Escapade at Mangrove Forest

Are you an enthusiast of nature? Realize your love to nature at the area of the mangrove forest located on Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Suwung, Denpasar. This territory, familiarly known as Mangrove Information Center, is supremely lovely and convenient for carrying out tourist activity. It offers fresh air as it is overflowed by swamp trees. There are lots of crabs, shrimp, mollusks, bird, snake and herbarium living in this forest.

Should you like to explore the territory of mangrove forest you’d better come on Monday-Friday around 09.00—17.00 local time. Or you may come on Saturday and Sunday as well. However the price of its entrance ticket would be different. This Mangrove Information Center is good for carrying out training, research, environmental education and ecotourism.
Originally, the territory of mangrove forest was used for shrimp and milkfish embankment. But, in 1992, the government of Bali Province took back its function into forest. In the midst of the mangrove forest you will a meeting room to give initial introduction on the mangrove plant. Prior to exploring, visitors would be given information on the mangrove plants through video presentation.
Escapade within this forest of 101 hectares is performed on foot through trails (wooden bridge). Name of trails is made in accordance with the group of mangrove plant. You can relax on small huts available in the midst of the forest. There are five small gazebos of which names are based on the name of birds as Javan pond heron, purple heron, whrimbrel hall, tern hall and spotted dove hall.
To begin the journey, one should pass through the Javan pond heron hall. In the midst of the passage, visitors would encounter a tower of 10 meters height. From this tower the visitor can observe many kinds of birds and their nests sticking on the trees. Within the passage, visitors will be amazed by forest animals like lizard, snake and others.
In the meantime, from the tern hall you will discern the beauty of the sea where ships come and go in the spread of the ocean or the ones that are parked in Benoa Harbor.
Tri Wijaya, the Public Relation Officer of the Mangrove Information Center said that in the effort to conserve the mangrove forest his party does not perform special rituals as what other tourist objects across Bali do. For maintenance, his party only carries out seeding and cultivation of the mangrove plants. In the meantime, several kinds of animals living there are let in compliance with the stream of nature. No cage and no hunting. (BTN/015)