Seblat Elephant Training Center : Choice for Eco-travelers

Seblat  Elephant Training Center is one of the choices for eco-travelers to visit the province of Bengkulu.  This training center is located in northern part of  Bengkulu city, about 120 km away and can be reached within four to five hours of driving. Before reaching the camp, visitors must across the river of more than 25 m width.  Crossing the river with wooden canoe or with an elephant are very challenging and thrilling.  Visitors are allowed to stay overnight and this camp, of course, in a wooden camp.  This training center allows their visitors to have direct interaction with all the ‘trainees’. In companion with the trainers, visitors could  feel the sensation of  feeding the elephants, bathing them, as well as riding it to have a jungle tour and crossing the river.  

Suspension bridge : Simple & work well

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I believe many people might think this old-fashioned bridge, suspension bridge, is no longer existed.  Indeed, this type of bridge is widely used in the province of Bengkulu to connect many isolated areas around the province. Some of them come in very narrow width, to solely fit pedestrians or bicycle. Others could allow the mini van to across the bridge  for agricultural mobility.

Car free day at Pantai Panjang

Every Sunday morning at Pantai Panjang, the beautiful beach in the city of Bengkulu, from 05.30 - 09.30 a.m is assigned to be a car free day. The car free zone spans from the intersection Horizon hotel to the corner of Bengkulu Indah Mall, takes about two kilo meters in length. This area covers the sport center areas, where many sport facilities are presented, such volley ball, tennis, soccer, futsal, basket, takraw, jogging tracks, etc. Many people enjoy this policy to safely take opportunity doing sports. Some people prefer to take a walk with their family along the road, or along the jogging track, or along the beach.  Some others play their favorite sports with friends, while others kill their time by cycling.  Visitors admit that this session is a very good policy and expect that there will be more coverage of car free day areas, or car free time in this city.

Cross-country cycling : Sports & leisure time

The use bicycle for fun, leisure and sport is getting more popular in the city of Bengkulu. The bikers make use of the beauty of Pantai Panjang and other tracking path to have cycling activity. Some people groups themselves  into particular fun bike club to have regular cycling exercises.  In Pantai Panjang, the long white- sanded beach in the city of Bengkulu, we can easily find companies  that rent the bicycle in hourly basis with a very cheap price for a good and reliable bicycle, 1 – 2 USD per hour. 

PS. Bengkulu needs Sponsor or Consortium

It is sad to mention that the only soccer team of Bengkulu playing in Ti-phone Indonesian League, PS. Bengkulu, is currently facing financial crisis. The local newspaper, Bengkulu Ekspress, together with PS Bengkulu management and the fans, Panglimania, has initiated (17/04/2011) a fund raising in order to maintain this club in the national league. They call for donations and charities from the people of Bengkulu or anyone like to donate.  Contributors may come to PS Bengkulu Secretariat or send their donations to Bengkulu Ekspress account, namely BENGKULU EKSPRESS PEDULI, account number 0115-01-044574-50-5. It is worth to mention that currently PS Bengkulu ranked 10th out of 13 teams playing in Ti-phone league.