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TANJUNG ISSUY AND MANCONG |
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| Right out from Muara Muntai, watch for the slate-grey backs of pesut,
freshwater dolphins and, in the woods, proboscis monkeys, as you pass
through the channels into Danau Jempang's hundred square kilometres of
reed beds, waterfowl and fishermen. It takes about an hour to reach
TANJUNG ISSUY , a small township of gravel lanes, timber houses and
fruit trees. Turn right off the jetty, past a couple of lumber yards,
stores and workshops, and follow the street around to Losmen Wisata, a
restored Dayak lamin (traditional house) maintained as tourist
accommodation ($5-10). It's not that "authentic", but the place is
surrounded by carved wooden patong posts (spirit posts), and tour groups
get Benuaq dances performed for them. Out the back is a six-tier
mausoleum where Tanjung Isuuy's founder was laid to rest in 1984,
decorated with carvings of dragons, hornbills and scenes from reburial
ceremonies. The Rumah Makan Jempang Sejahtera just down the street does
chicken curry in the evenings. There's also an unrestored lamin with
bigger patong to check out near Tanjung Issuy's mosque, or spend the day
a couple of hours' walk or ces ride south through farmland at MANCONG ,
a pretty Benuaq village built on boardwalks like Muara Muntai, whose own
two-storey lamin can house two hundred people. Continuing your journey
from Tanjung Issuy, you could either return to Muara Muntai, or hire a
ces to take you across the forested northwest corner of Danau Jempang
and back to the Mahakam west at Muara Pahu (Rp30,000). |
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