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Mini Plantation tour which is now called as Aroma Tour through 09 hectares plantation garden at Margo Utomo Agro Resort, with varieties of spices such as nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon, cocoa, coffee and coconuts. You may also discover the extraordinary attraction of a traditional making process of palm tree liquid into palm sugar. Not to forget the dairy farm.The tour can be arrange in the morning or afternoon and takes 1 hour until 1.5 hours. Your stay in our resort will be not complete if you don't join this trip,since the milk,coffee,cheese and "Nutmeg Jam" are home made of our plantation and dairy farm.

Amargo tour is Plantation tour to Plantation which is establised in early 1900.On this tour processing of the plantation crops rubber,coffee,cocoa can be watched,but only latex processing which is possible to see all the time.Factory will be closed on sunday and public holidays. Coffee season is on May until September.

Dokar tour (hourse drawn cart)  around the south of kalibaru villages, visit the home industry of red brick,and aluminium kitchen utensils.

Village Tour by Jeep to Wonorejo waterfall, north of kalibaru, on the slope of Mount Raung, also Sumber salak swimming pool, a natural spring water at the village of Kajarharjo Kalibaru.You will find out that people's life is closely related to Plantation

Meru betiri National Park, located at Sarongan village-Pesanggaran.An adventurous tour to Sukamade the turtle beach can be one of great attraction on this region.Sukamade is a plantation which surrounded by Meru betiri National Park 58.000 hectare.Visiting Meru Betiri National park may takes  one ,two or three days depend on your time.One day visit if you may like to just walk on the jungle visitng the turtle nursery, releasing the hatclings and stop at the Green Bay - beautifull white sand beach and green colour of the the bay.Animal which you may find such as Javan Lutung (Trachypthecus Auratus),Monkeys (Macaca Fascicularis),Wreathed Hornbill(Aceros Undulatus),Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros Rhinoceros).Two days and one night tour is the regular program to watch the sea turtle to lay eggs at night.

A sulfur Miner in Ijen Crater

Ijen Crater is one the tourist destinations which is well known by foreigner and local tourists with its spectacular natural view of crater lake. It is located in the area of Sempol. The crater area lies at 2.386 meters above sea level on still active volcanos complex.  Many beautiful species of plants can be found there such as the edelweiss flower,giant tree fern and the Casuarina Junghun,beautifull giant tree fern  on the way to the crater foothill-Paltuding etc. Various animals can also be seen in the area like jungle fowl (gallus gallus),porcupine,monkeys etc. On this tour you will closely look at the life of sulphur miner who transporting sulphur  walking up from the crater lake and down as far as 3 kilometer to the foothill.                                                                            

 

 

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Banteng in Alas Purwo National Park

Alas Purwo National Park . Alas means forest or jungle and purwo is the beginning of forest. It is located in 42 square hectares, with many kinds of wild animals, such as banteng (bos javanicus), deer (mutiacus muntjak),dhole (cuon alpinus javanicus) pigs(sus scofa) and peacocks(pavo muticus). Also we can discover the old Hindu Temple (PURA GIRI SALAKA)  in this area.The trip can be very attractive by starting with exploring the one the best mangrove forest in Java on north west of National Park where the fishermen make a living by fishing ,net trowing,net trap and diving to search for clam.Migrating birds from Australia are mostly seen on October - December.On the side mangrove forest are found many mudskippers fish which are called as "Bedul",king fisher birds,water monitors,monkeys etc.

 
 

 

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Land Rover Cross river to Sukamade

Sukamade beach is the turtle beach, located 97km southwest of Banyuwangi. A beautiful, natural and quiet place. Dutch discovered this place in 1927, surrounds with 1 200 hectares plantation area that produces rubber, coffee and cacao. It is the semi-natural conservation of turtle. A night tour (start at 19:00 - 23:00)to see the turtles lay their egg by the beach is an unforgettable moment. November to March is the peak season for Green Turtle to lay eggs, for around 85 - 110 eggs and even more per female turtles.There are four species of sea turtles which lay eggs on Sukamade beach green turtle,olive ridley,hawksbill,giant turtle.We do not guarantee that on every trip we can find sea turtle which lay eggs.

 

 

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