Mount Palung National Park

The Mount Palung National Park, located in the west Kalimantan, is the oldest national park in all of Indonesia; and the fact that it sees over a million visitors a year means it is one of the most visited places in the country.

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It is no wonder the sheer number of outdoor recreational activities within the Mount Palung National Park is enough to make you tired reading about, let alone actually doing them all. One of the biggest activities is hiking, or tramping as they call it here. Short hikes, long distance hikes, it does not matter you can do them both.

Wildlife watching is a big pastime in the Mount Palung National Park, with some 56 species to find, by the way. Spotting the local wildlife is also a big deal, so keep your eyes out for giants and 2,000 orangutans, too.

Other peculiar faces of this jungle are the uniquely long nosed proboscis monkeys. Along with the orangutans, the proboscis monkeys are among many of the endemic species inhabiting Mount Palung National Park.

Other animals that also dwell in the jungle of Mount Palung are the land squirrels, forest deer, honey bears, beruk apes, klampiau, lemurs, rangkong badak, kancil, forest chicken, enggang gading, Siamese Crocodile, Ivory turtles, penyu tempayan, and the rare canary squirrels.

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As a National Park, the significance of  Mount Palung Park is not only limited to the country, but also to the rest of the world as  its diverse flora and fauna  act as one of the earth’s richest bio-diverse ecosystems. There are at least 7 types of vegetations found within the Mount Palung National Park, they include mangrove forests, swamp forests, alluvial forests, tropical lowland, tropical highland forests, and sub- alpine forests.
Being a place of such importance, Mount Palung National Park is dubbed by many as Kalimantan’s Eden as it features such a wide variety of colorful flora and fauna. From the exotic Black Orchid to the gentle orangutans, Mount Palung National Park is unmistakably the main gate into Borneo’s tropical wilderness.