After conducting comparative studies in several areas in Bali, yesterday (15/12) Regent Abdullah Azwar Anas began to introduce new tourist destinations to the public. The introduced ecotourism-based destination is located at the Kalibendo . Plantation, Kampung New Village, Glagah District.
The Dutch heritage plantation company has extraordinary natural tourism potential. It is just, this potential has not been fully exploited and is only used by local tourists every weekend vacation. Although many foreign tourists come to the plantation site, but not for vacation, but more on study tours about the potential of the plantations on the slopes of Mount Ijen. To maximize the potential of natural tourism,.
local governments encourage plantations to develop natural tourism as family tourism destinations in order to have an economic impact on communities around plantations. The idea submitted by Regent Anas was quickly responded to by the plantation party. The first step taken by the plantation is to build a bicycle track along the 3,5 kilometers and jogging track along 500 meter.
The pancal bicycle track was made by walking along the clove plantation area, coffee, and rubber tree plantation area. Although the distance of the pancal bicycle track is not too long, it's only about 3,5 km only, but the terrain is quite challenging and interesting for tourists to visit. Tourists who come to the Kalibendo Plantation will be invited to walk through the factory area to see the clove production process, coffee and rubber processing.
In addition to seeing the production process, tourists will also be invited to tour the ancient Dutch heritage buildings that are still functioning as the Kalibendo Plantation office. After finishing walking around the factory area and plantation office, tourists will be invited to tour the garden using a pancal bicycle through the provided track. To go around the plantation, tourists will start from the Kalibendo Plantation office.
When traveling around on a bicycle, visitors will meet thousands of clove tree plants standing tall. There, tourists will be told the history of clove cultivation, clove production, clove fruit yields and other information about clove plants. After passing through the clove plantation area, tourists will be met with a stretch of thousands of rubber tree plants that stand tall.
In this rubber tree area, visitors will enjoy the fresh air from the neatly planted rubber trees. Satisfied walking around the rubber garden, tourists will meet coffee plantations. In this coffee growing area, tourists are provided with facilities in the form of Pondok Robusta with several available facilities such as chairs and tables made of wood and bamboo. In this place, tourists can rest for a while after traveling by bicycle from the Plantation factory.
In that Robusta hut too, tourists can enjoy coffee and tea. The plantation provides coffee produced by the Kalibendo Plantation and some typical Banyuwangi snacks at affordable prices. In this place too, tourists can also see the production process of typical Banyuwangi snacks while enjoying coffee and tea in the morning. After relieving fatigue, tourists can continue the journey to a rubber hut built in the middle of a stretch of rubber trees.
In this rubber hut, tourists can get typical Banyuwangi morning advice. While eating a typical breakfast using, visitors will be introduced to the production produced by the Kalibendo Plantation. This rubber hut too, tourists can walk around to see rubber tree plants whose age is above 20 year. Tourists can also see the process of tapping rubber in a hurry. In a day, Rubber tree tapping is carried out in the morning and afternoon. The results of the morning tapping, will be harvested at noon.
While the afternoon tapping, will be taken in the afternoon. Tourists are free to choose morning or afternoon visits. After enjoying breakfast at the rubber hut, tourists will be invited to continue the journey. This time, road tourists do not use pancal, but will walk along the jogging track down around 145 stairs to Kalibendo river. In this place, tourists can enjoy the waterfall and can enjoy the fresh water of the Kalibendo river.
After descending at the bottom of the river, tourists on foot will pass a fairly challenging incline through clove trees. Success through the incline, tourists will enter the finish in the employee housing area. The plantation company also provides lodging for tourists who will spend the night. "Next year, we will develop flower plants,” said the Director of Plantation Kalibendo, Chandra.
Regent Abdullah Azwar Anas together with the SKPD leadership yesterday conducted a trial on the pancal bicycle track and jogging track. Regent Anas with several department heads, successfully passed the challenging track along the plantation area. While some department heads, many fall before reaching the finish. On the incline of the rubber plantation after the clove garden, several service heads and sub-district heads were forced to get off their bicycles. There are those who immediately put their bicycles on the trucks and some of them walk up the incline while guiding their bicycles.
Ready for this jogging track, will not be introduced this year but will only be launched in 2014. However, due to strong encouragement from Regent Anas, then the plantations can't move and have to introduce new tourist destinations to the public. The delay in launching the new tourist destination, quite reasonable. Before launching, the plantation party will still prepare the infrastructure for nature tourism. One of them, the plantation side will still build a cliff cafe.
The cafe will be built on the cliffs of the Kalibendo river, below which the background of flowing river water. This cliff cafe, will be built in 2014 coming. "This is just a soft launch. The grand launching will be held after the construction of the cliff cafe is complete,"said Regent Anas. His party appreciates the fast work of the Kalibendo Plantation. To other private parties, Anas encourages doing the same innovations and creations to trigger Banyuwangi's economic growth. (radar)
