Mixmug News. Way Kambas National Park (TNWK). The park is located at the southern tip of Sumatra or 110 miles from Bandar Lampung. This National Park occupies 1,300 square miles of coastal lowland forest around the Way Kambas River on the east coast province of Lampung.
TNWK known for elephant conservation, because in addition to being a refuge for Sumatran elephants, the park is also known as their training ground.
Way Kambas was established by the Dutch government in 1937 is still preserved as a National Park and here is believed there are about 200 Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus sumatranensis) living in the National Park.
Sumatran elephant is one of three recognized subspecies of the Asian elephant, which is a native of the island of Sumatra. Differences in general, Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants. Among the Asian elephant, Sumatran elephant is the smallest, with a shoulder height ranging between 2 meters and 3.2 meters.
The training center is also reminiscent of the time of kings or sultans ruled Sumatra, when elephants were trained and deployed in the war and also for ceremonial purposes. Elephants perform various tasks such as transporting lumber or plowing fields. But now in TNWK visitors can see elephants perform activities such as playing football or other entertaining performances. In TNWK special elephant standing Hospital of the largest in Asia.
In addition to elephant conservation, here too there is the conservation of Sumatran rhinos and there are facilities Rhino Sanctuary. Unfortunately, to be able to see this Sumatran rhino visitors must have special permission beforehand. Visitor or regular tourists do not get to see the Sumatran rhino's natural breeding.
In addition TNWK also home to many exotic flora. Among them are: fires (Avicennia marina), Pidada (Sonneratia sp), palm (Nypa fruticans), Gelam (Melaleuca leucadendron), salam (Syzygium polyanthum), Rawang (Glochidion borneensis), ketapan (Terminalia cattapa), casuarina ( Casuarina equisetifolia), pandan (Pandanus sp), flower (Schima wallichii), meranti (Shorea sp), oil (Dipterocarpus gracilis), and ramin (Gonystylus bancanus).
Towards TNWK can be taken 2 hours by road from the city of Bandar Lampung. The road to here is pretty good and if you take a private car can be less than 2 hours.
If you use public transportation, the simplest route is to take a bus from Terminal Rajabasa in Bandar Lampung to the direction of Way Jepara. then down at the stone elephant in the village of Old Rajabasa, Way Jepara.
Elephant Training Center (ETC), there are elephant who performed regularly every afternoon with a special football match and elephants are held every weekend.
You can also ride an elephant spin and into the woods with his keeper. With a trip like this if you are lucky you will meet with the wild elephants are numerous in TNWK.
In TNWK the tourists can know more about Elephant Conservation. Here we can interact with the elephants and many asked about the elephant handlers are located in this park.
Before being released these elephants being bathed first in ponds and rivers Way Kambas. If you arrive before 7am but can perpetuate the elephants at the time of photographing the sunrise can also satisfied the elephants at the conservation center.
In addition to the morning, the best moments can also be found on the afternoon before sunset, because that is in the savanna elephant collected back to the field by the handlers. You can capture the silhouette of an elephant and their activity at this time.
You'll want to stay overnight in TNWK that moment in the mornings and afternoons can be all. Great for photographing animals takes time and patience.
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