Floating guesthouse for tourists

Floating guesthouse for tourists

BANJARMASIN, South Kalimantan: Foreign and domestic tourists
wishing to see water buffaloes in the Danau Panggang subdistrict,
South Kalimantan, will soon be able to stay in a floating
guesthouse, Antara reported.

"The floating guesthouse will be built on a swamp in the heart
of South Kalimantan," Hulu Sungai Utara Regent Suhailin Muchtar
said here Wednesday.

The floating guesthouse will cost Rp200 million (US$ 86.956)
to build. It will be paid for by the Ministry for Tourist, Post
and Telecommunications and the local government.

Marshy Danau Panggang is an agrotourism center in the habitat
of the endangered water buffalo.

Quoting recent data from the local administration, Muchtar
said there were about 8,000 water buffalo, which only lived in
the heart of South Kalimantan.