Bukit Barisan National Park II
Bukit Barisan National Park II (TNBBS-II) is the protected forest
region that is occupied by the endangered species. The government
protects those animals, such as: the elephant, the tiger, the
rhinoceros, the forest water buffalo, birds, etc. Despite that
this region also be overgrown by the flora that very rare for
example the snake plant and various orchid sorts. TNBBS-II on
the end south of the Sumatra Island that some of these territories
were the Tanggamus Regency territories. The TNBBS-II location
is very exact for the development of the tour activity hunted,
which the echo of the tour and the activity of the habitat research
and the available fauna. The location of the snake plant is located
in the edge of Tanggamus Regency Territory with the West Lampung
Regency Territory. To reach the location of snake plant crop habitat,
we could use public or personal transportation from Kota Agung
during 50 trip minutes and about 40 km.
The fauna that can be found are elephants, Sumateran Rhinos,
tigers, honey bears, wild buffaloes, tapirs, deer, wild dogs,
and tortoises. The floras that can be found in the area are tropical
forest vegetation, rare orchid species, arnorphallus and rafflesia,
the biggest flower in the world. There is a historical monument
that is alight house with the height of 57 metres in Belimbing
Bay. It was built in 1879 in the Dutch King Willem III era. From
the lighthouse we can watch the beach, the tropical forest and
the Japanese remain, an airstrip in the Second World War.
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