Typical marine tourism activities Tidung Island

Tidung Island, Thousand Islands, domestic tourists packed on Saturday (05/14/2011). It is also associated with a long vacation ahead of Vesak. They mostly came from Jakarta, Bekasi, Tangerang, and Depok.

Based on the observation Kompas.com, seemed too foreign tourists. Most come in the party. Some managers and homestay accommodation are met Kompas.com estimate tourist arrivals reached 400 people. This can be seen from the full lodging and rental bikes.

"But it's still quiet if you ask me, can usually more crowded again. Today I will be four rent snorkel equipment," said Adam, one of the residents who rent out snorkeling and diving equipment.

Meanwhile, Mahmud, one of the people who manage the homestay said the wave of tourists visit the peak school holiday season.

"In the Lebaran holidays also congested. Get to 4,000 people," he said. Tidung Island has become one of the favorite destinations on the Thousand Islands region, in addition to the island of Java and the island of Lucky Boy Scouts.

In Tidung Island, an active local community becomes the perpetrator of tourism. They manage a simple inn or make the house as an inn. In addition, residents are also kiosks, providing rental for snorkeling and diving, boat rental, to provide a means of transport such as rickshaws and bicycles.

Mahmud said that every family would enjoy the economic results of the arrival of tourists. "So we are pleased that many are coming. The more that come, we actually helped," he said.

He added that tourist arrivals began to increase from mid-2009. Since then, he continued, economic improvement Tidung Island people really feel.

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Snorkeling at sunset on the island Tidung

There are some things that become mandatory activities when they travel to Tidung Island, largest island of the group of islands in the Thousand Islands.
Must cobain. Yet to Tidung name if you do not jump from here.

Once the landing foot and put the luggage at the inn - which is nothing but houses - already available bicycles parked in front of the house. Tidung any adventure around the beginning of a simple transportation tool, but always managed to cause homesickness.

For those who are no longer accustomed to cycling may need time to adapt to the meandering streets that resemble the alley. From an area of ​​dense settlement, so long along the beach fenced off many plants and decorated with rows of coconut trees. So cool and breezy wind dancing in the middle of the hubbub cycling.

After a satisfying round, the next mandatory activity is soon to take place snorkeling equipment. Each person is dealt and once again brought the bike up to a specified place.

However, visitors can choose, according to the price of package trips are taken, whether snorkeling around the island Tidung or snorkeling around the Island or Island Air Umbrella which means having to use the ship first. Not infrequently, they are just swimming around the island Tidung will explore various points. Under the bridge connecting the island Tidung Large and Small Tidung, or even to the end of the Small Tidung which means having to walk into it first.

But when the sun began to set everyone seemed to have had a fixed purpose: to bridge the Big Island and Tidung Tidung Small, which is the longest bridge in the Thousand Islands. The bridge became a kind of meeting point, where we could see almost all visitors who visit the Tidung.

Visitors are most young people also have rituals: a free fall from the peak heights san plunged into the sea. Many are deliberately standing in line, even repeatedly do it for the feeling of adrenaline flowing when interested in gravity flow.

"Must cobain. Not to Tidung name if you do not jump from here," said Trisna sudden smile, as if a moment doubted that his group was composed of eight women will be able to do it.

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