Jambi Tourism Travel Guide
Jambi Tourism Travel Guide and Tourist Information.
Jambi is the one of province in Indonesia, located on the east coast of Central Sumatra faces to Malaka Straits sharing borders with four other provinces in Sumatra and has long a melting pot for different ethnic groups. The earliest inhabitants were the Kubus, who were among the first wave of Malays to migrate to Sumatra. The ancient kingdom of Melayu developed and grew in Jambi and maintained relations with the mighty kingdoms of Sriwijaya, Majapahit and Singasari, but was eventually attacked and annexed by Sriwijaya in the middle of the 17th century.
The capital city of Jambi Province is Jambi, covered an area of 53,435.72 km2 and 185 km long costline. Almost 60% consisting of forest area has made the province not only the home of a large variety of fauna and flora but also an exciting place for the sporty and adventure types. Geographicaly, Jambi Province is located between 0º45' - 2º45' South Latitude and between 101º0'- 104º55' East Longitude.
Jambi Province borders are :
North, with Riau Province.
Southern, With South Sumatera Province.
Western, with West Sumater Province.
East, with the South China Sea.
A native of Jambi Province consists of several tribes : Melayu Jambi, Batin, Kerinci, Penghulu, Pindah, Kubu Tribe (Anak Dalam), and Bajau. Majority of the population living along and around Batanghari river. Kubu tribe or Anak Dalam regarded as the oldest tribe in Jambi, as has been settled before the coming of other tribes. They estimated that the descendants of soldiers-soldiers Minangkabau who intend to expand the area of Jambi. While there is information that the tribe is descended from the tribe of Wedda with Negrito tribe, which is then referred to as tribes Weddoid.
This province has a number of areas such as nature reserve Kerinci Seblat National Park, Bukit Tiga Puluh/30 and Berbak. Kerinci Seblat National Park is a conservation area with prime complete ecosystem, starting from low rainforest area, up to sub-alpine area. Some areas may represent high wetland like peat lake, freshwater swamp and volcanogenic lake.
The Bukit Tigapuluh National Park consist more than 143,143 hectares area on the low land area of eastern Sumatra, included into two provinces, Riau and Jambi. This area is also interesting in its natural features of its geology, like the 30 mountains intrusive complex, folded tertiary sediments, and some offer science breakthrough. Old tribe which characterize most of Central Sumatra forest is also one uniqueness you will find inside this park like Talang Mamak tribe.
Berbak National Park is a national park area on the eastern coastline of Central Sumatra included in Ramsar Convention for international wetland conservation. The uniqueness of this national park lies on its wetland ecosystem which become one unity of swamp ecosystem, freshwater swamp ecosystem and coastline ecosystem.
Tourism point on this place is for trekking to Mount Kerinci and the surrounding National Park. The Kubu are indigenous people of southern Sumatra. Some of the Kubu Tribe, more than 1000 people, still live the traditional way of the hunter-gatherer. There have also been many stories of the Gugu, half human, half apes living in the forests around Jambi. Just west of Jambi city is the village of Solok Sipin with the majority of the village being floating houses on the Batang Hari River.
Jambi tourism travel guide and tourist information popular destination :
Mount Kerinci.
Mount Kerinci (also popular as Mount Kerenci, Gadang, Berapi Kurunci, Korinci, or Mount Indrapura) is the highest mountain summit in Sumatra and the highest in Indonesia outside Papua. Mount Kerinci is situated in the stretch of Bukit Barisan hill range nearly West Ocean about 130 kilometers northern of Padang City. It is the most popular fiture at Kerinci Seblat National Park. Mount Kerinci has highest summit at 3895 meters on the sea level offering exotic panorama on all points of the compass.
A climb to the top of Mount Kerinci or one of many other volcanoes shows an important and remarkable change in vegetation; lower trees, which are covered in mush and sub-alpine meadows and swamps at the top, gradually replace high trees. A remarkable flower on higher altitudes is the Javanese edelweiss Anaphalis javanica, which only grows on volcanoes. This flower usually reaches four meters in height and is colored white-green because of its small hairs; the flowers are yellow with white. The peak of the volcano itself is bald, because of the last eruption in 1934. The park also houses the biggest flowers in the world, the monstrous, flesh red flower of the parasite Rafflesia arnoldi and the two-meters-high flower-flames of Amorphophallus titanum.
Lake Kerinci.
Lake Kerinci covers an area of 4,200 ha, the Lake Kerinci is sorrounded by mountains and hills. Around the lake visitor can also find several carved stones, the archeological remains of Megalithic Age. Every year there is a big celebrtion in the area of the lake Kerinci Recreational Park called Lake Kerinci Festival (Festival Masyarakat Peduli Danau kerinci).
The festival first held in 1999, this week long cultural event celebrates the lake's importance as a vital source of fish and livelihood for opportunity to see many kinds of traditional Kerinci dance and hear local music. During the festival, the park grounds are also littered by a sea and stalls selling local foods, fruits and snack items as well as souvenirs and other goods.
Kerinci Seblat National Park.
Kerinci Seblat National Park is the largest National Park in Sumatera. It has a total area of 13,750 km2, and spans four provinces : Jambi, West Sumatra, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. Kerinci Seblat National Park is located between 100°31'18"E - 102°44'01"E and 1°07'13"S - 3°26'14"S. Together with South Bukit Barisan and Mount Leuser National Parks it forms a World Heritage Site, Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra. The park area includes a large part of the Barisan mountain range, including the highest peak in Sumatra, Mount Kerinci (3,895 m). The park includes hot springs, rivers with rapids, caves, scenic waterfalls and the highest caldera lake in Southeast Asia - Mount Lake Tujuh.
The park is home of up to 129 species of birds, 36 mammalians with 24 protected, 10 species of reptiles, 6 species of amphibians, and 8 species of primates. There are also 4000 floras dominated by family of Dipterocarpaceae. Some of these are highly endangered, especially the animals like Sumatera Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatraensis), Wild Mountain Goat (Capricornis sumatraensis), Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sumatraensis), Sumatran Elephant (Elephanus maximus sumatranus), Dead Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) and Rafflesia Flower (Rafflesia arnoldi).
Bukit Duabelas National Park and Kubu Tribe.
Sprawling across three regencies; Sarolangun, Batanghari and Tebo, Bukit Dua Belas National Park has its own uniqueness as it is inhabited by Kubu Tribe (Anak Dalam Tribe, also known as Forest People in Indonesia call it Orang Rimba). Kubu Tribe have been living in this area for decades where they interact with nature and take care of each other. They still embrace their tradition. It takes at least three to five days in order to learn about their habits and experience the living in natural open space.
This national park has various valuable natural endemic resources such as Meranti, Kempar, Balam, Tembesu, Petaling and Keruing. Wide range of endangered plants and animals can be found there such as simpai and siamang, birds, reptiles, amphibians, rattan, jernang, orchid and herbs. Beside the park there is also other tourism object on this place, such as ; Black Ulu hot spring, Batang Asai river with its swift current suitable for white water rafting and Muara Kutur dam that irrigates the rice fields of farmers living around the area. Read More Kubu Tribe >>
Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park.
Bukit Tiga Puluh National Park has low land tropical rain forest ecosystem. Its forest is the transition between mangrove forest and hilly forest. Having unique ecosystem makes this park different from others as it lies in steep hills in the middle of eastern part of Sumatra’s low land at the border of Jambi and Riau Province. In Jambi the park occupies two regencies, West Tanjung Jabung (10,000 hectares) and Tebo (23,000 hectares).
Wide range of animals can be found here. There are 59 kinds of mammals, 199 species of birds and 19 species of bats. The forest is dominated by dipterocarpaceae. There are about 1.500 species of plants within this area. Some of endangered species are highly protected here like Dead flower (rafflesia hasseltii and rafflesia arnoldi), amorphophallus SP, and some endangered animals like Sumatran tiger (panthera tigris sumatraensis), tapir (tapirus indicus), primates like Siamang (symphalangus syndactylus), Ungko (hylobates sp), birds (bocerotidae and argusianus argus).
In this area also can find Kubu Tribe, Katalo waterfall, Bulian Berdarah waterfall, Pancuran Gading waterfall, cave, panorama of Batang Sumay, sacred grave, the habitat of kleso fish (arwana) at Mangatai river and the crying stone.
Muaro Jambi Temples.
Muaro Jambi Temple was built estimated earlier than Borobudur Temple, it can be seen from the journal of a famous Chinese scholat named I Tsing who visited Jambi in the seventh century. The information about Borobudur itself was written on the stone in the 800s. Sriwijaya became the important place for the Buddhist from China to learn about their religion . It is proven by the discovery of chinaware and coin originated from Tang, Sung and Ming dynastes . Muaro Jambi temple has become more than just a sacred place to visit.
Muaro Jambi Temples is located about 25 kilometres south of the town of Jambi. This temple may not be as attractive as Borobudur which was made of volcanic stones displaying the great work of art and whose statues and relief are still intact, but Muaro Jambi was built, just like any other Sumatran temples, with terra cotta bricks, which undoubtedly prone to weather. Yet, the remains speak of its glory during its heyday. There are several temples that can be found in Muaro Jambi Temple site and some of them have been restored; Gumpung temple where the statue of Pradjnaparamita was found. It is the second most beautiful statue after Ken Dedes statue in Singosari, Tinggi temple, Kembar Batu temple, Gedong I and Gedong II temple where Dwarapala statue and Gajah Singa statue were found, Kedaton and Koto Mahligai .
There are still hundreds of stones buried in this site that occupies an area of 120 hectares. Muaro Jambi is a complete theological site. Besides having hundreds of worshipping temples, the remains of monks dormitary and reservoir known as Telago Rajo can also be found here
Berbak National Park.
Berbak National Park is a national park area on the eastern coastline of Central Sumatra included in Ramsar Convention for international wetland conservation. The uniqueness of this national park lies on its wetland ecosystem which become one unity of swamp ecosystem, freshwater swamp ecosystem and coastline ecosystem. This park is dominated by pandanaceae family, up to 10 species, even for Aracaceae has up to 27 species.
By canoeing through the swamp river canal, visitor can enjoy the undisturbed wildlife on the river side and canopies. Up to 300 species of birds are living peacefully inside the park. Some exotic birds like, Wild duck (Cairina Scutulata), and all species of Raja Udang (Alcenedenidae), and also 9 species of Rangkong (Bocerotidae).
Migrant birds up to thousands, which reside off their Siberian – Australian journey, especially during October – March season, really amaze any human being as you will find them blackening the coast horizons. Rimates also dominates the canopies during your canoe traverse
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