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WELCOME TO UJUNG KULON TOUR GUIDE
Black Rhino Freelance local tour organizer,provide free information 24 hour online,solution to get more information detailed due to Ujung Kulon National Park and other main tour destination of java.
Black Rhino Freelance local tour organizer,provide free information 24 hour online,solution to get more information detailed due to Ujung Kulon National Park and other main tour destination of java.
How to get to Ujung Kulon
from Jakarta or Bogor,the best way is to drive through the attractive hilly country side of west java to the main gate Sunda strait and harbour of CARITA BEACH,AS well from Sumatra take Ferry to Merak enter to Cilegon and throug to Carita,those route takes 3 hrs by car,Breaking the jopurney overninite in carita a rustically sopisticated resort.All your destiantion package will be arrange by BLACK RHINO FREELANCE TOURIST INFORMATION CARITA .
HAVE A NICE TRIP
Swimming and Sorkling
Excellent!clen beaches and good coaral on the south and west sides of Peucang Island,and aruond Panaitan,spectacular deep diving off tanjung Layar ,where the light house is really big fish and good drop offs.clear water most of the year,swimming is not advice,however ,off the southern or western beaches of the peninsula very rocky and exposed to the open SEa
Wild life Animals
Besides rarely seen rhino,There are Banteng The javan wild catle,rusa deer,muntjak[barking deer,and mouse deer,long tail macaques ,leaf monkey,the javan grey gibbon,rare elsewhere and only found in Java.The increasingly rare wild dog,leopard,leopard cat and fishing cats,see otter and clawees otter,the binturong and several civet,the flying lemur,and giant squirelnot a complete list.Marine Mammals;several species of dholphin,reptiles include the estuarina crocodile,reticulated phyton,green turtles,frogs,monitor lizards,birds peafowl,junglefowl,hornbill,pigeon,bee eaters,bul-bul,barbats,kingfisher,darters,leafbirds,drongos,many sea bird,herons,egrets,thick-knees among other shore birds,well opver 200 species of bird have been recorded within the park
Handeuleum Isaland Cigenter river
Handeuleum island [70 km 2hrs]from carita is a small coral island.one of the group islets off the peninsula 's east cost.There is a jetty,a coral path leads through Scaevola scrub to a coconut planted compound and a two storey guest house.Macaques ply in the bushes ,and deer are known to swim over the mainland but do not stay the island because too small.Across the water a litle to the north is the Cigenter Grazing ground and watch tower.Sorrounded by talltrees,it's a an attractive setting for the banteng,frequent the area.
About an hour upstream on the cigenter ,passale only part of the way boat,large and beautifull limestone terraces span the river,forming impressive cascades in the rainy season.The tidal estuaries of this coast,Ideal crocodile habitat,the extensive mangrove forests and the interesting birds of the area can all be seen and explored by boat or seen from 5 km,of trail in this part to the park
Nyiur beach and swamp
The name is Sundanes for coconut palm,but these day is the Gebbang or corpha hutan,a large feanleave palm,which dominates the scenery here.water backad of behind the uplifted coral reefs,on the shore here form an extensive lake and swampy pastures,favourite haunt,of pig and waterfowls,hrones,wooly necked stork,cormorants,egrets.The smaller trees are mostly the red twigged attractive hudicia humilis,which now covers and old grazing ground.South of Nyiur the almost inpenetrable palm and torny bamboo thickets,combined with the sharp leaved Mapaniasedga inthe swampy area,make agood rhino sanctuary area.It has been refuge from hunters and poacher in less protected time.Nyiur has a caracteristic of the beach and sub marine diversity
Panaitan Island
10 km of the northern shore of Ujung Kulonlies this big [12.00 ha]uninhabited island.It is scheduled to have visitor accomodation of the lodge and challet type good bost communication with the mainland,but all this is being progress.
In general low laying with occasional ridges,The highest point of gn. Raksa [320m] in the South east.from this mountaint or the ridges,there are good views out to the sea in all direction of Ujung Kulon peninsula to the south.Of the Sunda Strait and passing freitters to the west,and eastward towards to Krakatau,60 km away.Trails are being opened in thick vegetation ,and there is excellent goggling around the island.Vas coral reef flat,dry out at low tideespecially spring tide.
from the usual landing place ,at lagoon/bay[Butun] on the south coast,it is 3 hrs walk to the top Gn. Raksa,Recently Panaitan island is the best destiantion of Surfing Spot in the World
Tanjung Layar
Far nearly 150 years ,yhe light houses[there have been 3]on this point have been a vital navigational aid to ship using the Sunda Strait.This is Java's first point of the sailing directin"Java Head"is the 50 mtr high high headland SW of layar.The first light house survived the Eruption of the Krakatau,giving shelter to the villagers of the time hwho fled there as the nearest high land.Beatifull flowering beach trees here.and Banteg grazing at down and dusk along the avenue of plented JUHAR[cassia]trees.The clif of the time continue underwater excellent diving among big fish.From the white store house [for the light house keeper supplies]or,in rough weather.from another landing spot further down the coost,you can return to peucang by boat.Or you can walk along the bay to Cidaon and Signal from there.
Gunung Payung and Sanghiang sirah
After aswimming in acool fesh water at the mouth of cibunar,you can return to peucang island by following this shallow,pleasent river par way,or you can make the much longer round trip via gunung payung,the west beach and light house.The ascent and descent of Gunung payung's well-forested slopes on the trail from cibunar to tanjung sanghiang Sirah yake about 6 hrs.This mean camping overnight near Sanghiang Sirah,nice grass here,a stream,holy caves which also shelter adible nest buildingswiftlet,and dramatic scenery,
The nxt day the trail follows the western coastline of the peninsula>Where the southern Indian Oceanroll in to break in tower of spray the black besalt vulcanic plugs of shore.THe giant Pandanus growing along the beach is the rare Pandanus Badur,no shortage of nice camp site ,or water at the mouth of streams in the shade of big old Nyampung [callophilum] trees.green turtle nest in some of the sandy bays.
About an hour south of tanjung layar,at the mouth of Cibunyaga,you can cross the Peninsula through the forest,or you can continue nort past java head [Tanjung Gede] to the light house,allows 6 hrs altogether from sanghiang Sirah or 4 hrs from Peucang Island
The Ujung kulon Peninsula from peucang Island
Peucang island with two big bungalowsis 90 kms by the sea from carita 2-3 hrs by fast boat or5-6 hrs by slow boat.but presently the best visitor accomodation in the park.The bungallows face a green sward grazed by rusa deer and frequently by marauding monitor lizards and shy long tail macaques.It is an unusual experience in this part of the world to be able to see animals easily from varandah.Peucang is only about 2 km across,a short walk to the other sides through the pleasent open forest of tall trees"uncluttered"in comparison to the peninsula because of the browsing deer and the relative absence of palm.From peucang island
the ujung kulon national park
java's"west point"and the last home java Rhino.The ujung Kulon peninsulahas been a fine and interesting nature reserve since 1921and now.In 1980 , has been declare among The first of Indonesianational parks.The park now includes the whole of the western most tip of java - the ujung kulon peninsula[300km2]-as well as the large island of Panaitan and gunung honje massive of then isthmus [150 km2]and 60 km north of Ujung kulon.The island remmants of the famous volcano Krakatau [Krakataus].
the beautiful area ,protected on three sides by the sea and on the east by honje range,has been a natural refuge for wildlife now rare in the rest of heavilly populated java.And is the last home in the world of the once plentifuljavan rhinocerous.Ujung kulon also contains some of the last tract of lowland rain forestin java - even though the tidal waves caused by Krakatau's final explossions swept across all the lowest land.becuse of the distances involed,most people visit ujung kulon separately from krakatau,Krakatau can be seen in a day,but to enjoy Ujung kulon requires at least 5 days including the time spent getting there.
for more information contact us :apud.carita@yahoo.com
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