Riau Island Indonesia

Riau is a province in Indonesia. Riau Islands province borders Vietnam and Cambodia in the north, Malaysia and West Kalimantan Province on the east, Bangka Belitung Jambi and in the south, Singapore, Malaysia, and Riau Province in the west.

The broad area is mostly ocean, and only about 5% of the land. The capital of Riau Islands province is located in Tanjung Pinang. This province lies in the path of traffic and transport sea air on the most strategic and international level, and at the mouth of the world market that has a market opportunity.

Riau Islands province is a gateway from the world tour after the second island of Bali. Object tourism in the Province of Riau Islands are beach and sea tourism located in the coastal districts and cities. Melur beach, Abang island and Nongsa beach in the city of Batam, Belawan beach in Karimun district, Lagoi beach, Tanjung Berakit beach, Trikora beach, Bintan Leisure Park in Bintan district. Natuna district popular with its marine tourism activity such as snorkeling.

In addition to coastal and marine tourism, Riau Islands province also has other items such as heritage tourism, historic cemetery, traditional dances and special events area. In the city of Tanjung Pinang, there are Penyengat island as historic island because of there is a historic mosque and the tomb of King Haji Fisabililah and Raja Ali Haji who is both a national hero.

Art is one of the Riau Malay culture elements of the most prominent, covering art of literature, art and dance, sound and music, also theater art. Riau art literature consists of writing (in the form of minstrelsy, saga, historical, customs and others) and ligan literature such as pantun (maxim, proverb, maxim, proverb, parable, and others), mantra folklore, koba , kayat and long song. Most famous literature is Gurindam Dua Belas that are the works of Raja Ali Haji.
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Riau Indonesia

Riau is a province in Indonesia. This province is located on the island of Sumatra and the capital is Pekanbaru. Riau Province on the north side of the boundary with the Malacca and Singapore, on the south side of the Jambi Province and the idols, in the east is bordered by South China Sea (Kepulauan Riau), and in the west is bordered by the Province of West Sumatra and North Sumatra .

Riau has some agenda of tourism which was held regularly every year, competition among traditional sampan Pekanbaru on the Siak river which is the event in August, Mandi Potang Balimau who celebrated mass for the holy month Ramadan, Menggaru Ikan in the lake Bokuok Kampar, Pacu Jalur ceremony at Taluk Kuantan, which is a ceremonial event that contains the value of traditional culture and sports.

This province also has many natural tourism among Hutan Wisata Wana Bhakti as a useful lung for Pekanbaru city and surrounding areas to prevent pollution due to oil. Pekanbaru precisely in the southern region in the center there is Sebanga Duri taming and training elephants Riau. In addition, natural phenomena do not forget Bono Kuala Kampar roar which is the Kampar river water that rolled like waves that appear simultaneously with the arrival of pairs. The tourist beaches are in the area of Tanjung Pinang and Batam and one of them is the beautiful beach Nongsa with the background scenery and buildings skyscraper city of Singapore. Glitter lamp at night in the city of Singapore, the beautiful scenery from the beach Nongsa.

Are in the city of Pekanbaru there own place among other important Istana Pekabaru have a value of traditional architecture is very interesting and is the oldest mosque in the city of Pekanbaru. In the area of the mosque is a well that have a magical value, often foreign tourists, especially tourists Malaysia bath water well or intention to pay a vow before. Still in the area of Masjid Raya Pekanbaru we can visit the tomb of Sultan Marhum Bukit and Marhum Pekan with the family, we visited the graves of the cemetery was the founder of Pekanbaru city. Balai Adat Riau, this custom built hall for various activities relating to indigenous Resam Melayu Riau, and now often also used for meetings. In addition there Siak Palace, the Kingdom of Siak Sri Indrapura is a Malay Islamic kingdom in the Riau area at the 16th century until the 20th century.
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