Um island, Virgin Beach in District Makbon

The beach lover fancies can often drift in an island in the middle of the sea treat the 'promise of paradise'. Not only the free swimming, but also freely sunbathing, playing well, and even enjoy a warm giant ball sinking in the earth behind the back. Kecipak sunset beach with wind pendulum always catch, anesthetize to stay longer in the mouth beach.

Luxury of beach and sky with a tinge keunguan that you can jumput on the island of Um. Island in the District Makbon, Sorong, West Papua, has become one of the goals that must sambangi if you are in the most eastern region of Indonesia. Eits. Do not bergidik hear the word 'island'. Um small island, but you only need 15 minutes to circumnavigate the island be naked feet.

Only one that can be promised a visit to the island of Um, the tranquility that is the style of virgin beaches and the natural richness of nature that actually do not want to hide from the touch of a newcomer.

If you like diving, do not forget to bring your equipment. The island of Um akan spoil your senses with karag treat a variety of fish, turtle, lola, TERIPANG, lobster, and beautiful coral reefs that terpahat natural.

Enjoy the beautiful panorama of the sea bottom Um very interesting because sea sasi system that is applied Malaumkarta Village residents. Sasi is the prohibition of the sea to catch certain types of marine fauna in the area in a period of time agreed by the community.

Malaumkarta village which is located opposite the island of Um this role contributed to the beauty of nature under the sea island of Um. The people who live around the island and the village of Um Malaumkarta living as fishermen and have the awareness to keep the sea. With the restriction to catch fish with nets and the bomb, only the fishermen get fish with the fishing.

This island is often used by fishermen as a place to stay over when they catch fish. If you are lucky to meet the fishermen who come around, you can taste fresh fish of enjoyment of fresh fuel from the ocean. Usually the fishermen here are willing to sell some of their catch. Tengiri a fish or bubara enough for four people can share you with a sheet tebus Rp 20,000.

Um on the island, you will also find thousands of bats that make this island as a habitat. Bats swarm bergantungan this life on the tree. While catching the opportunity to enjoy a flying bat groups and descend from one tree to another tree.

It's too pity to miss the island of Um collaborate compacted sand with water and white color shade of verdure, the birds chirp bersahutan, bats flying tebaran find food, and score in the west orange tinge reap the phosphorescence in the golden heart. True, Um is the island's answer to luxury dicecap by the beach lovers.

Can be, you will feel a contriver Island Um. The beach is not as hectic beaches are loaded with another derisive laughter the penikmatnya. Instead, this beach is very quiet, not many more who know the treasure trove in the beauty of this island.

So, how to get the luxury of paradise in West Papua this?

Well, here's how. To reach the island of Um, you have to go through the land Makbon. City of Sorong, available to the public transport fare Makbon with Rp 15.000 one way. Travel as far as 40 kilometers will be in about 2 to 3 hours.

Arrive in Makbon, you still need to continue the journey to the island of Longboat Um using rented; know, is not yet available public transportation to get there. This Longboat for rent, you have to fish pocket of Rp 300,000 to drive for 30 minutes to arrive on the island of Um.

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Unique Waves Lakey Beach

STRONG waves and high, that is sought by a surfer. By the wave, the perpetrators of water sports is full of challenges, a desire to place, from the originally very far though.

So going to the beach Lakey, the Dompu Regency, which is located on the island of Sumbawa. Although remote, this place is able to attract foreign tourists, who want to test its ability, in the challenging waves.

Dompu district is one of the three districts on the island of Sumbawa, one of the main island, in the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat. Dompu city, main city of the same name with kabupatennya, in the 17th century, the sultanate is the center, associated with the Kingdom of Gowa Makassar.

The majority of District residents live Dompu hang on agriculture. This area has enough fertile land for agriculture. Some of the other, as a select herd of cattle. There are also more like the fishermen, who rely on the sea as a source of life.

Dompu district also has the potential of tourism. In addition Satonda Island and Mount Tambora which was simply known, there are also some sites that relied, as in Hu''u Village, located about 40 kilometers from the city Dompu. This historical form of the tomb and sit carved stone tomb, and the trail foot larger than the size of normal human feet of time now.

Not far from the location of the site, the Village has a rich natural Hu''u very captivating, the Lakey Beach overlooking the Indian Ocean. On holidays, the beach is a place of recreation Dompu. Once a year, this event was made beach volleyball tourney.

Nevertheless, do not just sell Lakey beach charm. More than that, have a marine waves, which digandrungi the surfer, from all over the world.

Lakey Beach with it's waves, found by an Australian citizen, in the early 1980s. Since that, the previous village is very quiet and away from the crowd, turned into Heaven, for surfer from overseas. Great location, not hinder them to come.

At least surfer close of the countries neighboring Australia and New Zealand and Japan, a guest subscription. While most tourists come from Europe English and French. Even some who came from Brazil, a country in Latin America, which is geographically very far from Indonesia.

For Alexandra Kagaya, time to fly for 30 hours, the ditempuhnya from Sao Paulo in Brazil, to Bima in Sumbawa Island, not to mention the two half-hour land journey to reach the beach Lakey, is not a big issue.

For the layman, waves in the sea water is just a collection of the roll, and broken by the beach, due to the wind stimulus. But not so for surfer. They can distinguish the good waves and challenging. Lakey along the beach, there are many waves that are named in accordance with the character of each. There is a periscope height can reach six meters, have Nengas the arusnya quickly, there are Noman, because the level of complexity, no one dares to try it.

From the various waves, the tune is the most Lakey Peak. The waves the ability to broken to the left and right. Surfer so two people can play to these two directions. Perhaps, the wave length of not more than 50 meters, only one in the world.

So sometimes, the fight must surper to be able to play in the waves this. In addition to variations, Lakey stable in waves, so that it can be used year-round playground for surfing. This is different from the waves in other places, that is only good at certain seasons.

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Enjoy Sensation Swimming with Sharks

ON the island of Menjangan Karimunjawa, Jepara, Central Java, there is a location where we would be kidding with the sharks, white sharks (carcharodon carsharias) without feeling afraid.

"Do not cling tails. If held, could be bitten. Just Wipe head only. Nggak bite kok," said Karso, one of the crew of the boat into the time we visited one of the floating houses on the island of Menjangan Besar, Taman Nasional Karimun Jawa, Jepara.


In the floating home is the place of lodging for the tourists here, tens of shark measuring between 1-1,5 meters maintained. By the owner, shark has become a kind of entertainment for tourists who stay in the house is floating. Later, as interest of tourists visiting these locations, the houses float managers who want to invite tourists to swim with menjajal adrenalin collection of sharks.

Cost for entry, the manager did not specify the cost of tickets. "Normally, the cost of entry for a group of only Rp 20,000," said Karso.

That's not expensive. Moreover, these fares include borrowing Snorkling equipment, such as goggle, snorkle, and fin.

Lisa, one of the Dutch origin of the student center to exchange students in Yogyakarta, confess, he was initially terrified at the swimming pool shark measuring about 9 mx 9 m's. "At first I fear, but this is a remarkable experience, why do not I try it," he said in the dialect of English.


There are two swimming shark floating in the house that was built 18 years ago that. The first pond, measuring approximately 3m x 7m, is exactly in front of the home that leads to the high seas. In this pond, tourists not permitted to swim. Given that, other than the white shark populated but there are also fish barakuda who are violent.

According to How (53), the houseboat, there are about a dozen various types of fish. However, that is quite a lot of white sharks and barakuda with a variety of sizes. "Fish that most sharks gede size 50 kg. All of her children. Induk them already dead. There was four. Three dead, one was brought to Ancol," said I, who have worked in the home belonging to Mr. James for 20 years.

Fish is a result of the fishermen to catch and then kept as a decoy for the guests who come to the homeless.

Guests or visitors who come in the homeless, only allowed in the swimming pool is located next to the left homeless. In addition there are sharks in the pond also have a turtle-sized big enough. Is not he know the details, but the turtle is already in the area homeless since 5 years ago.

In addition to the homeless that is managed, there are sharks swimming in the floating wisma Jaya Karimun, property (alm) Ismarjoko. Wisma floating in this, there are several different types of shark size.

According Diah, one of the managers in the homeless, the shark-sharks that are classified as violent. However by giving food and regular enough, fish will not attack those who want to swim in the pool shark found in the homeless are. "Ad also do a dare to swim. Nggak what-what. Kan already be eating enough and regularly. Usually if they have a glut tame-tame aja. Origin do not have wound down to the pond pas," he said.

"Usually, the international tourists swim here," he added.

Not difficult to reach the floating home on the island of Menjangan is. Fishermen from the port in the village Karimunjawa time not only through more than ten minutes away by boat carteran belong to the fishermen, the tariffs range between Rp 250,000 to Rp 300,000 for a full day rental.

Java Karimunjawa Islands consist of 27 small islands located in the Java sea. Located approximately 83 km north of Jepara. Of 27 islands, only five inhabited islands, namely Pulau Karimunjawa, Kemujan, Parang, Mosquitoes, and Genting.

In addition to bercengkerama sensation with the shark, the sand white beaches extend the lips into a small island menjangan attraction itself. This location can also be used as an area of sea-water therapy.

There are two alternative routes of transportation of the sea can be used to Karimunjawa, ie, using the Port of KMP Muria Jepara Kartini or fast boat from the port Karimunjawa Tanjung Mas Semarang. However, transportation is one that, since a month ago, in a damaged condition and the fixed. This causes a bump in passenger KMP Muria last for a month. In sepekan, there are two scheduled cruises from Jepara to Karimunjawa, namely Wednesday and Saturday.

Well, if you have visited the Karimunjawa, it's good to try a challenge that can test your adrenalin. Will be guaranteed the experience will not be forgotten.

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10 Options Travel to West Nusa Tenggara

A number of tourist destinations in the province of Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) has long become a destination for tourists, both foreign and tourist archipelago. Typically, those who visit Bali do not forget to spend a few days of Nusa Tenggara Timur, the three Gili especially close to the Beach Senggigi Gili Trawangan, meno, and Air.


But, of course, not only NTB Senggigi and Gili-Gili. There are ten places of interest that abstinence be missed if you visit the province. The local government is committed to develop 10 tour this area.

Here are 10 areas that can be a choice of your holiday to NTB.

1. Metro Mataram. This region is the area of cultural and culinary tours.

2. Senggigi to Gili Trawangan, meno and Water for nautical tourism and MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition) or commonly called a convention tour.

3. Gunung Rinjani National Park (TNGR) for tourism and natural mountain

4. Tano corridor, dyke, Gili Kramat, Alas Utan and Agrotamase suitable for nautical tourism, cultural and culinary.

5. Moyo Island and the Gulf region Saleh for nautical tourism,

6. Mount Tambora area for nature tourism, mountains and culture

7. Main corridor Dompu Sape-oriented tourism is also charming, cultural and culinary.

8. Corridor south of the island of Lombok Kuta Sekotong-for the development of nautical tourism, culinary, and cultural conventions,

9. BIL-corridor Mataram (Lombok International Airport) which has the potential for the development of natural and cultural tourism.

10. Always Legini suitable for nature tourism and mountains.

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Borobudur 2009 festival will be held again

Seven countries have ascertained willingness to lend Borobudur International Festival (BIF) in 2009 to be held July 16-20 at the future.
Head of Marketing Office of Culture and Tourism (Disbudpar) Jawa Tengah (Central Java), Semarang Budiyanto in, say, the seven countries are India, China, Laos, Thailand, Poland, Japan and South Korea.


"The events in the BIF akan diramaikan that the participation by the seven countries, among others, the performing arts and culture, trade exhibitions, tourism, and investment, tourism and Widya, Borobudur Travel Mart, and the international seminar," he said.

According to him, the seven countries will be showing the excellent art that comes from each country. Socialization BIF 2009 has actually done since last year, but limited only to the bureaucracy, while this year will be the publication and dissemination of large-scale.

"One of the media through television, print media and at cultural festivals in the region and other countries, however, sometimes gaungnya still less noisy scene with the elections," he said.

He explains, until now the efforts are still doing a lot of socialization for the delegation from the area in the brisk BIF 2009. "We expect 35 districts / cities in Central Java also send their representatives in order to attract tourists, both originating from within or outside the country," he said.

Previously, as many as 17 countries will be invited to attend the BIF 2009, among others, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, the United States, Belgium, India, Vietnam and South Korea, Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar.

"We are prioritizing BIF in 2009, followed by foreign countries to promote tourism potential in the Central Java," he said.

In regard to the countries that have not provided confirmation, he said, although the seven new states is the state, but does not close the possibility of other countries follow suit, because the time is still long enough.

"We remain open and receive them (BIF participant country in 2009, red.) At least five days before the implementation of the BIF in 2009," he said.

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