5/8/12

Bird Island in Belitung


Bird Island is located on the northern coast of the island in the Pacific Islands off the coast fishing village of Tanjung Binga. Wide island approximately 2 acres, surrounded by white sand and granite boulders scattered on the beach and the sea around the island.


Unique from Bird Island is a large pile of granite stones on the beach east side shaped like the head of a bird unique. According to the local community, the island's name is taken from the stone bird. This bird-shaped stones to be one beauty icon of granite boulders on the Belitung island. Stone size is approximately equivalent to 3-storey buildings with unique formations. Looks like it could split the stone and there are some that look likely skewed due to coastal erosion.

Birds on the island there are several bungalows under coconut trees that you can use to rest. For those of you who like adventure, walking around the island looking for scenery and unique form of granite boulders scattered around the island will make a memorable experience to spend time on the island this bird.


If you want to do snorkeling activities, the location is pretty good for snorkeling around the berbetuk granite head of a bird before. Even if the water is receding sea you can find nemo fish just meters from the beach. The best time for birds to the island is in the late afternoon, especially if you want to take good photos with the background of the bird's head stone. In the afternoon the sun will fall in front of the stone birds in the background. Bird trip to the island takes 30 minutes from the beach of Tanjung Kelayang or 15 minutes from the fishing village of Tanjung Binga. Bird trip to the island is usually done in one trip with a trip to the Lengkuas island. 

Lengkuas Island in Belitung


Lengkuas Island is a small island, located on the north coast village of Tanjung Binga Belitung Islands. The total is less than one hectare. On the island there are many islands surrounding granite rocks that can be achieved simply by walking across a shallow sea with a depth of less than 1.2m. Structure of the granite rocks are also unique and different from other places with a combination of white sandy beaches and trees. The sea is really clear, you can clearly see the bottom of the sea including fish that swim in it. This is a fun place to play in the sea or snorkeling.


Crown of the Lengkuas island is actually an old lighthouse about 50 m, built by the Dutch since 1882. Each visitor is free to rise to the top of the lighthouse. View from the top of the lighthouse is so beautiful Galangal, 360 degrees around the island and its surroundings.


Traveling 30-45 minutes could be achieved by renting a boat from Tanjung Binga. Boat that can carry 30-40 people and it is commonly used fishing boats to fish at night. This boat is unique, where there is order on both sides of the boat which makes it a stable boat sailing on waves despite considerable.

The best time to visit the Lengkuas island is the month of March to November. During this period sea waves tend more quiet, so they can enjoy a boat trip, snorkeling and swimming in clear water. Between the Lengkuas island and the fishing harbor in Tanjung Binga there are other islands called Bird Island. On the way to Lengkuas will pass through this island. The island is slightly bigger than the Lengkuas island, with white sand and rocks on the south side of the granite on the northern side. The most interesting object of Bird Island is a granite stone shaped like a bird found on the coast of the island, because it is also possible island called Bird Island.

Punai Beach in Belitung


Punai beach is the name of a beach on the east side of the island, precisely located in the village of Tanjung Kelumpang. The beach is particularly interesting adventure lovers is located on East side of the Belitung island. This trip will be interesting if you want to see the countryside Belitung. Gantung is the nearest town, about 35 km in the North Cape Kelumpang. It still really has not been built as a tourist destination.


White sandy beaches and in some parts decorated by small granite stones. The atmosphere here is really quiet, except on weekends, you may be able to see some visitors. In front of the beach there is a small island called the Punai island. If sea water is receding, you can walk into this Punai Island, once famous for its many birds pigeon. Kelumpang Tanjung village is a major producer of palm fruit. The village is actually a coconut plantation, including the beach Punai. Scenery in this place different from other beaches, although not as beautiful as Cape High.

Tanjung Binga Beach in Belitung


Tanjung Binga is a fishing village located on the northern coast of Belitung. With the natural beauty of coastal marine and small islands around it combined with the exotic life of traditional fishermen.


The beach is located 22 km North Tanjungpandan city and 8 km on the west side Belitung Island. It is a village with most residents work as fishermen. Interesting places to visit are Mount Berahu, there is a resort and restaurant are also located dipuncak hill overlooking the sea. Also a great view of the beach, with clean white sand though the stones here are not as many and as big as Tanjung Tinggi. 


Off the coast there are also several cottages with white sand, and some granite. The waves were gentle and shallow mouth water. Offshore, there are two small islands, one of which can be reached by walking across the shallow sea. Another interesting sight is the overlay chart traditional fishing boats scattered along the offshore. 

Tanjung Kelayang Beach in Belitung


Tanjung Kelayang is one of the most beautiful beaches, coastal recreation center that periodically flown by hundreds of boats on yachts from abroad in the event Sail Indonesia. It is also a tourist port that is used to perform island hopping tour of the most demanding tourists who come to the Pacific Islands. This beach is located 27 km North of Tanjungpandan.

 
Tanjung Kelayang already known by the local community as a place of recreation since the first. The most interesting sights are the small islands which are formed of large granite boulders are located approximately 300 meters from the end of the beach. The form of stone-like head of a bird, that's what makes the name of this place as Cape Kelayang, where Kelayang is the name of one bird species. Residents around the named rock shaped like a bird's head with a more distinctive name is Stone Garuda.

Tanjung Kelayang famous for its views of the beach where there is a small granite island, about 100 meters from the beach. Shape of the island's granite-like bird. That's what led to this place called Tanjung Kelayang (one of the many names of bird species found there). The size of the small island of about 50m square. Looks beautiful, as you can see on the main image of this page.

Tanjung Tinggi Beach in Belitung


Tanjung Tinggi is the most beautiful beaches and the herb in Belitung, which is flanked by two peninsulas. This white sandy beaches, and unique because there are hundreds of large granite boulders are scattered on both the peninsula and also in the sea in front of the beach. Granite sizes ranging from a few cubic meters to hundreds of cubic feet larger than the building of a house. You can ride, run and jump between the granite to enjoy exclusive views from every angle you are standing. Shape of the boulders were also unique, in part forming the cave, which can be used shelter during rain. The stones were all lumped together to form objects of interest.


The beach is located 30 km north of Tanjung Pandan. Also called the Port of Tanjung Tinggi room. This place was formerly a fishing port for the nearby village Keciput or high point. There are at least twenty simple seafood restaurants along the beach.

5/7/12

Belitung Island in Indonesia


Pacific Islands, or Belitong (the local language, named after a type of sea slug), formerly known as Billiton is an island off the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, flanked by the Gaspar Strait and the Strait of Karimata.

The island is famous for its white pepper (Piper sp.) Is in the local language is called sahang, and type of mining minerals such as tin-C (Stannuum), quartz sand, white clay (kaolin), and granite. And recently became the natural destination alternative. The island was once owned by the United Kingdom (1812), before finally exchanged the Netherlands, together Bengkulu, with Singapore and New Amsterdam (now part of New York). The main town is the Tanjung Pandan. Belitung island is divided into two districts, namely District Billiton, had its capital in Tanjung Pandan, Eastern and Pacific Islands, had its capital Manggar.


Most of the population, especially those living in coastal areas, are very familiar with the rich marine life with the results of marine fish. Variety of processed foods made from fish food everyday population. Marine wealth became a source of livelihoods of Pacific Islands. Natural resources are not less important to people's lives Billiton is tin. Tin mining has been started since the time of the Dutch East Indies. The island population is mainly ethnic Malay Islands (speak a dialect of Pacific Islands) and the Chinese Hokkien and Hakka.
 


Name of the airport in the Pacific Islands are in Tanjungpandan HAS Hananjoedin (TJQ) that can be landed by class Boeing 737-300 aircraft. Islands located in 107o 35 '- 108o 18' latitude and 2 ° 30 '- 3o 15' East longitude. Air temperature during the day between 28-31 degrees Celsius and at night between 24-26 degrees Celsius, for most of the year. Diameter length from east to west and about 79km from north to south is approximately 77km. Total outside the mainland is approximately 480 060 hectares. Islands surrounded by 189 smaller islands. Some are quite large and there are several villages. They were massive Mendanau island, Seliu island, island Nadu, islands and island Selanduk Stone Walls.

On 21 November 2000, based on Law No. 27 of 2000, the island of Bangka Belitung along with split away and form a new province with the name of the Pacific Islands Province Islands. This province is a province-31 in Indonesia. Based on the aspirations of the community and a variety of considerations, Islands District is divided into two districts, namely District Tanjungpandan Islands capital in the coverage area includes the 5th district and the East Pacific Islands District Manggar as its capital with a coverage area includes the four districts.



Beautiful beaches on the island of Belitung

Hotel in Belitung
Presents dozens of hotels that exist in the Belitung. Each hotel has a description, address and phone number to call at any time.


Resto in Belitung
Presents dozens of places to eat and drink in the Belitung. Each restaurant has a number of descriptions, addresses and telephone to call at any time.



5/6/12

The launch of Samsung Galaxy S III


After rumors of its release several times reported, Samsung finally announced the official presence of the Samsung GALAXY S III in the 2012 event in London Samsung unpacked. Samsung Galaxy S III is following the HTC One X that also carries the quad-core processors.


From the specification, the work of the class Android smartphone Samsung is equipped Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich and a quad-core Cortex A9 chipset 1.4 GHz Quad Exynos 4212. For the screens, Samsung Galaxy S III using Super AMOLED screen HD (1280 x 720 pixels) measuring 4.8 inches. This is the largest screen size Samsung ranks number 2 in the Galaxy (after Galaxy Note). 
The camera performance is also given special attention. To the rear camera, S III presents 8 MP camera with features HDR, flash and fast performance with no lag. While the front of the camera has 1.9 megapixel resolution supports that can record HD video. Given battery capacity is also improved, reaching 2100mAh. 
One feature S III lies in the design and the design approach that is more oriented to the user. Galaxy S III can recognize faces, movements and voice users. 
Through the "Stay Smart", S III camera will detect your eyes and adjust the display settings according to the activity being performed. Also there is the "S Voice" which can be heard and capture your greeting. With the "S Voice", you can play your songs, adjust volume, send SMS and email, to schedule or activate the camera, just by the sound. Glance similar to the existing features of the iPhone 4S Siri. 


But because they have not tried it directly, we can not comment further. Features "Smart Alert" will translate your movements. Suppose you're typing an SMS, but decided to call that person, simply lift the S III to the ear and the phone will immediately call the person. When you pick up the phone is off the table (after leaving it a few times), Galaxy S III will vibrate and display a list of missed calls (if any) and other notifications.

Galaxy features a row of S III is still continuing. You will find the NFC, AllShare Cast (S III connects to the TV without the cable), AllShare Play (sharing files between the smartphone, tablet, PC and TV), Group Cast (sharing information in the display to other devices via Wi-Fi network ), S Beam (share files just by touching the S III to S III that other phones), Wi-Fi Channel Bonding (doubling the bandwidth of a Wi-Fi), Pop Up Play (play the video on the screen while running other applications such as email or web simultaneously).

Samsung Galaxy S III will be available in two versions: a version of the LTE (specifically the U.S.) and the version of HSPA + (international). Our friends in Europe will get first chance to have it at the end of this May, followed by other countries.

For Indonesia, there is still no definite timetable. While the issue price, the Samsung GALAXY S III will sell for 499 pounds or about $ 7 million.