Dec 28, 2011

Spend Your Holidays at Bukit Barisan National Park

Bukit Barisan National Park is the Bukit Barisan mountain range, which consists of vegetation types of mangrove forests, coastal forests, tropical forests.
Plant species listed Bukit Barisan National Park are :
  1. Pidada (Sonneratia sp.)
  2. Nipah (Nypa fruticans)
  3. Pin Sea (Casuarina equisetifolia
  4. Pandan (Pandanus sp.)
  5. Cempaka (Michelia champaka)
  6. Meranti (Shorea sp.) 
  7. Mersawa (Anisoptera curtisii)
  8. Ramin (Gonystylus bancanus
  9. Keruing (Dipterocarpus sp.)
  10. Damar (Agathis sp.)
  11. Rotan (Calamus sp.)
  12. and raflesia flowers (Rafflesia arnoldi).  
Rafflesia arnoldi

In Bukit Barisan National Park are also a lot of wildlife, such as
  1. Honey Bear (Helarctos malayanus malayanus)
  2. Sumatran Rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis sumatrensis)
  3. Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae
  4. Sumatran Elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranus)
  5. Tapirs (Tapirus indicus)
  6. Ungko (Hylobates agilis)
  7. Gibbon (H. syndactylus syndactylus)
  8. Hoop (Presbytis melalophos fuscamurina)
  9. Kancil (Tragulus javanicus kanchil)
  10. and hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata).


Hawksbill Turtle

Another thing that is special in Bukit Barisan National Park is the Lake Menjukut. Menjukut lake bordering the Indian Ocean. And much more natural beauty offered by the Bukit Barisan National Park, so spend your vacation time there.
Menkujut Lake

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