The Most
Western Part of Indonesia National Parks
Tangkahan & Rantau Sialang Tourist Sites
e. Tangkahan Ecotourism.
Tangkahan Ecotourism is one other tourist
sites in the neighborhood of Gunung Leuser National Park; it only takes about 3
hours journey by road from Medan to Tangkahan.
Tangkahan Ecotourism provides various tourist
attractions: Caving, Elephant Riding, Forest Trekking, River Cruising, and
Nature Introduction Short Course. Tangkahan caving, this adventure tour will
challenge you for caving a Kalong Cave in Tangkahan. The entire program will
consume about three hours, trekking tropical rain forest to learn various local
vegetations, included plants that used for herbal medicine. Inside the cave,
you can enjoy beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, usually the guide will
bring you to see the small river inside the cave. This program is good if you
have a good physical fitness.
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| Elephant Trekking in Tangkahan |
Elephant Riding/trekking, Tangkahan Ecotourism
also providing this adventure program, arranged due to give opportunity to
visitors to be more familiar with elephant. There are some programs available
to take; Elephant Ride Patrol, you will include in a regular forest patrol
riding an elephant. This program will take only about 1 hour, providing in the
morning and afternoon. Overnight Elephant Riding, this is an overnight program
that will bring you ride an elephant from Tangkahan to Bukit Lawang, overnight
and sleep in a tent inside of tropical forest. Mahout Program, 3 days program
to learn basic skill to be a Mahout (Elephant Keeper).
Tangkahan Forest Trekking, this is included as
natural learning tour. Tour guide will bring you exploring deeply rain forest.
Trekking will involve direct interaction with nature by smelling, touching and
tasting plants, also indentify plants that have special utility for humans.
Various kind of vegetations area will be explored during the tour.
Tangkahan River Cruising, if you would like to
have a fun in the river this program may be considered. One of the oneness
experience you will gain from this tour is cruising Batang Serangan River by
riding on an inner tube. During the riding time, can enjoy the swift of the
Batang Serangan River and seeight seeing the riverbank ecosystem, this program
also relatively flexible, participant can negotiate to stop in order to explore
more about something interesting along the riverbank.
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| Batang Serangan River |
Nature Introduction Short Course, this program
is a kind of out bond course which designed to introduce more about nature and
its correlation with the human living. Presented as simulation games, the games
aimed for developing participant in both awareness and caring to the nature.
f. Kluet – Rantau Sialang Coast
If you are a beach or sea lover, Kluet can satisfy your desire. Kluet or also famous with Rantau Sialang Ecotourism, situated in South Kluet district, South Aceh, Aceh Province, Rantau Sialang Coast is ± 90 km from the town of Tapaktuan (capital of South Aceh). Rantau Sialang Ecotourism is a part of Leuser National Park management.
Rantau Sialang Coast has beauty and charm
panorama, backed by a broad sandy beach, in some places of the seashore
overgrow with pine trees add to the existing beauty of the beach panorama. This
beauty coast is also a landing site for the leatherback turtles laid their
eggs.
Road conditions to Rantau Sialang Coast are
quite good and the location of the beach is only about 100 meters from the
highway route of Medan - Tapaktuan. We will need about 1.5 hours to achieve
this site by public transport from Tapaktuan. Anyway, the tourist sites are
still under construction so that tourist facilities are not yet available in
this tourist site, except the traditional houses and shops owned by local
community. In Tapaktuan, there is several lodging and dining, the rates are
vary, however its rate are relatively cheap.
Topography of the Kluet area is a sandy plain
with a gently sloping shoreline and extends to the topography of the lowlands
in the west and the mountains in the east.
Most of the residents who live around work as
traditional fisherman and farmers, majority of them is Acehnese. Meupayang is a unique traditional sea fishing
done by Acehnese and Anaeuk Jamek tribe.
Another tourism activities can be done anytime at Rantau Sialang
Ecotourism are swimming, sunbathing, outbound, observing leatherback turtles
activity and also you could rowing a canoe crossing the river to the Lake Laot Bangko.
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