Worth the Walk, Mount Gede Pangarango National Park

Posted in: Go Green, Photoblog, Sports & Adventure by admin on April 3, 2019

Activity  : Trekking, Hiking & Mountains
Location : Mount Gede Pangrango National Park, West Java
Trip        : October 2018

“South Koreans are weekend warriors, and Hiking is their sport of choice. Mountains are everywhere in South Korea, and most can be climbed in a day. In a typical month, about 1 in 3 Koreans goes hiking more than once. It has become more like a national identity. Part of their passion can be explained by geography. The country is a topographical eggshell mattress, covered with hundreds of steep, climbable peaks.

On one recent trip, a group of South Korean asked Arkhipelagos to arrange their hiking trip to Mount Gede Pangrango National Park. To them, Indonesia has some of the most amazing hiking trails in the world. With many active volcanoes across the whole country, they choose Mount Gede Pangrango that suits to their time-frame and level of fitness. Their goal was to reach the summit of Mount Gede, and overnight camping at Suryakencana Edelweiss Meadow.

Mount Gede Pangrango National Park is a parcel of rain-forest surrounding the twin dormant volcanoes that give the park its name (Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango) – almost 22,000 hectares of mountainous rain-forest cover that supports a variety of rare plant and animal species, while providing the Indonesian capital Jakarta with the bulk of its water supply. – Photographed by: Arkhipelagos Indonesia”

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