Over 500 Inhabitants Of Banjarmasin Join “Suhoor On The River”

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BANJARMASIN, S Kalimantan: Over 500 people joined “Suhoor on the River” event organized by the Banjarmasin water and air police units on Sunday at 3:20 a.m. local time,  Antaranews reported.

“Alhamdulillah (Thank God), this annual Suhoor on the River event is always enthusiastically welcomed by the public,” Head of the Banjarmasin Police Senior Commissioner Anjar Wicaksana said here, Sunday.

Banjarmasin Mayor Ibnu Sina was also present in the event.

Suhoor or suhur, or locally called “sahur” is pre-dawn meal consumed by Muslims before fasting during Islamic Fasting month of Ramadan, which this year began on May 27. The meal is eaten before fajr prayer.

Banjarmasin is called “a city of one thousand rivers”. The city`s tourism office wants to develop Banjarmasin into a Venice of Indonesia.

Rivers have been very important for business and economic activities, therefore there are floating markets almost everywhere in the city.

Since long time ago, Banjarmasin has already been famous for its floating market, where local traders offer vegetables, fruit, fish, and traditional culinary such as “soto” (soup) Banjar and “Ketupat Kandangan” with snake-head fish and coconut milk sauce.

They also sell testy Banjar “wadai” (traditional cakes). There are at least 41 “wadai” that are a must to be tried, such as Putri Selat, Amparan Tatak, Bingka Barandam, Papare, and Kalalapon.

Most of the sellers are women wearing traditional common dresses and big “tanggui” hats made of palm leaves, aboard long canoes.

Buyers or tourists also have to be aboard canoes to approach them or buy their products.

Banjarmasin is also have some other attractive tourist destinations, like Sultan Suriansyah mosque, Sabilal Muhtadin great mosque, Martapura river, Maskot park and Agro tourism park.

Tourists who visit Banjarmasin, can take a river tour which starts from Martapura river to Kuin river, Kuin creek floating market, Kemang island, Barito river and back to Martapapura river.