ... inherent in the body become wet ... dry ... dry wet again ... again ... the mouth of the river that we crossed the mouth of the river include bandawoh, cikesik and citadahan, all flowing toward the center of the island of Java indonesia, after arriving in end of the beach, traveling about 12 hours to get to the beach ... ... travel into the woods again continue to cibunar, about 3 km into the forest from the coast, we stayed here another night here to rest our in the clear river jolly joke .... seemed tree paradise with towering surroundings and the sound animal tropical rain forest dwellers is a beautiful ... ..
The next day trip cut corners again proceed north to the coast cidaon .... This is the end of the beach trip ... here there are meadows that contain peacock, banteng and forest .... ... Stunning scenery where deer, peacocks and other animal living together here .... a lush meadow on the edge of the beach ... after that we go the next trip, waiting for pickup crossed the sea to a distance of peucang island about 3 km .... with a long boat with a canoe paddle and guards Mr sorhim island peucang then, his guards just one still survive on the island peucang tsunami issues in the area until the residents of the area to evacuate the resort island peucang (because just us today to be like family together we crazy, crazy, when people avoid the tsunami on marine issues, we instead headed to the island 1 standby condition since it was found several days after the tsunami in Aceh, we do not know when it because right in the way in the forest, coast guard MR hajad ,island remained peucang BECAUSE this area still have the safeguard it from looters and thieves, in this island we stayed for 3 days 2 nights waiting for a boat ride from LEgon pakis, boat west end of the forest rangers exactly then we are stuck on an island, entire transportation from the dank e island of Java in the evacuation, wrote a beautiful small island with a view behind the resort island peucang the mountain krakatau ....
Finally, after getting our ride back to Legon pakis the sea through the course more quickly,because after our crazy we think if can continue the way back through the forest path again hahahahaha
Travel is quite challenging and cutting tropical rain forest is the largest nature reserve in Indonesia at that time with good management, perhaps the best among other hutan2 nature reserve in Indonesia.
RMPU: monitoring rhino protection units
