Kawah Ijen is the world’s largest highly acidic lake and is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation in which sulfur-laden baskets are hand-carried from the crater floor. Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. Read more…
Purawisata is a complete recreation on Yogyakarta, which is located on Jl. Brigadier Katamso Jogja,to the east of Yogyakarta Kingdom.In the place that was recorded in Indonesian Record Museum in 2002 for performing Ramayana ballet every night for 25 years, you will enjoy dinner while seeing the ballet. Read more…
Situated on the south of Klungkung, a tiny village of Kamasan is fully packed with artists’ homes and studios. The village is home to traditional Balinese paintings. It is particularly famous as the center of classical wayang paintings that somehow leads back to similar figures of puppets in ancient Java. Read more…
Bona Villge: The interesting village in Gianyar saves an attraction of being the home to wooden and bamboo furniture shops. The bamboo handicrafts are plenty in smaller size while sugar palm contributes to the design of baskets, bags, purses, and boxes which are available in all shapes and size. Read more…
Terunyan Village lies at the edge of Lake Batur or at the west-foot of Hill of Kintamani. Villagers are natives of Bali called “Bali Aga” people. This village with unique tradition can be reached by boat from Kedisan Village, by crossing Lake Batur for some 30 minutes.
The name of Terunyan was derived from the word “Taru” and “Menyan”, fragnant trees growing in the village. Local people deem the trees highli important.
Corpses of dead people are just laid down openly on the graveyard under the trees covered whit white fabrics and the so-called bamboo covers of “Ancak Saji”, but the faces of the dead are left open. This kind of funeralis known as “Mapasah”.(source: banglikab.go.id)
Yogyakarta Special Region (Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, DIY) or called Jogjakarta is officially one of Indonesia’s 32 provinces. It is located on the island of Java. It is the only province in Indonesia that is still formally governed by a precolonial Sultanate: The Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat. Read more…
It is located in the center of the city of Yogyakarta or just Yogya as the local people call it. Karaton means a place where the Ratu-king lives, other word is Kedaton, with the same meaning. In the Javanese teachings, it has a deep philosophical meaning. The 14.000 sq. m of the Karaton Yogya has deep philosophical meaning with all its building, courts, carving, trees, and location. This is a Karaton full of significant symbols of human life. Read more…
The Borobodur Temple complex is one of the greatest monuments in the world. It is of uncertain age, but thought to have been built between the end of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century A.D. For about a century and a half it was the spiritual centre of Buddhism in Java, then it was lost until its rediscovery in the eighteenth century. For each direction there are ninety-two Dhyani Buddha statues and 1,460 relief scenes. Read more…
The volcanic cone of Ijen dominates the landscape at the eastern end of Java. Crater of Ijen is filled by a spectacular turquoise blue lake, its surface streaked in wind-blown patterns of yellow sulphur. Kawah Ijen is the world’s largest highly acidic lake and is the site of a labor-intensive sulfur mining operation in which sulfur-laden baskets are hand-carried from the crater floor. Read more…
Prambanan Theatre on the next site of the world heritage archeological park of Prambanan temple is one of the world class arts centers, officially opened on 1990. This architectural icon with its distinctive Prambanan view is sited within Yogyakarta’s civic district, just about 15-30 minutes of down townYogyakarta. 
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Born in Yogyakarta with a GRM Dorojatun on April 12, 1912, Hamengkubuwono IX is the son of Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII and Queen Raden Maya Kustilah. At the age of 4 years Hamengkubuwono IX lived apart from his family. He was educated in HIS school in Yogyakarta, MULO schoolin Semarang, and AMS school in Bandung, he called Sultan Henkie. In the 1930s he enrolled at Rijkuniversiteit (now the University of Groningen). Read more…
Prambanan Theatre on the next site of the world heritage archeological park of Prambanan temple is one of the world class arts centers, officially opened on 1990. This architectural icon with its distinctive Prambanan view is sited within Yogyakarta’s civic district, just about 15-30 minutes of down townYogyakarta. Read more…
