Why this ride
On the way it passes Panaitan Island, Honje Nature Reserve and back through Panaitan Island. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ujung Kulon National Park and Honje Nature Reserve
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 41 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 43 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. Ujung Kulon National Park
Ujung Kulon sits at the far western tip of Java, a peninsula that points out into the Sunda Strait like a thumb, and it is the last refuge of the Javan rhinoceros. A few dozen of these shy, armoured animals survive, the rarest large mammals on earth, and the whole of the world's population lives in this one forest. The park was protected in the early twentieth century, partly because the great eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 had devastated the coast and left the area empty of people, and the forest recovered. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage site in 1991.
Read the complete Ujung Kulon National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Ujung Kulon National Park is where the day begins. Next is Panaitan Island.
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
Panaitan Island comes up about 6 km into the recorded legs. Next is Honje Nature Reserve.
3. 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
about 21 km into the recorded legs you reach Honje Nature Reserve. Next is back through Panaitan Island.
4. 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 Ujung Kulon National Park.
5. Ujung Kulon National Park
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ujung Kulon National Park write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Ujung Kulon National Park. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Ujung Kulon National Park to Panaitan Island
Ujung Kulon National Park → Panaitan Island is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Panaitan Island to Honje Nature Reserve
Panaitan Island → Honje Nature Reserve is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Honje Nature Reserve to back through Panaitan Island
Honje Nature Reserve → back through Panaitan Island is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Panaitan Island to Ujung Kulon National Park
back through Panaitan Island → Ujung Kulon National Park is 6 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.