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.
Trench Mountain National Park is one of nature conservation area which has a biodiversity of high-value, and various types of ecosystems including mangrove forests, swamp forests, peat swamp, freshwater swamp forests, tropical pamah forest, and jungle-covered mountains that always fog . Appointed Minister of Forestry, Decree No. 448/Kpts-II/1990 by 90,000 hectares area. This national park is the only tropical forest area Dipterocarpus the best and largest in Borneo. Approximately 65 percent of the region, is still primary forest is not disturbed by human activities and have many plant communities and wildlife. Like other areas of West Kalimantan, this area is generally covered by jelutung (Dyera costulata), ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), damar (Agathis borneensis), Pulai (Alstonia scholaris), Rengas (Gluta renghas), ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri), Bruguiera sp ., Lumnitzera sp., Rhizophora sp., Sonneratia sp., the strangler fig, and medicinal plants. Unique plants belonging to this national park is the black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata), which is easily seen in the River Matan especially in February-April. The appeal of black orchid flowers appear on the form marked with green color combination with black spots on the center of the flower, and bloom time between 5-6 days. There are 190 recorded bird species and 35 species of mammals that acts as pemencar plant seeds in the forest. All families of birds and probably of all bird species in Borneo, there are in the forest parks. Animals often seen in Trench Mountain National Park of proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), orangutan (Pongo satyrus), four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei), barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak pleiharicus), bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus), monkey (Macaca nemestrina nemestrina), klampiau (Hylobates muelleri), slow loris (Nyticebus coucang borneanus), rhinoceros hornbill (rhinoceros Buceros borneoensis), deer (Tragulus Napu borneanus), forest chicken (Gallus gallus), hornbills ivory (Rhinoplax vigil), Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis ), ivory turtle (Orlitia borneensis), and turtle urn (Caretta caretta). No less interesting presence of squirrels walnuts (Rheithrosciurus macrotis) are very rare, and difficult to see.
is a cape with the longest beach in West Kalimantan, located in the Village Tamajo Kec. Paloh approximately 85 km away from the capital Kab. Sambas can be reached by motorcycle.
PONTIANAK - Supadio Airport Conditions considered less support efforts to develop the tourism sector in West Kalimantan. Because the existing facilities at the airport is very limited. According to DPD Chief Asita Kalbar Hefni when dialogue with Commission X group, yesterday. "The waiting room small plane and no longer suitable to the number of aircraft that come or go," he said.
If several aircraft leaving or arriving at the same time, the airport waiting room felt very cramped Supadio or solid. In addition, baggage service was also considered to be accelerated so that visitors do not have to wait long. Things like this thought quite influential in terms of service for tourists. Hefni hope airport conditions can be addressed. For that, the central government should intervene.
In addition to the airport conditions, problems Equator monument the iconic city of Pontianak was complain. According Hefni, Asita also often reaped criticism from various circles of Tugu Khatulistiwa.Tugu related conditions is necessary to set up and improved to better and more attractive to tourists. The problem, in addition to funding problems, efforts are also constrained the development of asset ownership. "It is our constraints in selling travel. Not to mention the problem of road infrastructure to tourist objects that have not been adequate," he said.
Chairman DPD PHRI Kalbar Edy Rashid also expressed similar things. According to Edy, soon to be held celebrations culmination point of the Sun at the Equator monument on March 23, 2009. This event assessed potential to attract tourists. Unfortunately, the condition of the monument is still alarming. "Part of land in that location is an asset that is where the Army's ammunition warehouse. Although warehousing activities are relatively inactive, but to liberate its land is still difficult," he said.
These problems have long experienced by the West Kalimantan. Governor of West Kalimantan has repeatedly changed. Pontianak Mayor also has several times changed but the issue remains unresolved. He hoped the Commission X can help fight the transfer of assets owned by the TNI to reform can be done maksimal.Ketua Commission X Irwan Prayitno said he would bring the aspirations that have been submitted to the central level. Aspiration is thought shows that there needs to be coordination across sectors and across departments in developing tourism, for example in airport improvements and the transfer of assets Equator monument. Related sectors are expected to be synergistic. (RNL)
