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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Kutai Kartanegara Bridge

Visiting to East Kalimantan, was less memorable without enjoying the beauty of the bridge Kukar. This bridge is a large and long bridge across the River Mahakam, Tenggarong, Kutai regency.Kukar Bridge is the primary means of connecting between the City and the City of Samarinda Tenggarong separated by the Mahakam River area of ​​400-700 meters. In addition to facilitate access to both cities, this bridge also facilitates the transport antarkecamatan and kabupaten in the province of East Kalimantan. Bridge which has a length of about 712 meters with a width of approximately 9 meters is a means of transportation as well as recreational facilities.

Feature

Privileged Bridge Kukar seen in architectural style and construction of a beautiful and majestic, like the Golden Gate Bridge in Sanfrancisco, USA. Splendor was visible on the bridge foundation structure made of steel measuring 0.6 meters and 1 meter, with a field-grade concrete K-225. In addition, two major pillars with a height of 49 meters, consists of 12 meters and 37 meters of concrete columns, steel columns are coupled with the type of branching also add to the splendor of this bridge.

The beauty of this bridge appears on the second main pillar is decorated with hundreds of lights in various sizes. Hundreds of the lights neatly along the fence there is also the right and left of the bridge. At night, these lights produce a variety of colorful spectrum of light that adds an exotic aquatic mammal Bridge. In addition, the fence on either side of the bridge looks lined neatly to form a cone angle, which is based on the main pillar of the bridge.

In the evening, from the bridge, visitors can see the traffic passing fishing boat carrying fish catch. Passing boat also was crowded when the morning. At this time, the wind is not blowing hard, so that fishermen could freely run the boat out to sea.

After enjoying the scenery around this bridge, visitors can buy fresh water fish ponds of the farmers on the outskirts of the Mahakam River, with the condition of the fish is still fresh.

For tourists who want to go on the tour can be visited Kumala Island, not far from this bridge. The island which has 75 hectares of this area is a small island which is a fairly well-known recreation area in East Kalimantan. In this island there is a tower of view that can be used to view the area from a height Tenggarong and Samarinda. In addition, Kumala Island also has a wide range of play is quite interesting, like a mini train, cable car, jet coasters, and others. To reach the island, visitors can rent a fishing boat from the Bridge Kukar.

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Wain River Protection Forest

Wain River Protection Forest is a protected forest with an area of ​​10,025 ha through which the river Wain 18 300 m long and with a clear watery mangrove forests either side. Water from this river used as a source of clean water for Housing and Pertamina Oil Refinery in the city of Balikpapan. There is a water storage reservoir located within the protected forest area also Pertamina, so only visitors with special permission can enter Pertamina is considering the vital national assets, at least this data yesterday when I could visit the protected forest on January 10, 2010. I was not allowed entry by the officer for that reason.

In addition to the reasons some forest areas are also included in the area of ​​Pertamina, the forests are more used as a conservation area is not for tourism purposes. Tourist destination is only for special tours and permission must be prepared first in his office at KM 24 (if not mistaken). Balikpapan city government itself enter the protected forest Wain river into the zone A in the division of tourism zones. Zone A consists of Sungai Wain Protected Forest area, Area Shipwrecks Marine Park Hang Tuah and the Port of Balikpapan. Sungai Wain Protected Forest Area as the dominant eco-tourism area which has a classification of the types of activities and facilities are limited, this is based on consideration of:

1. Forest is the Forest Protected Areas that need to be maintained and sustained preservation of ecosystem. 
2. Condition of protected forest area has been very memperihatinkan result of forest fires, poaching of animals, illegal logging and forest encroachment.
3. Area of ​​primary forest shrinking and less than half the total area, while forest area encroached upon burning and expanding every year
4. Burned forest conditions that have not recovered completely

To enter our protected forests should be escorted by officers because its path is not clear and many wild animals. According to the officer whom I met (Mr. Raswin) in the woods there are still wild animals such as crocodiles, bears, snakes, monkeys, and orangutans. Setahunan ago, the officer never told me there are grandmothers who eat crocodile. Still according to the officer earlier, some wild animal had been placed a tracking device so when there are researchers who go into the forest can be monitored by radio so as not to meet with wild animals in the path.

Concerns other than officers because of the many wild animals that still exist in the forests, as well as many many quality gaharu trees in the forest which is very high economic value. Just imagine, 1 kg of high-quality gaharu resin can be valued 20 million dollars. So officials are also worried there will be theft of aloe.

Last year I could still read the reportage of visitors who can enter into the jungle with ease, even photos around the area of ​​the lake basin, but for now it seems difficult for visitors who do not have special permission. But for me this is not the problem can not go into the woods and the pictures in the lake basin since IMHO exoticism / beauty of the protected forest that is still far away to other places in Java, Sumatra, and Sulawesi.

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