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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Root Bridge

Root Bridge Or Indonesia Jembatan Akar

This bridge is called the root bridge because made of two roots of trees which in the form of small-d above which the river naturally. This bridge is located 70 km south of Padang.

 This bridge is a walk from the beach in the direction after passing through the bay bayur Painan, New Hampshire, U.S. road trip, play some hills and down to the beach again following the creek bends. On the long road and pedestrian bridges in the wake residents to cross the river, really impressive.

In addition, Unique other  is the increased strength of the bridge along with increasing age of the bridge. This is different from ordinary bridge the longer days will be increasingly vulnerable.
With a length of 25 meters, root bridge is longer than the root bridge on the Bedouin, West Java and the roots of the existing bridges in Japan.

The root bridge is estimated to have about 100 years old. The bridge was built by assembling the roots of two tree species, each of which grow on both sides of river. Type of tree are kubang tree (ficus sp) which usually grow in the vicinity of the river where the root bridge is rebuilt.

That said, the bridge was designed by a scholar named Pakih Sokan. Construction of the bridge as part of efforts to link the two villages are separated by a river. Construction of the bridge began in 1890 and can be used by the local society in 1916. In other words, the roots knit into this bridge needs less than 26 years. (See Also Root Bridge in India)

Sightseeing is located approximately 88 km south of the town of Padang, precisely in the District of Bayang, South Coastal District, West Sumatra.

Access to the Root Bridge attractions can be reached by using public transportation, travel, rental car or private car. If using public transport, the journey begins from the town of Padang to Painan (district capital). Then, from Painan journey continues into the district. Shadow. If the tourists using the car sewan or private cars can go straight to the location of a tourist attraction.

Not so much a tourist attraction city Painan (district capital), for the tourists who come from out of town can stay at hotels and resorts in the city. In this city there are also many restaurants
In this tourist attraction, there are several small shops that provide soft drinks and instant noodle. It's good for the tourists bring their own food supplies to be enjoyed under the shade trees around the site a tourist attraction

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Maninjau Lake Trip In Sumatera

Maninjau Lake In Indonesia Danau Maninjau

Maninjau Lake is one of the lakes located in the Province of West Sumatra, this lake is one example of the lake that has a multifunction that is as power plants (hydropower), fishing activities (business floating cage / cage and fishing), tourism activities, irrigation, and others. So economically surrounding communities

Highly dependent on the lake either directly or indirectly. In its development activities caused a decline in function of the lake, so we need a study limnologis to get a picture of the processes of physical-chemical-and biological changes that occur in Maninjau Lake.

This becomes very important as a basis for making decisions about the sustainable management of Lake Maninjau. In the Year 2008 Maninjau Lake Limonology study conducted with an emphasis on some basic issues such as sulfur biogeochemical processes occurring in the lake, continued monitoring of chemical parameters, physical and aquatic biology, and the efforts of domestication and development of native fishes of Lake Maninjau.

Research carried out by means of surveys (primary data) and secondary data collection. The results of several parameters show conditions in the waters of Lake Maninjau eutrophik mild conditions. Areas that have a cage culture activity to be seen the condition of the quality of waters, because the pressure will increase with the increased activity cage.





Type: Lake Tectonics
Location : Agam District, Padang, West Sumatra.
Height: 461.5 m above sea level.
Size : 96 Km2
Depth max. : 165 m

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Trip Mentawai

Mentawai Island

The beauty of the Mentawai Islands was remarkable. Extend the white sand, blue sea decorated with coral reefs. You could say, Mentawai is one of a paradise for surfers. While exotica was coupled from the Mentawai Tribe tattoo art is legendary in the world.

Siberut Island is the main island in the Mentawai. The island is reached by ferry for 10 hours from Padang. The island has become the most crowded population activities. Meanwhile, there are many interesting places such as Pulau Botik with white sand and rocks.

A number of resorts scattered around the Mentawai be evidence of high interest to the foreign tourists in the Mentawai. Most of the surfers who hunt waves to conquer.

Now, about the settlement, the Mentawai tribe lived somewhat in the island. But indeed many Mentawai people who live on the seafront.

Mentawai Surfing The Best in Worlds

If heavy rain plus high tides, water easily went up to the land until the calf. But if until the tsunami hit, then do not imagine the impact that received this beautiful archipelago. Mentawai also become a means of surfing the most beautiful in the world with waves waves are quite strong.

Mentawai Tribal

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Lake Toba

Taba Lake ( Danau Toba ) is The Legend

Lake Toba is a famous lake that has wonderful view. It has 100 kilometers long and 30 kilometers wide. Lake Toba is stated as a super volcanic lake and the largest volcanic lake in the word. A super volcanic eruption occurred there 75,000 years ago. Sometimes this fact frightens some people, but those are nothing compared to the facts that Lake Toba is a magnificent lake. As one of the most beautiful places in the world, Lake Toba has its legend. From so many versions, below is the one finally quoted by the writer.

Lake Toba (Danau Toba)

 Once upon a time, there was a man living around the ravine of Pusuk Buhit, the known mystical mountain close to Lake Toba. Nobody knew when he arrived there or where he came from. He lived in a small temporary hut in a farming area by the river surrounded by an oval-shaped hill. He was a fisherman. He also owned a field. Once he found a big fish in his woven rattan fish trap. It was the beginning of his life’s changing. Never had he caught such big fish before that he was so surprised. The fish was an extraordinary one. The man took the fish into his hut and walked outside his hut thinking about the way how to cook the very big fish.

Lake TOba Sumatera

 After a little while, he got into his hut. He startled to death because the fish had disappeared and he found another creature, a beautiful human. The fish had turned into a beautiful lady and its scales changed to be beautiful jeweled ornaments fitted in her body dressed so elegantly. She was like a princess.
In an instant, the man fell in love with the princess. He proposed her saying “Will you be my wife?” She nodded obediently and respectfully. The princess agreed to his proposal in one condition that he would never tell anyone that she had been a fish. The man happily approved her condition.

They were very happy and raised their only daughter. The man worked in their field and his wife always asked their daughter to bring her father’s meal into the field. One day, the daughter was sent to bring her father’s meal. On the way to the field, the little girl felt very hungry that she ate up his father’s lunch. Knowing that the little girl had finished his lunch, the father went mad. He shouted angrily ‘you’re really the offspring of fish.’

The man’s wife soon knew that his husband had broken his promise that he would never say that words. She knew it from her daughter who ran home crying ‘mother, why does father say I’m the offspring of fish?’ Her mother was very sad and disappointed. Giving no answer she brought her daughter up to the hill telling her that there’d be a huge disaster.

Lake Toba or Danau Toba

 On the hill, the girl’s mother knelt down and prayed to her God. Soon, there was an earthquake, storms, and springs came out from the ground. The entire place was flooded and water was everywhere that her daughter, husband and she drowned. The woman turned into a fish again and her husband turned into a stone. The story told that their daughter wandered everywhere. The place where they lived turned into Lake Toba with Samosir Island in its centre.

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