HOTEL

1. SWISS-BELHOTEL PAPUA

JAYAPURA BAY, PAPUA

2. RIMBA PAPUA HOTEL

TIMIKA, PAPUA

3. THE BALEMVALLEY RESORT

WAMENA, PAPUA

4. GRAND ABE HOTEL

ABEPURA, PAPUA

5. GRAND TEMBAGA HOTEL

MIMIKA, PAPUA

TICKETS PRICE TO PAPUA

To arrive faster in Ppaua, you should come by the plane. Here is the tiket list from some provinces in Indonesia to Ppua :

JAKARTA to JAYAPURA

start from IDR4.169.000

SURABAYA to JAYAPURA

start from IDR4.280.600

MANADO to JAYAPURA

start from IDR.3.192.800

BANDUNG to JAYAPURA

start from IDR4.615.800

BALI to JAYAPURA

start from IDR4.740.300

AMBON to JAYAPURA

start from IDR5.275.300

MEDAN to JAYAPURA

start from IDR7.891.200

For further information you can check it and find it on google. Happy searching!

ARFAK MOUNTAINS

             

Arfak Mountains is located at the northwest side of Semenanjung Kepala Burung. This mountain is popular for hiking and climbing. From the top of the mountain, you can see the viewe of Manokwari City. The top of Arfak Mountains climates temperate and dry. Dry summer temperate averaging below 95 Fahrenheit degree and light, wet winter temperates averaging above 38 Fahrenheit degree. Sometimes, when the weather is too cold, the top of the mountain could be covered by a bit of snow, but not too often. 

At this mountain, there are 2 twins lake. According to story from the local people,both of this lake made from a love story of 2 persons that changed their lif and body into lakes. Inside the both of the lakes, it is said that there are 2 kind of dragon, the first one the female and the other is the male. Because of that story, the people there named the lakes. The male one is Anggi Ginji and the female one in Anggi Gita.

Yup, Indonesia is rEally full of folks things. But it si very unique and I love it. Do you? 

RUMBERPON LAND

   



Raja Ampat is known as the heaven on earth. Not just Raja Ampat, I think.  This beach is another side of 'heaven on earth' in Papua, precisely at West Papua.

Rumberpon is located in Wondama Bay which is about 5 hours long boat trip from Manokwari, Papua. This beach is usually called 'Long Sand Beach' because it has 6 km coastline. It is way soooo long!!

Rumberpon offers you a calm atmosphere, both the the island an also the water. If you are already there, you will feel like it is you own private beach. So cool, right?

The good thing in this beach is that there are some objects for photoshoot like the Long Sand Beach, a beach with smooth white sand, also the Ilalang Island, and also a beautiful Mangrove Forest. Trust me, all of them are just so beautiful.

Not just it, there, we can down the beach, snorkeling, play wih the water ski, surfing, or even fishing.

All the marine biota are still really natural and spread almost all around the Island, so you can choose your own spot to chill while you're diving.
You have to get there!!

SENTANI LAKE

   

Sentani Lake is located under the slopes of Cyclops Wildlife Sanctuary Mountains. There are 22 beautiful big islands there. If you want to visit the islands one by pne, you can rent a boat there. There are 24 villages there and we can buy some handicrafts and taste the culinary of Papua like papeda and so many kind of fishes.

Asei island is the most attracted island there, a lot of trourist visited that island. This island sal so many creative and beautiful handicrafts. There aremore than 30 kind of fishes in Lake Sentani and we can see the villagers there catching the fishes and process them. The part that I like the most is we can see a festival of local people with some traditional dance only on June.

  

  

RAJA AMPAT

   

At first, Raja Ampat was a unity with Sorong district until it's finally changed to be Raja Ampat District in 2004. The beutiful scenery under the water is already known by somany tourists from another countries and known as one of world heritage sites with the most beautiful scenery.

Although the divers make this island as a destination because it has so many beautiful sea animals and sea reefs, but there are so many beautiful part in Raja Ampat apart from the under the sea scenery. One of those parts is beach with white sand, Kast Islands, and also some kind of endemic flora and fauna, such as cenderawasih and anggrek. 

An interesting thing of Raja Ampat is the historical heritage. At the group of Misool, there are some hands stamps on the walls of the corsl reef. People there believe those stamps are now about50.000 years old. The unique one is there is a legacy of wrecked aircraft from the World War II  at Wai Islands.

   

TELUK CENDERAWASIH NATIONAL PARK

                                                                                
        

This National Park with area reaches 1.453.500 hectares is almost 90% water. That is why this palce called as the biggest and the largest marine conservation in Indonesia.  Here, there are 196 kind of molluscs and 209 kind of fishes you can see under the fresh deep water. Not seldom turtles, sea turtles, sharks, and dolphins also accompany you to swim together. 

Teluk Cenderawasih National Park was inaugurated in1993 by the Forestry Minister of Indonesia. Other than that, you can walk around and enjoy the islands Mioswaar is one of the islands here. It has a cave with hotspring with sulfur content that trustme, you deserve to visit, there are still Yoop Island, Numfor Island, and another beautiful aisland which are you shouldn't miss. 

This place is located in beetween 2 districts, Wondama and Nabire. This national park is being the center of whale shark research that is running by the government and work together with domestic and foreign non-governmental organization (NGO)

KNOWING DEEPER ABOUT PAPUA

Papua is the widest province in Indonesia. Papua province was once iclude all the part of Papua, but start from 2003 Papua devided into 2 part. The fisrt one is Papua and the west side is West Papua. Papua has an area of 808.104 square kilometre and Papua is the second widest province in The world. 

Puncak Jaya district is he highest city of Papua and the lowest on is Merauke. As a tropical province and an archipelago territory, Papua island has a relative higher humidity about 80-90%. The geographical condition is affecting the population distribution. In 1960, there are 1.648.708 people and increased to abour 2,6 million in 2006. 

Papua's rainfall ranges from 1.800-3.000 mm. The temparature in Papua is about 19-28 Celcius degree. 

You can see how great The Maker of this university is after you watch the video above.

TRADITIONAL WEAPONS

1. BOW AND ARROW

       

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Bow and arrow are the main weapons in Papua. This kind of weapon is used to hunt and war. The bow is made from bamboo or wood, while the bowstring is made from rattan. The arrow is made from bamboo or wood or kangaroos' bones. 

Because this weapon is made from the natural materials, need a specialty to use this kind of weapon. 

2. SPEAR 

   
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Spear is one of traditional weapons in Papua. People there usuallu use this to hunt the animals there. The spear from Papua are made from natural materials such as wood/rocks. Every tribe has their own shape of spear which are the one with one spear and the other tribe has the 2 spears.

TRADITIONAL HOUSE

RUMAH HONAI

Rumah Honai is an usual calling for adult men's house. This house in 100% constructed and made from pure material from nature. There are 3 types of this house. The first one is the house for men (called Honai), the second one is the house for women (called Ebei), and the last one is the unique one, this house is made for animal enclosures, usually pigs (called Wamai). These three kind of Papua's traditional house look exactly same, except the men's one is usually higher than the others. This house they use to survive in Papua's cold climate.

The Structure

This kind of house has a floor that made from soil. There are two floors in this house. So, cool right?! The first floor normally used for a family gather, discussion place, or for night activities. Usually, atthe center of the first floor, there is a wood burning place (to make bonfire) and it is useful to make a warm condition in that house.  The second floor is paved with boards. This one is the place for sleep. To connect the first floor and the second one, Papuan usually use stairs that made from wood.

This house is really small. The height is just about 3-4 meters and the diameter is about 5-6 meters. Even though the house is narrow, there are 5-10 person that live in the house. It is caused to keep the warm temperature. And there is no windows in this house, there is just one door at the front of the house. It is caused the same thing, to maintain the temperature. 

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The Philosphy of The House

For Papua people, this house not just a house to live. There are some meanings from this kind of house. For them, this house is a life teaching place. Honai for men is a place to teach the men how to survive in life and to be gentle men that have responsibility for the life groups. Ebei, the women's one is a place to teach the women and girls about how to take a good care for the household and how to be the real women in the future life, afther they marry and have some kids. 

           

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TRADITIONAL DANCES

1. Sajojo Dance

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Sajojo once made to show  how easy papua people to get along with some people. 

All genders can dance this dance, all the kids or even the old ones. All may do this dance.

Some says, this dance has already created in 1990 era. Because of the happy moves, this dance became more famous and almost all of Papuan people at least know this kind of dance. 

This dance named Sajojo, because the soundtrack to accompany the dance is Sajojo. 

For the history, this dance tells about a beautiful girl in a village. All people loved and liked her. The moves of this dance are unique, because of that this dance is still preserved. 

2. Selamat Datang Dance

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In English, 'Selamat Datang' is 'Welcome'.

This dance named Selamat Datang, because this dance is used to welcome the honored guests in Papua. The dancers must not the men, the woman can be the dancers too. 

Papuan people are really proud of this dance, because this dance has some energetic moves and  there are some aesthetic values in this dance. 

The costum for this dance is traditional clothes, sometimes with traditional weapons or another atributes. They use tifa as the music.

 3. Perang Dance 

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Perang in english is 'war'

This dance in one of traditional dances in Papua. This dance has the meaning of Papua people's heroism. 

The dancers in this dance are the men with weapons for a war as atribute to show that Papua has some mighty men that ready to war.

This dance appeared, because at the past, there were some wars beetwen Sentani tribe with another tribes in Papua. So, the ancestry gave this dance to give some encouragement to the fighters in the war. 

This dance usually played by 7 or more people. Kerang, tifa and gendang are the music to accompany this dance. The moves are energetic and show some war skills such as archery, jump, peek the enemies and many others. 

4. Musyoh Dance

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This dance is one of sacred dances in Papua. This dance will be held when there is a member of family or even neighbors that get a death accident and estimated the spirit couldn't calm and quiet.

If we can see from the moves, it shows the energetic people of Papua. The dancers are usulally men. 

By the culture, this dance can be beneficial to expel spirit roaming. 

The costume for this dance is traditional clothes of Papua consist of koteka, rumbai skirt, and war equipment such as shield and spear. Sometimes, tifa can be the music for this dance. 

AND MANY OTHERS

TRADITIONAL CLOTHES

AWESOME AND UNIQUE FOODS OF PAPUA

1. Kue Sagu Bagea

   

Kue Sagu Bagea is a traditional cake which is popular in the eastern of Indonesia such as Papua, Palopo, Manado, Bugis, Maluku, etc. Honestly, this cake is a bit hard bitten of its hard texture, but when it is already in your mouth, the cake will turn out to be soft. In Papua, it is sometimes filled with green beans. 

2. Kue Lontar 

  

               

This kind of cake is really similar to milk pie. It is made of flour, milk and sugar and melted soft textured mouthfeel. It is very good to be the dessert after you eat papeda.

3. Martabak Sagu

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Martabak sagu is different from another kind of martabak. The main ingredient of it is sago. As an addition for the sweet taste, brown sugar sauce poures out on the martabak that has been fried. It has such a unique texture and it has a different taste that will make you addicted with this food.

4. Papeda

  

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This the most papular food of Papua. Who doesn't know this food? Most of people know this kind of food. Yap, papeda is made from sagu. The texture of papeda as you guys can see, it is like porridge and it is sticky like glue. The taste of papeda is bland because it is eaten just like rice. Papeda is usually served by tuna or mubara spiced saffron or yellow fish soup.

5. Sate Ulat Sagu

  

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Satay is usually made by chicken or meat, but this one is made from sago worms. It hears very disgusting, right? But the taste so great and delicious! True to its name must have come from the sago sago palm. But make no mistake, this worm will not be encountered in the sago tree is still standing upright (not cut), but the (stem) sago tree that had been felled. Usually the sago tree has been cut down and the sago has been taken, the sago tree trunks are left up to a few days. Well, wait a long while before the sago tree trunk rot by itself, and there it will begin to emerge caterpillars called sago worms. This food is a nutrious food.

6. Aunu Senebre

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Aunu senebre is a typical food of Papua and West Papua are made from raw materials anchovy rice mixed with sliced ​​taro leaves. This food has a texture that does not dry. Sliced ​​taro leaves also add a savory taste of aunu senebre. In Papua typical meal is usually eaten with a plate papeda or umbu tubers.

MOST POPULAR FOLK SONGS

1. YAMKO RAMBE YAMKO

Yamko Rambe Yamko is one of the most popular songs in Papua. As you all can hear describes something about happiness or joy or unpleasant impression by the rythms. But, the truth, this song contains sadness of war, strife, and resistance mainly Indonesian people against the invanders that occured before the year of 1945.

2. SAJOJO

So many people in Indonesia that have already known and heard this beautiful song. This song talks about a woman in a village. Her parents really loved her. She was very beautiful so all the men in that village had the same dream to have some talks with this woman.
Sometimes, people use this song to accompany gymnastics as the sound track in Papua or even in another inslands of Indonesia.

3. APUSE

This one i took from soundcloud and it has the new arrangement of music. If you want to hear the original one, please go to youtube and find by yourself.
Okay, this song talks about a grandchild that has a wish to got to another place. This grandchild has to wander away and leaving his/her grandparents. With sadness the grandparents let this grandchild leave them. I know it is maybe not really matters and important. But is there something wrong by knowing something new?