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RIVER Kuin in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan has its own charm, its beauty but not in typical community activities are trading at Muara Kuin Floating Market. Activities of the local population has long been the attraction for tourists who come to Banjarmasin. In Muara Kuin Floating Market, traders and buyers make buying and selling activities on a traditional boat. The boat is called boats. There is also a kind of motorized vessels that enliven this market activity, namely klotok.
You can find Muara Kuin Floating Market after the dawn prayer and will end when the sun was rising, approximately at 9:00 pm. If the passing of hours, it can be ascertained that the market will be quiet. This is because the traders have been scattered along the small rivers. The existence of floating market is already more than 400 years ago and is a testament to the buying and selling activities of people living on the water. As with the existing markets in the mainland, at a floating market was also carried out sale and purchase of goods such as vegetables, fruits, all kinds of fish, and various other household necessities.
Some terms that apply in this market is the hamlet, which means the purchase of first-hand, while a second hand purchase from the hamlet for resale called panyambangan. Keistemewaan Muara Kuin Floating Market is located on barter activities among the merchants boating, which is in a language called Banjar bapanduk, something unique and rare. Read the rest of this entry »
TANA Toraja is not only famous for its tourist attraction in the form of an existing cemetery on the cliff side, but you also can do the activities of white water rafting down the River Saddang. River Sa’dan (Saddang) is the perfect place for rafting activities because this river has a length of approximately 182 kilometers and an average width of 80 meters, and has a tributary of 294.
Pengarungan this river can be reached for 2 full days with a stay at a halfway point. As a place to stay, you can rest at a house on stilts which is called aloud, which is located on the riverbank.Along the River Saddang there are some rapids with different difficulty levels, such as rafting Puru with difficulty level III category, then rapids Disposal Sheba with the level of difficulty category IV, the surface water in the river’s wide, abruptly narrowed rapidly.
There are also rapids Fitr with difficulty level category V, in the form of fracture and flow of the river to hit a large rock that can cause the boat stuck on rocks and was trapped in between.
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Mahakam River is the largest river in East Kalimantan Province. This 920 kilometer long river flows from the upper reaches of the West Kutai toward lower flow in the Labour and Samarinda. This river is very important to most residents in the province of East Kalimantan because some areas are only accessible by river. Seeing this, you will certainly see a lot of community activities associated with rivers.
When traveling along the river, you will find a variety of social activities undertaken by local communities such as transport of goods and natural resources for the purpose of inter-island and exports, fishing and selling fish. Meanwhile, when traveling to Samarinda, you will see local people who take advantage of the Mahakam river flow as a place of rest, especially from afternoon till night. In the afternoon, you’ll find vendors selling various foods and drinks along the river stream. Residents usually watch the sunset while enjoying roasted corn, bread and other foods, and more people will come on at night. Read the rest of this entry »
If you visit a place, where you’ll see a lot of canals and old buildings, then you’re in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Consistent with the name, of Amsterdam, which is derived from Amstel and the Dam, which means the dams located on the Amstel River, then you will find many canals in Amsterdam.
If you visit a place, where you’ll see a lot of canals and old buildings, then you’re in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Consistent with the name, of Amsterdam, which is derived from Amstel and the Dam, which means the dams located on the Amstel River, then you will find many canals in Amsterdam.
Down town Amsterdam, you will see four channels, namely single, Herengracht (Gentlemen or Canal), Keizersgracht, and Prinsengracht. To know more about the ins and outs of the town, then at the edge of the canal will be a lot of boats lined up ready to take you around the city via the canal. For about an hour, you will be guided by the Ship Captain who explained the ins and outs of the history of the city, costing around 4 euros per person. Read the rest of this entry »
City of Cologne is situated on the banks of the Rhine River which flows from Switzerland to the Netherlands. The river was clean and wide enough for the purposes of tourism and water transportation. Many stories and romance novels that inspired these rivers. When the train from Bonn to Düsseldorf or Munich Gladbach, we will enjoy views of the city like a painting nature Cologne on the river Rhine with a tinge of ancient Cathedral Dome-like crown. The Building design, a small gang and layout of public facilities (rivers, bridges, parks, churches, etc.) was similar. The difference is, that there really maintained very well. Read the rest of this entry »