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Banjarmasin
is one of city in Indonesia, a capital province of South Kalimantan. It is
located in south of Kalimantan Island; surrounded by so many rivers. That’s why
this town is known as a thousand rivers. A plane takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes
to get to Banjarmasin from Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Banjarmasin is really worth visiting for its beautiful
nature and culture. It is suitable for those who want to find something new in
a town, because the town is both traditional and modern.
When To Go?
Generally speaking, Indonesia has only 2 seasons in a year,
so does Banjarmasin. The best time to visit Banjarmasin is between June to September,
when the days are sunny and dry. August
and September is being the driest months of the year. On average, the
temperatures are always high. It is not recommended to visit on wet seasons as
it has an extreme rainfall that will last for couple of hours and definitely
will spoil your trip.
Costs
To travel around Banjarmasin is slightly more expensive than
Java because the public transportation is still limited. If you take a flight
from Jakarta, it costs about 2-3mio for round trip. Fror the daily lifecost, it
is still much affordable since everyone has their diffrent standard for that.
Tips
Here’s some tips to visit Banjarmasin:
1. Don’t forget to wear sunscreen to all over your body,
especially your face and reapply throughout the day since you have to suffer in
heat weather.
2. Drink plenty of water.
3. Be able to speak Indonesian is a must or learn some survival phrases.
4. Interact with the
locals!
Where’s to go?
To travel around Banjarmasin, there are different kind of
transportation available. One of them is water transportation by Kelotok, a
small boat that can bring you from place to place to get around the rivers.
Floating market or usually called ‘Pasar Terapung’ is the
iconic thing in Banjarmasin. It has a strong presence for the town. One of
popular floating market here is Lok Baintan. Each morning at dawn before the
sun rises, the people gather on the water to sell and trade everything, such as
fruits, vegetables, fresh fish, eggs and oil.
One of the best food in the town is Soto Banjar, it’s kind of
chicken noodle soup. It is normally served as a main dish. There are so many
different kind of soto in Indonesia but this one is different. There are some
food destination to visit, which you can try all the unique dishes from South
Kalimantan, as well as delicious traditional snacks that you can not find
elsewhere. The people are very friendly. The town is very green as it has so
many forests, since Kalimantan is world’s lung with covering 40.8 millions
hectares of forests.
Some people might think that Kalimantan is just full of
forest right and there, darkness, or they think there’s no cellphone or any
fancy shopping center and people here lived primitive which actually some of it
are not true at all. In Banjarmasin, you can go to shopping center because
there are two malls and some big
marketplaces. You can watch movie in cinema and call your friend by your
phone. Don’t worry, the electricity is available there.
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