The Tourism Authority of Lamandau Regency, Tourism Authority of West Kotawaringin Regency, Swisscontact WISATA, along with local stakeholders - conducted Tanjung Puting Familiarization Trip 2017
from November 25 - 30, 2017. Involving local and international tour
operators and media crews - the trip aims to introduce new tourism
destinations to support Tanjung Puting National Park, especially through
Community Based Tourism Village program.
Tanjung Puting National
Park - comprises three districts: West Kotawaringin, Lamandau and
Seruyan - known as home to about 6,000 Orangutans (the largest of the
total remaining Orangutan population in the world) as well as Proboscis
Monkey or bekantan. Because of its unique fauna, this 415,000 hectares
tropical rainforest area has always been a major destination for local
and foreign tourists visiting the province of Central Kalimantan.
As
of October 2017, 19,000 tourists have visited Tanjung Puting National
Park this year. A new record for a tourist destination that had
experienced a drastic drop in traffic in 2015, due to forest fires that
burned no less than 100,000 hectares of its rainforest.
Despite a significant increase, Ir. Helmi,
Head of Tanjung Puting National Park, underlined the importance of
diversification of attractions around Tanjung Puting National Park to
maintain the psychological condition of Orangutan, while increasing the
duration of tourist visit in 2018.
"Currently, the
concentration of tourists is concentrated in the Sekonyer River,
especially Camp Leakey. Therefore, we invite tour operators to optimize
the potential of other tourist attractions outside the national park,
such as turtle captivity in Tanjung Keluang and tourist villages in
Lamandau Regency," said Helmi.
Therefore, in this trip tour
operators and media were also brought to visit some new community-based
tourism villages that are being developed as a natural and cultural
tourism destination supporting Tanjung Putting National Park. These new
destinations are:
Lopus Village
Lopus is a
Tourist Village in Delang Sub-regency, about 2 hours drive from
Pangkalan Bun city, which is being developed by Tourism Authority of
Lamandau Regency. The village of about 800 people has a group of Sadar
Wisata (Pokdarwis), consisting of young villagers who always actively
develop the potential of local attractions to be offered to local tour
operators since early 2017.
Every visitor will be welcomed by
Dayak custom ceremony, namely Potong Garung Pantan. In this ceremony,
tourists will be asked to cut the bamboo rod using Mandau (traditional
Dayak machete) and drink the traditional wine from the buffalo horn.
Nature
tourism became the mainstay of Lopus. Tourists can enjoy river tubing,
rafting, trekking to Silikan Garung (long trekking) or Silikan Todung
(medium trekking), or just fishing and swimming in the clear waterof the
Delang River.
As a concrete step, several houses of Lopus
villagers have now been transformed into homestays. Thus, tourists can
feel more life as a Dayak tribe, mingling with the local community, and
of course enjoy a typical culinary dish -- such as Tabiku, savory
glutinous rice cooked in a bag of kantong semar.
Bolau Hill, Tapin Bini
Indigenous
forest is very guarded by the people of this Tapin Bini Village is a
tourist attraction that should not be missed by the lovers of nature
tourism. Standing tall on the north side of the Village, Bukit Bolau,
known as the Land Above The Cloud offers amazing views especially at
sunrise until 9am. To reach Bukit Bolau, tourists must cross the
Lamandau River by rubber boat first, of course with guidance of the
local Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis). "We already have our own
packages, which include trekking, rafting, cultural customs, homestays,
including the welcoming ceremony Potong Garung Pantan," said Indra Yudi,
Chairman of Pokdarwis Tapin Bini.
A resident's house at the foot
of the hill called Dukuh Ambu, can be a camping place before doing
night-trekking to the top of the hill. Here tourists can learn
traditional cooking using bamboo and bonfire, as well as fishing and
hunting with ancient traditional methods. For more sensation, tourists
can visit Bukit Bolau sometime in January - when locals flock to
trekking to the top of the hill to hold a harvest celebration ceremony.
Photo
caption: Stunning morning view from Bolau 'Land Above The Clouds' Hill,
Tapin Bini Village, Lamandau Regency Central Kalimantan
(TraveldailynewsAsia)
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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