Baluran, Banyuwangi, East Java

Baluran, Banyuwangi, East Java

This is the widest expanse of savanna in Java, makes you who visit here seemed to be in Africa. You will be presented in Baluran stunning real natural when hundreds of deer running towards the pool of water, a male peacock tail stretch to attract the attention of the female, dozens of very large buffalo, dozens of foraging eagles, monkeys and macaques. Not to mention the trees that resemble typical Baluran nut trees and fruit of a lifetime by 1 ton to then die. Pilang the white-trunked trees and lush, if you carefully observe the tree like in the movie "Avatar" and similar shady tree banyan Bekol filled with magical shades.

The tickets are only Rp. 6.000, 00 per car and Rp. 2500.00 per person. Activities that can be done here starting from research, observation and wildlife attractions, as well as marine tourism in Bama beach. While the facilities available are office administrators, labor cottage, pesanggarahan, shelter, dirt roads, tower view, and others.

Baluran National Park area is located in District Banyuputih, Situbondo, East Java Province. North boundary is the Madura Strait, east of the Strait of Bali, south Bajulmati River, and west of the Klokoran. In the middle of this area is Mount Baluran that is no longer active.

Baluran National Park is representative of a specific forest ecosystem dry in Java, consists of savanna vegetation types, mangroves, monsoon forest, beach forest, lower montane forest, swamp forest and evergreen forests throughout the year. About 40% of savanna vegetation types dominate Baluran National Park. The soil is black from the volcanic and alluvial soils covering an approximately half of the land is low, grassy savanna. This area is a very fertile, rich diversity of food for grazing animals.

In the dry season the ground water in the ground to be very limited and the water supply in some of these springs is reduced. When the rainy season, little black soil impenetrable to water so that water flowed on the surface of the ground, forming many pools, especially in the south region that connects Talpat with Bama.

If you come during the rainy season the plants and the water was abundant, so that the residents of the park such as the Bull and Buffalo Wild chose to go into the interior of the park in the face with the visitors. But some groups of deer, peacocks, partridges and other birds can be enjoyed.