The journey to the Krakatau islandtakes 1,5 hrs or four hrs by slow boat.nad the best time of the year to make the trip between may to Oktober.Along the journey keep your eyes open,and you may see a frigatebird soaring high overhead.flicking its scissor like tail as it changedirection with hardly aflap of its wing ,you will almost certainly spot flying fish making thire longlow glides above the sea surface.Some of them Fly for tens of meters and are air born for several seconds.Aproachinfg the Archipelago from java by the route shown ,dolphin often come to greaetthe boat and play along side it or in front of the prow.You may be also lucky enough to see a white -Bellied Sea eagle as you aproach the island .It has a slow ,gliding flight the wing held in ashllow "V"as it soars,searching for sea snake ,fish and crab swimming near the surface.As you near the Archipelago ,the triangular silhouette Of Rakata,loom ahead.the island takes it names from Krakatau's largest volcano,of which it is the remaining half .Cloud often covers the peak down to about 550 m,and above this height the forest begins to take diffrentr characters.Mosses fastoon the branches of the trees,which are stunted at thepeak.To the south near the left side of the island as you aproach,it is bay in which sttler named handl lived with his family for a few years from about 1915.There have been no other permanent inhabitants on the island since 1883,altough fishing boat visit 6the archipelago regularly,yhe waters within the island group often being clmer than the open sea.PANJANG island ,formerly called lang islandand sometimes known as rakata kecil,was never part of Krakatau,but once of the part huge predecessor,'ANCIENT KRAKATAU'like rakata and sertung,it was covered in tens of metres of hot ash in 1883,and this hasbeen eroded over the past century into-vshapedgulleys separated by sharp ridges.Like the other two island.it is now covered in forest,some of them vallets are now"hanging",because the ash cliff has been out back by the action of the sea so that the valley floor now open at considerebleheight above the shore
KRAKATAU FLORA AND FAUNA
Majority of krakatau archipelago vegetated by Csuarina Cemara,going ashore you willnotice other tres and sapling here and there among the cemara and wild sugarcane the forest is begining to change to mixed secondary forest.two species of fig trees are present,and they were first seen fruiting in 1985.there are thre species of the bats on the island [of total of 11 on the archipelago],two kind of dog faced fruit bat and roussette.All three are fig eater.Also two species are fruit eating pigeon[pink-neckedpigeon and cuckoo dove] as wellas the yellow vented Bul_buland thye striking,yellow and black,Black-naped oriole now live on the island.Three birds and bats spreads fig by dropping or axcreting their sed,and probably were responsible for bringing the fig species to the Lrakatraus from the mainland,and to Anak Krakatau ,and the change towards mixed forest is likely to accelerate in the nex few years.Kind of the animals are live in krakataus such as Olive-backed Sunbird,Yellow breasted bird,The flyeater,The white breasted wood,-swallow,coloured kingfisher,and greeny blue with white "collar"So of the land birds are live in krakatau colonised the island from java and sumatra in periode over than hundred years after 1883.Other kind of animals founds sre Varanus salvator,paradise tree snake[Chrysopele paradisi],Rat{ratus-ratus],countryu
rat[RatTiomanicus],tokay[gecko],black eagle,phytonand false vampire bat[which are also predator]
THE BIRD OF ANAK KRAKATAU
fourty years after explosion,in 1927,volcanic activity was seen in the Sea covering the old caldera.Between the site of two northern
most of former volcano of the Krakatau,were the greatest activity had occured at the time of the catalysm.A series of eruption 185 mbelow the surface of the Sea resulted in the emergence of three new island,one after the other.They were all soon destroyed by surf.A fourt emerged from the Sea on August 12th 1930,it remained above water and was aptly named ANAK KRAKATAU [CHILD KRAKATAU].IT grew by the accumulation of ash,and suffered a devastating eruption in 1952,and another very destuctive one in 1972.It is now 300m and 2 km in diameter,and is still active.The northern coast,north foreland,and is foreland are now vegetated.The succesion of the
vegetation is still at an early stage.CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA [CEMARA] being the dominant tree.
Krakatau is Fascinating area in the World
Starat /end Carita or Jakarta
2 D / 1 N Tour
Day 01
Jakarta to carita take 3 hrs by car , as arrived in Carita straight forward take onto the boat for Krakatau Volcano,which is take 1,5 hr.The distance carita to krakatau it s’about 28 miles or 54 kms to the west coast.Along the trip, flying fish , sea mew bird and dolphins are common seen.
As arrive at krakatau volcano ,once a while,take photograph of unforgatable beautiful panorama,afterward the boat cruising the volcano to see frozen and melted lava in south and western side of Krakatau volcano.The boat landed in the eastern part of Volcano, we hike up on to the crater {when permitted].as well ,when Krakatau being active , we do not ,hike up[ to anak Krakatau] ,Its forbidden. 2 hrs to hike anak Krakatau and return.Camping will take a place in Prety beach of Lagoon Tuan.
Day 02
Short boat trip to Volcano and take Sunrise.{ morning },I hr later we cruise to Legon cabe for Skin dive [ Snorkling ].it a beautifull coral reef, and colourfull.kind of the colour fishes are be found.Or when you off swim,the beach is other option to rest.untill lunch time.
After lunch return to Carita and directly to Jakarta ,
