Gunung Palung National Park

ACCESSIBILITY

To reach Gunung Palung National Park from the Capital City of West Kalimantan can be done several ways:
Traveling Ketapang

1. From Pontianak – Ketapang can be traveled by airplane for about 1 hour or by express ship for about 6 – 7 hours.
2. Traveling will be continued from Ketapang to Sukadana by public bus or hired motorcycle for 2 hours.
3. Then from Sukadana to the location of National Park can be reached by long boat during rainy season or by small boat when it is dry season.

Traveling Through Teluk Melano. Teluk Melano can be reached from Pontianak by speedboat (4 hours) through Rasau Jaya or by small ship 10 hours. After wards, from Teluk Melano, we can directly go to the location of National Park by speedboat.

POTENCY OF TOURISM

Sea/beach tourism, Pulau Datok Beach and Bukit Lubang Tedong in the West Side of National Park which is directly stand opposite with Karimata Strait, is a centre area of Gunung Palung National Park tourism region. In Village along the jungtion of Matan river and Simpang River will be found several archeological goods of local community. For those who found of adventure activity can do the climbing in Palung Mountain (1050 m). From the top of the mountain, we can enjoy the view of the cities beneath like Teluk Melano, Rantau Panjang, with along the course of the river, which empty in to the Karimata strait. Beside that, in several part of Gunung Palung and Gunung Panti can be found several waterfalls which interesting enough to look at.

POTENCY OF NATURAL RESOURCE

Potency of natural resources which makes this region has the special attractiveness is the existancy of complete types of ecosystem. In each of type of that ecosystem is in habited by various kind of wild animal, among them is Primate class like Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), Gibbon (Hylobates moloch), Bekantan (Nasalis larvatus), Leaf Monkey (Presbytis rubicunda) and Long Tail Macaque (Macaca fascicularis). These animals are often found on tree's canopy. Orangutan In Gunung Palung National Park it can be found easily in Research Station Cabang Panti.
The unique flora in this National Park is Black Orchid (Coelogyne pandurata). This orchid can lives on lowland only, with height 0 -100 meters above sea level, generally it can be growth in riverbank. Its power of attraction is on the flower form - has green stem, which combined with black pockmarked in the middle of flower. The above-mentioned flora and fauna can be found easily around the Matan River in Gunung Palung National Park region.