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DidiBeachBum Says: The most important thing to do in raja ampat is underwater activity. Located in the heart of the coral triangle, Raja Ampat would be like a one stop shopping (diving). It's great for macro, pelagics, beautiful, colorful both soft and hard coral. We took a 6 days live aboard...
RoyJava Says: The Pasar Sentral or central market, is a busy place located some 6 miles distant from the town. Fortunately there is the local pasar not far from the beach road.In old times we went to the same area, where the "Sivo" (a super-market) was located. For now the locals sell...
Rumah Makan Dofior: Fresh Seafood, Oh Yeah!
RoyJava Says: This restaurant (rumah makan) is one of the best, is told. Actually most of the Indonesian restaurants got set up specially for tourists. Most of the people eat in the little warungs (eating-places). The Dofior restaurant is serving very authentic food. If you can manege a...
Hotel Batanta Beach: So Basic - So Cheap - So Delicious
RoyJava Says: Though very basic the people from the Hotel took care in a special way to us. Room service was from the Hotel, where a restaurant with some tables got furnished in the entrance-hall. No customers, still we could have a wonderfull diner ... Let me try to describe our...
RoyJava Says: There is not much nightlife in Sorong, and we never tried this "walk-on-the-wild-side". The MONA LISA is a restaurant and diisco, so we guessed the popular "Karoake" songs chants of the inside when dark has arrived ... could be fun! We used to know this area as "Kampung...
lotharscheer Says: There are daily ferries between Sorong and Waisai (abaut 10 km northeast of Saonek), capital of the Raja Ampat district on the island of Waigeo. Ferries leave Sorong at 13.00 hrs and the journey takes between 1.5 to 2 hours. The return ferry from Waisai to Sorong leaves...
meiyergani Says: There are many flight service to Sorong from Jakarta, Makassar, Manado or Jaya Pura. Express Air is the air line that specially service the route into Eastern Indonesia. The other are: Lion Air, Merpati Air etc. If you plan to Sorong or Jaya Pura, it was strongly recommended...
UNTEA Dutch New Guinea: Hunt For Dutch-Indie Stamps
RoyJava Says: When we immigrated to Holland, Dutch New Guinea became Indonesian. During these turbulent times in the 60' the region had its own post-stamps. The one which were overprint were named "UNTEA" (United Nations Temporary Executive Authority), printed on the stamps of Dutch New...
RoyJava Says: Yes! Toko THIO was a family-business, and still is. Anything you could buy there. And still can ...Well,... ehhh ... almost anything. Like in the most of the warehouses of the villages. Donot get yourself a big idea ... The beautiful craft on the pic (Asmat) you cannot buy...
DSwede Says: Literally translated from Bahasa, "Raja Ampat" means The Four Kings.The story goes that the ~35,000 people that live in the ~100 coastal villages all came from the same nest. According to some, 40% of the locals can still trace their lineage from the Maya people. (deriving...
DSwede Says: There are some more sizable villages in Raja Ampat area that have populations of 100~1000 people.However, there are also hundreds of villages that have populations of less than 40 people.When we were out on the boat in the remote areas, villagers would often come out to...
Money Makes The World Go Around
RoyJava Says: Make sure you change plenty of money before heading into the interior and stock up on 100 Rp notes. Rupiah can usually be obtained in Wewak from the Westpac Bank, although the exchange rate is not as good as in Indonesia. You can get rupiah in banks in Jayapura, Biak,...
RoyJava Says: After World War II, Sorong became a center for Dutch oil Company, which Pertamina, state-run national oil company, later took over. Pertamina brought in a number of Western oil companies, that used Sorong as a supply base as well. The Wiriagar oil field in Sorong got...
Irian Jaya ... No More Traditions
RoyJava Says: For many decades Papuans have been taught that the name IRIAN was Indonesian (IKUT REPUBLIK INDONESIA ANTI NETHERLANDS or "Join Indonesia, against the Netherlands"). The word Irian is in fact a Biak word far much older than Indonesia as a nation. Looking for Papua-traditions...
RoyJava Says: Because of the movements of the 2 giant plates of the Pacific and Australian plate, Papua was posted between the two. An island with many mangrove swamps and famous for it as the largest of Indonesian islands.Just behind our house the swamps were the places where the danger...
RoyJava Says: It is a strange happening returning to a place where you haven't been for ages. Kampung Baru (New Village) in Sorong used to be the beginning of a quarter of Sorong where behind was the jungle, and the only road/path into the jungle. I remember Toko Thio, a Chinese warung...
DSwede Says: An increasingly popular diving activity is known as "muck diving". It is diving over a muddy, silt bottom and doing what scuba divers do... search and view the unique critters that make that home.Some of the best muck diving in the world is in Raja Ampat and more...
DSwede Says: Raja Ampat, along with having some of the most bio-diverse life of any ocean, is home to more seahorses than I've seen anywhere. There are dozens of species of these little hard-to-find pygmy hippocampuses.To see these guys, you will need a good set of eyes and lots of...
Sorong , a bird view from an Air Line
meiyergani Says: Traveling by flight now is not so expensive than years ago. When I have a trip by flight, at the check in counter, I ask to have a seat beside the window. Sorong is a good view from the air, I take some pictures of Sorong seen from Above Nothing to say that, what i've been...
RoyJava Says: Sorong always had a well-known vartiety of fauna & flora, includes the Hibiscus and orchid. For now an important Pertamina Oil city with over 200.000 people and a lot of districts most of the woods has disappeared. Very different from my childhood ... My childhood was a...
Plan a Sorong vacation with reviews, tips and photos posted by real travelers and Sorong locals
The freshwater Catfish, also named "ikan lele", is not that venemous, although its bite can be poisened because of diseases like pest.When caught and put in...
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Q: Hello, I' m going to Sorong for dive-safari. And for my international flights and dates of safari fits only flights by Express...
A: Lion air is flying there 3 times a week, i didn´t fly Express air but i didn´t anything negativ. http://www.lionair.co.id/Default.aspx
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Raised At Papua New Guinea - Irian Jaya
Born at the Indonesian island of Morotai we moved to Nederlands Nieuw Guinea (in Dutch!), for now named Papua Province, former Irian Jaya (or Barat = West), when I was a baby-boy. Our place was Sorong...
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SORONG, Belong to IRIAN JAYA BARAT
Travel from Jakarta to Jaya Pura, I use to take an EXPRESS Air LINE, the air craft have two Stop Over, the first is at Ujung Pandan, South Sulawesi, and the second stop is SORONG. A moment before...
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Raja Ampat, Where the Fish Live
The Raja Ampat Islands In the Heart of the Coral Triangle The Raja Ampat, or “Four Kings,” archipelago encompasses around 4 million hectares of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s......
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Gateway to Papua and Raja Ampat
I came to the small, almost frontier town of Sorong to begin a much anticipated liveaboard scuba diving holiday in the region of Raja Ampat. We boarded the boat in Sorong and disembarked in an even......
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