Anggi Lake, Two Different Lakes

Anggi Lake is located in the Arfak Mountains, Anggi Subdistrict, Manogwari Regency, West Papua Province. To get on the Anggi Lake have to took about 6 hours from the Manokwari City. The road conditions are not so good be one cause, because about 40% of roads have been damaged and have to pass up and down the mountain, but as long as you will see in the course of Arfak Mountains views in the beautiful  and natural. Can be by passed with 4WD car with regular public transport fares from Manokwari to the Arfak is  IDR 350.000 or equivalent with USD 36,5 per person. It could be by using an airplane type of Twin Otter andCessna with it takes about 25 minutes by IDR 400.000 or USD 41,5 per person.

Anggi Lake consists of two lakes namely Anggi Ginji Lake (Lake Of Men) and Anggi Gita Lake(Lake Of Girl). It is said that the two lakes was formed from a pair of humans who have ever lived in the Arfak Mountains. Both are only separated by a towering mountain. Oddly enough, both of these lakes have a different color to each other. The first lake is Black while the second is Blue. That’s why both the lake known as Lake Of Men (Anggi Ginji Lake) andLake Of Girl (Lake Anggi Gita). Anggi Gita Lake has an oddity until recently have not been resolved, i.e. the depth of the Anggi Gita Lake to date has yet to be measured so that its depth is unknown. Anggi Lake located about 2.000 metres above sea level. It is a suitable location to do many activities such as picnicking, camping, take pictures with the family even swim. This Lake also has a very clear water and the surrounding temperature is very cold.

Temperature around Anggi Lake is very cold, i.e. about 8 to 20 degrees Celsius, let alone on the Kobrey Hill where temperature can reach 6 degrees celsius. Therefore most Sough Tribecommunity in Iray Village many horticultural farming such as potatoes, carrots, leeks, celery, various types of flowers including Gladiolus Anggi and Rhododenrum. They have not been acquainted with pesticides, so plants that they plant thrives and avoid toxic chemicals and dangerous. Unfortunately, their yields are still hard to be marketed out of their ghetto area with high transport costs reasons, not enough for a roundtrip fare like in the Ransiki orManokwari. They’re still very hopeful if traders from outside came in to buy their crops.

Anggi Lake is also a source of clean water for life that exists around it. One of them is aSough Tribe that living around the shores of Anggi Lake, they generally build the Thousand Feet House (Traditional Home Of Sough Tribe) made of different types of fruit wood is resistant against all season in the Arfak Mountains. The Sough Tribe is also known for its hospitality towards visitors coming. So, if you want to know more about the ins and outs of Anggi Lake and life around him, you can ask directly to the surrounding communities as well as looking at traditional house of their own.

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Ragunan Zoo – The second largest zoo in the world

Ragunan zoo is a kind of combination between zoo and park is located in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, Indonesia.  Since it is a combination between zoo and park, Ragunan Zoo is  known as Ragunan Zoological Park.

Ragunan Zoological Park, Ragunan Zoo has  140-hectare (350-acre) areas,  is inhabited by more than 260 kinds of animals, including scarce and almost instinct animals from Indonesia and from other parts of the world.  Thats way  Ragunan Zoo is the second largest zoo in the world,  First largest  zoo is in Canada.

Many of the animals are endangered and threatened from all parts of Indonesia and the rest of the world. As home to 4000 animals, this large zoo has a good collection of Indonesian wildlife including birds. Laid out in a lush tropical setting, such indigenous animals as the komodo dragon, orangutan, tapir, anoa, sumatran tiger, banteng wild ox and various brightly colored birds are given ample room.

In 1864, when Jakarta was still named as Batavia, the first zoo was open at Cikini area, Jakarta Pusat, which was named as “Planten En Dierentuin”. The zoo was managed by flora and fauna lovers association (Culturule Vereniging Planten en Dierentuin at Batavia). The land where the zoo stood was granted by Raden Saleh, a famous Indonesian painting artist, which width was about 10 hectares. Since the zoo in Cikini considered as too small and not really adequate for animal exhibition so in 1964 DKI Jakarta’s government granted a land with 30 hectares width at the south suburb area of Jakarta, later named as Ragunan Zoo. In 1966, Ragunan Zoo was officially opened by the governor of DKI Jakarta with a name of Ragunan Zoological Park. The first director of Ragunan Zoological Park was a fauna lover, named Benjamin Gaulstaun.

The Ragunan zoo is located in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, Indonesia and easily accessible through the Jakarta Outer Ring Road and Transjakarta busway network.

To get to Ragunan Zoological Park you could use personal vehicle, taxi, public transportation orTrans Jakarta Busway. If you like to use the busway, you can ride the one from corridor 6, Ragunan to Halimun route. Busway and taxi is the most recommended transportation to the zoo.

Ragunan Zoo :

Address: Jl. RM. Harsono No. 1 Ragunan,  South Jakarta, 12550. Telp. (021) 7805280,  7806975, Fax. (021) 7805280.