Belitung is a tropical island placed in southern part of equator (-5.5725 Latitude; 104.9305 Longitude) part of Bangka Belitung province in Indonesian territory. There are 200.000 people living in the island majority from malay and chinese.
Belitung is an emerging tourist destination as alternative of Bali, Lombok, Yogyakarta, Menado or other tourist destination in Indonesia. Travelers come to Belitung mainly only two reason, "beautiful beaches" and "Rainbow Troops (Laskar Pelangi)" . And the beaches have not been touched by tourism industry yet. You will see an amazing view as we shown in this web site.
Interesting Places
Matras Beach
It is located in Sinar baru village, Sungailiat district in eastern of Bangka Island. It about 9 Km from Sungailiat, it's considered as the best in Bangka Island. The beach is about 3 kilometers long and its width is almost 30 meters. It is unspoiled white sandy beach with coconut trees around the beach area, the tropical breeze and sunshine. Enjoy the warm and clear waters of the blue sea or just have a cooling swim in the river entering the sea. This beach commonly called as the Heaven Beach because it surrounded with coconut trees and visited by a lot of visitor. An easily accessible beach can be found in the northeast of Bangka, 48 km from Pangkal Pinang and 12 km from Sungai Liat.
Batu Berdaun Beach
Batu Berdaun beach is located in Kampung Bukit Kuala, Sinar Jaya Urban Village of Sungailiat district, Bangka Belitung. This beach is quite unique, situated side by side with Parai Tenggiri Beach marked with a tree grows out of rocks.
This beach has beautiful panorama, fresh air and clean water sea. The coast is decorated with smooth white sand and is indeed very attractive for tourist enjoy. The rocks in this beach is very unique, we can see a tree or plants grows out of rock. And this places is very good for refreshing or spend our holiday.
Parai Tenggiri Beach
This beach is one of Bangka Island’s prides. The beach is located in Sungailiat district. The visitors can find various forms of boulders in this beach, which add its beauty. This beach is very ideal for having swimming, sun bathing and relax. Parai Tenggiri beach has the complete facilities in Bangka Island. There are luxurious hotels and water sport facilities. The tourists will enjoy this beach with the local fishermen who always spend their days by looking for fishes in the sea. The calmness and fresh sea wind will greet the visitor when they arrive there. This welcomed course make the tourists feel comfortable to stay here.
Sekar Biru Lake
Sekar Biru Lake is mean Lake that has blue colour. It happen because tin mining in this area. The lake was unique because the water is blue compared to other lake around this place but if taken to be the color of clear water. This lake is always guarded by the local community so that no contaminated.
Sekar Biru lake is located around Taman Salim Perumnas, Sekar Biru village, Jebus sub district, West Bangka district, Bangka Belitung. This place is very beautiful and interest for tourism. This lake become unique because has blue colour maybe happen from the reflection of sunlight to the bottom of the walls under the ground kaolin (clay minerals tin) be very interesting tourist attraction west Bangka.
Romodong Beach
Romodong beach is located at Bukit Ketok village, Belinyu district, Bangka regency. This beach is about 77 km of Sungailiat town. In this beach, the tourists can watch the sunset, because this beach is faced to west side. The length of this beach is about 4 km; it is slope, white sandy and soft. Its water is very clear like a crystal. Enjoy the beautiful of Romodong. When it low tide, you can walk in the water until in the middle of clear sea. If we see around, we just find the boulders and white sand that spread in the beach. The winds that make the leaves wobbled greet the tourists who looking for an inspiration.
Lengkuas Island
Lengkuas Island is well known for its old lighthouse which was built in 1882 by the Hollad Colony Goverment. Lengkuas Island is an island off shore of tanjung Kelayang beach, it takes about 30 minutes from Tanjung kelayang Beach to Lengkuas by boat. This Island is situated in sijuk district.
We can see bigger and smallers rock under the sea water. At the east side of lengkuas island we can find Batu Malang Gede Island. This Island has very charming sceneries nad it is suitable for diving, fishing nad science research. We will enjoy very beautiful sceneriesof under sea garden with its inhabitants like various kinds of colorful fishes swim around coral reefs.
Penyusuk Beach
Penyusuk Beach is located in Penyusuk village, Belinyu district. The location is not far from Romodong beach, but it offers different nuance than Romodong. It is natural and slope beach. It decorated with colorful of stones. Many stones that compact stand with its bigger waves than Romodong is fenced Penyusuk Beach. Romodong and Penyusuk have different beautiful, but both have great charm. This beach is visited by a lot of visitor because of its beautiful beach and its clear water.
Tanjung Tinggi
Tanjung Tinggi is located in keciput village, belitung district and about 31 km from tanjung pandan. Tanjung Tinggi is a beach placed among two peninsulas This is white sandy beach, and it is special because there are hundreds of granite boulders spreading mainly in both peninsula as well as in the beach and sea.
The size of that granite starting from a meter cubic until several hundred meter cubic or bigger than a house. You can climb, walk and jump among the granites to see exclusive view from every angle from you stand. The shape of that boulders are also unique, some combination form a cave, the place for you to escape from small rain.
Passing through the country side, small villages and pepper plantations along the route, an unusual and splendid view will be observed from the top of a mountain in the mining area, looking down about 100 M you will see the progress of the tin mine. People from Siantan and Johor of Malaysia first discovered tin in Bangka Island in 1710, since then a lot of traders from Asia as well as from Europe stopped and visited Bangka Island. To operate the tin mines, skilled labors were imported from Malacca and China. This is the only open pit tin the excavation and in the future mine in Indonesia will grow much larger and deeper.
The Tirta Tapta Pemali Hot Spring
Tapta Pemali Hot Spring is a tourism destination worth visiting in Bangka district. It was discovered by Tim Banka Winning Bedrijf, BTW, the tin mining company of the Dutch Colonial government. After the Indian `s independence, it was taken over by the Indonesian government, then was changed into the state owned tin mining company named Lead Ltd. It was reconstructed and developed for tourism destination by Timah Ltd in 1970 `s.
The water of the Tirta Tapta Pemali Hot Spring comes out of the land; it contains Sulfur substance. It is also used for health and Relaxation therapy for any kind of diseases. The Tirta Tapta Pemali Hot Spring lies in Pemali village, Pemali sub-district, in the district of Bangka. It is around 20 km away from Sungailiat sub-district.
Tanjung Kelian
The old lighthouse was built in 1826. It is located about 9 km of Muntok district. In the surrounding area we still can find wrecks of Dutch and British ships, which were torpedoed by Japanese warships during the Second World War, on 16 February 1942. Take our time to climb up 199 steps to reach the top of the lighthouse and enjoy the spectacular view from the height of approximately 60 M above sea level. We can see the whole beaches in Muntok.
Foods
Lempah Kuning
Cuisine of the Pacific Islands are the most typical Yellow Lempah this, its main ingredient is the red snapper or fish with seasoning simple teggiri yellow. Yellow in the can from one rempahnya turmeric. Usually the added flavor of fruits such as pineapple and tamarind water mixture.
Lakso
Lakso or special food Laksa Bangka Belitung, namely Malay and Chinese fusion food Bangka Belitung. The form is similar Mian (noodles) like spaghetti in Italy. This food is made from coconut milk, fish and spices – spices tastes good and is healthier.
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