Manau River

Manau River is located in Air Batu Village , District Renah Pembarab, Merangin District, Jambi Province, Indonesia. This river is one of the few rivers in the Merangin district who has the upper in Kerinci Seblat National Park (TNKS). The water flows through the hills and valleys with some fairly steep terrain and winding. This river has a good field to be used as tourist attractions and sports rafting. Rafting Sports Association of Jambi province, which is part of Paddle Sports Association of Indonesia (PORDASI), often utilizing manau River as a place to exercise. Sports activities Rafting in Manau River, Merangin continue to have made quite encouraging.

In fact, athletes who participate practice began to arrive from outside the area. Responding to this, the Merangin District Government then set manau Watershed region as one tourist destination in the Merangin district, Jambi, especially for the sport of rafting. In support of this, we perform the various efforts such as increasing the race, whitewater rafting, both local and national scale.

For tourists who have a fairly challenging hobbies like sports rafting, it is appropriate to choose Manau Merangin River as one of the places to do sports Rafting. Because River manau Merangin supported by the extreme terrain and obstacles which are very challenging, like the walls of a narrow river with a slit, steep cliffs and surrounded by boulders, and river water that flowed with rapids and ready to throw anyone.

In this river, ever held rafting sports competitions national scale until recent times, the last was held in early 2009. The participants who took part in the race is pretty much. They come from various areas in Jambi Province and outside the region in the country. They come with one purpose, namely to try to conquer the wild rivers of water, extreme terrain race, and become the best from the other competitors.

Besides enjoying the challenge of river rafting sports, travelers can also enjoy treats the natural beauty along the river flow. The travelers will be entertained with a very beautiful natural scenery either when pedaling a raft in the river manau merangin or when a break after completion of the rafting sport .

To be able to reach the site, the tourists can use land transportation routes, such as public transportation, motorcycle, rental car or private car. The trip can be started from the city of Jambi to the Bangko City which is about 310 km with the distance of about 4 hours. Having arrived in the city of Bangko then journey will continued to the location of tourist attractions, namely the Air Batu Village which is about 20 km from the center of town with travel time about 30 minutes. And incredibly, it’s free, no charge for visitor to be able to enter the location of this tour.

Location:
Manau River is located in Air Batu Village , District Renah Pembarab, Merangin District, Jambi Province, Indonesia. To be able to reach the site, the tourists can use land transportation routes, such as public transportation, motorcycle, rental car or private car. The trip can be started from the city of Jambi to the Bangko City which is about 310 km with the distance of about 4 hours. Having arrived in the city of Bangko then journey will continued to the location of tourist attractions, namely the Air Batu Village which is about 20 km from the center of town with travel time about 30 minutes.