5 BEST PLACES TO VISIT IN BELITUNG ISLAND
M A N G G A R
Located in the eastern of Belitung Island, about 90 Km from HAS. Hanandjoedin Tanjungpandan city. It's the main city of East Belitung Regency with more than 100 hundred of people are living here. Manggar has been known as " 1001 Coffeeshop Town ", it's because local of peoples here likes to hang out at the coffeeshop whole day. Manggar is centre of goverment, business, financial and other public services in the east of Belitung.
Best Places To Stay In Manggar are Guest Hotel, Simpang Empat, Pondok Impian, etc. But if you are a beach hunter, there are some homestay at Burung Mandi beach area. Stay with local should be more interesting.
Best Places To Visit In Manggar are Serdang Beach, Nyiur Melambai Beach, Burung Mandi beach, Kwan Im Temple, Keong House and samak hill. Serdang Beach is locate only 5 minutes from centre of Manggar. Has white sand, sea pine trees and clean ocean, such a perfect beach to visit.
Nyiur Melambai Beach is located in manggar city, east of belitung, it takes 1,5 hours from Tanjungpandan by car. This beach has very long coastal and white sand. During the fishing season, we could join the local fisherman catch fishes with manual fish net. Manggar is the second main city and also known as 1001 coffeeshop city, so we should have a cup local coffee there.
Kwan Im Temple is located in Burung Mandi distric, about 20 Minutes from Manggar city. This temple has been built by chinese worker many years ago. this temple still uses and also open for tourist. The temple has been decorated colorfull and has so many stairs. it also has very big Kwan Im statue in the top of the temple.
Burung Mandi Beach is located 5 minutes from Kwan Im Temple. There is some seafood local restaurant and homestay. You will see a hundred colorfull "kater" along the coastal. Kater is small traditional boat, it's only fix for 1-2 peoples. They still wind-sail to operate their kater, but some of them already used machine.
Keong "snail" House is located in Gantong's Dictric, about 30 minutes from Manggar city. There are also a Literary Museum Of Andrea Hirata and Rainbow troops School's Replica. Rainbow troops was a very popular novel in Indonesia, written by Andrea Hirata, the man who were fights to get education and realised his dream from poor school at the small island to Sorbonne University in Paris.
Things To Do In Manggar are Diving, Cycling and Camping. has the best coral spot in Belitung Island. There are Buku Limau and Memperak Island Diving Spot. Samak hill has the best seaview in manggar. there are also some old house was build by dutch. This are is a perfect place to cyling and jogging.
Located 50 km from Airport Hanandjoedding Tanjungpandan or takes 1 hour drive to reach this area. Most people here works as Miner, farmer, fisherman and employer. name of Kelapa Kampit was adopted from Dutch "Klappa Kampit". One of the biggest tin mining site long time ago. The Best Places To Visit In Kelapa Kampit are Open Pit, Sengaran beach, Chinese Temple and Kulong Cinta.
Opent Pit is old tin mining site. It's located in Kelapa Kampit distric, about 30 minutes from Burung Mandi Beach. this place has uniq structure caused open mining methode long time ago. It's looks like a cyrcle path into the earth. There are some deep tunnels "nam salu" and a lake in the middle of mining site. it was the biggest tin mining site in Belitung and has many story. You must lead by profesional guide to exploring the tunnel for safety reasone.
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Opent Pit is old tin mining site. It's located in Kelapa Kampit distric, about 30 minutes from Burung Mandi Beach. this place has uniq structure caused open mining methode long time ago. It's looks like a cyrcle path into the earth. There are some deep tunnels "nam salu" and a lake in the middle of mining site. it was the biggest tin mining site in Belitung and has many story. You must lead by profesional guide to exploring the tunnel for safety reasone.
