The beauty of Kayan Mentarang, jungle tours in Borneo

Who does not know Kayan Mentarang? Tourist destination located in the district of Malinau, East Kalimantan (flanking Malaysia) turned out to have the kind of surprising biodiversity.

Mentarang Kayan name is taken from the names of two of the most important waterways in the area of the national park, to be more specific, the Kayan River in the south and the river Mentarang in the north.

Another source said that the name was derived from the name of a mountain in that area, namely Apau Kayan (Mentarang).

Kayan Mentarang

Kayan Mentarang has a variety of plants and living beings are valuable because the species from the area are very rarely encountered in other areas. This is because influenced by differences in the biological system of the site which generally consists of swamp forest rain that grows in the high mountains. Biodiversity contained in protected forests is quite amazing, so Kayan Mentarang including protected natural areas and forest predicated as the largest in Southeast Asia.

Types of plants are numerous in this area include Pulai, jelutung, ramin, Agathis, ironwood, varnish, sandalwood, coconut, a variety of orchids, palms, and pitcher plants. In addition, there are some plants that are native species from Indonesia.

From this type of fauna are endemic vertebrates, primates, bears, monkeys white eyebrows, a bull and several species of birds that are endangered.

The beauty of Kayan Mentarang, jungle tours in Borneo

Although Kayan Mentarang has biodiversity as potential tourism assets, a vacation to this area can be an enjoyable tour journey. Because access to get there can only be traversed using water and air transportation.

If through the river, you will go through the challenges a rafting, especially when water levels receded. Meanwhile, when traversing the air with a small plane, you will see a view of the forest that lay like a green carpet.

Many things in Kayan Mentarang that make travelers who visit will be surprised. Tourist attraction in the region, like the young woman who tease the eyes of all men.

In the future, Kayan Mentarang tourist destination has the potential for improvement and progress of the province of East Kalimantan. To that end, the provincial government is obliged to manage areas of virgin forest with an area of about one million hectares, with the main purpose of the maintenance of forest ecology.

Many are claiming that the Kayan Mentarang is a tourist attraction that gives a unique experience, especially for individuals who like to seek information and conduct research. There are some activities you can include doing rafting, eco-tourism and wildlife expedition.

Diversity of wildlife


There are about 100 species of warm-blooded creatures (15 of them endemic), 8 species of primates and more than 310 kinds of the hairy creature with 28 species of them are endemic native to Borneo and has been registered by ICBP (International Committee for the Protection of Birds) as a threatened species.

As already mentioned above, Kayan Mentarang regarded as a living space for several protected species, for example, banteng (Bos javanicus), bears (Helarctos malayanus), pangolin (Manis javanica), panther (Neofelis nebulosa), Porcupine (Hystrix brachyura ), and sambar deer (Cervus unicolor).
In certain seasons, on top of a hill in Bahau River, a group of bull coming out of their habitat, become an interesting sight to villagers.

Society


Around Kayan Mentarang found various communities invaluable legacy to preserved. Recorded 21,000 people of ethnic groups known as Dayak, they settled around the national park. The Dayak tribe, consisting of Kenyah, Kayan, Lundayeh, Tagel, Saben and Punan, Badeng, Lilium, Makulit, Makkasan which settled in 50 villages in the tourist area around the nature reserve.

There are gravestones in the river upstream Pujungan Bahau, which is a relic of the Dayak Ngorek, indicating that the Dayak tribe has occupied the region about 400 years ago.

This needs to be evaluated as the most powerful form of archeological heritage as an important historical relics to the island of Borneo.

Communities around the national park is still very dependent on the utilization of forest functions, such as wood and plant of therapy.

Basically, they are very caring and always maintain forest assets. For example, a lot of variety of rice is grown, some kind of wood was used only as a building material, as well as various types of plants used for pharmaceuticals.

That's part of the natural wealth of Indonesia. Now is the ideal opportunity for us to maintain and manage it.

Welcome to the National Park Kayan Mentarang.

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