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Aston Hotel Balikpapan located at Grand Sudirman Balikpapan Jln Jend Sudirman No 7, 76411 Balikpapan. The Aston is a 4-star, offering modern suites and apartments, ideally located in the heart of the Balikpapan, just 15 minutes from Sepinggan International Airport. Free parking is available. The rooms at the Aston Balikpapan feature contemporary décor and modern amenities including air conditioning and flat screen TVs. All rooms also include fully-equipped kitchenettes and private balconies. Located within the Grand Sudirman Complex, guests of the Aston Balikpapan have access to a range of facilities including a grand outdoor pool and tennis courts. Guests can also exercise on the jogging track or relax in the garden. Guests can also enjoy easy access to restaurants, cafes, an Irish pub, and a convenience store. The Aston Balikpapan is located near shopping malls such as Balikpapan Super Block and Pasar Baru Square. A number of tourist sites are also nearby including the Mangg...

Kakaban lake, sea water is trapped in Kakaban Island , coupled with water from the soil and rain water from 2 million years ago. Lake Kakaban a prehistoric lake that is the time of transition Holosin. The extent of approximately 5 km ², walled cliffs as high as 50 meters, resulting in sea water is trapped no longer get out, into the lake. Administratively, Lake Kakaban including Berau regency, East Kalimantan. Biota in Lake Because of the changes and evolution are long enough by rain water and ground water, lake water is then to be more fresh than the sea around him. These changes have an impact also on the adaptation of marine fauna in the lake. Jellyfish for example, due to limited food, eventually adapt to doing simbiose mutualistis with algae. Algae is a producer of food and to cook food with the help of sunlight. For thousands of years the lake in the middle of the sea is of course creates a very unique ecosystem of its own. This unique lake has four types of jellyfish, o...

Kakaban have an area 774.2 hectares and is located in Derawan Islands, District Derawan, Berau, East Kalimantan. Kakaban attract foreign tourists with some of its uniqueness, one of the lakes on the island of Lake Kakaban. Which the lake is filled by a mixture of rainwater and seepage of sea water from the pores of the soil and create a habitat for different endemic in most other regions of the world's lakes, Lake Kakaban besides there is another lake with brackish water that is in the Palau Islands, Micronesia. Often become a byword divers, is a natural attraction gangs Kakaban barracuda in the waters. The atmosphere became increasingly frequent occurrence of complete sharks, rays and reef fishes other exotic. Like the Napoleon fish (Napoleon Wrasse). No wonder that today, there are already three private companies to function as a dive resort in Derawan and surrounding areas. Usually, after a diving or marine waters Snorkelling in Kakaban, many who took time to do the same...

Kayan tribe is the tribe Dayak Kenyah-Kayan of clump-Bahau from Sarawak. When entering the East Kalimantan Dayak Kayan tribe first settled in the area Apau Kayan Kayan in the watershed, for reasons of inter-tribal wars and seeking a more fertile areas and regions of origin (Apau Kayan) is very underdeveloped and isolated, leaving Apau Kayan Kayan tribe they have occupied for 300 years and migrate toward areas more advanced in order to further develop its life, which is now settled in the watershed Wahau (Wehea tribe area) in the East Kutai regency, especially in the Village of New Miau since 1969. It is estimated that in the days of Empire Martadipura Kutai (Kutai Mulawarman), have not entered the Kayan tribe of East Kalimantan. The possibility of the Kayan tribe is one of the tribe who later entered the island of Borneo island of Formosa (Taiwan).

When speaking of East Kalimantan, outsiders are usually dazzled by the abundance of natural riches contained therein. No wonder, because the East Kalimantan province is one of the country's largest foreign exchange earner. Petroleum, tropical forests and of course coal. The question is, how long will those resources Kaltim raise prestige in the eyes of National and International? Mining sector which has been the mainstay now started looked for a replacement. Because there is no doubt, the result of mining resources can no longer updated. But not to worry. Tourism sector can be an alternative source of foreign exchange any state revenue (PAD) for the welfare of the people around. On earth Kaltim, Karst Mangkalihat has great potential for it. Karst as reported by Wikipedia, is a formation in the Earth's surface that is generally characterized by the presence of a closed depression (closed depression), surface drainage, and caves. This area is formed mainly by the dissolution of r...