East Borneo Travel Guide #Promo

Travel to Planetarium, a place where we can see the composition of the solar system and the universe turns out not only in big cities like Jakarta and Surabaya. In the town of Tenggarong, Kutai Kertanegara, there is a planetarium with equipment that is no less sophisticated. The planetarium is a theater star or the universe. So called because the planetarium show in the universe and the composition of the solar system. Tenggarong planetarium built since 2000 and inaugurated on 16 April 2003 by then Vice President Hamzah Haz. By Regent Kukar Syaukani HR, planetarium was later given the name of Jagat Raya Tenggarong Planetarium. Tenggarong planetarium was built using funds Kutai Kartenegara district development budget worth 18 billion. Inside the planetarium have a projector Skymaster props ZKP three German-made and equipped more than 100 lens to project various forms of celestial bodies. The projector is located in the middle of display space with a capacity of 92 seats arranged in a...

Travel to Mulawarman Museum Tenggarong. One of the historic attractions in the city of Tenggarong which is still to be excellent tourism is the Museum Mulawarman Kukar. Every holiday, the former palace or the palace of the Sultanate of Kutai Kertanegara has never deserted from the visit of the local and foreign tourists. The building is magnificent and white dominated the main attraction for tourists to always make themselves posing in front of the palace was designed by the colonial architectural style. The building itself was designed by the Hollandsche Beton Maatschappij Estourgie (HBM), which was built in 1936 right in the reign of Sultan Mohammed Parikesit Adji. On entering the museum's first room , we can see objects of historic relics of the Sultanate of Kutai Kertanegara like a throne flanked by two of Sultan Kutai Swana cow statue, while in the background there are two image mosaics of the 17th Sultan and the Sultan to Soelaiman AM-18 AM Alimoeddin. There are also painting...

Bangkirai Hill become one tourist attraction in East Kalimantan are interesting to visit. Tourists can feel the atmosphere of tropical rain forest (tropical rain forest) is so natural. In Bukit Bangkirai there are also many species of animals. Bangkirai hill which has an area of ​​about 1,500 hectares are forest conservation which aims to develop natural tropical moist forest monument. Forest tourism can be used as a medium of nature and environmental education, or even can be used as research objects. Named Bangkirai Hill because in the forests of this tour there are many Bangkirai trees that grow . In fact, these trees have been outstanding for more than 150 years to reach a height of 40 to 50 meters and 2.3 meters in diameter. Bangkirai Hill inaugurated on March 14, 1998. One of the privileges Bangkirai Hill is the challenge for tourists to try to walk along the canopy bridge (suspension bridge), whose height reached 30 meters from the surface soil. Overall length is 64 meters...

Samarinda Botanical Garden is a unique tourist attraction because it combines recreation with education about the nature and the environment. Total area of ​​this botanical garden is 300 hectares. At first, this botanical garden is a forest concession Mahakam Wood's CV Ali Akbar Afloes. In 1974, the owners handed over 300 hectares in the Limestone Mountain region to the Rector of the University when it Mulawarman, R. Sambas Wirakusumah to serve as forest conservation. That decision was fully supported by Governor of the Province of East Kalimantan and East Kalimantan Forest Service Chief. In 1997, the Mayor of Samarinda support these programs with the functioning of forest botanical gardens such as botanical gardens for educational and academic community Mulawarman. Since the forest was inaugurated as education, the region is often used as a place of student activities, research sites, and field work practice (PKL) students. Not only Mulawarman University students are only allowed...

Located in the Village Lamaru 26 km from downtown . The monument is surrounded by beautiful forests and plantations . The monument made ​​of stone with the inscription Kanki . Established as a mark of respect to the Japanese soldiers who died in World War II . Japanese tourists regularly visit this place at certain times to do homage to the religious rituals .