Indonesia Travel Information Guide

Mentawai Island is on the west of Padang province. The beaches of this island are very famous around the world as a surfing paradise with the most beautiful panorama as an extra plus. Mentawai Island has shoreline 758 kilometers. The most interesting of Mentawai Island is the wave. It is very roughly amazing wave for surfing. The wave was found by Australian surfers who found it when they visited this island in 90th. Then they announced it into the world, even they build some resorts to serve the foreign tourist who interested in surfing. It becomes the starting point of Mentawai Island as The World Surfing Paradise.

Geographically, Mentawai Island directly facing Indian Ocean has consistent wave year-round. Usually on April-August is the best time for surfing because the wave can reach till six meters high. It’s the favourite ekstreme wave for the surfer. It is also the same time with summer holiday in Europe. So, that is why the most tourists are from Europe on that months. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ranau Lake is the biggest and the most beautiful lake in South Sumatera. Ranau Lake is in the border of West Lampung District, Lampung Province and South Ogan Komering Ulu, South Sumatera Province. It is 342 kilometers from Palembang city, 130 kilometers from Baturaja city, and 50 kilometers from Muara Dua city, South Ogan Komering Ulu. It needs 7 hours from Palembang by car. It also can be reached from Bandar Lampung route, by crossing Bukit Kemuning and Liwa.

Geographically, Ranau Lake is in 4°51’45” longitude south and 103°55’50” east longitude. It is bordered by valley and range of hill with 8×16 kilometers wide by Semuning Mounth as a background. It has cool weather at night and the temperature is around 20° – 26° Celcius at noon. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Natural tourism becomes trend recently. It gives us special touch to refresh our body and soul after pressuring of office time.  Nature offers us relaxation and unconciously brings us understanding who we are as a human being between God and natural environment. One of place that can be taken into account is Sempu Island with its exotic lagoon, Segara Anakan.

Sempu Island is a small island in the south of Java Island. This island is in Malang District, East Java province. It has wide around 877 hectare and formally becomes a sanctuary under the goverment  since 1928. Based on finding in 2000, there are 223 kinds of plants, 144 more kinds of birds species, mamals, and others.

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Raja Ampat Islands

This is the final frontier, at the eastern end of Indonesia. Raja Ampat offers amazing diving and the most stunning topside scenery of any dive destination on Earth. This is where Dr. Gerald Allen counted 273 fish species on a single dive.

If you’re looking for unusual sea life like the elusive wobbegong shark, or looking for Birds of Paradise, then a Grand Komodo liveaboard cruise here is for you.

Water temperature: 24 – 29 C. Visibility: 10 – 30 M (seasonal). Year-round diving.

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If you are going to visit Bukit Tinggi, West Sumatra, please check out the following hotels:

• Pusako Hotel
  Jl. Soekarno Hatta No. 7, Bukittinggi
  Phone +62 752 32111
  Fax +62 752 32667
• Royal Denai Hotel
  Jl. Rivai No. 26, Bukittinggi
  Phone +62 752 32920
  Fax +62 752 33490 [Read the rest of this entry...]

The road from Makassar or Ujung Pandand to Toraja runs along the coast for about 130 km’s and then hits the mountains. After the entrance to Tana Toraja you enter a majestic landscape with giant gray, granites and stones and blue mountains at a distance after passing the market village of Mebali. They form a sharp contrast with the lively green of the fertile, rain-fed terraces and the rusty read of the tropical laterite soil. This is Tana Toraja, one of the most splendid areas in Indonesia.

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A flat island about 15 km from Manado, with a friendly people. The coral reefs off Bunaken island shouldn’t be missed while you are in Manado. These magnificent virgin reefs are still relatively unspoiled. The drop-off walls at Liang cove is not only rare in the world, with caves, gullies and caverns, harboring an immense wealth of marine life. Spectacular formation of reefs begin with flat at about 5 m depth. These plunge downward to form underwater vertical crevices with often reach depth on several hundred meters. On these beautiful reefs, a wonderful collection of marine life thrives.

The Bunaken reef is a chain of over 40 five star dive spots. The Marine Park is spectacular with the greatest concentration of tropical fish, coral species and world famous wall diving.
Clear, warm waters (sea temperatures usually range between 27-30 degrees C), light currents and calm seas allow easy access to the underwater attraction awaiting visitors to the five-islands of the Bunaken-Manado Tua National Marine Park which sits directly offshore of Manado. Bunaken is the standout favorite, with the highest density of schooling fish and the greatest probability to see larger species such as turtles, sharks, and napoleon wrasse. There are enough sites here to keep any diver happy for over a week without going elsewhere.

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Sawah Lunto Sijunjung besides known as producer of Coal mines in Indonesia, also known as a tourist destination in West Sumatra. Located at north-east and about 4 KM drive from Padang, Dusun Tanggalo, Desa Air hangat, Kecamatan Sijunjung, Kabupaten Sawah Lunto Sijunjung, West Sumatera, through narrow, winding road with tropical forest viewed at left and right sides, seems like ready to challange the travelers who want to explore this karst mountains.

One of the caves known better by many climber lovers in list of West Sumatra caves is Loguang Cave (Ngalau Loguang). “Loguang” which means great or large, is one of the many limestone caves located in Sawah Lunto [Read the rest of this entry...]

Sijunjung has plenty of interesting sights to visit alongs Muaro – Silokek – Durian Gadang (Musiduga). Sijunjung, formerly called Sawahlunto Sijunjung, is one of districts that is located in the province of West Sumatra, Indonesia. The capital was in Muaro Sijunjung. Before year 2004 Sijunjung was the third largest district in West Sumatra, but then the government separated it into 2 districts, Dharmasraya and Sijunjung.

Sijunjung population (2004) approximately 178,204 inhabitants, most as trader or civil servants, the rest are farmers. Since has located in mountains, Sijunjung has many potential of natural resources and tourism that can be developed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Aceh is a special territory of Indonesia , this position is the same with Jakarta and Yogyakarta. Aceh was located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Aceh’s full name is Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam.

Banda Aceh is the provincial capital and largest city of Aceh. [Read the rest of this entry...]