TOURISM : MUARA KUIN FLOATING MARKET

With a view to see, tourists as though they were sightseeing. Djoekoeng Jukung-laden merchandise with vegetables, fruits, all kinds of fish and other household goods available at the floating market. As the sun began to emerge the market gradually began to retreat, the merchants began to leave the floating market to bring the results with satisfaction.

Floating market a unique atmosphere and the typical jostling between large and small boat buyers and sellers seek each other are always milling to and fro, and always shaky play of the Barito river waves. Floating market has no such organization in the market on the mainland, so it does not record how many traders and merchants bersarkan visitors or distribution of merchandise.

Floating Market

Boating women traders who sell their products themselves or a neighbor called the hamlet, while the second hand purchase from the hamlet called panyambangan for resale. Keistemewaan this market is still common barter transactions between merchants and boating, which is in a language called Banjar bapanduk, something unique and rare.

This tourist attraction is often regarded as a fantastic attraction, like the Venice of the East Banjarmasin World, because they both have the potential of river tourism. But both city and nature different cultural backgrounds. In Banjarmasin many found along the river floating houses called lanting house, which is always shaky play of the waves.

Kuin is a type of settlement areas that are along the river flow (waterfront village) which has several tourist attractions, either in the form of nature tourism, cultural tourism and cultural tourism. Closely with the life of the community life of the river like a floating market, riverside village with its traditional architecture. Downstream mudiknya traditional boat with a wide variety of cargo is an interesting attraction for tourists, even expected to be developed as tourist villages so that it can be a shaper image in promotion of tourism in South Kalimantan. Still in the same area, tourists can also visit the Mosque of Sultan Suriansyah and Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Suriansyah, Kembang island, islands and island Bakut Shocked. In Kuin also there for ornamental carving handicrafts Banjar home.