Why this ride
16 km from Polos to Polos, about 17 min of riding. It goes by way of Panaitan Island and Honje Nature Reserve. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Honje Nature Reserve and Panaitan Island
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 16 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 17 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Honje Nature Reserve
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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Honje Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Krakatau Nature Reserve.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 8 km into the recorded legs you reach Panaitan Island. Next is back through Krakatau Nature Reserve.
3. Back to Honje Nature Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Honje Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Krakatau Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Honje Nature Reserve.
4. Honje Nature Reserve
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Honje Nature Reserve write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Honje Nature Reserve. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Honje Nature Reserve to Panaitan Island
Honje Nature Reserve → Panaitan Island is 8 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Panaitan Island to Back to Honje Nature Reserve
Panaitan Island → Back to Honje Nature Reserve is 8 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.