Sumatera is the fifth biggest island of the world. An island lies in Republic of Indonesia populated by more than 50 million people and the Malay tribe becomes the major.
Sumatera is an exotic island and worthwhile to see for its rainforest which still cover more than 40 % of the island itself. Sumatera is the only home of Indonesian tigers (Sumatera Panthera Tigriss) with an estimated of 350 living tigers left. Further more Javanesse and Balinesse tigers had gone for a long.
Sumatera is also an island where Sumatera Rhinosauruss still exist and there about 350 of them live in their habitat deep in the dense rain forest found in most of the island from south to the nothern area of the island. Having many of rhinoceros means one of natural safety to keep our rainforest out of the burning since those animals will soon put out any burning or fire found in the jungle. Besides of rhinoceros and tigers Sumatera is also the home of Indonesian elephants. A giant animals which used to be living in groups and usually led by a female elephant supposed to be their queen which usually led their collony to keep wondering from one area to another as a nomade type of animals.
When we drive to the northern part if the island we find an elephant coservation at an area named Tangkahan can be reached about 5 hour drive from Medan, a capital town of North Sumatera Province. Tangkahan is also a conservation area with wonderful and magnificient atmospheare where Buluh river with its light blue colour of water covered by typical North Sumatera rain forest makes Tangkahan itself becomes of our tourist destination there.
Sumatera is quite famous as one of Indonesian Orang Utan (Pongo Pygmeous Albelly) habitat beside Kalimantan or Boorneo. More than 35 % of Sumatera Orang Utan have gone especially by irresponsible spoils by human being. So far...collera appears to be a major cause of their ruin as well. Since 1973 a rehabilitation program sponsored by WWF pioneered by two Swiss girls Regina and her friend started. Now Orang Utan is one of Indonesian protected animals and there are about 6000 of them living wildly in Leuser National Park belong to both Aceh and North Sumatera Province where this area has been organized to be a national reserved since 1959.
Furthermore, Sumatera Island is an island where 571 families of birds are living spread out from south the north and more than 1000 families of snakes living in a dense rainforest, swamps, and rice fields sometimes there are living quite closed to us the human being. Crocodiles live in the rivers, swamps, they live there wildly either sometimes they will go to a rural areas where the farmers keep their fisheriers if this animals are lacking of food to get.
Sumatera... still has much more to be explored since deep inside of the island we still have much more heritages to be gained. An island which is now wait for you to come and explore for marvellous dreams of travellers ever which you all absolutely cannot get from other island besides only in Sumatera.