Blankejeran Travel Guide
Blankejeran is a town in south/central Aceh Province in the Gayo Highlands. It is quite featureless as a town but is relatively close to Gunung Leuser National Park, where there is excellent hiking.
- Worth It?
- Only for those visiting the Gayo Highlands and Leuser National Park.
- What to Do
- climb Mount Leuser, visit nearby Gayo villages.
- Best Time to Go
- April through October during the dry season.
- How Long?
- A day or two at most in Blankejeran.
- Trivia
- Leuser National Park takes its name from the highest mountain there, Gunung Leuser.
Blankejeran is the capital of the rural Gayo Lues Regency. There is no airport in the town and the best way in is by bus from Medan in neighboring North Sumatra. A return hike to Leuser National Park takes up to two weeks and goes by way of the village of Angasan, a few hours west of Blankejeran.
Leuser National Park covers nearly a million hectares of rugged land, with the 3,400-meter Mount Leuser its main attraction. It is a large volcano shrouded in mist and surrounded by dense jungle. The start of the hike goes from Angasan and several hours through virgin rainforest, eventually taking in lakes, waterfalls and the peak of Mount Leuser.
North of Blankejeran, also on the Gayo Highlands plateau, is the town of Takengon, which has more facilities but no airport.
Travel to Blankejeran - Getting There
There's no airport in Blankejeran, with the nearest major one in Medan, 200kms to the southeast. Medan's Polonia International Airport is one of Indonesia's largest and receives flights from Jakarta in 2 hours. Flights also come in from Banda Aceh and from Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. It's about 5 hours by bus from Medan to Blankejeran.
Blankejeran Things to Do
Blankejeran Attractions
Side trips from Blankejeran
- Gunung Leuser National Park
- the main attraction in the region is this stunning national park, topped off by the 3,400-meter Mount Leuser.
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