Tempak Asyik Main Pokemon di Pontianak

by red-white-cross.blogspot.com

Sebagai guideline, tempat yang asyik untuk nongkrong main Pokemon harusnya tempat yang ada Pokestop (kalau bisa beberapa) dan Pokegym. Untuk lokasi Pokestop di Pontianak, sedikit banyak sudah ditunjukkan di postingan ini. Sekarang penulis akan menginformasikan beberapa spot yang asyik untuk nongkrong main dan tangkap Pokemon di Pontianak.

If you happen to visit Pontianak City and would like to sight seeing the city at the same time catching Pokemon, here are a few places that convenient to do so:

1. Tangkap Pokemon di Alun-Alun Kapuas, Pontianak Waterfront

Alun-alun Kapuas tepat terletak di pusat kota, di jalan Rahadi Usman Pontianak. Tempatnya sudah tertata dengan rapi dan ada kursi-kursi taman maupun kursi model stadium di sana. Asyik sekali untuk main Pokemon karena ada tiga Pokestop di lokasi yang semuanya berdekatan, plus satu Pokegym. Bisa main sampai puas dan kehabisan Pokeball karena supply Pokemon yang muncul akan terus ada , dijamin deh tidak akan ngganggur kalau nge-Pokemon di sini. Berikut screenshot dan photo.

Pontianak's Alun-Alun Kapuas or Kapuas River Waterfront located right in the middle of the city. It is at Jl. Rahadi Usman. The place had been maintained well for tourist standard, has good sightseeing the Kapuas river. The place is also safe as there are security post in the location. You will busy to catch Pokemon because the site have three Pokestop with readily luring status, and one Pokegym. I guarantee you will encounter Pokemon almost every minutes. Playing until your battery drop and if you short of Pokeball, there are Pokestop to stopping by.

Lokasi strategis main Pokemon di Alun-Alun Kapuas Pontianak

Suasana masyarakat Pontianak main Pokemon di Alun-alun Kapuas

2. Nongkrong Main Pokemon di Museum Pontianak

Museum Daerah Pontianak di Jalan A,Yani juga merupakan tempat nongkrong yang asyik buat catching Pokemon. Tempat ini lebih kecil , tapi karena ada Museumnya, jadi juga tertata rapi dan aman. Di belakang Museum Pontianak ada taman yang bisa dipakai untuk duduk duduk santai dan berselfie ria. Ada 2 Pokestop dan 2 Pokegym yang berdekatan di Museum Pontianak.

Pontianak Museum is another place to hang and play Pokemon. If you are a tourist, this place is the only museum available to learn about Pontianak history. The place have two nearby Pokestop and Pokegym. Place is safe, located in busy road Jl A. Yani.

Cap Go Meh 2013 Pontianak dan Festival Kuliner

Acara perayaan Cap Go Meh kembali digelar di ibukota Kalimantan Barat, Pontianak. Pusat kegiatan perayaan akan difokuskan di jalan Diponegoro. Jalan ditutup untuk memberi pejalan kaki menikmati pasar malam sekaligus pusat Kuliner dengan lebih nyaman. Festival ini berlangsung dari hari Kamis 21 February 2013 sampai 24 Februari 2013 dari pagi hingga malam.

Arakan Naga direncanakan akan meramaikan suasana di hari Minggu tanggal 23 February 2013 di kota Pontianak. Sedangkan di kota Singkawang, festival Cap Go Meh akan dilangsungkan juga, sesuai tradisi masyarakat Tionghoa di sana 'tatung' akan ikut diterjunkan untuk meramaikan suasana. Festival Cap Go Meh ini dinikmati semua lapisan masyarakat Kalimantan Barat yang majemuk dan hangat.

Foto-foto dari Festival Kuliner di jalan Diponegoro Pontianak.

gerbang Festival Kuliner Pontianak Cap Go Meh

(foto2 J.B)

aksi Tatung menjelang Cap Go Meh 2013 Pontianak di klenteng Kwan Ti Bio

(foto unknown sources)

 

Atraksi Naga di Pontianak, Cap Go Meh 2013

(foto S.Liang)

Atraksi Naga di Pontianak Jalan Gajahmada Cap Go Meh 2013

(foto S. Liang)

Arakan naga yang melewati kota Pontianak dan pemukiman, Cap Go Meh 2013

(foto J.B)

 

Pontianak Snack Tau Suan

This is Tau Suan or split bean soup. Tau Suan or Lek Tau Suan is regular found in the dawn morning time, traditionally serve on "gerobak" or cart hawker. Traditionally a chinese culinary, a must have for all Pontianak City / Kundian traveller.

More information : Tau Suan / Split green bean soup

Pontianak City for Backpacker

Pontianak is the largest city in West Kalimantan, province in Indonesia. It is one of lesser known destination in this archipelago nation, but worth traveling to. In recent days, I begin to see a lot of Western travelers storming the city. Most of them look like a travelers in "backpacking genre" aka. the backpackers. They are budget travelers and trying to reach as many place but with as minimun as possible in cost. I think this is quite a good sign that this little capital of province begin to emerge as one of the route for Backpacking travelers.

Pontianak is a good stopping route for two reasons:
1. Its has a land transport that goes to Kuching, capital of Sarawak (Malaysia). The travel time is approx. 6-8 hours daily, and in quite a number of bus company running the route. The cost is around Rp. 130,000 per person.

2. Its has a direct air transport to Singapore, via Batavia Air at around Rp. 900,000. The travel time is approx. 1 hours and air tickets around Rp. 900,000. As well air transport to Kuching in half the travelling time and cost to Singapore.

If you like to land yourself to the third largest island on Earth, Western Kalimantan should be a better choice rather than go to the Eastern for those both reason above. It can direct you to Sarawak, which is a better organized site for tourism.

Now, after you landed on Pontianak airport, Supadio, the only transport reliable to back to the CBD of Pontianak is via airport taxi, which is around Rp. 50,000/trip. In the CBD the standard hotel will be cost very cheap due to IDR against your western currency. Pontianak don't have the vibe of backpacking hostel style accomodation yet, (it has, but mainly a homestay or for business salesman from other island of Indonesia, mean it can not accomodate even an English speaking services).

The public transportation is quite an amaze, for it's almost will not serves foreigner/outsider well. This is due to the lack of information on the public transportation without asking around. The city commuting transport is a small colorful mini van, which is named as "Penjara", "Gajahmada", "Jawi" route rather than numbered. And most of it differentiated by its color. So if you plan to travel via this mini van, try to research by asking around. The cost is very cheap.

The other alternatives is travelling a short distances via the tricycle, or "becak". The concept is similar to a taxi, which you can ask to transport you to your destined addresses. And finally a city cab is available as well.

Now, what should you do in Pontianak. While the beauty of Western Kalimantan mostly can be enjoyed outside Pontianak (the western coastal site is the recomendation), the city itself is a small busy in economic activities. So less tourism site around, .... but , if you enjoy street walk, and cuisine (mostly Chinese cuisine is well representated here), try to walk around the Jalan Gajahmada , Jalan Tanjung Pura dan Jalan Pattimura for city viewing. These roads will have lots of street food that cook original and authentic local foods.

And if you really get lost in the city (or doesn't even understand what I'm writing), just type in a comments, and I will answer for you. Or even organized a city viewing..... for foreigner only.

Kapuas River, one of sceneries to look up in Pontianak

Cap Go Meh Singkawang 2011 Video

Here uploaded Cap Go Meh Singkawang 2011 video. Showing Tatung street festival and "Jelangkung" / Basket Ghost attraction.

Cap Go Meh 2011 Tatung

2011 Tatung festival in Singkawang, photo impression. For other posting see here.

Tatung Festival on Tribune Diponegoro

Ethnic dance in Chinese, Malay and Dayak costume.
Photos by "H"

Cap Go Meh 2011 in Singkawang

Singkawang,120km away from Pontianak City, this small city is even more famous than Pontianak for its Cap Go Meh celebration. For this 2011 year, the city put in even more solid attractions to attract more national and international tourist. The attractions includes : Tatung festive, Old Singkawang Photography Exhibition, Lantern Eve. Festive etc. The final attraction and closing ceremony happened in local football stadium. Here're some photos from the events :

Tatung parade in Singkawang 2011

Tatung Parade

The Closing Ceremony, children wearing ethnic costume to celebrate the
diversity of Singkawang

Thousand Palms Kwan Im Dance in Closing Ceremony

Korean Arirang dance

The lions ushered in the year of Rabbit

Singkawang city decoration

Memoar Orang Singkawang Photo Exhibition

Chinese New Year in Pontianak City

Pontianak City (="Khun tien" in Chinese dialect) is a capital of Indonesia's West Kalimantan (Borneo) province. Home to a large Chinese community, it is no doubt prepared himself ready to celebrated the 2011 Chinese New Year. The festival was especially celebrated in the city's signature street, Jl. Gajahmada, where lots of Chinese cuisine decorated in the street side. To ushered the Lunar new year, the less than a kilometer street also has additional decoration, the red lanterns.

Briefly trying to survive the urban development, the lanterns found themself enough space to blend into the street's facade. The Jl.Gajahmada street facade is signatured with many chinese-style "ruko" or shop house, now being in a danger of being vanished. Shop owner choose the modern yet uninspiring metal cladding to covered their building as a decoration. Quite a shame, but for this little concern, the red lanterns still provide enough evidence, that the street will never in danger for its lack of excitement over Chinese New Year.

Come to the City, briefly an hour flight from Singapore and Jakarta, it is a home of multietnis town and exotic food.

Pontianak Snack : Chai Kueh

Chai Kueh is a very popular street snack in Pontianak (Khun Dian), West Kalimantan Indonesia. You can buy it from 'toko kueh' or snack shop near the wet market. But the most interesting is the Chai Kueh still available via street seller who distribute the snack door to door in city area. Per piece is about Rp.500 to Rp.1000, that is about 10 to 20 Singapore cents only!!!

See photos here and for more info see this blog.

Street Seller selling Chai Kueh