MBALATA: 

Naturally Coast 

with Inerie Mountainous 

Nature Background

 Blend charm between Nature Mountains in foot of mountains Inerie with spread of desert length is making Coast Mbalata in Watunggene Village, District of Kota Komba, East Manggarai Regency, is interesting to visit.

Sand spread out five kilometers from the East to the West stretch with sea blue is a distinctive charm. Moreover if blended with the view of foot mount Inerie as background makes Coast Mbalata is interesting to visit, especially nautical tourists.

On shore, visitors can make such activity like swim, surfing, and fishing and play sand beach. In addition, expanse of the beach long also can be used as volley ball, horse riding, or jogging.

Before entering the Coast, visitors are coddled by the scenery rice fields on right and left road that interspersed among lines of Palmyra trees between small dikes. Grazing fields is also coloring the beauty of the Coast which has completed five traditional nuanced cottages.

Access to Coast Mbalata is very easy. Coast are 33 kilometers from Borong, The Capital of East Manggarai Regency is gone through with all kind of vehicles it is only an hour riding.

The road is quite good. Because of that cycling of Wae Lengga Kota, District of Kota Komba is also provides its own preoccupation, because it is looks very beautiful scenery along the road, while watching the activity in farmland. After tourists tired play on the coast, they are also may see process of making Sopi or Moke (drinks of Palmyra tree) which is processed traditionally.

    

Mbalata Beach Inn Cottages

Not far from Coast Mbalata, there are Park Sea Waewole and Park Sea Watu Lamba there are seaweed. There are two kinds of seaweeds by local people known as Singa Mbeta.

Singa Mbeta if translated into Indonesian means ear break up. Somehow called so, perhaps because this kind of seaweed is life in death coral so easy dropout if withdrawn.

This type of seaweeds are ordinary available in August till October of each year. It is naturally this seaweed shall ordinary harvested local people for family vegetables. Due to the abundant amount, it is usually traded on the nearest market, Waelengga and Aimere. Perhaps because it is quite delicious to make people very greedy eat it up, and forget everything including them also even if their ear dropout they did not feel it.

Singa Mbeta is typical Rongga tribe vegetable simple processed and usually eaten along boiled banana/sweet potato. This local vegetable is quite helpful to prepare the daily menu, because there are abundant in dry time season that hard enough looking for the green vegetables.

The second kinds of seaweed is Ngio Ngao, in Indonesian means goat nose. This seaweed is throughout in the year because grows stick well in coral reefs. It is need a sharp knife to gouge it out. It is typical taste makes Ngio Ngao ordinary fresh eaten or simple processed just drenched with hot water then spiced tamarind and grated coconut. Seaweed is one of living resources contained in the coastal regions and sea the association with coral reefs ecosystem.

According to Galus Ganggus SPd., Daily Executor and also Secretary for Agencies of Culture and Tourism, the Park Sea Waewole will be the one of point stop off at the pre Sail Komodo 2013 besides Coast Cepi Watu in Borong.

The reason, anyway, the government of East Manggarai Regency with the tourism offender shall carry out the coral reefs and sea undertow survey at Waewole Sea and Coast Cepi Watu.

The importance of sea undertow survey with hitched flag is to give a safe for tourists who willing to swim.  Because except in Cepi Watu, diving and snorkeling potential in Waewole waters is very nice for divers to see and enjoying the beauty of the bottom of the sea.**Sapto Adiwiloso