HOTELS

1. Agusta Eco Resort

Located in the Agusta Island, Raja Ampat. One of the areas famous on this island with its strategic location, makes it easy for You to access the interesting places on the island. Agusta Eco Resort offers perfect service and all the necessary amenities to pamper travellers. There are some of the hotel's facilities such as luggage storage, room service, airport shuttle, meeting facilities, restaurant.

Hotel accommodations have been selected carefully for the sake of maximum comfort with a private pool, air conditioning, mini bar, balcony/terrace, a fan in some rooms. Throughout the day you can enjoy the soothing atmosphere of a private beach, diving, parks, water sports.

2. Hamueco Raja Ampat Resort

Located on the coast of Waigeo Island, Saleo, Raja Ampat. The hotel is not too far from the city centre, only 15.0 Km from town and generally only takes 180 minutes to reach the airport. Guests of the hotel can enjoy on-site facilities such as luggage storage, Wi-fi in public areas, BBQ facilities, restaurant, tour.

Hamueco Raja Ampat Resort has 6 bedrooms all of which are designed with a high artistic value. Provide comfort such as wake up service, balcony/terrace, shower, anti mosquito net, shared bathroom. The hotel provides a number of recreational facilities including diving, water sports (non-motorized). Hamueco Raja Ampat Resort is the ideal place to stay for travelers looking for the charm and comfort of Raja Ampat.

3. Raja Ampat Doberai Eco Resort

Located in Raja Ampat Island, take apart, various interesting view you can enjoy in this place. With an excellent location only 5 KM from the city centre and 4 KM from the airport, the 1-star hotel attracts many tourists every year. With its strategic location, this hotel offers easy access to must-see destinations of the island.

Facilities and services offered by Raja Ampat Doberai Eco Resort menjaminkan a pleasant stay to guests. 24-hour room service, restaurant, tours, laundry service are just some of the amenities that distinguish the Raja Ampat Doberai Eco Resort with other hotels on the island.

In addition, all guest rooms feature a host of comforts such as non-smoking rooms, a writing desk, a balcony/terrace, ceiling fan, separate dining area to please all guests. Private beach, fishing, massage, water sports (non-motorized) at this hotel is the ideal place to relax after a busy day.

7. Raja Ampat Biodiversity Eco Resort

Located on the coast of Yenanas, Kampung Yenbeser, island of Gam, Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua, Raja Ampat. You will feel like at home while in the Raja Ampat Biodiversity Eco Resort that offers quality accommodation with exceptional service. Only 77 km from the town centre, this hotel's convenient location ensuring guests so that you can quickly and easily reach to places of interest. With its strategic location, this hotel offers easy access to must-see destinations on the island.

Facilities and services offered by Raja Ampat Biodiversity Eco Resort menjaminkan a pleasant stay to guests. It provides access to a number of services, including photocopying, a printer, a taxi service, free Wi-fi in public areas, airport shuttle.

In addition, all guest rooms feature a host of comforts such as free tea towels, wooden floors/parquet, shelves of clothes, free drinks to delight all guests. The hotel offers recreational facilities such as the amazing hiking paths, water sports equipment rental, private beach, diving, table tennis to make unforgettable Your lodging. Raja Ampat Biodiversity Eco Resort is the ideal place to stay for travelers looking for the charm and comfort of Raja Ampat.

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CULINARY

1. Papeda

Papeda is a typical food of the region, including Eastern West Papua. This food is made the base material in the form of sago.

Papeda processed so that porridge, colored white and sticky textured to resemble the glue. The original flavor of the papeda is bland.

Papeda is usually eaten with fish such as tuna or mubara cooked with turmeric until the broth yellow. How to eat a papeda just like eating rice and side dishes in General.

2. Martabak sagu

Martabak is made from mashed fried sago and brown sugar. Murtabak, a taste of Fakfak is different from the regular carrots we find in other areas such as martabak manis or martabak telor

The most distinguishing thing is anyway, Sago. The taste of this food is quite tasty and not too sweet with the ordinary types of carrots which are already General we eat.

3. sate ulat sagu

One of the typical Western New Guinea Sago Worms is Satay. This type of food for us will probably make even nausea vomiting.

Caterpillar Sago is obtained from the Sago tree trunks are old.

Indigenous peoples of New Guinea which had been used to living in the wild oftenconsume sago grubs are processed first. But now this sago grubs have been processed by way of burnt almost similar to Satay.

Rather this is sago grubs Satay food typical of Raja Ampat.

4. Grilled fish Manokwari

As the name implies, these specialties come from the region of Manokwari, West Papua.

The types of fish that used to be burned is tuna. Friends to Manokwari highly recommended for enjoying this spicy dish.

5. udang selingkuh

 This is called udang selingkuh because of infidelity is shaped shrimp but have hands or claws like crabs. This shrimp is very popular in region of Wamena, West Papua. The presentation of this shrimp can be fried, with burned or boiled.

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BEHIND THE RAJA AMPAT

GEOGRAPHICAL LAYOUT OF THE RAJA AMPAT ISLANDS

Raja Ampat Islands District whose territory is largely made up of a cluster of Islands the island which is located at position 20 25 ' North latitude-40 25 ' South latitude and 1300-1320 55 ' East longitude. The County has an area of approximately 6,084.5 km2. Administratively, the boundaries of the territory of Raja Ampat Islands bounded by:

a. North                : Pacific Ocean.

b. the South Sea  : Spooky.

c. West                  : sea of Central Halmahera Regency or Halmahera, Seram Maluku province North

d. East                    : District of Sorong City West District Aimas Sorong, Sorong Regency Districts

                                   Seget,Spooky and the sea.

HISTORY OF THE KING'S FOUR ISLANDS

There are many versions of the story of the origin of the name of Raja Ampat. One version of the story are:

At some point on the Gulf of Wawiyai there is a pair of Hometown Kabui husband and wife go to the forest (forest as a browser) to search for food, when they arrived at the banks of the river Waikeo (Wai meaning water, kew means Bay) they found six eggs Dragon. Eggs are stored in noken (bags) and taken home, arriving at the House of the eggs are stored in the room. When the night they hear a voice murmurs, how their kagetnya when they saw in the room turns the eggs have hatched intangible four boys and one girl, all finely dressed which shows that they are the descendants of the King.

To date it is unclear who gave the name to the kids but then note that each child named:

War became King in Waigeo.

Bethany became King in Salawati.

Dohar became King in Lilinta (Misool)

Mohamad became King at Waigama (Batanta islands off)

While the female child (named Pintolee), at one time the girls pregnant and known by his brother Pintolee put in the skin of the bia (shellfish) great then floated to stranded on the island of Noemfoor. One egg is not hatched and became a rock named Kapatnai and treated as King even give room abode complete with two stones that serve as guards on both sides of the entrance even annually washed and water disiramkan is attached to the community as a babtisan for the Kawe. Not every moment of the stone can be seen except once a year i.e. when washed.

Therefore the community greatly respect the existence of the egg then woke up a home ditepi Waikeo River as a place of residence and until now is still the object of worship of the community. (Source: Korneles Mambrasar)

The sparsely populated Raja Ampat Islands comprise around 1000 islands just off Sorong. With their sublime scenery of steep, jungle-covered islands, scorching white-sand beaches, hidden lagoons,

spooky caves, weird mushroom-shaped islets and pellucid luminous turquoise waters, Raja Ampat has to be one of the most beautiful island chains in Southeast Asia.

Pure, unadulterated beauty isn’t just what draws people here, though. Raja Ampat has good birdwatching, with a couple of species of birds of paradise present, and what many call the best diving in the world. Little known until the last few years, Raja Ampat’s diversity of marine life and its huge, largely pristine coral reef systems are a diver’s dream come true – and fantastic for snorkellers too. It’s like swimming in a tropical aquarium. In fact, the waters are so clear and fish so numerous that you hardly even need don a mask. We saw six sharks swimming around below us merely by peering out the window of an overwater hut! So great is the quantity and variety of marine life here that scientists have described Raja Ampat as a biological hotspot and believe that the reef systems here act to restock reefs throughout the South Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The four biggest islands are Waigeo (with the small but fast-growing regional capital, Waisai), Batanta, Salawati and Misool. The Dampier Strait between Waigeo and Batanta has many outstanding dive sites, so most accommodation options are on Waigeo, Batanta or three smaller islands between them: Kri, Gam and Mansuar.

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