Why this ride
A 38 km round trip from Polos - roughly 39 min in the saddle. It goes by way of Ujung Kulon peninsula, Peucang Island and back through Ujung Kulon peninsula.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Honje Nature Reserve and Peucang Island
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 38 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 39 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.
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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 Ujung Kulon peninsula.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ujung Kulon peninsula comes up about 12 km into the recorded legs. Next is Peucang Island.
3. Peucang Island
Peucang lies off the northwest tip of Java, a small island of white sand and thick forest on the edge of Ujung Kulon National Park, the last wild corner of that crowded island. Ujung Kulon is a peninsula whose coast was swept by the Krakatau tsunami of 1883, which emptied it of people and let the forest take over, and it is the last home of the Javan rhinoceros, one of the rarest large mammals on earth. The animals are shy and live in the dense lowland forest on the mainland, so you are very unlikely to see one, but the park also holds banteng wild cattle, deer, gibbons, macaques, wild boar and crocodiles.
Read the complete Peucang Island write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 19 km into the recorded legs you reach Peucang Island. Next is back through Ujung Kulon peninsula.
4. back through Ujung Kulon peninsula
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ujung Kulon peninsula write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Ujung Kulon peninsula, late in the day. Next is Honje Nature Reserve.
5. 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 Ujung Kulon peninsula
Honje Nature Reserve → Ujung Kulon peninsula is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ujung Kulon peninsula to Peucang Island
Ujung Kulon peninsula → Peucang Island is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Peucang Island to back through Ujung Kulon peninsula
Peucang Island → back through Ujung Kulon peninsula is 7 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ujung Kulon peninsula to Honje Nature Reserve
back through Ujung Kulon peninsula → Honje Nature Reserve is 12 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.