Day 1, Going to water fall – rafting in songgon – stay at night in pines forest .
Day 2 : Purwo National Park – go to rajegwesi viillage (raflesia home stay)
Day 3: green bay – Sukamade Turtle-Spawning Ground
Day 4 : sukamade beach for realest baby turtle – back to city
Songgon village, Songgon is one of destination we’d like to offer for you because this village is fresh village, large rice filed, munch water everywhere, and location in close from raung mount one of active volcano in east java. we can see this mount from the top of ijen.
Not so far from songgon village there is beautiful place that is pines foresh this is one of good selfy place / good place for taking photos,and now local people build guest house in this pines forest, they called (rumah semut) rumah means house and semut means ant.
About Purwo national park:
This 434-sq km national park occupies the whole of remote Blambangan peninsula on the shorten eastern tip of java. purwo national park provides a home for wildlife. The wildlife in Alas Purwo come to the feeding ground of Sadengan every morning. And juggle tracking for explore caves (gua istana) Alas Purwo also has a turtle hatchery in Ngagelan. The mangrove forest at far west of Alas Purwo is considerably well-preserved.Alas purwo means first forest in Javanese according to legend, this is earth first emerged from the ocean.
rajegwesi village. This village is also located in meru betiri national park area. We will spend a night in this village. More important is we can see village people activities one of them is natural process of coconut sugar.
The next destination is Teluk hijau (green bay) with its Cliffs and white sand beach. A trail leads 1 km from the road down to teluk hijau
There are two way to get green bay first having jungle tracking across jungle about 1 kilometers
And by boat from rajewesi beach
In our tour we will use traditional boat if the wives is not big, but if the wave is big we will walking 1 kilo meter to get green bay.
The best destination that we are going to visit is sukamade turtle-spawning ground its located in meru betiri national park, this place is most important turtle-spawning ground. Where five species of turtle come ashore to laying their eggs. Green turtle most common, but giant leatherbacks also visit (now almost every night we can find turtle in shore ). In the middle of jungle still many wild animal such as leopard, wild boars, monkeys, banteng, black giant squirrels, civets, reticulated pythons (the world’s longest snake) bird life is prolific, with Javanese eagle and large number of hornbills – including rhinoceros hornbill which emit a bark –like horn.
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Here the itinerary is:
Day 1, Going to water fall – rafting in songgon – stay at night in pines forest .
We take you From hotel in the morning (Banyuwangi city or other places )
Then drive go to songgon village
From city to songgon around 1.5 / 2 hours
from sonngon we change in to jeep 4 wd
by jeep go to telunjuk raung water fall, then we enjoy telunjuk raung water fall after that
go to lider water fall (the highest water fall in Banyuwangi)
then go to pines forest (enjoy pines forest)
after pines forest we go to rafting center
after arriving in rafting center we make registration
we prepare our equipment.
Then Driver takes us to the first post of rafting,
but the car can’t reach to the river so we should walk to the river,
After ward we start spectacular rafting around 3 hour,
it finishes around at 4.00 PM. And then Eat late lunch
Back to city or stay in rumah semut in pines forest
full trip included :
Transport from city to songgon village back to city
Fee for rafting
Rafting Standard equipment
Rafting insurance
Snack
Meal once time = local food
Local guide.
Drinking bottled water (500 ml/person).
Local transport to take the post of rafting
Jeep 4 WD
It excludes:
Break fast, lunch, dinner (you will get meal once time)
Personal expenses.
Day 2 : Purwo National Park – go to rajegwesi viillage (raflesia home stay)
We start our tour from Songgon, We leave at 6 AM. It takes around 4/5 hours to get there. We go straight to the feeding ground of Sadengan in Alas Purwo. We will have breakfast* / just eating snacks while watching the wildlife. Sadengan is grazing ground has the largest herd of wild Banteng in java, kijang (deer) and peacocks are seen here from the viewing tower.
From Sadengan, we go to Pancur 3km south east from trianggulasi beach where there is small water fall that flow onto beach, another PHKA post and camping ground. In pancur we have juggle tracking for explore caves (gua istana) in Alas Purwo. These sites are considered by some people as a sacred site. And many soul researcher and mystic flock here during suro mount, which mark of Javanese New Year. They come here regularly for meditating.
Then we visit Trianggulasi beach with white-sand, here is beautiful, but swimming is dangerous because the underwater current is very strong. After from trianggulasi we go to ngagelan, it’s a semi-natural turtle hatchery by the sea. After visiting Ngaggelan,from Ngagelan, we go to Mangrove forest. The distance is around 7 km from ngagelan. Then, we take gondang-gandung (wooden boat) to across Mangrove Bedul. We’ll have a lunch break in Mangrove forest/ or out side mangrove forest . Alas Purwo tour will end around 2.30 PM. Then we go ot rajegwesi village , at night we stay in raflesia home stay (free program)
Note:**in this day, please prepare your break fast box / bread = a day before.
If you need some snacks in national park, prepare a day before leaving.
Include :
Transprt driver fee and fuel
English-speaking tour guide.
Drinking bottled water (1,500 ml/person).
Boat fee for exploring Mangrove Bedul.
Entrance fee to Alas Purwo National Park.
Entrance fee to merubetiri national park
Raflesia home stay
Dinner in raflesia home stayguide
Exclude:
Break fast and lunch
Day 3, sun rise in rajegwesi – green bay – off road sukamade – at night watching giant turtle laying the eegs in beach ( at night stay in sukamade guest house)
Sun rise in the beach is very nice then watching fisherman going back from the sea brings their fish also nice.
Wake up at 05:00 the walking to from home stay to beach 500 meters, then in beach we will wait sun rise and enjoy very fresh air
After enjoying the beach we come back to home stay, take shower then eat break fast after that come back to rajegwesi beach again, from rajegwesi beach by traditional boat we go to green bay, after arriving in green bay, you may enjoy nice beach by swimming, sun bathing until in the afternoon around at 01:00 PM. So don’t forget to bring swim suit if you like to swim
If we have felt satisfied to enjoy green bay, we are going to come back to rajegwesi village / home stay for having lunch. And see natural coconut sugar process, After that we have off road to sukamade turtle-spawning ground.
On the way to sukamade we will stop for while to see rubber and cacao plantation. If in the season we can taste cacao fruit.
we drive to sukamade around 1,5 hour We across a river to Sukamade by 4-WD vehicle, When the river flow is too high and strong, we will cross the river with bamboo boat and walk around1 hour to Sukamade, after arriving in sukamade mess pantai. If we still have enough time you can go to sukamade beach it about 700 meter walking from Mess pantai. And then we come back to mess pantai, now its time for having break. Around at 07:00PM we have dinner then at 8 PM we go Sukamade beach with local rangers. In beach we can see turtles lay eggs One turtle can lay eggs around 100, local ranger visits the beach every night to check whether one or two turtles come ashore. after from beach we can see small turtle rise from sand in cage , then it’s time for having rest, Tonight we will stay at the accommodation of Meru Betiri National Park.
Include:
Jeep 4 WD
Breakfast and lunch in rajegwesi village home stay
Traditional boat to greenbay (if the wave is not big, if the wave is big we will walk down 1 km)
Dinner in Sukamade (usual food, because inside national park such as fried rice, noodle, soup)
Overnight in basic accommodation in merubetiri the national park.
One team Rangers during watching night turtle conservation in Merubetiri national park area.
National park ticket
Excluded:
Private Torch light / lamp / lighter for sukamade night tour.
Personal expenses (toilet, extra snacks at local warung, drinking beer).
Mosquito lotion
Warmer jacket.
Day 4: Release Baby Turtle In Sukamade Beach – Back To Banyuwangi City
weak up in the morning at 06:00. Then go to beach for releasing baby turtle competition. then have breakfast, after that pack up then drive straight to town on the to Banyuwangi town we might stop for having lunch, we arrive in town around at 01 or 2 PM
Include:
4 WD jeep
Breakfast in Sukamade (usual food, because inside national park such as fried rice, noodle, soup)
guide
Excluded:
Hotel in the city
Lunch on the way to city
donation for releasing baby turtle (how much is it? The answer is UP TO YOU)
Personal expenses (toilet, extra snacks at local warung, drinking beer).
Mosquito lotion
Extra tips for guide and driver if fell happy with our services
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