Kutai National Park

Kutai National Park is located dipinggran Kaba bay, with travel time Balikpapan - Samarinda approximately 2.5 hours by four wheel land vehicles, then proceed to the Bontang about three hours. Bontang-Kaba to the Gulf by using speed boat about 30 minutes. In addition there are between Bontang-Sanggata highway divide Kutai national park.

visit to Kutai National Park should be April to October each year.
Location / attractions visited in Kutai National Park:

Kaba and Sangkimah Bay Estuary. Marine tourism and wildlife observation such as the orangutan, proboscis monkey, sambar deer, mouse deer, bears and birds.
Bay and Estuary Sangata Lombok. Marine tourism and the observation that intact mangrove forests.
Prevab Mentoko. Research and observation of wildlife such as sun bears, orangutans, mouse deer, sambar deer, and wild boar.
Wind Cave hole. Cave tour.
Cultural attractions outside the Park Festival in September at ERAU Tenggarong.

Kutai National Park has a variety of major vegetation types of forest vegetation beach / mangroves, freshwater swamp forests, heath forests, lowland inundation forests, forest ulin / meranti / lime and mixed Dipterocarpaceae forest. This national park is very representative of the most widely ironwood forest in Indonesia.
This national park is the location of the third national park as an orangutan rehabilitation center located in the Gulf of Kaba.
Some existing plants in national parks such as the mangrove (Rhizophora sp.), Tancang (Bruguiera sp.), Sea pine (Casuarina equisetifolia), simpur (Dillenia sp.), Meranti (Shorea sp.), Benuang (Octomeles sumatrana), lime (Dryobalanops sp.), ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwagerí), three types RAFLESIA and various types of orchids.
Ironwood trees that are in high Sangkimah has branches 45 m, diameter of trunk circumference 225 cm or 706 cm and a volume of 150 m3. This tree is listed as the tallest and largest trees in Indonesia.
In addition to having the potential of plant diversity, this park also has a high potential for wildlife diversity, namely the group of primates such as orangutans (Pongo Satyrus), Bornean gibbon (Hylobates muelleri), proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis), monkey (M. nemestrina nemestrina), and slow loris (Nyticebus coucang borneanus). This group can be found in the Gulf of Kaba, Prevab-Mentoko and Sangkimah. Ungulate groups such as the banteng (Bos javanicus lowi), sambar deer (Cervus unicolor brookei), deer (Muntiacus muntjak pleiharicus), and (Tragulus javanicus klossi). This group can be found throughout the area of Kutai National Park. Carnivora groups such as the sun bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus) stork casks (Leptoptilos javanicus), a white belly sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster), Imperial-pigeon king / green (Ducula aenea), partridges (Gallus sp.), Parrots / Tiong gold ( Gracula religiosa), and of Little Snake asia (Anhinga melanogaster melanogaster).