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Palung Mountain National Park
[18 Jun 2011 | Comments Off | 4 views]

Palung Mountain National Park is one of nature conservation area which has high biodiversity value, and various types of ecosystems including mangrove forests, swamp forests, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forests, tropical pamah forest, and montane forests that are always covered with fog .
This national park is the only tropical forest …

Tanjung Puting, Orangutan’s Heaven
[17 Apr 2011 | Comments Off | 16 views]

Indonesia’s Tanjung Puting is a national park located on Kalimantan or Borneo in the province of Central Kalimantan. The park is famously known as the biggest orangutan conservation in Indonesia or maybe in the world. The park is composed of about 400,000 hectares of peat swamp forest, heath forest, dryland …

Lore Lindu National Park
[15 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | 36 views]

Lore Lindu National Park is an Indonesia national park located in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Lore Lindu National Park is located about 60 kilometers south of Palu . This national park was officially included 217.991.18 acres area (approximately 1.2% of Sulawesi region which covers about 189,000 km² or 2.4% of the …

Muara Angke, Really in Jakarta?
[15 Feb 2011 | Comments Off | 41 views]

Muara Angke Wildlife Reservation is a conservation area in the mangrove forest on the north coast of Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The reservation was originally established by Dutch colonial on June 17, 1939, with initial area of 15.04 acres. The are was later expanded and in 1960′s has about …

Betang House, Dayak Traditional House
[1 Jan 2011 | Comments Off | 84 views]

In the past, the Dayak tribes who resided in Borneo always live in groups. Where the live every aspects of their life together and it was manifested in a work called the Huma Betang(Betang House).

Betang has unique characteristics that can be observed from the elongated shape and have only a …

Watching The Bird of Paradise. In Paradise
[14 Nov 2010 | Comments Off | 119 views]

Every world traveller knows Raja Ampat, the islands in West Papua that is famous for its beautiful coral and fish species diversity. It’s almost a certainty for every tourist to witness the underwater natural beauty. Not surprisingly, many people refer to Raja Ampat as a paradise diving lovers.
In fact, the …

Bromo: Sunrise, Sand Sea and The Ritual
[9 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 153 views]

Bromo Tengger Semeru national park has a type of sub-montane, montane and sub-alphin ecosystems with large and hundreds years old of trees.

Some plant species found in Bromo Tengger Semeru include jamuju (Dacrycarpus imbricatus), mountain pine (Casuarina sp.), Eidelweis (Anaphalis javanica), various types orchids and rare species of grass (Styphelia …

Saluopa, The 12 Levels Waterfall
[2 Dec 2009 | One Comment | 203 views]

Have you ever seen a waterfall that consists of 12 levels?
If not, you should visit Tonusu village, North Pamona sub-district, Poso District, Indonesia.
The name of the waterfall is Saluopa. The levels mentioned here are the ladder of natural stones from one level to the next level. Saluopa waterfall …

Lake Limboto, Gorontalo Tourism Icons.
[10 Nov 2009 | Comments Off | 244 views]

The unique thing about lake Limboto is the position which is in lowland with 4.5 meters height above sea surface. The lake with an area of 3000 hectares is the estuary of the 4 major rivers in Gorontalo.
It’s located right in the border between Gorontalo the city and Gorontalo the …

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