Visit Peucang Island

Sunrise at Peucang.

Many tourists skip West Java and Banten, and go to Bali or Komodo first. Peucang is considered too far and perhaps too expensive. Whatever the reason, it is worth the trip.

If there is a place to be remembered for the rest of your life, it is Peucang. Small, green, deers, wild boars, monkeys wandering around. Sparking water, pristine sandy beach, it's a place to be alone. Sit there by the pier or white sandy beach, watch the green lush mystical Ujung Kulon forest at the distance across the Peucang Strait. A dark stork would fly by, low, aiming for fish in the water. A sea hawk high above lurking. Before sunset, big black bats flying from one tree to another, finding a place to spend the night. Once on a while a baby shark might be seen in the shallow water. As it gets darker, sound of cicadas in the quiet night. Sometimes owl, or some other night birds could be heard. It's a place to listen to nature, and your heartbeat. Wake up early morning when it's still dark and wait for sunrise lurking slowly from behind the Ujung Kulon forest, painting the skies with glowing colours. 

It's paradise !