Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Enjoy Various Fruits at Agro Tourism in Batuah Park

Agroturism is a form of tourism that utilizes agro business (agribusiness) as a tourist attraction with the aim of expanding knowledge, experience, recreation and business relations in agriculture. One of these types of tours you can find on earth archipelago is Agro Tourism Batuah Park.

You can find Agro Tourism Batuah Park if you're traveling to the district of Kutai, East Kalimantan Province. In an area of ​​35 hectares of it, you'll see a variety of plants, such as ornamental plants, fruits, medicines, and rare plants.

Agro Tourism Batuah Park alone has 914 species of plants, including vegetables and fruits. In particular, the number of fruit trees in this park reached 50 species of 75 varieties. Types of fruits that the crop is seeded fruit rambutan, durian, salak, Elai, and rose apple.
 
In addition to fill a variety of fruit trees, this park is also used as a conservation garden and also as a place of plasma collection nuftah typical horticultural crops, namely wet tropical horticulture.

Privileged Agro Tourism Batuah Park is you are allowed to eat fruit for free, even to your heart's content. Only, if you want to bring home the fruits will be charged, especially rambutan fruit Rp3.000 per kilo (February 2008).

In addition to tasting the fruit, you can also enjoy fishing in the fishing pond open to the public. Fishing activity does not cost you a penny, but if you want to bring back the fish bait are priced Rp20.000 per kilo (February 2008).

If you want to visit, access to the location of Samarinda require travel time approximately 50 minutes. Or it could be from Balikpapan takes about 75 minutes, through the Forest Park of Bukit Suharto. In addition to using a private vehicle, you can also menggunakaan public transportation, both of Samarinda and Balikpapan. Visiting Batuah Agro Tourism Park is free for charge.


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