Short Journey Betwen Tanjungpandan and Manggar

Short Journey Betwen Tanjungpandan and Manggar

Tanjungpandan, as the city administrative and economic center in the western part of the island belitung, making this city filled with all human activities, ranging from sunrise until midnight. In this city is also located only one airport which is air transport on the island. But it is unfortunate that the distance between the airport to the city center so far, although pursued by a car, and at least in terms of transportation, we can still use public transport buses L300 form capable of carrying ten to twelve people in a single trip departure.

Travel to the east belitung, manggar city is within a two to three hours of Tangjungpandan, using ground transportation. Along the way we can see so many oil palm plantations, interspersed also with mounds and piles of kaolin collectors and if you are careful it is a lot of land damaged by tin mining has been done almost a century and nature conservation do not pay attention. This causes the loss of nutrients in the soil, making it very difficult to do reforestation, very scary.

Manggar the capital city of east belitung, known as a city of a thousand coffee shops, and it was. Almost all cracks where the activity of this city must have a coffee shop, especially when we are Manggar market. Taste of coffee to make every visitor to enjoy it difficult to forget the taste of coffee manggar. behavior of the coffee shop keeper was so friendly, although many types of coffee served to us the message, but many visitors enjoy a more classic type of order coffee or coffee usually called the "O".

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The Basic Facts Of Belitung Island

The Basic Facts Of Belitung Island

Belitung is a word that comes from the name of the meteor rocks that we call the BILLITONITE. Rocks that have long buried in the soil of this island thousands of years and gradually decayed become an element of mine who is very useful for people's lives around. Tin and kaolin mineral is very valuable on the island other than commodity goods such as palm oil plantations and pepper (sahang: Language Belitung). Natural beauty is stunning for visitors / tourists both domestic and foreign, diverse arts and cultures blended together to give unique to this island perfection. But at least the thing should be mentioned at the beginning a major contribution to the prosperity of the island communities Belitung. And what about reality?

Most Belitung Islands community livelihood depend on marine resources around the island. Or can we say their profession is fishing. As Belitung society in general who is a fisherman has a level of education that is not too high, it affects the pattern of life and their way of thinking that a simple and pragmatic.

Belitung Island is a small island belonging to the province of Bangka-Belitung. On the island itself is divided into two districts, the west districts with the capital Tanjungpandan and the east district with capital manggar. Each city has its own characteristics and differences in state demographics.

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