cikaniki research station

Cikaniki research station is a cozy, wooden place. It is one of JICA's grant programs. It's about 1,5 hours from kabandungan office by car. Or it's about 2 - 2,5 hours from parung kuda. We took local transportation (colt) and paid Rp.12,500 per person to kabandungan office.

We stayed overnight in kabandungan guest house. We went to cikaniki the next day by colt. We rented the colt for a day. It cost Rp 700.000. We could have stayed in cikaniki guest house actually, but it was already fully booked since 1,5 months ago. Therefore, we had to rent a colt from kabandungan to cikaniki.

This station is the gate for researchers, students, public to enter one of the richest rain forests in java. According to the staffs, there are macan tutul (panthera pardus) , oak java (hylobates moloch), elang java (spizaetus bartelsi), various species of birds and insects, and various species of orchids in this national park. And at night, we can see phosphorus fungus too.