Located in south-east banjarmasin city has a museum containing objects peninggalanSuku Banjar and Dayak. The sculptures are derived from the Hindu Temple in Kalimantan are also available at this Mangkurat Gastric Museum. There is also a cannon, swords and other things remaining the war against the Dutch. Stomach Museum Collection is another kurat equipment such Banjar Traditional Circumcision and the leaf blade is used as the Antibiotic.
The museum is located in the stomach Mangkurat Banjarbaru City about 35 km from the city of Banjarmasin, storing various historical and cultural heritage as well as images from the face of South Kalimantan in various aspects of nature and natural potential.
The most interesting collection of the Museum is Gastric kurat objects excavation results from Hindu Temples such as the temple in Rantau Barrel and Temple Court in Amuntai. In East Kalimantan, including cow statue of Nandi and Symbol of genital god Shiva called Lingang. The remains found in the Temple Barrel Margasari village, near the town of Rantau, while the remnants of the Great Temple located at a distance Amuntai city 150 km from Banjarmasin.
The museum collection comprises items from the legacy of the Sultan of Banjar, archaeological objects from the Great Temple and the Temple Barrel, tools from Stone, Wood Carving Ulin, Agricultural Tools and Household Furniture, Traditional Musical Instruments and so on.
The museum building houses a combination of traditional modern style inaugurated in 1979.
Derawan Island Resort has twenty traditional Kalimantan-style beachfront cottages with private bathrooms, terraces and air-conditioning or ceiling fans. The cottages accommodate up to forty divers or marine enthusiasts
The island is ringed by a white sand beach where thirty to seventy sea turtles nest nightly. Cottages sit back from the beach a bit to allow turtles personal space. Turtles lay eggs on the island, and you may witness hatchlings making it to the sea.Derawan Island Resort 1
Derawan Island is a divers` haven and offers many types of diving; walls, fringing reefs, caverns, and even a wonderful muck dive. You are likely to see big sea turtles, schooling barracudas, whitetip and leopard sharks, napoleon wrasses, cuttlefish, jacks and many many other creatures. There is a wonderful variety of hard coral around the island. Macro diving off the pier is world class, and you can find sea horses, scorpionfish, and other bizarre small marine animals.
Sangalaki is truly a conservation island and as such all of the buildings at Sangalaki Dive Lodge are in keeping with this philosophy; simple and unobtrusive. 24 hour power is available on demand, but we prefer not to over-pollute the atmosphere with our generators unless specifically requested. Fresh water on the island is in limited supply. We will therefore ask for your understanding and consideration for water conservation. Less than 3% of Sangalaki Island has been built on, leaving the tropical rainforest to its’ natural inhabitants and visiting guests.
The dining hall houses the eating and relaxing areas, bar, sun terrace, dive boutique and TV/reading room. Our Chef is Angora, an Indonesian National who has extensive experience of working throughout Europe. His dishes can therefore be tailor-made to your personal taste buds! However, the meals are adequate and simple, so please don’t expect 5-star cuisine.
Scattered along the beach are 10 attractive individual sea view beach chalets. They are spacious and separated from each other by a comfortable distance for privacy. Each attractively decorated chalet is built on stilts about 3 ft. (1M) above the sand to allow passage for the turtles that nest on the beach every night. There are 4 ‘Euro’ chalets with air-conditioning and 6 ‘Borneo’ chalets with fan only, each with their own verandas, twin/double beds, and a private bathroom with hot water showers.
The island of Sangalaki and its’ surrounding reefs are protected as an Indonesian Marine Park. Without the destructive effects of explosives and cyanide fishing, Sangalaki has remained a pristine example of an untouched tropical marine ecosystem. In a world where every resort claims to be situated in a "diver’s paradise", Sangalaki truly deserves the honor.
Sangalaki is the prime nesting site for green sea turtles in South East Asia and home to exotic marine life that you've probably only seen in National Geographic. You'll see cuttlefish, blue ribbon eels, frogfish, turtles, manta rays, sharks, dozens of species of nudibranchs, hundreds of species of hard and soft corals, schools of brightly colored fusaliers and zillions of colorful reef fishes.
At the dive center there are rinse tanks for gear, one exclusively for Camera/Video equipment and an outside drying area.
In Singkawang, first of all I was treated to a local specialty that the Forest Pakis Cah. Forest ferns are very good, crisp like watercress stems, but not tough at all. Although only with herbs such as watercress cah usual, I could not resist the temptation to return to the buffet table and poured it into the vegetable back my plate. That said, Forest Ferns is taken directly from the woods and not cultivated. Anyone ever tried to grow but to no avail.
On the way Singkawang to Pontianak, my team invited to stop by to taste the foods of the area called Pengkang. Resemble lemper, but the triangular shape, is clamped by the bamboo and cooked by fire. Unlike the lemper, pengkang not have chicken in it but there are some ebi (small shrimp) are attached in the ketannya. It was real casual, I think even better lemper my brother made in Bandung:) But when you eat there, we offered to cocolannya sambal mussels.
This area is set for the first time as a Nature Reserve based on the Decree Appointment of the Director General of Forestry No. 2240/DJ/I/1981 date June 15, 1981 with an area of 80,000 ha, while according to the Minister of Agriculture Decree No. 757/Kpts-II/Um/10/1982 (Tata Guna Hutan Plan) dated October 12, 1982 with an area of 75,000 hectares, then the The same year (1982) complex is proposed to be Setarum Lakes Wildlife Reserve by the Sub-Balai KSDA West Kalimantan with 80,000 ha area.
In a further development based on the decision of the Minister of Forestry and Plantations No.. 34/Kpts-II/1999 dated 4 February 1999, the status of this area turned into a National Park with an area of Lake Sentarum approximately 132,000 ha.
• Location of the Regions
For Wildlife, is geographically located between 00 ° 45 '- 01 ° 02' N and 111 ° 57 '- 112 ° 20' E and the administration in the region Dati II Kabupaten Kapuas Hulu and included in the 5 (five) districts, the District Trunk LUPAR, Badau, SELIMBAU, SEMITAU and EMPANANG. The area is a collection of lakes and freshwater inundated forest is unique in its location in tersediri and inland up the river which is about 700 km from the mouth of the Kapuas River in Pontianak.
• Fisio-Ecological Conditions
According to Schmidt & Ferguson entered in the classification of climate types A and the value of Q = 9.75% and rainfall from 4000 to 4727 mm / year. The amount of rainfall is affecting the situation of the lake ecosystem, where field conditions are lowlands with hollows will be under water when the rainy season arrived with into between 6 - 14 m and a dry field when the season arrives.
Approximately nine months of the year, the lakes in this region almost always stagnant water and in July-August, a puddle of water on these lakes began to decline and then become dry land with only a small river that flows around the lake . This condition is normal cycles each year and greatly affect the lake ecosystem as a whole.
Lake Sentarum environmental conditions are extremely complex, with tidal fluctuations in the system which is very prominent, but affecting the entire ecosystem of the lake, also plays an important role as a buffer zone for the waters of the Kapuas River system, such as preventing the occurrence of floods and as a place to store water reserves so that when the dry season water level conditions in the Kapuas River stay awake.
Peat swamp forest area located in the vicinity of streams and lakes here are loaded with pickle and tannins with water hardness levels ranging from pH 4 to 5.5. Water conditions tend to be dark (blackish red brown), also causes the penetration of sunlight into the water is very low, so that the fertility rate or the nutrient content of these waters is very low.
