Mangrove Tourism! Let’s visit Mempawah Mangrove Park ? This Effort to create Mangrove Coast vegetation based ecological tourism destination alias Bakau has been undertaken since last April. Yesterday, on Thursday (23/8/16), it has been inaugurated by Vice Regent Gusti Ramlan. The greatness of Mangrove itself is not less exciting than the Movie of Jurrasic Park. (please, find out more by yourself)
But certainly, Mempawah that is only 80 kilometers from the city of Pontianak has determination to organize the district to be a favorite destination in addition to working on the industrial sector. Yes, the tourism industry is not out of the grip of economy.
Development of Mempawah Mangrove Park , which is popular with the acronym MMP raised by the community of Mempawah Mangrove Conservation. Then, the Bank of Indonesia came and disbursed social assistance, so the beach of Pasir Village turned into a mangrove forests based natural Tourism alias, Bakau.
What things are there, except the mangrove “forest”? Yes, of course there is a number of amenities such as various information about the mangrove, the sidewalk with curvaceous and wide coastal scenery as long as 300 meters now.
There are also facilities of “rest room”, 8 units of Atawa Kano boats that can be used by the visitors to go along the coastal of mangrove forests, as well as children’s play facilities. Well, what are you waiting for? Pay a visit to the Bakau Park, uh, I mean The Mangrove Park (TMP). It is not far. It is only 80 kilometers away from Pontianak city. (Adapted from the exposed materials of mainsteam social media and media)
Translators: Nur Asuda, Christina Sallem