Jambi province is located on the east coast of Central Sumatra faces to Malaka Straits sharing borders with four other provinces in Sumatra and has long a melting pot for different ethnic groups. The earliest inhabitants were the Kubus, who were among the first wave of Malays to migrate to Sumatra. The ancient kingdom of Melayu developed and grew in Jambi and maintained relations with the mighty kingdoms of Sriwijaya, Majapahit and Singasari, but was eventually attacked and annexed by Sriwijaya in the middle of the 17th century. Encompassing an area of 53,435 sq km, almost 60% of which is forest, the province is home to a large variety of fauna and floraand and an exhilarating place for active and adventurous visitors.
Interesting Places
Telun Berasap Beach
Telun Berasap Waterfall is a nature tourism destination which is located in Kerinci District, Jambi Province. The water flows from Lake Gunung Tujuh, which is situated at an altitude of 50 meters. The surrounding people call the waterfall “Telun Berasap” (literally means water smoke) since the fast current of water falling down from the crag creating such “water smoke.”
There is a cave nearby the waterfall. However, the local inhabitants are not brave enough to enter the cave. The cave has numerous meandering alleys hence it is difficult to reach. Moreover, the fast current of the waterfall and its escarpment keep the cave isolated from tourists visiting Telun Berasap Waterfall.
Kerinci Mount
A climb to the top of Mount Kerinci or one of many other volcanoes shows an important and remarkable change in vegetation; lower trees, which are covered in mush and sub-alpine meadows and swamps at the top, gradually replace high trees. A remarkable flower on higher altitudes is the Javanese edelweiss Anaphalis javanica, which only grows on volcanoes. This flower usually reaches four meters in height and is colored white-green because of its small hairs; the flowers are yellow with white. The peak of the volcano itself is bald, because of the last eruption in 1934. The park also houses the biggest flowers in the world, the monstrous, flesh red flower of the parasite Rafflesia arnoldi and the two-meters-high flower-flames of Amorphophallus titanum.
Muaro Jambi Temple
The existence of Muaro Jambi archeological site was discovered by a British Military Officer named Lieutenant SC Crooke in 1820 A.D. when he was assigned in the hinterland of Batanghari for mapping the Batanghari River. It is assumed that this 12 km square temple was built in the era of the Crivijaya Kingdom. At least nine big temples can be found there, Kuto Mahliga Temple, Kedaton Temple, Gedong I Temple, Gedong II Temple, Gumpung Temple, Tinggi Temple, Telago Rajo Temple, Kembar Batu Temple, and Astomo Temple. In addition, other small temples are spread out around the location.
There is a museum within the temple area functioned to keep some historical heritages from the 13th century. You will see the Dwarapala Statue (The statue of holy building guarder from 13th century, found at Gedong II Temple in April 2002), Belanga (earthen cooking pot) made of bronze that was found in Kedaton temple in 1994, Padmasana (Statue‘s seat), three elephants statues made of stone, some ancient bricks with 576 cm square and 6 cm thick. You will discern Tembikar (earthenware), bronze artifacts, Belanga which are 160 kg weigh, 0, 67 meters high and 1, 06 meters of diameter. Some pieces of ancient ceramics and porcelains from the ninth to eleventh century can also be found there.
Mount Tujug and Kerinci Lake
Mount Tujug is a 10 sq km big crater lake about 50 kilometers north of Penuh River. It's on 1966 meters and it's called the highest sweet water lake in Southeastern Asia. The environment offers simple accommodations, from where people can book a day trip to the lake.
Another, easy to reach lake is Kerinci Lake, surrounded by mountains, 783 meters above sea level and 42 sq km big. It's a good plan for a day trip. Both lakes and the surrounding rainforest are good places to enjoy the fauna of the park.
Kerinci Seblat National Park
In this national park, live up to 129 species of birds, 36 mammalians with 24 protected, 10 species of reptiles, 6 species of amphibians, and 8 species of primates. There are also 4000 floras dominated by family of Dipterocarpaceae. Some of these are highly endangered, especially the animals like Sumatera Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatraensis), Wild Mountain Goat (Capricornis sumatraensis), Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatraensis), Sumatran Elephant (Elephanus maximus sumatranus), Dead Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) and Rafflesia Flower (Rafflesia arnoldi).
Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park
Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park is a 143,143 hectares area on the low land area of eastern Sumatra, included into two provinces, Riau and Jambi. Ecologically, this area is classified as low land tropical rainforest, with some intra ecosystem inside like swamp and highland. Some of endangered species are highly protected here like Dead flower (rafflesia hasseltii and rafflesia arnoldi), amorphophallus SP, and some endangered animals like Sumatran tiger (panthera tigris sumatraensis), tapir (tapirus indicus), primates like Siamang (symphalangus syndactylus), Ungko (hylobates sp), birds (bocerotidae and argusianus argus).
Berbak National Park
Berbak National Park is a national park area on the eastern coastline of Central Sumatra included in Ramsar Convention for international wetland conservation. In 1992, the minister of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia following the original 1935 by Dutch colonial, officially states this area as National Park. Berbak National Park is a national park area on the eastern coastline of Central Sumatra included in Ramsar Convention for international wetland conservation.
Foods
Gulai Udang Nenas
Pineapple Shrimp curry is a favorite of lovers of curry dishes, and because of the way of making easy and cheap raw materials, food is very popular, and it would be nice if the shrimp are shrimp used for its larger river.
Malbi
Malbi is sweet meat. This food use coconut milk. It's almost like rendang in west sumatra. It usually eat in Eid day.
Gulai Tepek Ikan
Food is typical Jambi historic food, fish-based foam that only served to important moments or to welcome a special guest. Food is similar to Pempek because dough is almost the same curry sauce added just so it feels more daring.
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