Yapen - Yapen

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Yapen
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Yapen

Yapen (also "Japen" or "Jobi") is a 160 kilometers long island of volcanic origin in the Cenderawasih Bay (Geelvinkbaai) North of Western New Guinea. Together with the near one Biak and some smaller ones it belongs to the Schouten Islands (Misore Islands). The main town is Serui.

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Linguists differentiate between 13 different languages ​​in Yapen. Most of these belong to the Austronesian language group, but there are also two Papuan languages. Has examined this Johannes Cornelis Anceaux.
The little bird of paradise (Paradisaea minor) is native to Yapen and Misool.

In Yapen Islands Governorate (Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen) around 110,000 people live on 2050 km² of land. Much of the island is covered with tropical rainforest. The WWF classifies the island, which is mountainous in the center and whose highest point is 1496 m, as an ecoregion worthy of protection. About a third of the island has been designated as a nature reserve since 1995. Cocoa and coconut palms are grown on “cash crops”.

In terms of tourism, the island is much less developed than Biak. Outside of Serui you will be dependent on your own initiative, but then you can enjoy nature in seclusion.

places

Around 25,000 people live in Serui, many of whom are transmigrants of the Muslim faith.

Smaller localities are 1 Ansus with the offshore islands Pulau Ansus and Pulau Manupampi, 2 Yobi in the north and 3 Randowaya (= Randawaya) at a river mouth on the south coast.

To the east of Yapen lies the island of Kurudu, whose 2200 inhabitants speak their own language. To the west is the island 1 Mios Num.

getting there

By plane

1  Serui-Yapen (Bandara Stevanus Rumbewas, IATA: ZRI) (12 km to the west as the crow flies, almost 30 km by road). Serui-Yapen in the Wikipedia encyclopediaSerui-Yapen (Q12474109) in the Wikidata database.Will only be used by Trigana out Jayapura served daily.

By boat

Serui ferry port (Pelni). About half of the ferries on the Jayapura ↔ Biak ↔ Manokwari route make a stop here. There are long haul routes too Jakarta and Surabaya.

Local cargo ferries the ASDP to Biak (possibly with a stop in Ureifaisei / Waropen) also leave from Kabuena. The village is about seven kilometers east of Seruis by road.

Sailing yachts

Formalities for those coming from abroad must first be in Sorong be done.

mobility

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From Serui to the west, the road goes about thirty kilometers to the airfield.

Tourist Attractions

The main street from Serui with Silas Papare-Memorial, a freedom fighter 1945/6.

The church building of the Pentecostal movement, the Jemaat Ekklesia, is probably the most striking building in Serui.

activities

The archipelago on the south coast 2 Kepulauan Ambai is protected as a marine nature park, which is the most important tourist destination in the region when it comes to diving.

1  Sarawandori (about 8 km on the road to the airport, then 1½ km to the sea). At the fishing village, which is partly built on stilts into the sea. Several turquoise blue bays on the coast of a headland rich in plants.

shop

1  Pasar (Market hall) (Turn left from the ferry terminal, 100 m after the roundabout on the lake side). Open: daily from 5.00, Sun. only in the afternoon.

accommodation

Serui

1  Hotel Merpati, Jl. Yos Sudarso 8 (less than 100 m from the ferry terminal up the main road, on the left). Tel.: 62 852-8080-9900. 62 rooms with A / C.last change: Mar. 2019
Hotel Cendrawasih (From the ferry terminal, turn left, 50 m, right hand before the roundabout).
2  Wisma Rahmat. Tel.: 62 812-8888-0493. last change: Mar. 2019

Ambai

Revau tariff getaway. Tel.: 62 813-4461-8301.

health

Yapen lies in a tectonically active zone. The strong Papua earthquake in 2010 left 17 dead. Randawaya was largely destroyed.

Practical advice

Yapen is in the East Indonesian Time Zone (WIT), which is GMT 9.

trips

literature

See also general travel guides Indonesia.

Web links

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