Why this ride
On the way it passes Honje Nature Reserve and back through Honje Nature Reserve. An island ride, so the sea is never far.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Peucang Island and Krakatau Nature Reserve
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 38 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 41 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. 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
Peucang Island is where the day begins. Next is Honje Nature Reserve.
2. 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 comes up about 19 km into the recorded legs. Next is Krakatau Nature Reserve.
3. back through 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 Honje Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Peucang Island.
4. Peucang Island
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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
Back at Peucang Island. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Peucang Island to Honje Nature Reserve
Peucang Island → Honje Nature Reserve is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Honje Nature Reserve to back through Honje Nature Reserve
Honje Nature Reserve → back through Honje Nature Reserve is 0 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Honje Nature Reserve to Peucang Island
back through Honje Nature Reserve → Peucang Island is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.