Baluran National Park Vacations, Baluran National Park Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Baluran National Park Vacation Guide

The Baluran National Park is a natural preservation, located on the Eastern tip of Java. At the moment, the Baluran National National Park occupies 27,868 hectares, comprising of 23,713 hectares of land, and 4,155 hectares of sea. Compared to other conservation areas on Java, Baluran is the only area that has natural savana deserts. These occupy some 10,000 hectares, or about 40% of the total area. Besides that, the Baluran National Park has the most complete forest ecosystem, i.e. savana deserts, beach forests, seasonal forests, mountain forests, forests that stay green all year long, and mangrove forests. The focus of interest of this tourist area is Mount Baluran, which is now non-active. The walls of fits crater are between 900 to 1,247 metres high, bordering off the caldera that's 600 metres deep.

One of the attractions that can be experienced at the Baluran National Park, is watching wild buffels drinking, and bathing. Apart from that, we can also watch wild bulls, deers, antelopes, wild boars, panthers, mangrove and wild cats, otters, komodos, and 147 species of birds, for example needle tailed swallows, uli-uli, peacocks, and jungle fowls.