Foreigner Explores Pontianak, West Kalimantan (Borneo)

In today's episode, I start Phase Two of my Sabang to Merauke journey, as I start exploring Pontianak, the capital of the West Kalimantan province.

After sending my KTM 790 Adventure R (Macan) from Jakarta to Pontianak by ship, we set out to learn more about the city and the people living by the Kapuas River. Here we are surprised to meet locals who have never seen a foreigner here.

We visit a unique coffee spot called Asiang Coffee, where we learned about the success story behind selling more than 1000 cups of coffee per day. A place you must visit in Pointianak!
I then meet up with John & Briana from ‪@JAJAGO.KELILING.INDONESIA‬ the traveling Youtuber couple from Pontianak, who tells me about their story about how they sold everything to travel Indonesia in a Camper-van. Now they have become full time Youtubers.

I then jump on the Macan and drive for the coast, to visit the only floating Buddhist temple, IN THE WORLD.. The Xiao Yi Shen Tang temple. Here I met with the local Legend, Pak Slamet, who has become the symbol of religions tolerance in West Kalimantan.
We end today's video, standing on the equator line, as Macan and I gear up, for a long journey deeper into Kalimantan.

Stay tuned for the next episode, where we continue to Sanggau, Sintang and Simetau, on our way to the Malaysian border.

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▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

0:00 Intro at Kapuas River - World's longest Island River
0:48 Motorcycle shipping with ZuttoRide Indonesia
1:27 Gang Cermai River Village
2:25 Asiang Coffee Pontianak
6:06 Jajago Keliling Indonesia
7:00 Travel Indonesia with Camper Van
9:00 Campervan travel cost Indonesia
10:31 Xiao Yi Shen Tang Temple
12:41 The World's only floating Buddhist Temple
15:45 Khatulistiwa Park Pontianak / Equator line
16:18 Outro
16:40 Preview next episode

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