With luck, we can meet with proboscis - a long yellow tail monkey with a long nose snout. Kembang Island we can enjoy close colony of monkeys numbering in the hundreds or even thousands expected.
Kembang Island is a delta area of 60 hectares located in the middle of the Barito River and is the habitat of long-tailed macaques (monkeys) and several species of birds. In 1976, the island was designated as a forest tour
The island itself is managed by the Natural Resources Conservation Agency of South Kalimantan, the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation, Ministry of Forestry. On this island, we can enjoy the atmosphere of the island middle of the river. This island is located not far from Port Trisakti, where the big ships before entering Port Trisakti must pass the island kingdom of the ape.
Just 10 minutes from the Floating Market, you can get to Kembang Island. But do not be surprised when some 100 meters ahead of the island's dock your boat greeted the ape. They can swim each race among a herd of monkeys just to find food that we had brought. Do not be surprised if we carry bag or plastic bag they suspected tampered no food for them. Initially awful, but they are not fierce because the herd is already familiar with the ape man.
Here the visitors can chat with apes who are used to steal food brought visitors. Looks like apes here are already accustomed to humans and the food that was given by the visitors. The atmosphere in Kembang Island so crowded with a frenzied sound of monkeys which each scrambling peanut skin, bananas are brought, visitors.
On the other hand, there are also visitors who are busy running here and there from fear approached by monkeys. Primates that have the closest kinship with this man lives in Kembang Island earthy swamp and surrounded by fast-Barito River. They seem to really take advantage of the food by a visitor or manager.
Kembang Island does not have diverse vegetation to monkeys living. The monkeys that are the appeal of this Kembang Island, hopefully, this does not become extinct primates and maintained so that the charm of island life can still be enjoyed by other visitors on other occasions.
Kembang Island is one of the objects that can be visited after the floating market. The island of 60 hectares of forest has been used as an official tourist. The place is very easy to visit, as many boats that can take you to get to this place. The island is inhabited by long-tailed macaques.
Many stories that explain the origin of this place. One story, namely Kembang Island derived from Chinese junks, Law Kem Bang, lost and then destroyed by the Biaju in the 1750s on the orders of Sultan Banjar. The wreckage of a used boat and overgrown with trees and transformed into an island then inhabited by monkeys. According to local belief, the monkeys came the reincarnated spirits.
Ancestors of Chinese
From the story, the Chinese community built a temple and statue of Hanuman in Kembang Island. As a result, many Chinese people who make pilgrimages to this place to pray ancestral spirits of their ancestors. In addition, according to myth, on this island, there is a very great apes and the king of the apes.
In addition to being a place thousands of apes, where it is also a temple that is usually used by the visitors to put offerings or implement intentions. The island is often associated with mystical events. Many of the visitors who claim to have mystical things like seeing the bridge that connects the island with the mainland Flower; a glimpse of the white-clad prince riding a horse passing over the bridge, and so forth.
If fear of the monkeys, you are advised not to set foot on the island dock. Upon arrival at the pier, you will be greeted by dozens of monkeys who ask for food
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