GUNUNG LEUSER NATIONAL PARK

GUNUNG LEUSER NATIONAL PARK

Nature Gunung Leuser National Park is avery dense forest, typical of coastal forests, and tropical rainforests. In it there are rivers, lakes, hot springs, valleys, and waterfalls. Natural ecosystemsare very beautiful and diverse covering lowlands (coast) to the mountains. There are many endangered speciesare protected, such as a jungle cat, tiger, hornbills, orangutans, gibbons, snakes, butterflies, birds, elephants, rhinos, antelopes, deer andsambar. In addition, there are plants Strangler(fig) and other rare plants, such as giant flowers "Rhizanthes zippelnii" with a diameter of1.5 meters, raflesia flowers, and leaves a giant umbrella.

There are six main tourist MountLeuser National Park, Bukit Lawang Bohorokotherwise known as the orang-utan conservation area; tour Kluet famouscaving and boating in lakes and rivers. GunungLeuser is often usedfor climbing adventure tours and mountain climbing; Alas river that is often used as a sports tourism destination arum rapids; secondaryis often used as campsites, wildlife observation and cave tours, and Gurah, as the location to enjoy the beautiful scenery with a variety of unique plants and rare, and where observationsprotected endangered species. For those of you who would like to enjoy eco-tourism, please go to this place.

Gunung Leuser National Park is a national park covering 7.927 km ² in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, straddling the border of North Sumatra and Aceh provinces. [1] The national park, named after Mount Leuser (3.381 m), Protects a wide range of ecosystems. An orangutan sanctuary of Bukit Lawang is located inside the park. Together with Bukit Barisan Selatan and Kerinci Seblat national parks it forms a World Heritage Site, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra.

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