ourism for Now & For the Future
"The Heritage Park offers a wide diversity of landscapes allowing many different tourism opportunities.
Strange how often one's thoughts take the path to the new Heritage Park project lately. Maybe it is because people are sitting around fires, thinking about what the changes this big project will bring into their lives. Will they still be able to sit around a fire and listen to the stories that their grandfathers tell?
They hear about big new things like partnerships between land-owners and communities and the government. About things like concessions, operators, conferences, hunters, business tourists, overseas tourists, room nights and many more.
They already know about the tourism businesses that operate in the area and the jobs and other opportunities that it brings. They also know that they can become entrepreneurs themselves and start up their own businesses in the area, because lots of businesses will be needed on the outside of the new bigger park as always happens when there are many people in one place.
Businesses like the one where tourists come to swim with their heads under water, breathing from a bottle they take with them under water. Maybe that is why they say in their brochure "breathtaking underwater scenery".
Or the petrol garage where people can also sleep and swim in a big bath. Of course, they can also sit around a fire there. I am sure there cannot be a place in this area where people will not be able to sit around their fires ....definitely not here.
There is even a boat that looks like a house on the water that people come to visit us on. They use it to drink on when the sun goes down.
Then there is a place where they drink Mampoer on the border of the Nostalgic. We know there is no place called Nostalgic around here... but you never know with Mampoer!
I hear there is even a butcher who hangs snakes around his neck. Some people think he uses snake skins for making his boerewors ...
The best story is about the man who decided to catch crocodiles. He keeps
them on a farm and allows them to grow big and have babies so that he
does not have to catch new ones every time. He uses them to feed the tourists
and for handbags and shoes."
the
fireside storyteller
