Location
Satwa Elephant Eco Lodge is situated near the Way Kambas National Park in Way Kanan Regency in the Province of Lampung, on the south eastern tip of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. Lampung borders the Provinces of Bengkulu and South Sumatra.
Bandar Lampung (also Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung) is the capital of the Province of Lampung. The airport in Bandar Lampung is Branti airport. It is only used for a number of daily domestic flights to and from Jakarta.
The original inhabitants of Lampung are the "Lampung" tribe, who speak a distinct language from other people in Sumatra and have their own alphabet.
Sumatra is world famous, for its forests, animals, flora and fauna, and numerous forest reserves, and wildlife sanctuaries. The Way Kambas National Park, lies on the coast of Lampung Province, bounded by the Java Sea to the east, and to the southeast and west by rivers. Covering an area of approximately 1,300 sq.km., the National Park consists of swamp forest, lowland plain rainforest, mangrove forests, dry beach forests, Nibung swamps and vast areas of grass-land. In 1937, the Way Kambas National Park was established as a wildlife reserve, but due to extreme logging between 1954 and 1974, it was almost closed. However, in 1978, it was again proposed as a National Park. The Way Kambas National Park received provisional declaration in 1989. Finally, in 1997, the area was officially declared as the Way Kambas National Park.