- The Bukit Barisan mountain range is the
backbone of this 1.700km long island reaching the sea at the
west coast. Sumatra is fairly wet even the dry plains have a
yearly rain of 2,000mm.
- There are approximately 40 million
inhabitants of Sumatra belonging to four large ethnic groups
plus a strong Batak community made up of six different ethnic
groups.
The best that Indonesia has to offer:
- Kerinci-Seblat (National Park)
- Gunung Leuser National Park
The most spectacular mountain and equatorial forests in Asia and
home to most of Sumatra’s extensive range of mammals including
tigers, tapirs and rhinoceroses and about 500 bird species.
- Bukit Lawang
Home of the Sumatra Orangutan Society - Rehabilitating and
releasing orangutans back into the wild.
(LINK)
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