Anai Valley Nature Reserve is located in District X (Ten) Koto, flatland, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia. Anai Valley Nature Reserve is one of the protected forest area located in West Sumatra . This area has a stretch of dense tropical rain forest with various species of flora and fauna. Forest located on the highway linking the city of Padang – high hill is, defined as a conservation nature reserve since the Dutch colonial administration.
Anai Valley Forest serves to preserve and balance of natural ecosystems from being damaged and polluted. Anai Valley Forest bushy useful as a guard microclimate stability, supplying oxygen production, and to absorb CO2. Therefore, the existence of Anai Valley Nature Reserve area could become the natural lung for air circulation in the province of West Sumatra.
Many features are contained in Anai Valley Nature Reserve, ranging from natural beauty to the rich flora and fauna. Natural beauty that can be witnessed, three waterfalls and a lake where the water is bluish. The three waterfalls are located in the western part Anai Valley Nature Reserve. One of them is located on the roadside which is often known by the Anai Valley Waterfall. While two other waterfalls covered by thick forest, so that has not been known by the public. For tourists who want to see two waterfalls that can travel about 15 minutes from the location Anai Valley Waterfall. The travelers are curious about the beauty of the panorama of the lake also can be watched by traveling about 15 minutes from the highway.
In the shade of the forest there are some rare plants that once the main attraction of the Anai Valley Nature Reserve, one of them is dead flowers (amorphyphalus titanum). This corpse flower thrives in the forest. In addition there are also a few dead flowers wood plants are the main attraction of this natural reserve areas, among them cangar, sapek, Madang Siapi-fire (litsea adinantera), Cubadak / water similar to jackfruit (Artocarpus sp), Madang Babulu (gironniera nervosa), and other -other.
There are also rare endangered animals, including Sumatran tigers (phantera tigris sumatrensis), deer (cervius timorensis), gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus), long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicu-demand), monkey (Macaca nemestrena), pangolin (sweet java - tract), deer (tragulus sp), tapir, and lizards. Animals are often seen by tourists as it passes through this region, is a long-tailed monkey, gibbon, and monkey. All three animals are always moving to look for fruits that are found in forest areas up to the edge of the highway. In the meantime, to see another animal companion needed power that brought visitors directly to where the animal is used to play and looking for food.
Besides the animals, Anai Valley Nature Reserve is also inhabited by various birds, like eagles (accipitriade sp), birds balam (bolumbidae), doves, and quail. Eagles usually live on top of tall trees. If lucky, visitors can see it when the bird is flying around the forest to search for prey.
Forest Area Anai Valley Nature Reserve is home to various kinds of butterflies (Troides neo Miranda). Results of studies of several students at the University of Andalas (Andalas) Padang mention, around Anai Valley Nature Reserve there are about 60 species of butterfly populations. Assorted butterflies are always adorned the forest in midmorning when the colorful and charming.
In conservation areas there are some posts tents used by the power conservation Lembah Anai Nature Reserve. For tourists who are tired of exploring the nature reserve area to rest in these posts.
To reach this location trips can be reached by using public transportation (buses), car rental or private car. If using public transportation, the trip started from Padang Airport Ketaping towards Anai Valley Nature Reserve Area with travel time about 1.5 hours.
