On the island of Papua, there are three national parks, the National Park Cendrawasih, Lorentz National Park, and the National Park Wasur. Wasur National Park, situated at the eastern end of Indonesia though for other national parks on the island of Papua will be talked about later.

Wasur

Wasur National Park, including parts of the Sota (Merauke), is the most eastern region of Indonesia. Although the conditions of this area less attention, but this area is still maintained as the east end of the area immediately adjacent to the country of Papua New Guinea.

Here, there are still many traditional houses of Papua are often called Honai with a shape like a dome.

In one corner of the recreation center, guests will also find a special building, called Musamus. Musamus is the ant nest with various sizes, from a few centimeters to 3 meters. These object are many found in the National Park Wasur.

Data from the Ministry of Tourism of the Republic of Indonesia, the Ministry of Forestry and the National Park Wasur mentioned that,

70 percent of the national park consists of savanna vegetation, while the rest consists of swamp forest, coastal forest, bamboo hamlets, and meadows and forests sago wide.

Excellence Wasur National Park

The main species in the National Park Wasur, among others, the tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus handles), Musk King (Psittrichas fulgidus), Cassowary wattle (Casuarius sclateri), Bird Mabruk (Goura cristata), bird of paradise large yellow (Paradisea apoda novaeguineae), Cendrawasih King ( Cicinnurus regius rex), red bird of paradise (Paradisea rubra), freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus novaeguineae), and the saltwater crocodile (C. porosus).

Wasur National Park has abundant biodiversity, so it was dubbed the "Serengeti of Papua".

The wetlands in this national park is the most favorable biological systems to provide food and collateral materials for the life of the various types of fish, shrimp and crab.

There are six (6) kinds of biological systems in Wasur National Park include:

• salt water; in the region of Rawa Taram, Rawa Kitar-kitar, Supposition and Samleber.
• new water constantly; in Rawa Biru, Ukra, Maar, and Kankania.
• freshwater beaches; in the district Mbo, Okilur, Rawa Pilmul and guess.
• inland fresh water, which is along the Trans-Guinea.
• Bitter salt water near the beach, located in the area around the settlement apart from Kampung Kondo.
• bitter water land; located in Kampung Wasur, Ndalir, and Kampung Rawa Sota

Activities in the National Park Wasur

Natural life perception

There is a vacationer destination area for watching natural life among is savanna Ukra, Kankania, Mar, Kondo and Prem Rawa Biru. Sorts of creatures that can be seen in this area are kangaroos, water-winged animals, reptiles, and deer. To backing this visit, developed supporting offices, for example, the perception tower however yet there is a home remain. This area must be gone to amid the dry season utilizing ground vehicles (two or four wheels) with a 2-to 5 hour's long excursion.

Flying creature perception

Range utilized as the area of flying creature perception there is in Kankania, Blue Swamp, Swamp Ndalir, Rawa Poo and Yanggandur. Crap bog and bog Ndalir can be gone by whenever by utilizing four-wheeled vehicles. Types of flying creatures that can be found in this area are Cendrawasih, parrot, cockatoo, Pelikan, Ibis, grouse, Betet, Bayan, Rajawali Irian, kestrel (frogmouth), savvy fowls, little maleo and others.

Likewise, visitors can likewise watch the vicinity of vagrant feathered creatures, for example, Pelikan/Undan Australia (Pelicanus conspicillatus), Ibis (straw-necked polished), BOHA (jaybird geese), Gajahan (little curlew), Part spoon (Royal spoonbill), and so forth. With respect to the area of the perceptions can be found in the Swamp Dogamit and Ndalir Beach, Swamp Blatar SPTN II Ndalir locale.

Panorama

The scene at a few areas with the arrangement of plants and trees sufficiently fascinating to be the object of characteristic attractions. Normal grand excellence can be found at different purposes of areas extending from savanna forests, prairies, swamps, shorelines until the overwhelming backwoods.

Beach of Onggaya

Seen the setting of the sun amidst the desert/savannah or shoreline Ndalir-Onggaya while joined by the customary anglers is additionally a fascination claimed by the National Park Wasur.

Outdoors Ground

The spread of savanna and open meadows and muddy in a few areas ODTWA zones suitable for outdoors for school youngsters and voyagers who like outdoors in the open. A few territories of savanna are suggested as campgrounds, among others Savana Ukra, Mar, Kankania, Kondo and Biras (area outdoors ground).

Bathing place

This vacation destination is an area frequented by neighborhood voyagers Merauke both people and gatherings, particularly on Sundays and occasions. Exercises that can incidentally do are shower/swimming and angling. The offices accessible in this item are a haven, toilets, and spans. Access to achieve this area is entirely simple and does not take quite a while; the excursion can be achieved utilizing ground vehicles (two-wheel/four) with a travel time ± 30 minutes to the extent 27 km from the town of Merauke.

A few social attractions that can be shown as a vacation spot is the move (Gatsi, Etor), material handling customary sustenances (Zeb/blaze stone, sago, kumbili), conventional artworks (woven, imprinting), conventional chasing (utilizing bolts, copying creature sound), eucalyptus oil refinery and customary angling (utilizing Tanggu) and the initiation of indigenous kids.

Access

There are two approaches to get to the area for the National Park region Wasur to be specific:

Carriers, utilizing the plane flight to Merauke from the area where you live. A few alternatives including air transporter Garuda Indonesia, Sriwijaya Air, Lion Air, and so forth.

Ocean paths could utilize the administrations of traveler boats PT. PELNI, in particular, KM Tatamailau, and KM. Flores with voyage plans every month to and from Merauke.

To get to the National Park Wasur, from Merauke you can utilize wheeled vehicles two (2) or four with a voyage time of around 50 minutes.

Here you discover the experience remarkable. Welcome to the national park Wasur.

To be honest, many Jakarta residents who do not know a vacation spot that can provide training to their children to be more intimate with nature.

I recommend an ecotourism experience Halimun Mountain National Park. Why? Although this place is located not so far from Jakarta, there are many Jakarta residents who are not familiar with these place.

Halimun Mountain National Park is the largest tropical rainforest on the island of Java. This area is a habitat for several types of creatures, plants, and microorganisms.

Java Island is a small island with a dense population. No wonder if in the area along these lines have been established many residential buildings since a few years earlier. Illustrations are Citalahab city.

Citalahab city located in the southern part of the Valley of the Salak Mountain, with an altitude of 1000-1100 meters above sea level.

The cool mountain air can still be felt in this location. There are five houses for visitors who want to stay (homestay), of course, with low cost and facilities provided quite complete.

To be sure, ecotourism is not an ordinary vacation, especially for those individuals who truly worship nature with the natural freshness of the air.

Ecotourism requires you to be prepared to live in the countryside with a very simple way, for example roughing it in nature, or live with the villagers in their homes.

As part of a package of ecotourism, our experience begins with entering Hazy mountain forest with a journey time of about 3 hours. During the journey to the protected forest, we stopped at a research station Cikaniki, then into the waterfall Cimacan, 300 meters from the station Cikaniki research.

Access

We passed a fairly quiet street about 2 hours. Very interesting, with a private car we swirling through the streets were narrow and dangerous.

We reached the town Citalahab at night. The villagers welcomed us with a sense of kinship.

The night air in Citalahab, the flow of river water that flows, making the children can not wait to swim. They immediately plunged into the clear water and cool air in Citalahap.

Flora

At an altitude of between 1000 -1400 m above sea level (submontane zone), there are several kinds of plants that grow there, for example, Acer Laurinum, Ganitri (Elaeocarpus ganitrus), Eurya acuminates sima, Buni (berry), Banyan (Ficus spp), Cinnamon (Cinnamomum sp), Kileho (Saurauia pendula) and Kimerak (Weinmania blumei).

While at altitudes above 1500 m ASL (Montana Zone) is dominated by species, for example, Kibima (Podocarpus blumei), Kiputri (Podocarpus imbricatus) and Jamuju (Dacrycarpus imbricatus).

In addition to the above species, there are about 75 species of orchids, for example, orchids gebang, B. angustifolium, Ensifolium Cymbidium and Dendrobium microphyll.

Fauna

Halimun Mountain National Park is a living space of a few species that evolved, for example, gibbons (Hylobates moloch), rabbit (Tragulus javanicus), Javan (Presbytis Comata), langur midnight (Trachypithecus auratus), Deer (Indian gazelle), panther ( Panthera pardus), and dogs (Cuon alpinus).

There are about 204 species of birds and 90 species of other flying creatures are settled and 35 kinds of endemic in Java, including Java birds (Spizaetus bartelsi).

Moreover, there are two endangered birds, the birds Cica sun (Crocias albonotatus) and Bird poksay horse (Garrulax rufifrons).

Javanese eagle is an icon of Indonesia (Garuda), are found in this district.

With family, vacation will be more enjoyable. We feel closer to nature.

Together, let us fly to the Salak Mountain National Park - Halimun.

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 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.

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.