Way Kambas National Park is located at the southern tip of Sumatra or 110
km from Bandar Lampung. Way Kambas National Park is one of the first and oldest
National Park in Indonesia. The park occupies 1,300 km square of coastal
lowland forest around the Way Kambas River on the east coast of Lampung
Province.
Way Kambas National Park is known as elephant conservation, because in
addition to being a protection for Sumatran elephants, this national park is
also known as their training ground.Way Kambas was founded by the Dutch
government in 1937 until now it is still preserve as a National Park and here
it is believed there are about 200 Sumatran elephants (Elephas maximus
sumatranensis) live in the National Park.
