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Old August 12th, 2008, 06:44 AM   #121
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itu SPBU buat expat kali hehe
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Old August 12th, 2008, 01:14 PM   #122
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Old August 14th, 2008, 05:26 AM   #123
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kapan ya bisa ke kaltim????sampe sekarang blm kesampaian...

kalo banjarmasin emang top soal kuliner.disetiap jalan, ada aja penjual makan enak yg diburu para warga kota maupun wisatawan bahkan acara TV nasional.
kayak :
nasi kuning andalas, lontong orari (diliput Nikmatnya Dunia SCTV), itik panggang Madezo (diliput SCTV juga), nasi gambut, soto bawah jembatan (Krisdayanti, Farhan, Intan Nuraini, Iis Dahlia dll pernah kesini), RM.Cendrawasih (diliput oleh Trans TV & SCTV), kue bingka, kue lam, Kayutangi Food Festival (pusat jajanan outdoor), ayam goreng Sadulur, bakso teguh, nasgor Bumi mas, sop buntut Anggrek bulan, dll .
nikmatnya, slurrrrpppp....




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menurutku daerah2 di kaltim ga begitu ganas untuk diarungi.. dan setiap org yang pertama kali kesini pasti pengen lagi ato ga pernah kapok..
tapi kalo makanan aku masih pegang yg di banjar, selain murah juga enak2 pas dilidah
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berharap infrastruktur jalan di seluruh kalimantan terkoneksi. bahkan se-Borneo
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Old August 14th, 2008, 11:14 AM   #124
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saya juga gada keraguan tentang masa depan kalimantan koq bang...,

sepanjang masih ada sumber daya alam dan keunggulan luasnya wilayah dan tidak adanya potensi patahan gempa, selama itu pula akan banyak pendatang yang turut meramaikan dan membangun kalimantan.., tanpa mendiskreditkan peran orang lokal.

bukankah kalo adanya ketertinggalan, makin membuat kita bisa belajar dari kelemahan dan kekurangan pembangunan daerah lain, dan melaju lebih kencang....,

no doubt about klemantan ini...,

koreksi jika aku salah...,
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Old August 14th, 2008, 11:19 AM   #125
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mungkin dimulai dari sarana penghubung trans kalimantan yang menghubungkan singkawang sampai bontang lwt palangka, dan banjar, tapi moga-moga dengan adanya pertemuan dewan 4 gubernur se kalimantan di palangka, perhatian pemerintah pusat lebih ditujukan ke proporsi yang seharusnya diterima oleh daerah penghasil sumber daya alam ini, dalam hal ini kalimantan...





sekedar saran....,
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Old August 14th, 2008, 11:43 AM   #127
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soal bandara sepinggan, kmarin minggu lalu masih ada rangka bangunan apa yaa...? kayaknya mau diperluas lagi yah terminalnya.., tapi yang sekarang aja sudah keren koq..., ada yang tau??
Aduh Peterongan, tinggal di Bpp, masa ga peka sh sama apa yang sedang terjadi di Bpp

Mengenai Kontruksi rangka bangunan yang anda pertanyakan itu, merupakan pemekaran terminal baru Bandara Int'l Sepinggan yang dinamakan terminal B, atau lengkapnya B Square mall, Nantinya terminal tsb akan dilengkapi shopping centre, hotel bintang 4, karaoke lounge, dan klub malam, yg merupakan jargon dan satu-satunya di Indonesia untuk lbh lengkap silahkan mengunjungi thread Project and developmentnya Balikpapan

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...233318&page=38
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Old August 15th, 2008, 03:22 PM   #128
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Jumat, 15 Agustus 2008
Jembatan Rp 598 M, Jembatan Aji Tulur Jejangkat
Melintasi Sungai Mahakam, Menghubungkan Melak dengan Mook Manar Bulatn, Selesai 2010


SENDAWAR-Pembangunan jembatan Aji Tulur Jejangkat resmi dimulai kemarin. Bupati Kubar Ismael Thomas dan pejabat Muspida Kubar menandainya dengan menekan tombol sirene dan menjalankan mesin pemasang tiang pancang. “Semoga kelak dengan adanya jembatan ini, segala aspek kehidupan masyarakat Kubar terangkat; terutama ekonomi dan transportasi,” kata Bupati dalam sambutannya setelah itu.

Jembatan yang melintang di atas Sungai Mahakam ini akan menghubungkan Kecamatan Melak dengan Kecamatan Mook Manor Bulatn di Kampung Melak Ilir Kecamatan Melak. Jembatan bernilai hingga Rp 598 miliar ini diberi nama Aji Tulur Jejangkat, mengambil nama tokoh nenek moyang oray Dayak di zaman prasejarah—yang adalah suami putri Mook Manar Bulatn. Jembatan ini akan membuka akses transportasi darat antara Kecamatan Melak dengan Kecamatan Mook Manor Bulatn. Seterusnya ia akan menjadi sarana penghubung antara Kubar dengan Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara serta ibu kota Provinsi Kalimantan Timur, yakni Samarinda.

“Kami harapakan dalam tahun 2010 sudah bisa dioperasikan,” sambung Bupati.

Pembangunan dan wujudnya jembatan ini nantinya juga berarti semakin terbuka berbagai peluang usaha masyarakat antar-kedua kecamatan dan antar-masyarakat Kubar dengan wilayah di luarnya. “Inilah tujuan utama pembangunan jembatan ini, yang merupakan salah satu bentuk upaya Pemkab Kubar untuk membangun ”Kutai Barat yang Masyarakatnya Sejahtera: Cerdas, Sehat dan Produktif Berbasiskan Ekonomi Kerakyatan,” kata Bupati.

Di samping itu, kepada para pengelola (kontraktor) proyek pembangunan jembatan ini, agar melaksanakan pembangunan sesuai dengan ketentuan yang telah disetujui bersama dengan pihak Pemkab Kubar, dalam hal ini dengan Dinas Pekerjaan Umum. Dalam arti kualitas perlu menjadi penekanan. “Sebab jika dibangun dengan tidak berkualitas baik, selain merugikan pemerintah juga terlebih merugikan warga masyarakat Kubar pada umumnya dan warga masyarakat Kecamatan Melak dan Mook Manor Bulatn,“ katanya.

”Kepada konsultan pengawas dalam pembangunan jembatan betul-betul melaksanakan tugasnya dan jangan sampai pengawas menjadi karyawan kontraktor oleh kontraktor sehingga tugas dan fungsinya tidak berjalan dengan baik,“ tegas Bupati.

Sementara itu Kepala Dinas PU dan Kimpraswil Kubar Asrani menjelaskan, pembangunan jembatan ini sumber dananya murni dari APBD Kubar dengan estimasi total biaya konstruksi tahap pertama Rp 18 miliar, tahap II Rp 86 miliar, Jembatan pendekat Rp 21 miliar, dan tahap selanjutnya kurang lebih Rp 473 miliar, serta 2010 pembangunan jembatan ini akan selesai.

Ia menambahkan, sebagai konsultan perencanaan PT Surya Abadi Konsultan Surabaya, Konsultan Supervisi Pt Laras Respati Utama Samarinda, dan Kontraktor Pelaksana Kerjasama Operasi (KSO) adalah Pesero PT Waskita Karya, PT Baswara Sinar Mulia dan PT Mahir Jaya Mahakam Jaya. (hms 12)

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Wah gw penasaran ama design jembatan senilai 598 M ini Dana nya kurang lebih sama ya dengan jembatan Mahkota II Samarinda
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Old August 15th, 2008, 04:06 PM   #129
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buat mas peterongan ;
gw saat ni mukim di banjarmasin.sangat memimpikan menjelajah kota2 di kaltim.
mas ini asli peterongan Jombang Jatim ya???gw pernah lewat kampung peterongan di jombang, pas lagi jalan-jalan di jatim.

ada aja sih pesawat dr banjar ke kaltim.tp gw kayaknya lbh pengen jalur darat.coz, gw suka naik bis ato mobil biar bisa lihat2 pemandangan yg dilewati.kayak gw menjelajah 8 kota di kalteng dulu, yg hanya naik mobil dgn pemandangan yg menakjubkan...!
buka deh arsip foto2 waktu gw ke kalteng dulu disini

dan lebih membanggakan lagi, arsip perjalanan itu telah dipajang di indobackpacker.com

duh kok gw promosi bgt sih.he.......

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oyah, mas kalimantanku dimana??? ke kaltim kalo dari banjar bisa naik batavia pagi jam 9.45 ..., kalo naik bis bisa pake pulau indah dan gelora..., kemarin kawan - kawan dari budak pontianak, singkawang, sanggau, dan sintang naik lewat jakarta dulu baru nah kesini...,

soal bandara sepinggan, kmarin minggu lalu masih ada rangka bangunan apa yaa...? kayaknya mau diperluas lagi yah terminalnya.., tapi yang sekarang aja sudah keren koq..., ada yang tau??
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sekedar info, dalam waktu dekat jembatan pulau balang bakal terealisasi.
dan PPU bakal punya coastal road 2 jalur @4 lajur.

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sekedar info, dalam waktu dekat jembatan pulau balang bakal terealisasi.
dan PPU bakal punya coastal road 2 jalur @4 lajur.

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Btw titik2 ujung Jembatan antara Balikpapan-PPU ada di mana Chris ?? (mungkin bisa ditunjukin dari gambar2 di bawah ???)


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gambar no. 3 mas, namun saya kurang tau persis letaknya pulau balang. yg jelas agak masuk kedalam dari teluk BPN. saya kmrn dapat info dari keluarga saya yg kerja di pemkab PPU.
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Merdeka Adventure di Batu Lepeh, Jonggon, Kukar


BALIKPAPAN – Sebab lama tak digelar, Djengkar Sutono selaku penggagas acara Merdeka Adventure di Batu Lepeh, Minggu-Senin (17-18/8) mendatang, sekali lagi mengingatkan para peserta untuk menyiapkan peralatan hidup di alam bebasnya dengan sungguh-sungguh.

“Walau hanya semalam, saya tetap mengingatkan bahwa yang bawa peralatan komplet seperti tenda, perlengkapan buat tidur, alat-alat masak, plus ransumnya tentu akan lebih nyaman di Batu Lepeh, Jonggon nanti,” papar Djengkar. Sebab, namanya juga kawasan hutan, selain dari hutan, sungai, dan tanah lapang, tidak tersedia fasilitas kehidupan modern yang lain.

“Apalagi teman-teman yang bawa keluarga, mohon disiapkan sendiri fasilitasnya,” pinta Djengkar.

Acara yang melibatkan para offroader anggota Komda Indonesian Offroad Federation (IOF) Kaltim ini tepatnya digelar di Batu Lepeh, satu kawasan sungai dan hutan di lingkungan hutan tanaman industri milik Inhutani di wilayah Jonggon, Kutai Kartanegara.

Sesuai namanya, Merdeka Adventure, maka selain sebagai ajang silaturahmi (malam 17/8, maka akan ada pula (SCS, special competition stage) lomba untuk mobil standar ataupun ekstrem (18/8). Akan ada pula permainan khas 17 Agustusan.

Kemudian, agar meriah dan tak ada yang ketinggalan, disarankan berangkat bersama-sama atau berkonvoi mulai pukul 13.00; dalam hal ini dari tiga kota, yaitu Balikpapan, Samarinda, dan Tenggarong. Untuk rute ke Jonggon tersebut, di kawasan Inhutani jalan berupa gravel (kerikil) dan mendekati Batu Lepeh berupa jalan tanah.

“Jadi, kendaraan yang bisa nyaman hingga ke pinggir sungai adalah mobil dengan penggerak 4 roda, double cabin, jip, SUV, pickup, dan sepeda motor atau trail. Sedan dengan penggerak dua roda tak disarankan dibawa,” jelas Windy Politon, sekretaris Komda IOF Kaltim.

Untuk Balikpapan, seperti pada cara keberangkatan Wisata Bagenjoh beberapa bulan silam, yang juga digelar di Batu Lepeh, peserta bisa berkumpul di halaman parkir Seasik Seafood, restoran kepiting dan ikan bakar milik Djengkar di Jalan MT Haryono. Rombongan akan berangkat tepat pukul 13.00.

“Disarankan juga untuk mengisi penuh tangki BBM sebelum berangkat. Dan jangan lupa perlengkapan hidup di alam bebas,” ingat Djengkar. (via)
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perspektif...,

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Rabu, 6 Agustus 2008 | 10:04 WIB
Tiga Negara Promosikan Ekowisata Kalimantan

MALINAU,RABU - Indonesia, Malaysia, dan Brunei Darussalam akan mempromosikan kawasan Jantung Kalimantan sebagai objek wisata berbasis lingkungan hidup dan budaya.

Jantung Kalimantan atau Heart of Borneo ialah kawasan hutan tropis sekaligus tempat tinggal penduduk asli Kalimantan di pedalaman Kalimantan di Indonesia dan Serawak dan Sabah di Malaysia. Potensi yang bisa dipromosikan ialah keindahan alam dan keanekaragaman hayati sekaligus keunikan budaya dan kehidupan masyarakat adat Dayak.

"Tren pariwisata bergeser dari berbasis massal ke berbasis alam, ekologi, atau petualangan yang dilengkapi keunikan budaya," kata Samedi dari Kelompok Kerja Nasional Jantung Kalimantan Departemen Kehutanan, Rabu (6/8), di sela lokakarya Jantung Kalimantan di Kabupaten Malinau, Kalimantan Timur.

Dengan tren itu, lanjut Samedi, kawasan konservasi seperti tama n nasional dan hutan lindung bisa dipromosikan untuk menarik turis datang. Pemerintah akan mendapat devisa. Masyarakat setempat pun bisa mendapat penghasilan dari menjual pelbagai kerajinan, makanan khas, atau mempertontonkan kesenian.

Dalam catatan Samedi, pariwisata menyumbang 3,6 persen dari PDRB dunia. Nilainya 1,85 triliun dollar AS. Sektor ini bahkan menyerap 231,2 juta pekerja di seluruh dunia.

Namun, pengembangan industri pariwisata Indonesia, menurut Samedi, belum menggembirakan. Dia mengutip data Indonesian Tourism Statistic 2007 yang menyebutkan 4,8 juta turis mancanegara ke Indonesia pada 2006. Devisa yang didapat 4,45 miliar dollar AS. Masih relatif kecil, katanya menegaskan.

Bupati Malinau Marthin Billa mendukung pariwisata khususnya yang berbasis ekologi sebagai penggerak ekonomi daerah. Lagipula ekowisata ialah industri ramah lingkungan, katanya menegaskan. Itu sesuai dengan tekad pemerintah setempat yang mendeklarasikan diri sebagai kabupaten konservasi.

Marthin mengatakan, modal untuk pengembangan ekowisata amat memadai. Seluas 1,9 juta hektar atau hampir separuh luas kabupaten ialah kawasan konservasi yakni taman nasional dan hutan lindung yang relatif masih lebat.

Di sekitar kawasan tinggal sejumlah subsuku Dayak (Kenyah, Kayan, Lundayeh, Punan, Saban, dan Leng Ilo) yang memiliki keunikan budaya. Misalnya, bentuk rumah, ukiran, pakaian, dan tarian.

Mereka juga telah lama punya kearifan dalam mengelola hutan sehingga kondisi hutan kami masih amat baik, kata Marthin. Misalnya, kalangan orang Dayak di Malinau pantang menebang pohon atau mengambil rotan untuk dijual kecuali untuk membangun rumah atau balai adat.

Namun, menurut Marthin, kendala utama yang dihadapi daerah untuk pengembangan pariwisata ialah amat terbatasnya sarana transpor tasi. Daerah-daerah yang eksotik mislanya Long Alango dan Long Pujungan bahkan cuma bisa dijangkau pesawat terbang berkapasitas maksimal lima penumpang.

Malinau yang berbatasan dengan Sarawak bisa dijangkau lewat jalan darat tetapi belum sepenuhnya teraspa l. Lewat udara saat ini amat sulit sebab jadwal penerbangan Cuma dilayani dua maskapai yakni MAF sebagai maskapai misionaris yang lebih bertujuan sosial dan Susi Air yang komersial.
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saya ikut senang mendengar rencana ini.semoga wisata indonesia tdk hanya dikenal melalui bali atau borobudur nya saja, tp juga keindahan alam & keunikan budaya kalimantan nya.



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Taken from GARUDA's Magazine

Kalimantan’s Crown Jewels

Text and Photos by Teguh Sudarisman

Failing to find the Mahakam manatee, I find instead another rare species: black orchids in bloom.

The ces boat piloted by Acong slowly docked on the west side of Melak Harbor on the Mahakam River. Syachraini and I, the only passengers, leapt out of the small canoe with its 16-HP outboard motor and onto the wooden pier.

It was now 12 noon. Since 7.45, we'd been traveling up the Mahakam from Muara Pahu in search of the pesut, or manatee (Orcaella brevirostris), a rare water mammal similar to a dolphin that lives only in the Mahakam. But though we'd had our visual radar on these past four hours, we hadn't seen even one. And we'd spent the previous day, from morning to evening searching for pesut, as far as Lake Jempang and even up the tributaries of the Mahakam'– nothing.

Realizing I now had little chance of seeing a pesut – there are estimated to be only around 80 of them, in a river hundreds of kilometers long, not to mention the many tributaries – Syachraini, my guide, recommended we fall back on "Plan B" and stop off at the black orchid conservation forest at Kersik Luway, around 15 km south of Melak. "I phoned the caretaker last night, and he told me some orchids are in bloom."

Syachraini, who works on the staff of YK-RASI (Yayasan Konservasi-Rare Aquatic Species of Indonesia), which has been monitoring the Mahakam pesut since 2003, had evidently foreseen our difficulty and made an alternative plan, because as soon as we docked at Melak, a friend of his came over and lent us his motorbike.

So we set off, through the market and the city center, then turning south. I was a bit surprised to find that Melak, here in the interior of East Kalimantan around 350 km from the provincial capital, Samarinda, had such wide, well-paved main roads. And we could see cellular towers around, so we shouldn't have any communication problems.

After we passed through a rural area with platform houses on both sides of the road, the road started to get hillier. The main road then turned right, but we kept going straight on the access road to the Kersik Luway conservation forest (also sometimes spelled Kersik Luwai). Still 3.9 km to go, the road sign told us. The road was now made of cream-colored limestone, with dense rubber plantation on both sides. Since it was the dry season, the road was nice and hard, easy for a motorbike or even a car to travel on.

The Kalimantan black orchid (Coelogyne pandurata) is one of the six species in the orchid genus Coelogyne. It's an endemic plant in Kalimantan and also found in Nepal, China, the Philippines, Papua, and many Pacific islands. This orchid can be found in many places in Kalimantan, though the locations are not always that accessible. The Kersik Luway conservation forest is one of the easier places to get to.

Didimus, a conservation forest official who is also on the staff of the East Kalimantan Forestry Service's Natural Resource Conservation Center, welcomed us at the forest entry post. Two personnel are on duty every day at this lonely site. As well as protecting the forest, they escort any visitors who show up. "There are always a few people coming here, mostly tourists from Europe," he said.



The trail to the orchids gave me another surprise; it was made of fine white sand. As it turns out, kersik luway means "silent sand". Since the trees resemble mangroves, someone who saw only a picture might well assume this forest was at the seashore.

According to Didi, this white sandy soil is only found in the part of the conservation forest where the black orchids grow, only around 17.5 hectares. The other parts of the conservation forest, which covers 5,000 hectares, have black sandy soil. This is not a typical forest with thick tall trees, but rather a karangas forest, with slim, low trees no higher than four meters.

The most common type of tree here is the berengganyi, which is also the black orchid's favorite habitat. Its branches are no thicker than an adult's arms; its leaves are bright red, turning to green and then yellow as they mature. It has small yellow fruits that turn black and sweet when they are ripe. Another tree is the pelawan, with red bark; there's also the uwai, somewhat larger, with black wood. There are also ferns (suplir and pakis) and kantung semar, or pitcher plants (Nepenthes). Kersik Luway seems to be heaven for these insectivorous plants, because I found kantung semar of many colors –green, yellow, and red– both hanging from trees and scattered on the ground.

After only a five-minute walk, we entered a denser forest, where it was cooler. Several times the soil collapsed under our feet – loose, crumbly humus that had been decaying here for years. This forest suffered fires in 1982, 1987 and 1997, but fortunately the orchid species were not destroyed. You can still see parts of the forest that are charred and not yet regrown.

And soon we came upon our first black orchid plants, which were not yet blooming, clustering upon the humus at the surface, between the berengganyi trees. The orchid plants have pale green stems, shaped like a flattened tuber, and fibrous roots. The leaves are long and wide like those of a palm. The shoot emerges from the base near the root, then grows into a pale green stem, from which the blossoms eventually emerge, typically between six and ten flowers. It takes around four weeks from the initial emergence of the shoot until the flowers blossom. Black orchid plants blossom anytime, but most abundantly in December. "I don't really know how old the black orchid plants are when they put out their flowers; I only know it takes several years," explained Didi, who has served here since 1996.

As well as black orchids, we came across several other varieties of orchid growing here: Anggrek tebu, a tall variety that resembles sugar cane; anggrek anyaman, anggrek tajuk tuan, and anggrek kipas. "There are also anggrek merpati, buluh rindu, manuntung, kumis kucing, anggrek bulu landak – 57 species in all," Didi noted.

The forest was dense, but there were lots of white sandy trails. I came across another black orchid that was blooming when Didi cleared away a bit of underbrush by the trail, and… surprise! I had assumed that these orchid flowers were entirely black, but no. On this one stalk, which had three blossoms in bloom and three other buds still not opened, each blossom had five pale green petals, much the same shape as kenanga (ylang-ylang) petals. At the base of the petals was a crown, shaped like a bowl, with black filaments containing the head of the bud. From this bowl protrudes a long black tongue adorned with pale green spots as if dusted with powder.



I was stunned by the black that covered the middle part of the flowers "tongues". When examined more closely, the black appeared to be not just a single layer, but more like the accumulation of soot on a car muffler that's never been cleaned. And along the edges are patterns in black resembling tattoos. So unlike most other orchids, whose beauty lies in their luxuriant colors, these black orchids display their beauty through the exotic black structures on the tongue.

If Didi hadn't mentioned that there were still at least three other plants in bloom, and if I hadn't remembered we still wanted to search for the pesut after this, I would have continued photographing this amazing black orchid much longer.

The second black orchid plant had three flowers in blossom and two unopened buds. Looking at these, I suddenly noticed something else: if you draw a vertical line from the tip of the tongue to the bud head, including the five petals, it displays a perfect left/right symmetry!
I followed Didi again, and we passed a wilted black orchid. "If they get too much sun, like this one, they'll wilt within three days," he explained. "But if they're shaded by other plants, the blossoms can last up to a week."

We passed another two clusters of unopened black orchid buds; Didi then pushed aside some berengganyi leaves and revealed another black orchid stem, this one around 50 centimeters long, with four blossoms and four closed buds. I had lost track of where Syachraini was, as we were both engrossed in taking photos. One nice thing about photographing these black orchids is that they grow fairly near the soil surface, so it's no trouble to shoot them.

The fourth black orchid plant I encountered seemed to be the pinnacle of this day's experience, because all eight flowers were in blossom! And they were very nicely arranged too, with five on the left and three on the right. Didi said that when they are fully open, black orchids emit a fragrant aroma. I took a sniff; hard to describe, because it was so subtle, and so different from any other flowers I've smelled before.

We passed some more wilted black orchids; Didi then found an example of another orchid species, anggrek tajuk tuan, that wasn't blooming yet, and I found several spotted pakis ferns. Our trail then led us back the way we had come in, so our tour was over. It had only been an hour and a half, but full of impressions.

We said goodbye to Didi, and to Pak Torung who was coming on duty to relieve him, and we headed back to continue our search for pesut on the way back to our base camp at Muara Pahu. But this time, I wasn't worried whether I saw any pesut or not, because I'd seen something else at least as fascinating.



Garuda Indonesia flies from Jakarta to Balikpapan 41 times a week, from Makassar and Manado 7 times a week.

How to Get There

To get to Kersik Luway, take an eight-hour bus ride from Samarinda's Sei Kunjang terminal to Melak and then continue by'ojek'(motorcycle taxi). Alternatively, take a boat up the Mahakam river from Sei Kunjang, near the bus terminal, to Melak; this takes 20 hours (!). There are also flights from Samarinda to Melalan airfield at Barong Tongkok, 10 km west of Melak, but these are restricted to military, government, and medical purposes.

For accommodation, the Swiss-Belhotel Borneo Samarinda (Tel: +62 541 200 888, E-mail: samarinda@swiss-belhotel.com) is a good first choice. If you want to spend the night at Muara Pahu while searching for pesut, try Penginapan Anna (Tel: +62 812 5517379). Contact Syachraini (Tel: +62 812 5893504) for the pesut trip. There are also plenty of basic hotels and inns in Melak. Two with good views of the Mahakam are Penginapan Flamboyan (Tel: +62 852 46838580) and Penginapan Wijaya Kusuma (Tel: +62 545 41860).
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