A deevaTravel - Lorenz National Park is one of the National Parks Beautiful In Papua, Indonesia. An area of 2.4 million ha is the largest national park in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Lorenz National Park is representative of the most complete ecosystem for biodiversity kenaekaragaman in Asia Pacific. Lorenz National Park is also one of the three National Parks in the world that has a glacier in the tropics.
National Park stretches from the snowy peaks Jaya Wijaya as high as 5,030 meters above sea level up to stretch out to the coast with Mangrove and border waters of the Arafura Sea are numerous astonishing ecological spectrum such as vegetation is alpine, sub-alpine, montane, sub-montane, lowland and wetlands.
In addition to having a very high biodiversity, Lorenz National Park also has its peculiarities and uniqueness as their glaciers on Puncak Jaya Wijaya and also the river that disappears into the ground a few kilometers in the Baliem Valley.
In this Lorenz National Park you can find 34 vegetation include Swamp Forest, Forest Riverside Forest, Snow, Forest Peat, Sand Beach Reef, Rainforest, Flat Land, Forest Kerangas, Debt Mountains, Grassland to Lumut crust.
Flora and Fauna in the National Park is also very diverse. In this park you can find plants Nipah (Nypa fruticans), mangroves (Rhizophora apiculata), Pandanus julianettii, Colocasia esculenta, Avicennia marina, Podocarpus pilgeri, and Nauclea coadunata as well as 630 species of birds such as the Bird Rare Kastuari , 4 Megapodes, 31 types of birds Pigeon , 30 types of birds cockatoos, 13 species of birds shrimp, 29 species of Birds Honey and 20 kinds of Bird Species such as bird of paradise Long Tailed (Paradigalla caruneulata) and quail Snow (Anurophasis monorthonyx) as well as 123 species of mammals such as pigs Duri muzzle length (Zaglossus bruijnii) , Pig Snout short Duri (Tachyglossus aculeatus) , 4 type Kuskus, wallaby, Cat Forest until the Kangaroos Tree.
Lorenz National Park , in addition to having a very high biodiversity also has keanekararagaman culture was amazing. In the garden is also a place Tribe Nduga, Dani West, Amungme tribe Sempan and Asmat and likely there's more other -suku tribes living in the remote wilderness of this is thought to have existed since 30,000 years ago.
Lorenz designated as a National Park in 1997 made as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 unfortunately, not all the means and facilities for the convenience of visitors is still very limited and objects as well as natural attractions that exist in the Lorenz National Park is not yet well developed ,
To visit Ke Lorenz National Park From the town of Timika to the northern part of the region uses pioneering flights and to the South by ship through the Port Sawa Erma , followed by a footpath to multiple locations. From Wamena town to the south of the region to use the car to Lake Habema vehicle, followed by a walk to Puncak Trikora