Gunung Leuser National Park The Adventure Orang Utan Habitat

Gunung Leuser National Park Or Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser tempat Habitat Orang Hutan

Gunung Leuser National Park is a representative type of coastal forest ecosystems, and lowland tropical rain forests to mountains. Almost the entire area is covered by dipterocarp forest thick with several rivers and waterfalls. There are rare plants and typical of a giant umbrella leaf (Johannesteijsmannia altifrons), Raflesia flower (Rafflesia atjehensis and R. micropylora) and Rhizanthes zippelnii which is the largest flower with a diameter of 1.5 meters. In addition, there is a unique plant or plant strangler fig.

Rare and endangered species contained in the national parks, among others, introspective / orangutan (Pongo abelii), gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus syndactylus), Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis), Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), forest goat (Capricornis sumatraensis), hornbills (Buceros bicornis), sambar deer (Cervus unicolor), and jungle cat (Prionailurus bengalensis sumatrana).

Gunung Leuser National Park is one defined by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve. Based on the cooperation between Indonesia and Malaysia, also designated as a "Sister Park" with Taman Negara National Park in Malaysia.

Some locations / attractions to be visited:

Gurah. View and enjoy the natural scenery, canyons, hot springs, lakes, waterfalls, observation of wild animals and plants such as flowers Raflesia, orangutans, birds, snakes and butterflies.
Bohorok. Place the rehabilitation of orangutans and natural attractions form a panorama of the river, camping grounds and bird watching.

Kluet. Boating on rivers and lakes, trekking tours in the coastal forest and caves. This area is the habitat of Sumatran tigers. Sekundur. Camping, cave tours and wildlife observation. Ketambe and Suak Carambola. Research primates and other wildlife researcher who comes home and library.

Gunung Leuser (3404 m asl) and Mt. Pecan (3314 m asl). Climbing and mountain climbing. River rafting in Alas. Activity rafting from Gurah-Muara Situlen-wave for three days.

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