Indonesia Travel - Leuser Mountain National Park

Leuser Mountain National Park located on the border of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam North Sumatra , Indonesia . In Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province, Mount Leuser National Park in Aceh Singkil, South Aceh, East Aceh and Gayo Luwes, and in North Sumatra in Langkat.

Mount Leuser National Park is a natural panorama and the "lungs" of the world that have been set by the Government of Indonesia as a national nature reserve since 1980 and established as a world heritage (biosphere reserve) by UNESCO in 2004. Government of Indonesia and Malaysia are also working together establish the Leuser Mountain National Parks and Taman Negara National Park in Malaysia as a "Sister Park". Mount Leuser National Park in an area of 792 675 hectares, at an altitude of 3404 meters above sea level, air temperature 21 ° - 28 ° C.

Leuser Mountain forest is very dense, was typical of the coastal forest and tropical rain forest. Inside there are several rivers, lakes, hot springs, valleys, and waterfalls. Ecosystem is very beautiful and diverse landscape that includes lowland (coastal) to mountain. There are a variety of protected rare animals, such as jungle cats, tigers, rangkong, orangutans , gibbons, snakes, butterflies, birds, Sumatran elephants, Sumatran rhinos, goats Forest, and sambar deer. Besides, there are plants, strangler (fig) and other rare plants such as giant flower "Rhizanthes zippelnii" whose diameter is 1.5 meters, RAFLESIA flowers , and leaves a giant umbrella.

There were six major tourist locations in Mount Leuser National Park, namely Bohorok of Bukit Lawang or renowned as the orang-utan conservation area; Kluet famous cave tours and canoe tours on the lakes and rivers; Leuser Mountain, which is often used for climbing and adventure tourism site climbing mountain; Alas River which is often used as a sports tourism sites arum rafting; Secondary which is often used as a campground, wildlife observation and cave tour; and gurah, as the location for enjoying the beautiful scenery with a variety of unique and rare plants, as well as place observation of various endangered species protected.

There is lodging in the area of tourism accommodation Bohorok or Bukit Lawang, North Sumatra. To reach the tourist sites, visitors can go through the route of Medan, North Sumatra towards Kutacane, Aceh's south-east (a distance of approximately 240 km) with a travel time of about eight hours to drive the car. Then from Kutacane to the major tourist sites or Ketambe gurah takes about 30 minutes by driving a car with a travel distance of approximately 35 km. When visitors want to major tourist sites of Bukit Lawang Bohorok or, more easily done through Medan, a distance of approximately 60 km with a driving car for about one hour. Likewise, if visitors want to tour locations Sei Betung easier depart from Medan to drive a car around 2 hours with a mileage of approximately 150 km. If visitors want to mount the Leuser National Park area in Tapaktuan, the capital of South Aceh from Medan could also be taken approximately 10 hours of travel by driving a car with a distance of approximately 260 km.