CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Krakatau Nature Reserve and Ujung Kulon peninsula
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 25 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 27 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. 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
Panaitan Island comes up about 0 km into the recorded legs. 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
about 13 km into the recorded legs you reach Ujung Kulon peninsula. Next is back through Panaitan Island.
3. back through Panaitan Island
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
back through Panaitan Island, late in the day. Next is Krakatau Nature Reserve.
Leg by leg
Panaitan Island to Ujung Kulon peninsula
Panaitan Island → Ujung Kulon peninsula is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ujung Kulon peninsula to back through Panaitan Island
Ujung Kulon peninsula → back through Panaitan Island is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.