Pontianak (Borneo)

Pontianak, where I lived for 8 years. Places that have a lot of memories for me. This place has so much warmth. Those who are friends, so many trees and also the tourist attractions that can be visited. Here are some of the sights that can be visited: 1. PONTIANAK Zoos Fraser Street is located in Pontianak Adisucipto, currently has more than 50 collections of animals, among others, owl, sea eagle, pecuk snake, stork, cassowary, cockatoo and tekukur. In addition there are orangutans, various types of Primate, civet cat, porcupine, bear, crocodile and others. Animals-animals are from community ... more

Where is the Pontianak? Pontianak, a city on the Kalimantan island, Indonesia country, was founded by Abdurrahman Syarif Alkadrie on October 23, 1771, which is located on the first corner in the three rivers, namely: Landak river, Kapuas river, and Kapuas Kecil river. Kapuas river are the most long in Indonesia (1.1 mega meters), which split the Pontianak city. From the city of Pontianak to Kuching (Malaysia) can be by road. Have occurred many trade and tourism relations between the two cities. Pontianak city famous as the equator, due to be zero degrees latitude earth. Therefore, in this city ... more

It may be my imagination but I'm pretty sure this category didn't exist last week, and I know because I wanted to write something about Kalimantan and couldn't, and then decided I was feeling too lazy to create a new category. So, I don't know who realised that the Kalimantan session was missing from Indonesia but their decision to put it in was timely, because I got back from there about a week ago. And what is there to say? Well, first a quick geography lesson: Kalimantan is the Indonesian chunk of the massive island of Borneo, the rest of which belongs to Malaysia and a tiny bit to Brunei ... more