Why this ride
The stops in between: Honje Nature Reserve and back through Honje Nature Reserve. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ujung Kulon peninsula and Krakatau Nature Reserve
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 60 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 06
- 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. 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 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 30 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 Ujung Kulon peninsula.
4. 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 at Ujung Kulon peninsula. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Ujung Kulon peninsula to Honje Nature Reserve
Ujung Kulon peninsula → Honje Nature Reserve is 30 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 Ujung Kulon peninsula
back through Honje Nature Reserve → Ujung Kulon peninsula is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.