Taman Wisata Waykambas - Waykambas National Park

Taman Nasional Waykambas or Way Kambas National Park.

Angle Park Waykambas

Way Kambas National Park in Lampung Way Kambas National Park (WKNP) located on the north side of Lampung is synonymous with the elephant, although it is actually a national park is also a place to live endangered species such as rhinos, Sumatran tigers and other rare animals. National Park which has been designated as national parks by the Ministry of Forestry by Decree No. 670/Kpts-II/1999 it is well-known national parks to foreign countries. Way Kambas National Park has an area of 125,621.3 hectares and is located in the administrative district.

East Lampung and Central Lampung District, Lampung Province.
Air temperature 28 ° - 37 ° C. Rainfall is 2500-3000 mm / year. Altitude 00-60 m. asl. The geographical location of 4 ° 37 '- 5 ° 15' latitude, 106 ° 32 '- 106 ° 52'B T. Way Kambas National Park is very representative of the lowland forest ecosystem consisting of freshwater swamp forest, meadow alang-alang/semak scrub, and coastal forests in Sumatra.

Waykambas Forest with Elephants browse and view the elephant atrksi
On the Way Kambas National Park, we can enjoy the following attractions are trained elephants. Attractions elephant is like what we can enjoy there? Attractions can we see is the attraction of elephants dancing, until the attraction of elephants to the accompaniment of music, such as soccer elephant quite popular among local tourists, draping flowers, shaking hands, and swim. If you want, we can ride the elephants is by paying a sum of money of course.

Attraction of elephants in Waykambas

 The elephants in national parks was not in the real wild life because they are all in elephant training program. The elephants are still wild, tamed and trained in the Way Kambas Elephant Training Center. This training center was established to overcome the problem of wild elephants whose life is pressured because their habitats are used for agricultural fields.
Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary

In addition to the elephant training center, Way Kambas National Park has the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary (SRS) which is the only place where wildlife breeding of Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia. Even the SRS is the only location where breeding of Sumatran rhinos in semi-natural in Asia or perhaps the world. But the visit natural attractions in the SRS is very restricted due to kepetingan research and development of Sumatran rhinos.

Also, if interested we can surround the National Park, riding elephants, just calm down because the elephant - the elephant has been trained. Well, I can imagine the sensation that we can get by riding the largest land mammals? If lucky, we can also find a variety of wildlife inhabitants of  Way Kambas National Park. However, the best time to see wildlife - wildlife that is in the morning or evening. What about the night safari? Well, the night of thrills and scenery that we can enjoy different. When the night, we could see the animals active at night, like a wild boar. But do not forget to bring anti-mosquito lotion, if not secured our body will be full of small bump due to the fierce forest mosquitoes.

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Taman Nasional Waykambas or Way Kambas National Park

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