TOURISM POTENCIES

Handycrafts and Sauvenirs

One of attractive things for the visitor to visit Banjarmasin is various types of handicraft and souvenirs. Handicraft exist in Banjarmasin not only produced by the city people, but also from other district and cities of South Kalimantan. The arrival of tourist to Banjarmasin hoped to be able to recognize various typical crafting produced by the people of South kalimantan.

There are a lot of kinds of handicrafts produced by home industries such as jewel, various types of accessories, typical house hold equipment of Banjarese people, the origin of South kalimantan. The popular handicraft produced by the people who live in Banjarmasin city is the cloth of Sasirangan. It has a lot of combination of color and typical texture. The beauty of Sasirangan cloth has been known widely as the cloth both for men and women. Another kind of handicraft is tools household equipment made of rattan material like rattan carpet or lampit, bag, vase, and others. This city is also known with kinds of traditional herbs originated from hinterland of Kalimantan. Pasak Bumi has been very popular widely even overseas. All kindsof handicraft is very attractive as souvenirs of Banjarmasin City.

Central location of souvenirs

The goods of handicraft and souvenirs can be found in shopping center of Citra Pasaraya, in the shopping center opposite of Mitra Plaza, shopping center of Antasari, Sudimampir market, and in plazas and malls in Banjarmasin city.

The souvenir of meals such as Amplang, Kerupuk Pipih (the chips made of fish), Lempok (candied fruit of durian). There are also a lot of kinds of fresh water fishes such as Saluang, Abon Haruan, salt fish of Haruan, Tenggiri, Sepat, etc.

Banjarmasin city also has some kinds of typical fruits such as Kasturi (a kind of mango), red/orange durian, that we call it Papakin, Madang oranges, Pawon pineapple, Garuda rambutan, and Ramania ( a tiny purple fruit).

Nature Tourism

One of typical tourism in Banjarmasin is water tourism which carry out the visitor to go around some of tourist destination in Banjarmasin. The visitor carried out by boat to go along the martapura River. The traveling along Martapura river unable the visitor to see the life of Banjarese people along the Martapura river. Besides, the visitor also can see the modern face of the city from the river.

One of famous tourist destination in Banjarmasin is floating market. It is the traditional market which present the local wisdom of economic fields of societies. It also represents banjarese cultures which are inherent with the life of people along the river flows. Floating market is located on Kuin river at the north of Banjarmasin. It starts in the morning around 5 am to 7 am central Indonesian time. In this market,the seller and the buyer stay on their boat to make transaction. The goods sold such as banjarese food, vegetables, fruits and handicraft.

By croasing the Barito River, there is another tourist destination that we call it Pulau Kembang (Monkey Island). This small island is inhabited by the primate species (monkey). This species have been existed naturally in that island. This island located on the eastside of Banjarmasin. It takes about 15 minutes to reach the island by boat from Banjarmasin City.

Banjamasin is famous with city of thousand rivers, so most of the people live on the river. Some of the people build their houses on the water known as Lanting. It floats on the tree trunk. This kind of houses can be found on the area of Kuin, Basirih and Mentuil.