CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Polos it runs 63 km to Polos; allow about 1 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Ujung Kulon peninsula, Panaitan Island, back through Panaitan Island and back through Ujung Kulon peninsula. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Nobody takes a motorcycle into the interior of Ujung Kulon, because there is no road to take it on. The park fills the far western tip of Java, a peninsula where the island simply runs out into the Sunda Strait, and Honje is its eastern block, a hilly, forested reserve of lowland rainforest and mangrove that is the first part you reach from the mainland. Beyond it lie the lowlands, the Peucang islands, and Gunung Payung, and the roads stop at the villages on the edge.
Read the complete Honje Nature Reserve write-up.
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Honje Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Ujung Kulon peninsula.
The western tip of Java is a place where roads give up and the forest takes over. Ujung Kulon, the peninsula that pokes into the Sunda Strait, is a national park protecting the last wild population of the Javan rhinoceros, one of the rarest large mammals on Earth, along with banteng cattle, wild pigs, gibbons, langurs and a great diversity of birds. UNESCO listed it in 1991. Honje, on the mainland side, is a nature reserve of lowland rainforest, a green mass of tall trees, palms and tangled vines, where the air is thick, warm and loud with insects.
Read the complete Ujung Kulon peninsula write-up.
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Ujung Kulon peninsula comes up 49 km in. Next is Panaitan Island.
There are no roads on Panaitan Island, and you will not reach it by motorcycle, so this stop is one to read about before you ride to the coast and board a boat. It lies off the south-western tip of Java, a few kilometres from the mainland, within the Ujung Kulon National Park, one of the last great stretches of lowland rainforest on the island, and the nearest road ends at small villages on the peninsula's edge, such as Sumur and Tamanjaya.
Read the complete Panaitan Island write-up.
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97 km in you reach Panaitan Island. Next is Krakatau Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Panaitan Island write-up.
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back through Panaitan Island sits at 195 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ujung Kulon peninsula.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ujung Kulon peninsula write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Ujung Kulon peninsula comes up 243 km in. Next is Honje Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Honje Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Honje Nature Reserve closes the day.
Honje Nature Reserve → Ujung Kulon peninsula is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ujung Kulon peninsula → Panaitan Island is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Panaitan Island → back through Panaitan Island is 0 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Panaitan Island → back through Ujung Kulon peninsula is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ujung Kulon peninsula → Honje Nature Reserve is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.