Out Door Activities

There so many activities can we get in out door, there are some kind activities that usually we found bellow :

CAMPING
Camping can be considered a recreational outdoor activity in its own right, although many other outdoor sports activities will involve finding a suitable campsite or campground and using appropriate camping gear. It ranges from the bare minimum taken by the survival camper to everything including the kitchen sink taken along by the luxury RV's and motorhomes. For everyone it is the chance to get away from civilisation and enjoy nature.

CAVING
Every cave is different and cavers all enjoy the exploration of each individual cave. It is even more exciting when you are exploring new caves not knowing what you are going to find. These days to find new caves you are likely to have to do some digging or diving. Depending on the cave a cavers will need some climbing skills, be happy to squeeze through tight spaces or not mind getting wet.

As with all adventure sports, it is important to be properly equipped. Clothing which can protect from abrasion, a helmet and lights source are essential. It is also important to have another two or three backup light sources. The type of clothing will also depend on conditions in the cave – warm or cold. Here local knowledge is an important factor. Other equipment includes ropes, first aid kit, food and bathroom supplies to remove all personal waste from the cave.

The main safety issues with caving are hypothermia, falling, physical exhaustion along with the added dangers of being caught out by flooding. To combat these proper training and well maintained equipment is a must, along with local knowledge and a weather check for rainfall to ensure there is not a flooding risk. It is also important to notify someone outside the cave with your intended return time and details where you are going. It also helps to have at least 4 in your group. This way if someone falls, one person can stay with the casualty while the other two go for help.

It is very important to remember that the caves and the species living in them are a fragile environment and great care must be taken not to damage or contaminate the cave.

Climbing
Climbing is basically using your hands and feet to move up the surface of a steep object. Rock climbing is the most familiar form of climbing but there are other types such as ice climbing and buildering (climbing up the outside of tall buildings. Mountaineering is just using various climbing techniques to assend mountains.

Cycling
For many cycling is just a form of transport, allbeit a very healthy alternative to driving or sitting on a bus. However there are also many recreational activities using the bicycle from touring and sightseeing to BMX racing on purpose built tracks. There is also mountain biking which basically involves riding specially designed bikes almost anywhere

FISHING
In ancient times fishing was simple providing food by catching fish by any means. Modern fishing is both a recreation and professional sport with various conventions, rules and restrictions.

SAILING
Sailing used to be considered a sport for the rich and although that still may be the case with luxury yachts, dingy sailing is available to all. It is not difficult to find a club or centre where the basic sailing techniques can be learned in a safe environment. These basic skills may be learned in a few days. However the mastery of sailing a boat in varying weather conditions will take considerably longer but is well worth the time and the effort. Sailing is becoming much more accessible to disabled people with new boat designs, a better understanding and recognition that outdoor sports should be available to everyone.

LIGHT WEIGHT AEROPLANES AND GLIDERS
From the late 1970's people have been looking for affordable ways to fly. This has resulted in the building of a whole variety of different lightweight slow flying aeroplanes. They are known under a variety of names - Microlights, Ultralights, ULMs and Light-Sport Aircraft. The names along with the regulations vary from country to country which is a major barrier to international trade and overland flight.
Gliders have been around a lot longer and the first competition was actually in 1920.While competition does test a pilots ability to understand local weather conditions and flying ability, many people do it simple for the enjoyment and sense of achievement.

SCUBA DIVING
Most people understand what is implied by the term Scuba Diving but I wonder how many actually realise that Scuba actually comes from Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. The first aqualung was invented in 1943 by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and as the sport became popular with recreational divers so the equipment improved in safety, comfort and ease of use. Today we have buoyancy compensators, sophisticated diving regulators, rebreathers and even dive computers.

FREE DIVING
Free diving, sometimes called skin diving is the art of swimming underwater while holding your breath. Although it is used in activities such as snorkeling and spearfishing it has now become a sport in its own right. There are a variety of disciplines within the sport, some using aids to achieve the greatest depths or distances covered on one breath. The sport is known as Competitive Apnea

Snorkeling
At it simplest snorkeling is just swimming on the surface of the water breathing through a plastic tube called a snorkel and using a mask to watch the fascinating marine life below. Snorkels have developed in recent years from the simple tube to clever devices with purge values and systems to stop water going in. Fins are also normally worn. Once a snorkeler becomes more confident and experienced they will use a certain amount of free diving to enable them to enjoy the underwater environment to the full.

Spearfishing
Spearfishing has been carried out for hundreds of years, but the sharpened wooden poles of the past have now been replaced with various powered spearguns. In the past it was a means of catching food – now it is considered more to be a sport and for this reason spearfishing with scuba gear is frowned upon. The spearfishers will normally use snorkeling gear and often hold their breath for about a minute diving down 15 – 20 metres to hunt their prey. The very best hold their breath for 2-4 minutes and can dive down to 40 metres.

SURFING
Surfing has existed in Hawaii for over 200 years but it is only since 1960 that it has evolved into a worldwide phenomenon. For many it is not just a sport but a way of life with its own culture, language and style of clothing. However don't let this put you off having a go - its fun and definitely addictive! Although the dedicated are a bit territorial over the best spots, there are plenty of beaches left for us mere mortals to enjoy.

WALKING, HIKING, TREKKING, BACKPACKING, SCRAMBLING, RUNNING
Hiking is an excellent outdoor activity for the whole family. It is a chance to enjoy the scenery in rural or wilderness areas, exercise the body and de-stress the mind.

The word hiking may be understood worldwide but in some countries tend to use other terms. It is walking in the UK, tramping in New Zealand and bushwalking in Australia.

The term trekking is used for stenuous walking through mountainous regions and the term backpacking when there are overnight camping stops. Then there is scrambling which is when the hands need to be used to scramble over rocky outcrops.

Also included in this sections are the various forms of running in the countryside - cross country running, fell running and orienteering.

WHITE WATER RAFTING
Is it a thrilling leisure activity or a dangerous sport? It is probably a combination of the two. Since it began in the 1970 it has certainly become a lot safer with legislated safety measures, better qualified operators and much improved equipment. In the past rivers have been known to swallowed up whole expeditions. Nowadays the overall risk, when using experienced operators, is considered as low. It is also now a competitive sport with international and world championship events. This competitive element of rafting began in the mid 90's.

Off Roading, Motocross and Trial Riding
Off roading is a simple a term for driving four wheel drive vehicles such as Landrovers and ATV's off road. Drivers pit their skills against all kinds of natural terrain. Motocross uses specially built motorcycles and is fast, dirty and often dangerous. Trial riding is a non-speed event, the idea being to ride a natural obstacle course without touching the ground.

Kites - Kite Surfing
Kite flying has been practiced for over a thousand years and gradually over the years it became popular recreational activity. Kite Surfing is a rapidly growing new sport. Numbers grew from about 30 in 1998 to 200,000 in 2006. Your body is the only connection between the board and the kite. You have to learn to pilot the kite and steer the board at the same time.

Powerboats, Zap Cats and Jet Skis

Power boats have a high power to weight ratio and the hull is design to plane over the water which allows for high speed. Zap Cats - basically small inflatable catamarans - have an incredible speed and cornering ability. Jet Ski's are capable of high speed and excellent maneuverability and are like motorbikes on water.

Shooting - Archery
This is a vast subject but for the purposes of this website we have included links to game shooting, rifle shooting, shotgun sports like skeet, trap and clay pshooting. Also covered are the various forms of archery along with the rather less serious paintballing sites!

Skateboarding
Unlike most of the outdoor activities on this website, skateboarding is an urban sport. Sometimes it is considered an extreme sport although to skateboarders it is often seen as an art form, hobby or just a means of transport.

Snow Sports - Skiing, Skateboarding, Dog Sledding, Snow Mobiling

Skiing, as we know it today saw its beginnings at the end of the 19th Century, whereas snowboarding developed 100 years later and did not become an olympic sport until 1998. Dog sledding and snow mobiling also included.

Water Skiing - Wakeboarding

Water skiing was invented in the early 1920's. Beginners using two skis are pulled along at speeds of about 25-35 kilometers per hour. Wakeboarding developed as a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques and the towing speeds are less.

Mount Dempo 3159 mdpl

Mount Dempo (3159 mdpl) located in the border province of South Sumatra and Bengkulu provinces. To reach the nearest village, first you must reach the city Pagar Alam, approximately 7 hours drive from Palembang land. South Sumatra's capital is available to the many bus Pagar Alam. Or if you are from, before you can ride bus or Bengkulu, Padang, and down in Lahat.

Pagar Alam City, is consistent with the name, the city is surrounded by clear Bukit Barisan mountain range and the top of the line is Mount Dempo. This mountain is very beautiful tower vertical reach the sky blue when viewed in the morning.

It is therefore very appropriate when the first overnight in the city, many available here inn or motel, around Rp. 20,000 a night. Culture is a city that different tribes and migrants both create genuine peace that you do not get in the big cities.

Pagar Alam from the terminal, first charter a car / taxi-way for the Tea Factory PTPN III to reach the 15 km distance from the terminal. Factory in this good you have someone with a regular pack called Anton, he is leader by including the entire nature lover Sumsel-Lampung. With the assistance request, carteran car will take you to the nearest village from the foot of Mount Dempo, who can take more than 20 minutes, because the road is quite steep, with a curvaceous overlay through green tea plantations.

The path to the very day of the mountain is very clear and even in normal day-to-day the village was a lot of people who ascend to the top of the purposely whether to search for wood or just hiking.

Although the mountain is high enough, but the water is clear there is a half-way up the mountain to the climber so that this does not worry about running out of drinking water during the trip. A small crystal clear river, flowing in the border forest omen we start to enter the forest area with plants that are similar as we find in the mountains Gede-Pangrango, namely forest montana. Pathways with full root-root of the cross, slope gradient steep enough to own rack sweat. There are no special signs, the forest is almost homogeneous and very quiet.

Four or five hours later, we will enter the area with vegetation plants trees with the lower and lower, some slightly open, a view also to be knowledgeable. Gunung Dempo with two peaks of the only named Peak fire. Towards the top of the first Dempo, which is plain masif, first peak that there is a plant similar to low perdu. From the first summit we descend back to the valley which is between the first peak and the main peak. In this valley, there is a source of water flowing here. Only the water is crystal clear that it's a little wrinkled, may be the influence of seepage sulfur.

Climbing to the top of the main is not too difficult. Slope of its gravel and stones with a slope of approximately 40 ° slope, stable enough for the mounting. Dempo main peak of the mountain (3158 m), is a volcanic crater which still flare with a diameter of approximately one hundred square meters. Crater wall is steep and may not be in the rock turuni without ropes. Landscape is very beautiful from the top. In addition to craters that provide special effects, also appear to extend Bengkulu province with the Indian Ocean with the carpet and desolate valley of serene. Travel down only takes two hours. Benighted when you can stay in Dusun VI, with the first ask permission of the security there.

Singkarak Lake

Singkarak lake is located in two districts in West Sumatra, Kabupaten Solok and Tanah Datar. With a 107.8 km ² lake is second biggest on the island of Sumatra. This lake is the headwaters Batang Ombilin. This part of the lake water flowed through a tunnel cut through to the Bukit Barisan Batang Anai for the generator PLTA Singkarak near Lubuk Alung, Padang Pariaman.

Fish bilih (Mystacoleucus padangensis) is a species of fish is estimated that only lives in this lake, and became one of the typical food. Research experts said the 19 fish species live in fresh water habitat of Lake Singkarak, Kabupaten Solok and Tanah Datar, West Sumatera (Sumatra), with the availability of food is limited.

From the 19 species, three species of which have a high population density, ie, fish Bilih / Biko (Mystacoleusus padangensis Blkr), Asang/Nilem (Osteochilus brachmoides) and Rinuak. Other fish species that live in Lake Singkarak is, Turiak/turiq (Cyclocheilichthys de Zwani), Lelan/Nillem (Osteochilis vittatus), Sasau/Barau (Hampala mocrolepidota) and Gariang/Tor (Tor tambroides).

Then, Kapiek fish species (Puntius shwanefeldi) and Balinka/Belingkah (Puntius Belinka), Baung (Macrones planiceps), Kalang (Clarias batrachus), Jabuih/bloated (Tetradon Mappa), kalai/gurami (Osphronemus gurami lac) and Puyu/Betok (Anabas testudeneus).

Furthermore, fish species Sapek/sepat (Trichogaster trichopterus), Tilan (mastacembelus unicolor), Jumpo/cork (Chana striatus), Kiuang/cork (pleurothalmus Chana) and Mujaie/Mujair (Tilapia pleurothalmus), plus Hafrijal.

With only 19 species of fish that live in Lake Singkarak indicates diversity of fish in that place is not too high. Mesogotrofik Lake Singkarak conditions which cause this power to support the habitat for development and growth of organisms such as plankton and water betos, very limited.

Several times from the research showed a population of plankton and betos in Lake Singkarak very low.

While plankton community (fitoplankton and zooplankton) is the basis of terbentuknya a food chain and very important role in the ecosystem of a lake.

Conditions, the main source of nutrition natural fish are usually different types of plankton and bentos.

Singkarak lake is located on the geographical location of the coordinates 0, Latitude 36 degrees South (LS) and 100.3 East Longitude (BT) with a height of 363.5 meters above sea level (mdpl).

Area surface water of Lake Singkarak reach 11,200 hectares with a maximum length of 20 kilometers and 6.5 kilometers wide and 268 meters depth.

This lake has a water area along the 1076 kilometers with rainfall 82 to 252 per month melimeter.

Rinjani Mountain

Rinjani 3.726 mdpl have panaroma most good among the mountains of Indonesia. One of the favorite adventure destination travel from around the world.

Each year, Rinjani visited many local people, students and nature lover. Air temperature average around 20oC; lowest 12 OC. Gale in the peak is common in August. Luckily the end of July, the wind is still quite weak and the weather is sunny, so the ride to the top can be done at any time.

In addition to the peak, hangout is Segara Anakan, a crater lake at an altitude of 2.000 mdpl. To reach this location we can climb from the village Senaru or Sembalun Lawang village (two nearest entry point at a height of 500 mdpl and 1.200 mdpl). Most of the climber from the incoming direction Sembalun, because it can save you a height of 700m. Route Sembalun quite long, but flat, and because the weather is hot through the savanna blazing (cold temperatures, but direct sun radiation burning the skin). Sunblok cream is recommended.

Meanwhile, from the rise Senaru without pause, but soft because the weather through the forest. From this location a second time walking around 9 hours to the mouth punggungan in altitude 2.700 mdpl (arriving in Plawangan Senaru or Plawangan Sembalun). In this place over the lake, and towards outside is very good.

From Plawangan Senaru (if rising from the direction Senaru) down to the lake kaldera through steep walls mdpl from 2.700 to 2.000 mdpl altitude) that can be applied in 2 hours. At the lake we could camp, MANCING (Carper, Mujair) do much. Lombok residents have a tradition of visiting the ocean Anakan berendam for hot water in the swimming and fishing.

To reach the peak (from the lake) must walk uphill to the west wall at 700 m and running in the hills at 1.000 m beaten in phase 2 and 3 hours 4 hours. The first stage towards Plawangan Sembalun, the last camp to wait for morning. Summit attack on the usual 3 hours to find dinihari beautiful moments - the sunrise and avoid the peak of Rinjani gale in the afternoon.

Travel to the Peak are tolerable; as run on the crater lip with a safety margin secukupnya Medan sand, stone, soil. Altitude of 200 meters should be the last with great difficulty, because one step forward followed by a half step down (sink stone gravel). Create Highlander - this place is challenging and in demand because of the weight field terbayar do with the beautiful natural scenery. Gunung Agung in Bali, Gunung Ijen-Merapi in Banyuwangi and Mount Tambora on Sumbawa clearly visible when the good weather in the morning.

To climb Rinjani no special equipment is needed, enough stamina, patience and persistence. The entire trip can be achieved in the program 3 days two nights, or if would like to see two objects in the cave and mountain susu dan gunung baru JARO new in the crater lake) need an additional 2 hours travel time. Logistics preparation is necessary. but there can be all things at the nearest village. tent, sleeping bag, cutlery, food and what is needed (including radio communications) can be rented from the homestay, homestay in the mushroom village Senaru.

That is unique from other Rinjani is, there are enough toilets. Shaped green metal box. Above a container of water rain. Also there is a fiber glass tank. But unfortunately there is no water. But do not worry, cats in the house has taught us how to live in nature.

The story of the scene, it seems we will not run out of moments of shooting. Morning and afternoon when the most beautiful for difoto, Rinjani kontour with three dimensinya which provides so many extremely beautiful corner. Clouds, fog, trees in the middle single savanna, primates that expresif, porter, porter in action, happy face when the students get a big carp, reach peak Rinjani struggle - providing many good moments for the photos.

The uniqueness of Rinjani is the porter, not only hold a heavy but logistics as well as chef and a reliable guide.

If we are short of time, Lombok can still be achieved in the per-week vacation. Now this many flight Jakarta - Lombok (via Surabaya), with the rate of 350,000, - rupiah one way, may be lower depending on the remaining seat (early booking).

If the Lion afternoon flight, we can leave for home after work Juma't in the evening, arriving in Mataram around 22:00 hours. Directly take a taxi to the airport Sembalun Lawang (200 thousand), which applied in the 2.5 hour trip to Senaru or (175 thousand). In many Senaru home clean and good with rate 30 ~ 50 thousand. Or, as in Sembalun Lawang, Lembah Rinjani Homestay and Nauli, with spectacular facing Rinjani. Rates 100 thousand rupiah.

Saturday morning can be increased through direct Senaru to Plawangan Senaru and down to the lake. Arrive late afternoon. Can spend the night in Plawangan only (of the very good) down to the lake or the morning down to the lake directly overnight here). Sunday the same morning there is enough time to enjoy the hot water, fishing or resting. 11:00 hrs with the return the same route (Senaru). Arriving nearly west, directly transfer to Airport Selaparang with the last flight (CityLink or Lion). Monday morning had been working - with a bit of leg-weary pegl. If you connect to the top, take one day more days off, that perhaps this can be considered vacation leave time.

Maninjau Lake

Maninjau Lake is a lake in the district of Tanjung Raya, Agam regency, West Sumatra province, Indonesia. Lake is located approximately 140 km north of Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, 36 km from Bukittinggi, 27 km from Lubuk Basung, the capital of Kabupaten Agam.

Maninjau is a lake vulkanik, in the height of 461.50 meters above sea level. Area around the lake Maninjau 99.5 km ² and has a maximum depth of 495 meters. Lake outburst was due to the mountain called Sitinjau (according to local legend), this can be seen from the form of a hill around the lake like a wall-like. According to the legend in Ranah Minang, the existence of Lake Maninjau closely associated with the story of Bujang Sembilan.

Maninjau lake is a source of water for the river called Batang Antokan. In one of the lake which is the headwaters of Batang Antokan there Maninjau PLTA. Hills around Lake Maninjau the most high is known as Puncak Lawang name. To reach Lake Maninjau if the direction of Bukittinggi way through the serpentine flexure 44 is known along with about 10 km start from Ambun Pagi to Maninjau.

This lake was in eleven rank of big in Indonesia. Meanwhile, in West Sumatra, Maninjau lake in the second after Singkarak lake that has knowledgeable 129.69 km ² which is located in two districts namely Tanah Datar and Solok regency. Around Lake Maninjau tourist, facilities there, such as Hotel (Hotel Maninjau Indah, Pasir Panjang Permai), as well as lodging and restaurants.
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