Tarakan-tarakan

Tarakan according to folklore comes from Tidung "Tarak" (met) and "Ngakan" (eat)which literally means "Place of the fishermen to take a break to eat, meet and make exchanges with other fishermen catch. 
Tarakan is a small island in the north-east of Kalimantan Island, it is a rich small island. Tarakan has a lot of thing which make it A Must Visited Island. It is the place where the famous Bekantan Monkey from. A lot of place in Tarakan records some of the story of the World War Two. 

During the Pacific War (1942-1945), Tarakan played important role that it become a very terrifiying battle field between Japanese troops and the aligned troops. That is why Tarakan has been called "Pearl Harbour" of Indonesia.

Geographically, Tarakan is located in 3*14'23"-3*26'37" north latitude and 117*30'50"-117*40'12" east longitude and covering a total of 657,33 km2 territory consisting of 250,80 km2 land and 406,53 km2 water. The average minimum temperature is 24,80* C and maximum 31,40* C with 85% of average humidity. 

Here we are now, to provide you all the services you might need in Tarakan. Just pick up your pen and put our contact information on your address book and feel free to contact us for your hollyday.

Our offices are located at
Jl. Aki Balak No.1 RT.15 Karang Harapan, Tarakan Barat

Tarakan 77116, Kalimantan Timur. Indonesia

The proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) or long-nosed monkey, known as the bekantan in Indonesia, is a reddish-brown arboreal Old World monkeythat is endemic to the south-east Asian island of Borneo. It belongs in the monotypic genus Nasalis, although the pig-tailed langur has traditionally also been included in this genus - a treatment still preferred by some.

The monkey also goes by the Malay name monyet belanda ("Dutch monkey"), or even orang belanda ("Dutchman"), as Indonesians remarked that theDutch colonisers often had a similarly large belly and nose. (Taken from wikipwdia.org)