Jayapura – Papua will have a big event in this year calendar which is Danau Sentani Festival (Lake Sentani Festival). This event will perform various indigenous cultures of Sentani and from other region in Indonesia. The event is starting from June 1st until June 5th, 2010.

The celebration is an important calendar of event in Papua. Beside Festival Bahari Raja Ampat, Festival Danau Sentani is worth to be visited. In the previous event, there are many tourist from Australia, Japan, Europe visited to give appreciation on the local culture living history.

Lake Sentani Photo by hobbes266

One of the event shows is dancing on the canoe. This is the indigenous culture of people around Lake Sentani. The dancer should be carefully dancing to keep the balance so that they won’t fall into the water. In the daily life, the local people do dancing on boat when they bring woods to build the meeting house.

Observing the native culture is very interesting, especially the local’s women activity to catch fishes while smoking. The different is that they put the ember in the mouth. The reason of smoking is to defeat the cold of the lake’s water.

Except those above indigenous culture show there will be Wayang Kulit (Shadow Puppet Show) from Central Java.

Raja Ampat, a district in Papua – Indonesia gives serious attention for its tourism. It has strength in the maritime and is supported by  natural richness, cultural interest, and the unique of its art.  For its 7th anniversary, the local government via tourism information center announces the Maritime Festival (Festival Bahari) on May 2 to 9, 2010. Waisai is the town chosen to carry out the festival.

In this event, some activities performed such as underwater photo contest, paddle boat race, diving, beach volley ball tournament, and cultural attraction from the local people and participants from other regency like Wakatobi.
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Raja Ampat Tourist Information Center explains that the local people will perform its traditional boat which is used to sail the ocean. Furthermore, they will show their custom to consume mangrove fruits. Many attraction that had not been performed will be shown for the first time to surprise the tourists.

Raja Ampat photo from www.gorajaampat.com

Waisai, that is about 3 hours boating from Sorong, has no accommodation for tourists yet. But, the government will provide live aboard as floating hotels to accommodate the visitors.

Raja Ampat photo from www.gorajaampat.com

Raja Ampat Maritime Festival is planned to be annual event to increase visitors. Currently,there are some festivals in Papua such as Festival Lembah Baliem in Wamena – Jayawijaya, Festival Asmat, Festival Kamoro in Timika, and Festival Danau Sentani (Sentani Lake Festival) in Jayapura.

Credit: www.papua.go.id

Making your Indonesia travel tours, you can find a unique place called Musamus at Papua. Musamus is a unique nature to be observed. It is ants ‘houses’ made from soil that are built for years, mounted from the ground and reach four to five meters high. Inside musamus, there are billion ants living and growing. It is possible it will be higher and higher every year.

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Credit: www.merauke.go.id

Precisely, musamus’ location is at District Sota, Merauke, Papua, the eastest island of Indonesia. It is 75 kilometers from Merauke and 3 kilometers from the Indonesia – Papua New Guinea border. Since the road is good enough, we can travel from Merauke by bus, motorcycle or car.

To ease everyone during Indonesia travel tour, there are Indonesian airlines scheduled from Jakarta to Jayapura, Papua. The airlines are Batavia Ai, depart: 5.15 am., Garuda Indonesia Airways, depart: 09.20 pm and 10.55 pm.

Credit: www.merauke.go.id

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