The best Timing to go to North Halmahera
North Halmahera has the charm of a comprehensive, ranging from the panoramic beauty of nature especially beaches, history, to culture. If you plan to visit the North Halmahera sure what you're going to go in North Halmahera. Whether it is more familiar with local culture or enjoy water sports.
Come in March and April to come celebrate the birthday of Hibua Lamo, North Halmahera custom homes as well as a cultural icon and tourist district. Location was in the middle of the city Tobelo, the capital of North Halmahera. Ordinary Summit of the held on April 19. The event will include arts and cultural performances. Lamo Hibua anniversary celebrations in 2009 had brought dances Cakalele 1,000 children and was awarded Muri.
While there is celebration in June Wangongira Open Harvest. The celebration was a religious activity is open to harvest. In the village Wongongira, West Tobelo there is a unique rice cultivation, which grew in the river that flows. Alex from the Office of Culture and Tourism North Halmahera explain the position of rice as a boy in sleep or go to the swift flow of water. But over time, rice will grow straight out of the water. Some estates owned by people generally have the same harvest.
Alex tells the legend behind this unique rice. It is said that based on stories from generation to generation, long ago there was a grandmother who brought saloi or container containing rice. He was on his way home from the river through the rice fields. The grandmother then slipped and rice brought down the river were swept away. Old-old rice that was grown in a river.
There is also a celebration of the vessel Laor on the Coral Coast, located in Tobelo and Loloda. The event was held five to eight days after the full moon. Laor is a worm that lives in coral beach. This caterpillar into food of local residents. Uniquely, laor just emerged from behind a rock at the dawn of time once a year. Bucket means' to take. Usually, laor out of the reef in May.
"Laor taken using the filter of gauze. Filter is dipped into water, when the caterpillars arise above the water surface, the filter is removed. The caterpillar-caterpillar was moving to the filters," explained Alex. People will pack the beach from midnight. They scrambled for capturing caterpillars because the caterpillars that emerge only for a moment.
"Laor appear only for one half hour, then disappeared simultaneously. Why should hurry and be a bone of contention," said Alex. Residents then fry or mengasapkan laor to be used as side dishes.
North Halmahera also provide suitable spots for diving. Word, a veteran diver who used to dive in North Halmahera and also worked in local government to provide advice in good time to dive. He said the third until the seventh month is the right month because the weather tends to calm and sunny.