Pontianak Kapuas River Tours

Pontianak City at the Equator West Kalimantan

Pontianak has a population of about 400,000 people, and is West Kalimantan provincial capital, for tourists also known as the city on the Equator, with several tourism attractions around. Pontianak was initially a sultanate, established half of the 18th century. The founder father of the sultanate was Syarif Abdurrahman. Pontianak City itself was founded on October 23, 1771 along the mouth of the Kapuas and Landak rivers. Pontianak is now-a-days a cultural gateway through which influences from the outside reach the population of the hinterland. People from the hinterland also come to the city and mixed with Malays, Javanese, Chinese, Bugis and other tribes. Pontianak has also a special History with the Japanese because of the first battle of Kalimantan was in Pontianak City. Small boats called "Betang" sail up and down the river to transport people and goods from one place to another.

Tourism Object at Pontianak City In West Kalimantan Province

The Attractive Tourism Objects of Pontianak City are located on the equator, at the north of the rivers Kapuas and Landak. The Kapuas River itself is 1,143 kilometers long and is the most important river in the province of West Kalimantan, navigating tons of stuff up till Putussibau as the last village before the rapids, which is also the capital of the Kapuas Hulu regency,and is more then 800 kilometers inland from Pontianak. Motor or Longboats can even go further upstream to Tanjung Lokan which is on the foot of the Muller Mountain Range.

Pontianak links with various other cities inside the province and outside are smooth. Transportation by air and sea to several destinations as Jakarta, Surabaya, Balikpapan, Singapore and Kuching, there are also small planes with flights to small airstrips throughout West Kalimantan, as Sintang, Putussibau and Ketapang, but reservation in advance is needed.