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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