Banjarmasin is abundant with wide and mighty rivers. The rivers have always been a part of Banjarese way of life.
To this very day, every morning there are floating markets in which farmers and traders brought their goods to trade on boats. It has always been a farmers’ market and it’s interesting to see the genuine [...]
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The Dayak the peoples indigenous to Kalimantan. It is a loose term for over 200 riverine and hill-dwelling ethnic subgroups, located principally in the interior of Borneo, each with its own dialect, customs, laws, territory and culture, although common distinguishing traits are readily identifiable.
Dayaks are categorised as part of wider Austronesian-speaking populations in Asia. [...]
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The Tanjung Puting National Park is a conservation area that protects a large variety of plants, animals and their associated ecosystems. It is the largest protected area of swamp forest in South-East Asia.
Tanjung Puting first received a level of protection in 1935, and was officially designated a wildlife reserve in 1939. In 1982, it was [...]
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The name ‘orangutan’ means “man of the jungle” in Indonesia. They live only on the island of Borneo and in the northern corner of the island of Sumatra.
Orangutans are not only shaped by the forest they live in, they also shape the forest, through the seeds of wild fruits that pass through their digestive tracts [...]
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Enjoying Kalimantan is best though the rivers. The greater part of the land consists of forest and rivers. So, the main transportation in Kalimantan is by means of small boats/water-taxis.
On-land transportation in Kalimantan is by means of public buses, taxis, or becak.
Klotok ambulance is a small boat equipped with medical facilities for the [...]
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Kalimantan’s wildlife is no less varied with almost 500 species of birds and more than 200 land mammals: ranging from the splendid peacock-tailed
Argus pheasant to tiny birds such as the pitta, from pesut or fresh water dolphin in Mahakam River to the most unusual primates - bekantan or proboscis monkey, and orangutan. The latter is [...]
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Discover the virgin forests of Kalimantan. Enjoy the soaring trees, tangled lianas, thorny rattans, strangling figs and cascades of delicate orchids are among the myriad colorful threads that combine to form the exotic tapestry of Kalimantan’s rainforests.
This is the home of more than 11.000 species of flowering plants, a third of them endemic, [...]
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