Mangrove forest for Tourism in Surabaya

Do you know that there is a mangrove forest for tourism in Surabaya? At weekend I joined some of my friends to go there for hunting pictures. All of them like photography, so we try to find a good object to learn and practice. Our destination was at Surabaya East Coast, "Ekowisata Mangrove Wonorejo".



The road to the place was not too good, after following a narrow macadam road, we found bumpy and muddy soil road. It's very difficult if there's another car from the other direction. We had to move to the people's yard to enable passing through. Anyway you still could see many green rice fields and also some huts, good for photo objects. We arrived there around 09:00, the scenery was quite nice. We're waiting for the crew to clean up the boat, because there was some water in the bottom of the boat as it rained at the night before. The boat was quite beautiful with colorful paint, you don't need to row.


By paying return ticket Rp 25.000,- per person, you could ride the boat for around 30 minutes. They would bring you to the sea, then stop at the guard hut to enter the mangrove. They built a bamboo pathway for people to go through. Lucky it's not too shiny, so it's not too hot. The pathway would lead you to the gazebo on the sea. It's built by Pertamina, one of oil company in Indonesia for people enjoying the scenery for the mangrove and the sea.


The mangrove was quite fertile, unfortunately there were so many garbages among them. The pathway was not too long, on the way you could see many beautiful alley as result of the mangrove on the left and right side of the pathway. It's good for prewedding photos :-)


Finally we reached the gazebo, it's built from bamboo and hay for the roof. There were 2 gazebos connected by a small path of bamboo to each other. It's rather scary to walk on the bamboo. Sitting on the gazebo was so cool, you could see the sea view, and also enjoy the breeze, unfortunately no food or drink seller, so you have to prepare by yourself. Birds sometimes were flying from one mangrove's branch to other, but it's difficult to catch by the camera, because it's already too light.


After satisfied enjoying the gazebo and taking picture, we went back to the guard's hut waiting for the boat pickup. It took a long time, so we took some pictures there. Some people were fishing, they could get quite a big shrimp with wide red thin worm as the bait. It's a good place to escape from the crowded city, to get more tourists, the government should build a more convenience road for accessing to the place.

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