Bengkulu Tourism Object

I think Bengkulu is almost forgotten as a tourism region whereas there are many tourism potential locations such as the beaches, jungles, historical places, and many floras. The ironic thing is this potencies were found by Singapore Ambassador, Ashok Mirpuri.

He said Bengkulu has many marvelous places to be visited and he also said those potencies can attract many tourists, not only from Singapore but also from other countries. Of course, those tourists will come if the destinations were quite attractive and provide good accomodations.

Following his statement, Singapore is ready to do some cooperations with local government, if it’s needed, to develop those potential destinations. Well, actually there is an internal bounding between Singapore and Bengkulu since colonization period. From history, we read Deutsch did an exchange with Great Britain. Bengkulu was exchanged with Singapore.

From statistic, only about 8,000 tourists came to Bengkulu last year. About 7,500 tourists is domestic tourist and the rest is abroad tourists. Target for this year, more than 10,000 tourists come to Bengkulu. In average, it’s about 30% increment.

Sadly, the promo for Bengkulu destinations, as I mentioned above, were quite a little. I doubt the target can be fulfilled if the local government does nothing to develop and to manage the potency.

Bengkulu was built to be a tourism province, there are many tourism object waiting for you. Bengkulu have Conservation area about 51,054.664 Hectares spread in eight Sub-Province and Bengkulu city. Covering from Coastal Forest until Forest Rain Mountain. Fauna residing in Conservation area consist of type like: Sumatera Elephant (Elephas maximus), Sumatera Rhinoceros (Decerorhirnus sumatraensis), Tapir (Tapirus indicus), Sumatera Tiger (Panthera tigris), Deer (Muntiacus muntjak), Deer (Cervus unicolor), Snakes, Rangkong Bird (Buceros rhinogeros), Eagle (Haliastus indus), Pergam (Ducula Sp), Siamang (Hylobates sindarctylus), Simpai (Semnopithecus melalopus), Bears (Helaretus malayanus). All kinds of flora there are in this area, like Orchid Pencil (Vanda Hookeriana), Flower Carcass (Ammorphopalus Titanium), Flower of Rafflesia (Rafflesia Arnoldi), Coastal Fir-Tree (Casuarina Sp). Bengkulu have Conservation area and ecotourism area there are: Preserve of Danau Dusun Besar, Tourism forest of Pantai Panjang and Pulau Baai, Tourism Forest of Pungguk Menakat, Hunting Area of Mount Nanu’a, Elephant Training Center, Natural Forest Asylum of Seblat,Danau Tes Forest Conservation, Danau Menghijau Forest Conservation, Pagar Gunung I, II and III Forest Conservation.