Tanjung Puting National Park
A national park of swamp and rainforest along the Sekonyer River in Central Kalimantan, famous for orangutan conservation. Visitors travel upriver on wooden klotok boats, sleeping on deck, to research camps such as Camp Leakey.
- Where
- Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Grade
- Heritage site
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- -2.8800, 111.8800
Get the Tanjung Puting National Park stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Tanjung Puting National Park. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Central Kalimantan volume with your photos and a note.
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Questions
Where is Tanjung Puting National Park?
Tanjung Puting National Park is in Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Lok Baintan Floating Market (316 km), Karimunjawa Islands (366 km), Equator Monument (428 km).
How do I get the Tanjung Puting National Park stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Tanjung Puting National Park and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Central Kalimantan volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Tanjung Puting National Park before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Central Kalimantan volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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