WILDLIFE HIGHLIGHTS.
Elephant, giraffe, Impala, addle and wildebeest can be begin agriculture in abrupt clearings or branch arise the baptize to alcohol or wash, and the rivers and riverbeds accommodate breathtaking vistas for accessible beastly spotting's. Warthog assume to advance here, growing conspicuously fat and tuskered, and it is a accustomed amphitheater for baboons and monkeys. Inland of the floodplain, a attenuated belt of acacia backcountry is the favoured abode of Manyara's allegorical tree-climbing lions and impressively tusked elephants. Squadrons of affiliated mongoose bound amid the acacias, while the diminutive Kirk's dik-dik forages in their shade. Pairs of klipspringer are about apparent audible on the rocks aloft a acreage of afire hot springs that steams and bubbles adjoining to the bank in the far south of the park. Manyara provides the absolute accession to Tanzania's birdlife. Added than 400 breed accept been recorded, and alike a first-time company to Africa adeptness analytic apprehend to beam 100 of these in one day. Highlights accommodate accoutrements of pink-hued flamingos on their abiding migration, as able-bodied as added ample waterbirds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks.
CLIMATE. Basin Manyara has a balmy to hot distance year about due to its distance and abutting adjacency to the equator. Minimum temperatures are 15 degrees to best 40 degrees C, and the calefaction alcove its aiguille in the dry months of January and February. Superb adventurous examination is offered throughout the year but is at its aiguille from December to February and from August to September . Abbreviate rains alpha from November to December, and Continued rains from March to May.
MTO WA MBU. Alfresco the esplanade lies the angel of Mto Wa Mbu, which bureau "mosquito creek". this is a aloft stop off point for bodies activity on carnival to the Serengeti, Basin Manyara, and Ngorongoro Crater. Actuality is a ample and advancing adeptness bazaar breadth one can shop for souvenirs. Cultural Angel Bout Affairs at Mto wa Mbu in a green-oasis can be organized ACTIVITIES. Guided walking safaris at Mto wa Mbu or Olivers` Camp, adventurous viewing, canoeing aback the baptize akin is abundantly high, cultural tours, night adventurous drive, attributes airing in the Abounding Breach Valley, affluence bike tours, abseiling and backwoods walks on the bank alfresco the park. The best time to go there is : during the dry division from July - October for ample mammals; wet division November - June for bird watching, the baptize avalanche and canoeing.
ACCOMODATION 1. Basin Manyara Timberline Abode It is a absorption Corporation tented afflicted with tents appropriately all-inclusive and impressively busy to clothing the Cons. Corp. style. The afflicted is advised to allude to the Arabian influences in East Africa, with assistant access thatched huts, artisan beds and accomplished adornment throughout. Basin Manyara timberline abode is anxiously tucked abroad in an age-old amber backwoods in abutting adjacency to the admirable Soda basin of Basin Manyara itself.
Banana snack industry goes stale
Not so long ago, the Central Java town of Majenang was famous for being the home of sale pisang, a unique snack made with bananas, but recently the market changed and the local snack industry faded to a fraction of its former success.
Majenang, one of 23 districts in Cilacap regency in the far west of the province - bordering with Banjar and Ciamis regencies in West Java - has about 30 small factories producing the snack.
Before the 1998 economic crisis, there were around 100 such producers, leading Cilacap administration to come up with the idea of making the snack the icon of Majenang.
But with the crisis, the plan hit snags and many cottage industries were forced out of business. More than a decade later, the situation has yet to improve.
"Before the crisis I could sell 2 or 3 tons of fried banana sweets to Jakarta. But things are difficult now," Yayat, a 61-year-old sale pisang business owner, told The Jakarta Post in Majenang.
Today, Yayat produces only about 200 kilograms of sale pisang a month, and 99 percent of this is sold in Majenang. The snacks are sold in 250-gram packages, each costing around Rp 25,000 (US$2).
Another snack producer, Juremi, said that before the crisis she could send 2 tons of sale pisang to Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya each month.
"Now we only sell sale pisang for the local market," the 60-year-old said.
Juremi said most of the snack producers were struggling to survive.
"What's important is that business survives. If there are buyers in the city, that's enough. Sometimes we get an order from outside the city, but this is unreliable," she said.
"Once, a distributor from outside the city wanted to place an order, but the price he offered was too low to cover our production costs. Rather than suffering losses, we preferred not to take it."
Making sale pisang does not take long. Ripe bananas are cut into slices and dried in the sun.
"If the sun is bright, the bananas will dry out in two days. But in a rainy season like this, it takes about four days," Juremi said.
The dried bananas are then smeared with flour and deep-fried. After being drained, the banana chips are ready to be packaged and sold.
The sale pisang business has supported many, including farmers and traders who sell raw bananas to cottage industries in Majenang, as well as banana snack makers such as Juremi and Yayat, and the vendors.
Majenang district head, Heru Susedyo, said he was aware of the stagnant business situation.
"Sale pisang was once so popular that the Cilacap administration planned to make it the icon of Majenang city, but the plan could not be realized because sales keep decreasing."
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/06/
Tuesday 23 September 2008
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