Piece of African desert, at the End of East Java

 Piece of African desert, at the End of East Java, Bali, Indonesia

Piece of African desert, the eastern tip of Java. Situbondo famous than his White Sand Beaches premises, it also has other tourist areas are no less exotic, the National Park Baluran. Baluran National Park located in District Banyuputih, Situbondo, East Java Province. Baluran National Park established a Wildlife since 1937 by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies. By decree. Minister of Forestry. 279/Kpts.-VI/1997 dated May 23, 1997 Baluran TN area covering 25,000 ha.

In accordance with the broad destining region is divided into several zones based on the SK. No Director General of PKA. 187/Kpts./DJ-V/1999 dated December 13, 1999 consisting of: a core zone of 12,000 ha, an area of ​​5537 ha forest zone (aquatic and terrestrial = 1063 = 4574 Ha Ha), the intensive use zone with an area of ​​800 hectares, the zone special use area 5780 ha, and the rehabilitation zone covering an area of ​​783 Ha.Initial idea of ​​going there is a friend of mine, Ayos Purwoaji. I've never travel memamg a national park. Then six men went to TN Baluran. Since we departed from Jember, the latency is only 3 hours. If from Surabaya, about 5-7 hours to the Port of Ketapang, Banyuwangi.

Entrance fee per person untu 2500 dollars, fairly cheap.From the entrance, we were treated by the forest collided with bushes on either side of the road. Its path is a paved road that is only just enough to "salipan" two cars. After the + 10 km, faintly visible on our left was a mountain not very high tower, called the mountain glaze. After that around mile 12, we see a different landscape.

A stretch of savanna with rare shrubs. A beautiful African appearance, but of course without the wild animals roam. That's called Bekol savannas. We had parked our car in front of a complex of buildings that turned out of office and some homestay. It appeared in the post Bekol have a tall tower penagmatan hambpir 10 meters which is located above a hill. Once we are able to view over the towers are quite beautiful. On the one hand, there is a stretch of the plains against the backdrop of Mount Baluran. Second hand, it appears the vast expanse of the plains, which seemed endless. Just like the African savannas.

No less fascinating is that if we look at the east, a dim-looking blue sea twinkling in the light of the sun. Without the command again we immediately agreed to go to the beach later known as Bama Coast.From Padang Bekol to Bama Beach about three miles with a decent asphalt road. During a trip to Bama Beach, we are finding some animals, such as pheasant, deer, monkeys, butterflies as well. Beautiful butterfly that we have encountered many of the first entrance earlier.

In addition to earlier fauna, reportedly said the clerk in the office there was a buffalo bull and Java. But the amount is very small and mostly hiding in the mountains.Bama on the beach we decided to rent a home stay, because we want to enjoy the sunrise disni. Our homestay rent for a 350 thousand dollars. Our homestay is directly facing the beach. On holidays, the beach was full of visitors bama school kids (that's what makes us want to stay, to enjoy this beach bias in person). Bama beach has a long coastline with mangroves and some decoration there is the beautiful black rock formations.

The next morning we were a bit disappointed, because the weather is cloudy. But there is little sunlight in the morning redness that appears and makes us a little smile back. Your morning along the beach and we found a spot that wow. A puddle of water with a diameter of about five meters with a strange background of trees and mountains glaze. Even one of us call it a dinosaur park.After photographed in the dinosaur park we decided to go into the forest tracking shrubs. During the trip, we were really treated to something different. 

Trees, shrubs, have not we met before, just sometimes we see on television is showing the event on the African savanna. We also found a herd of deer that was feeding.Our journey in Bama we end with a bath in the sea. Bama has the sea on a sloping base and not in. Until a few hundred yards, Bama has not increased in the sea. Right for me who can not swim. And, once again we were treated to something beautiful. Our homestay in view of the sea are also beautiful and we've noticed. So without thinking, we capture the output with a Canon DSLR.Our journey in TN Baluran we end with a photo with a background in mountain savanna Bekol Baluran. Baluran goodbye, someday we'll get there again.