MARGO UTOMO ADVENTURE

2009-03-22T04:03:00.000-07:00

Margo Utomo's transport - Land Rovers

Adventure with "Panji"Adventurous trip to the "Sukamade" the turtle beach with BAOBAB

Margo Utomo Adventure Team

Land Rover Jeep

Margo Utomo Tours and Transport
Plantation Tour becomes one of the reason for many tourists who come to Margo Utomo – Kalibaru for decades.Margo Utomo Tour and Transport also manage tours to wonderful natural objects such as Sukamade,Ijen crater,Alas Purwo and Baluran National Park.Land Rover Jeeps are transportation that are used to go to these natural tourist destinations.These adventurous tour can be one of your wonderful experience during your vacation in Indonesia.

MARGO UTOMO AGRO RESORT

2009-03-22T03:37:00.000-07:00

Pendopo Spa is located near swimming pool

Heliconia Restaurant at Margo utomo Agro ResortRooms at Margo Utomo Agro Resort

Margo Utomo Agro Resort is the old resort with dairy farm and plantation. It has 51 standard rooms equipped with hot and cold water. This resort was established in 1975 as Margo Utomo Family Home Stay and become the trend setter of Agro Tourism in East Java especially for Plantation crops. The founder of this Resort Mr.R.H.Moch.Moetadjab was awarded “ADIKARYA PARIWISATA” in November 1996 by former Indonesian President Suharto. His great achievement is making small town like Kalibaru become one of potential tourist destination in east Java.Margo utomo Agro resort is located in front of Kalibaru's Train Station.Beside of the plantation Margo Utomo Agro Resort is also home of many rare and beautiful tropical flowers.Aroma tour or Mini Plantation take place in this resort.
Margo Utomo Agro Resort also has Various Spa Treatment which takes place on the swimming pool side. The spa treatment will include Javanese Massage, Aromatherapy Massage,Hand or Foot Spa,Aromatherapy Facial etc.

MARGO UTOMO HILL VIEW COTTAGES

2009-03-21T04:02:00.000-07:00

Swinging log and wobbly bridge

Horizontal Log and Flying Fox

"Menyan" range of hills in front of Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages's LobbyRooms at Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages

MARGO UTOMO HILL VIEW COTTAGES

Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages the new resort which overlook at "GUNUNG MENYAN"/Range of hills in south of Kalibaru. Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages is located about 3 kilometers southeast of Margo utomo Agro Resort. This Resort was built in 1994 and was named as Margo Utomo Cottages. This resort offers rooms which have hill view and garden view. Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages has 30 rooms that are classified into 14 Standard Rooms,12 Superior Rooms , 04 Deluxe Rooms. Down stream of river in front of this resort has great rapids for white water rafting.
In the middle of nature you will feel fresh to do outbound activities with family and also friends. Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages have high-ropes facilities such as WOBBLY BRIDGE, SWINGING LOG,HORIZONTAL LOG and FLYING FOX.
Wobby bridge, Swinging Log and Horizontal Log are on one package game , While Flying Fox is a seperate game. It's a really fun, exciting,and educating activities .Margo Utomo Outbound also offer exciting games for offices and companies to generate their team work.

ALAS PURWO - THE JUNGLE

2009-03-21T03:57:00.000-07:00

Alas Purwo Trip with exploring the Mangrove

Grajagan Fisherman Village where the tour beginEnjoying the beauty of Mangrove Forest on Bedul Estuary from traditional fisherman boat

Pancur Beach - Alas Purwo National Park

Pura Giri Salaka,Sadengan, a peacock on savanna, banteng on savanna

ALAS PURWO TOUR – THE JUNGLE

The tour to 43,420 acres of Alas Purwo National Park is an outstanding experience to observe the pristine tropical low-land rainforest as well as mangrove on the other side of national park. Alas Purwo which is literally means “the first forest” from Javanese words is one of the well-preserved rain forest which protected by myths and law. It is believed by the local people about the sacred forest. There are several destination points to visit such as NGAGELAN BEACH (The turtle sanctuary), PURA GIRI SALAKA (an old Hindu temple), SADENGAN (The observing tower) and TRIANGGULASI BEACH. It will be a wonderful moment to discover Banteng/Javanese Bull (Bos Javanicus), Green Peafowl (Pavo Muticus), and Indian Deer (Muntiacus muntjak) in the wild. Mostly animals will go to waterhole in savannah “Sadengan” in dry season.Additional trip to mangrove forest can be arranged (the well-preserved mangrove forest in Java) on "Bedul Estuary" or "Segara Anakan " take one hour by typical traditional fisherman boat "KATIR" is really wonderful trips. The name "Bedul" is taken from "Mud Skipper Fisher" which mostly found in the estuary

Location : On south-east of Kalibaru

Distance : 83 km

Duration : 1 day

Tour Schedule: 09:00 am

How to Join: Please contact me to be reserved 24 hours prior departure.

Inclusion: English speaking tour guide, Admission Fee, Mineral Water

Preparation: Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion

LORRY TOUR

2009-03-15T23:06:00.000-07:00

Crossing the longest bridge

Starting the lorry tour from Kalibaru Train Station

LORRY TOUR
Take the trip through public railways line with the lorry train, will absolutely give us different view of Mount Kumitir scenery in the west of Kalibaru .Mount Kumitir is one of great natural barrier in the old time that make Banyuwangi and Bali isolated for centuries from the rest of Javanese civilization . Through the Railways tunnel that built in 1910 had changed the history. The trip is supposed for small group (4 – 6 persons) for one car which start from Kalibaru Station to Garahan train station
(Note: please be advised, sometimes it can not be operated due to the changing of public train schedule)
Location : starts from Kalibaru Train station
Distance : 15 km
Duration: 02 hours
Tour Schedule: 07:30 am and 10:30 am
How to join: please contact me
Inclusion: English speaking Tour Guide, Admission Fee
Preparation: Camera, sport shoes, casual dress

SUKAMADE - THE TURTLEBEACH

2009-03-15T02:30:00.000-07:00

Adventure trip to Sea turtle conservation - Sukamade Beach

Unpredictable ...deep but the trip must go on

Jeep is crossing a river near Sukamade Plantation Save the sea turtle...... turtle nursery help them stronger

Walk on Rajekwesi Beach after long driving from Kalibaru

Fishermen village, land rover on peace bay,watching animals,turtle hatchlings

SUKAMADE OR MERU BETIRI ADVENTURE TOUR - THE TURTLE BEACH

Witnessing one of great natural event of surviving pre-historic reptile can be one great vacation experience. The principal object of this adventure tour is watching the turtle to lay their eggs on virgin secluded beach which is well-known as SUKAMADE BEACH. Before searching the turtle you will go through tropical low land rainforest on the southern coast of Java island. It is also possible to walk on jungle road for haft to one hour after long driving from Kalibaru to Rajekwesi (Fishermen villages).National Park that has been set in colonial era as one of wildlife reserved in east java is worth to visit during your vacation in Indonesia. The peak season for green turtle (mostly found laying their eggs on Sukamade Beach) is on wet season but usually can be found on entire year.

(Note: It is not guaranteed that we will find the sea turtle laying their eggs on this trip )

Location : On south-west of Kalibaru

Distance : 108 km

Duration : 2 days and 1 night

Tour Schedule: 09:00 am

How to Join: Please contact me

Inclusion: English speaking Tour Guide, Admission Fee, one night stay in Sukamade Guest house, Dinner, Breakfast, Beach Guide, (Lunch boxes are optional)

Preparation: Camera, sport shoes, casual dress (preferred dark-colored dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion)

Itinerary If you may like to stay in Plantation Guest House - "WISMA SUKAMADE BARU" and interested in visiting Plantation - to watch pressing of coagulated latex for Ribbed Smoke Sheet:

1^st day

09:00 – 12:30 Depart to Rajekwesi Beach (1^st stop on the tour)

12:30 - 12:45 Stop at the gate of Meru Betiri National Park, continue by walking to Rajekwesi fishermen village (500 – 750 m)

12:45 – 13:30 having Lunch and rests on Rajekwesi food stall

13:30 – 15:00 continue the trip to sukamade guest house ( the most difficult one, four wheel drive vehicle mostly recommended), and stop at Teluk Damai (literally translated means “PEACE BAY”). It’s possible and recommends walking on jungle road from the flat point to security post ( haft to one hour walk).

15:00 - 16:00 Visit the plantation factory of coffee,cocoa,rubber (the crops are can be seen on the way to sukamade) and continue visit the Sukamade plantation village (Afdeling)

16:00 – 18:30 Arrive at the guest house, take a shower, rest until dinner time

18:30 – 19:30 Dinner on Sukamade Guest house

19:30 – 19:45 Depart to Sukamade Beach by jeep ( 5 km)

19:45 – 20:15 Stop at Turtle hatchery or Park Ranger Office (possible to see the turtle hatchlings all the time of year)

20: 15 – 20:30 Walk to the beach (800 m)

20:30 - Sitting on the beach wait for the signals from park ranger who search for the turtle (Not allowed to smoke, turn on the flashlight, loud talking or making any loud noises.

23:00 - If we are lucky to find the turtle and watch the wonderful processing of laying eggs, we go back to guest house and have nice dream.

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Itinerary If you may like to stay in Park Ranger Compound- "WISMA PANTAI" and interested in seeing conservation of sea turtle and nature:

1^st day

09:00 – 12:30 Depart to Rajekwesi Beach (1^st stop on the tour)

12:30 - 12:45 Stop at the gate of Meru Betiri National Park, continue by walking to Rajekwesi fishermen village (500 – 750 m)

12:45 – 13:30 having Lunch and rests on Rajekwesi food stall

15:00 - 16:00 Realesing the hatclings to the ocean as a part of conservation effort.

16:00 – 18:30 Back to the guest house, take a shower, rest until dinner time

18:30 – 19:30 Dinner on Park Ranger House Guest house

20: 00 – 20:05 Walk to the beach (800 m)

20:05 - Sitting on the beach wait for the signals from park ranger who search for the turtle (Not allowed to smoke, turn on the flashlight, loud talking or making any loud noises.

23:00 - If we are lucky to find the turtle and watch the wonderful processing of laying eggs, we go back to guest house and have nice dream.

One of the adventage to stay in Wisma Pantai, the ranger will awake us anytime in the night they find a sea turtle

2^nd day

07:00 – 08:00 Breakfast on Sukamade Guest House.

08:00 – 12:00 Depart to Kalibaru or Ketapang harbor

If you are interested on nature and wish to explore more on Meru Betiri National Park, you can take 3 days and 2 night tours.You can spend the 2nd day by exploring Meru Betiri National Park with local jungle walk guide. You may be amazed by huge jungle trees, rattan shoot which keep clean water which you can drink, strangling ficus is also amazing thing to realize that the stronger and faster will survive (Jungle Law).

If you start little early you can get to "Permissan Beach" one of virgin white sand beach on south west of Sukamade Plantation.

By taking 3 days 2 nights tour you have 2nd chance to see the sea turtle, if you didn't find it on 1st night visit to the beach.

VILLAGE TOUR BY JEEP

2009-03-15T02:21:00.000-07:00

Jeeps are ready for trip

Exploring Kalibaru’s village will take you to portraits of typical Indonesian villager’s life especially related to the plantation. Few local tourist destinations like waterfall (“WONO REJO”) which called as TIRTO KEMANTEN, natural reservoir “SUMBER SALAK” which was long time ago was used as swimming pool by the plantation general managers can be one of the places you may be interested to include in your trips.You may take to visit Cocoa Factory in Afd.Sumber Baru to see how they process cocoa wet beans into dried cocoa dried beans.It is an important process to determine the quality of cocoa powder or chocolate bar.

Location : on Kalibaru’s surrounding village

Distance : 10 km

Duration : 3 hours

Tour Schedule : 09:00 am

How to Join : Please contact me

Inclusion : English Speaking Tour Guide, Mineral Water, Coffee Break

Preparation : Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion

VILLAGE TOUR BY DOKAR

2009-03-15T02:07:00.000-07:00

Exploring Kalibaru’s village will take you to portraits of typical Indonesian villager’s life especially related to farming. Riding horse drawn cart (dokar) through the south part of Kalibaru’s Village. Visiting home industries like, tinsmith, brick work can also be an exciting experiences in your tour.
On the trip you will stop at Margo Utomo Agro Resort or Margo utomo Hill View Cottages, it depends where you start the trip.

Location : on Kalibaru’s surrounding village
Distance : 5 km
Duration : 2 hours
Tour Schedule : 08:00 am or 09:00
How to Join : Please contact me
Inclusion : English or Dutch speaking Tour Guide, Mineral Water, Coffee Break
Preparation : Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion

IJEN - THE CRATER

2009-03-14T02:59:00.000-07:00

The trip to the magnificent crater lake in the world

Beauty and marvelous way of life of Ijen Crater

IJEN CRATER TOUR - THE CRATER
Great Tour to the peak of enormous crater with magnificent volcanic landscape of Ijen stratovolcanoes complex. And you can also observe the hard life of sulphur miner carrying sulphur rocks from deep down in the Crater floor. Carrying about 80 – 100 kg of sulphur rocks from the crater up to the crater rims and walk down about 3 km to the foot hill. It is recommended for Active Ages only, as the journey will be quite challenging.
All the tourists are prohibited to walk down to the Crater Lake which also known as the hell’s kitchen.

Location : On north-east of Kalibaru
Distance : 87 km
Duration : 6 – 8 hours
Tour Schedule: 03:00 am
How to join: please contact me reservation minimum 24 hour’s prior departure
Inclusion: English speaking Tour Guide, Admission Fee+ camera charge, Mineral Water
Preparation: Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mask , lot of drinking water.

Itinerary of Ijen Crater Tour from Margo Utomo - Kalibaru
02:45 AM 03:00 AM Drink coffee or tea
03:00 AM 05:00 AM Depart to (Paltuding) Kawah Ijen's foot of mountain
05:00 AM 07:00 AM Go up to the crater ( 3 km). It takes one and a half hour until two hours.
07:00 AM 08:00 AM On the top of Ijen Crater & enjoying the view and take pictures.
08:00 AM 09:30 AM Walk down to Paltuding and have breakfast boxes which are prepared from the hotel.
09:30 AM 11:30 AM Drive back and Arrived at the hotel at the lunch time.

AMARGO TOUR

2009-03-14T01:58:00.000-07:00

The plantation

Latex dropping after tapping, cocoa fruits,coffee,collecting latex for coagulation process

AMARGO TOUR - THE PLANTATION (formerly known as Big Plantation Tour)

Enjoyable excursion to one of the plantation which was established in colonial era/early 1900. It offers something which is worth to know about the plantation crops such as rubber, coffee, cocoa, and clove are growing also the processing. An excellent trip to find out the long chain process of those commodities before ending up as tire on your car, or nice hot a cup of coffee or hot chocolate serves on your dining table. The processing that is possible to watch through the year is rubber processing but sometimes will stop at rainy days (especially early morning rain). Coffee season is from June to September, and cocoa on May and October. On this trip you will also take to the home industry like tin smith on the way or stop at the villages with different farming crops ( Chilli pepper, melon,peanut etc) depend on the season.

Note: Factory are closed on Sunday and public holidays

Location : on north-east of Kalibaru

Distance : 11 km

Duration : 4 hours

Tour Schedule: 08:00 am

How to join: please contact me

Inclusion: English speaking Tour Guide, Admission Fee, Snack with Coffee / Tea

Preparation: Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion

AROMA TOUR

2009-03-12T20:09:00.000-07:00

Hand milking,Mozzarela cheese processing and Brown Sugar processing

Tropical crops ( Vanilla,Passion Fruits,Snake Fruits, and Pepper)

An exotic Nutmeg fruits

Aroma Tour or (formerly known as Mini Plantation Tour)

Various crops will be seen here and our experienced tour guide will explain about the plants during the tour in our own plantation adjacent to Margo Utomo Agro Resort.Vanilla, coffee, coconut, snake-fruit, cinnamon , nutmeg, pepper, rubber tree, cocoa are the variety of crops of which you may not have known better before taking this trips. Dairy farm with around 80 cows which are milked by hand every morning (07:00) and evening (19:00) , Brown-sugar processing from sap of undeveloped coconut flower (afternoon), butterfly’s aviary are adding up into the beauty of this tour . It is a worth and wonderful trip suggested to be taken, hence the knowledge of tropical plants and its products will be part of our memorable journey to Kalibaru, And Margo Utomo as The Plantation Resort.

EDUCATIONAL TOUR for Students

The dairy farm and plantation tour can be arranged for student from Kindergarten to Elementary School as our generation should know better about the plants which mostly grows surround them.The trip can be arrange by their school or teacher. or even private group.It's a kind having fun with knowledge.

Location : Adjacent to Margo Utomo Agro Resort, in around 9ha of land.

Distance : -

Duration : 1-2 hours

Tour Schedule : Morning or Afternoon

How to Join : Please contact me

Inclusion : Snack with coffee/tea, English speaking Tour Guide

Preparation : Camera, sport shoes, casual dress, mosquitoes repellent lotion

KALIBARU - BANYUWANGI - EAST JAVA

2009-03-11T22:16:00.000-07:00

Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages - Kajarharjo Villages - Kalibaru

Map of Banyuwangi Regency

Kalibaru town map

Molding clay for brick making

Shopping for kitchen utensils

Kalibaru is a small town (sub district) in western Banyuwangi Regency. It surrounds by ranges of hills in the west and south, while in the north is bordered by Mount Raung .At elevation of 428 m above sea level, Kalibaru has nice cool climate. Coffee plantation can be found in Kalibaru and its surroundings, either owned by individuals, private company or state owned plantation. It has relatively high averages rainfall per year, which makes this area greener than any other area in Banyuwangi regency.

Kalibaru is located in the mid of tourism route of Java – Bali which make it as the best place to stop overnight, It’s a pity if you stay but do nothings in that beautiful place. Many activities can be done in Kalibaru such as educational tour like (Plantation tour, Village tour), Adventure tour (Sukamade Tour, Alas Purwo Tour, Ijen Crater Tour) or Outbound Activities

Kalibaru has been known as tourist destination for decades. Margo Utomo Agro Resort formerly Margo Utomo Home stay/Margo Utomo 1 and Margo Utomo Hill View Cottages formerly Margo Utomo Cottages/Margo Utomo 2 are resort which provide these facilities and services. These tour could be the memorable one for tourist either foreign or domestic ones.

It’s easy to get to Kalibaru by any public transportation. Almost any trains scheduled to stop at Kalibaru Train Station (Mutiara Timur - Express train from Banyuwangi to Surabaya , Sritanjung - Economy Class train from Banyuwangi to Jogjakarta,Probowangi - Economy Class train from Banyuwangi to Probolinggo,Tawang Alun - Economy Class train from Banyuwangi to Malang, Pandanwangi - Economy Class train from Banyuwangi - Kalibaru etc).
Even though, there is no bus terminals in town, bus can easily stop on the highway near traditional market or trains station.
As a town with many Europeans tourists on high season June - September , there is no big bank or ATM Machine in town which make the tourists easy to get cash. So any visitors have prepared themselves with enough cash. The closest ATM Machine is about 23 km away ( in GENTENG subdistrict)

Kalibaru is well known for its potential home industries such as Tin smith and “Tahu” or bean curd. Tourists can explore more about villagers activities by making tours with different transportations (Car,Dokar (Horse-Drawn-Cart)) or even walking