The ticket price is 215.000Rp and 315.000Rp in holidays. What government think about this strange price I don't know. But I exactly know what seeing miserable deers and monkeys, which walk around the 'nature park' and swarm in the tons of peoples' plastic trash, I will never pay for this. Plastic everywhere and animals eat it. Wake up, government and local people, make something with this. Don't think if international tourists come to Pangandaran they will pay any price, what you set. Blockage policy will not attract tourists and will not improve the situation on the island. Think about good example of neighbor island. For tourist it's even impossible to get to the beach with sunken ship without payment for entrance to the park. Ships, which take local passengers to the beach don't...
Read moreThis is a very nice Nature reserve but you should set aside maybe 3-4 hours to properly enjoy and tour all of it. We went into two of the caves and saw wild porcupines, caves, deer, two types of monkeys, and peacocks. There is also a white sand beach with the giant beached fishing ship. It's actually quite cool to walk around. The snorkelling there did not seem very good, there was no reef just open water snorkelling.
Foreigner price is so unreasonable, about 350,000. See if you can find a local personal guide, we found one for 100,000. Or just check and see if the gate is just open for walking in, if it is then its free, I guess it just depends? Local price was about 15,000-25,000
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Read moreMonkey wrapped in former collar which is painfully digged in to the inflammed meat around her belly, eating trash burned by locals on the beach, rats larger than cats, dead coral reef which you can collect from the beach, riduculously overpriced entrance fee for foreigners, nothing to see in a town, just shops with cheap souvenirs. Save yourself a day...
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