Sunday, 1 January 2023

Sendangsono Lourdes



Sendangsono Lourdes

The word Sendangsono comes from Sendang and Sono. Sendang means Spring Water, and Sono means tree, so that means spring water under the Sono tree. This pilgrimage site locates in the Menoreh foothills and is 45 kilometers west part of Yogyakarta.

The spring water better well-known as Semagung serves as a haven for monks who want to visit Boro village, which lies in the south part of Sendangsono. May '20 ‘1904 caused the arrival of Father Van Lith, and perform baptism on 173 residents of Kalibawang using the spring water. Then Sendangsono changed to a Catholic pilgrimage function.

The short Cross Way can be a choice of worship to commemorate the Passion of Christ carrying the cross. At each dismissal of the cross, pilgrims can light candles and pray at the same time. Remember important events of Christ's journey to Golgotha. When Christ fell twice in shouldering the cross, speedwell wiped his face with a handkerchief until the death of Jesus Christ.

Saturday, 10 December 2022


dance performance at sultan palace jogja


JAKARTA JOGJA BROMO SURABAYA TOUR 8 DAYS

DAY 1: JAKARTA AIRPORT - HOTEL
The Jakarta Jogja Bromo Surabaya tour for 8 days starts with a pick-up service by our tour guide and driver at Jakarta international airport. Then drive to the hotel for check-in and rest.

DAY 2: INDONESIA MINATURE - BATAVIA HARBOR - BANDUNG (B, L)
Breakfast and check out the hotel, then visit Indonesia Miniature Museum. This museum will show culture and lifestyle with plenty of mini replicas of Indonesian houses, heritage monuments, etc. Then visit the old harbor of Batavia, known as the main harbor in Dutch Colonial times. Drive to Bandung Hotel, check-in, and rest. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 3: TANGKUBAN PERAHU - TEA PLANTATION - GARUT (B,L)
Breakfast at the hotel, and visit Mount Tangkuban Perahu, the most active volcano in West Java which offers beautiful scenery surround. Continues to the tea plantation area, walks around the tea plantation, and learns about it. Back to the hotel and rested. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 4: PAPANDAYAN - CURUG TEKO WATERFALL (B, L)
Breakfast and check out the hotel, visit Mount Papandayan, which lies in Garut. Explore little soft trekking and enjoy the view and fresh air. Then visit a waterfall nearby which offers fresh water from the mountain. Drive to Garut Hotel, check-in, and rest. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 5: GARUT - WONOSOBO JOURNEY (B, L)
Breakfast and check out of the hotel. Make a land journey from Garut to Wonosobo with plenty of mountains, forests, and farming fields along the way. Check-in hotel in Wonosobo and rest. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 6: SIKUNIR SUNRISE - DIENG - BOROBUDUR - YOGYAKARTA (B, L)
Wake up at 03.00 in the morning, then drive to Sembungan village for the Sikunir sunrise tour. Enjoy the beauty of golden sunrise from the top of the plateau, with mountains surrounded. Continued to Color Lake by visiting the viewpoint to enjoy the lakes. Then visit Sikidang Crater, an active crater with bubbling mud. Continues to Arjuna temple, the oldest Hindu temple, which was built in the 7th AD. Back to hotel, shower, breakfast, and check out hotel. Continues to Borobudur, known as the biggest Buddhist temple in Southeast Asia and was built in the 8th AD. Drive to Yogyakarta hotel, check-in, and rest. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 7: PRAMBANAN - SULTAN PALACE - WATER CASTLE (B, L)
Breakfast at the hotel, and visit the Prambanan temple, the biggest Hindu temple in Indonesia and built in the 9th century. Then visit Sultan Palace Yogyakarta, the center of Javanese culture in Indonesia. Continues to Water Castle, which used to be the private castle of the Sultan and family in the past time. Then visit Batik and silver craft at Kotagede for local souvenirs. Back to the hotel and rested. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 8: YOGYAKARTA - TROWULAN - TOSARI (B, L)
Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Drive to Trowulan village of Mojokerto for visiting the Vihara of Buddha Sleeping. Continue to Tosari village by land and accompanied by plenty of farming paddy fields, mountains, local houses, and local people activities. Reach Tosari Hotel, check-in, and rest. Lunch is served at a local restaurant.

DAY 9: MOUNT BROMO SUNRISE - SURABAYA AIRPORT (B, L)
Wake up at 03.00 in the morning time, get a jeep transport for driving to Mount Pananjakan. Get up there and enjoy the beauty of sunrise and Mount Bromo. Drive down and pass the sand sea to reach the caldera and crater of Mount Bromo, which is surrounded by beautiful scenery. Back to the hotel, get breakfast, shower, and check out of the hotel. Drive to Surabaya airport to fly for the next journey. Java overland tour finishes.

JAVA OVERLAND TOUR INCLUDES:

  • Private transport service, AC deluxe
  • Airport transfer
  • Jeep transport Bromo
  • Hotel room twin share
  • Professional tour guide
  • All the admission, parking, and donation fees
  • Meal as mentioned
  • Mineral water during the tour
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Monday, 24 April 2017

Malioboro Shopping Center

Malioboro was found ahead of the long stretches, linking between Sultan's palace of Yogyakarta, the Tugu monument, and therefore the peak of Mount Merapi. Malioboro Street was shaped into a commercialism neck of the woods when Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono 1 developed a method of commercialism through a market in 1758.
When 248 years, this Malioboro still survives in the trade associated and even became an icon of business in Yogyakarta called the Malioboro shopping mall.
Enjoy the time looking, at memento handicrafts of Jogjakarta, tourists will walk on the shoulder of the aspect walk road. On Malioboro Street can see and get lots of vendors who hold merchandise.
Ranging from the same old craft merchandise like batik, rattan ornament, animal skin puppets, bamboo crafts, Javanese hoods called Blangkon (the Javanese hoods), and varied alternative crafts.
Along the passageway, tourists will search in comfort, additionally relish a novel looking for a discount price of products sold out. If lucky, there will get one-third or maybe half of them from value quotes from dealers.

Friday, 24 February 2017

Bandung City

Bandung is the capital of West Java province. The city in ancient times was known as Parijs van Java. Because on the highlands, Bandung is known as the cool air area, especially in the northern part. This makes Bandung one tourist destination city. While the number of public universities and many private colleges made the city known as one of the student cities in Indonesia.
Bandung is located at the coordinates 107° E and 6° 55' South Latitude. The broad of the city is 16,767 hectares. The geographic city is in the central part of the province of West Java. By doing so, it has a strategic value to the surrounding areas.
Cities city lies at an altitude of ± 768 meters above sea level. The area north of the city of Bandung is higher than the south. The height of the area to the north is ± 1.050 meters above sea level, while the southern part is ± 675 above sea level. a city ​​surrounded by mountains that create a sort of basin city.
Bandung city is drained by two major rivers Cikapundung and Citarum River and their tributaries, which generally flow to the south part and meet at the Citarum River. Under these conditions, the region of the south is highly vulnerable to flooding.

Malang City

In a written symbol Malang logo reads Malang Kucecwara which means "God destroys a false and upholds the good". The logo was approved to be the motto of Regional Municipality Level II Malang on 1 April 1914. In a written symbol Malang Malang Kucecwara logo which says which means: God destroys evil and upholds good. The logo was approved by a government slogan Level II Malang on 1 April 1914.
The motto is closely related to the origin of Malang in the Ken Arok approximately 8 centuries ago became a place name Sekotar temple named Malang. The location of the temple was still in question and requires further research. Malang and surrounding areas including Singosari which is the center of politics and culture from the year 760-1414, by writing in stone Dinoyo. Activities during that time followed by cultural activities can not be described as the development of only one dynasty, but a series of political and cultural activities of some derivatives.
Further expressed from several breeds, there are clearly separated in the sense that there is no relationship between one another descendants, such descendants Dewasimba, and Gajayana in Dinoyo with Balitung descent. Daksha, Tulodog, and Eve, then Sindhok. Descendants went to Dharmawangsa, Airlangga until the last rule is Kertajaya (1215-1222). Then the emergence of the Ken Arok dynasty is the first relay Majapahit kings until the last king Tumapel (1447-1451). At the time of Ken Arok show activities, Tumapel was just a district in the area Jenggala rule at that time was under the practically Kertajaya in Kediri. Batara Malangkucecwara is mentioned in the charter of the year 908 near Singosari.
Charter in 907 it was explained that the people who got the charter are god cults in Malang, Putecwara Kutusan, Cilebhedecwara, and Tulecwara. The mention of names like Batara in Malangkucecwara, and putecwara prove that these names are names of the kings who ruled and when buried in the temple called the Batara. With the mention of the Dinoyo temple in the countryside of Malang.

Surabaya City

Surabaya is the capital of East Java province, Indonesia. This city is the second biggest city after the capital city of Jakarta. With a population of nearly 7 million, Surabaya is the center of business, industry, commerce, and education in the area of ​​Java and beyond. Surabaya is known as the City of Heroes because it plays an important role in the history of Indonesia's independence struggle against the Dutch colonial invaders. Surabaya word was taken from the Javanese myth animal battle between Sura and Buaya or shark or crocodile.
At the time of the Indies Netherlands period, Surabaya residency status as the capital of Surabaya, whose territory also includes the district of Sidoarjo, Mojokerto, Jombang, and Gresik. In 1905, Surabaya got class as a municipality and region in 1926, established as the provincial capital of Surabaya, East Java. Since then Surabaya changed and grown into the second-largest business city in Indonesia after Jakarta.
Prior to 1900, downtown Surabaya only revolves around Jembatan Merah or Red Bridge, but until 1920, the growth of new residential areas such as Gubeng, Darmo, Sawahan, and Ketabang. In 1917 built modern port facilities and make this city getting busy as an economic center in East Java.

Solo City

Surakarta also called Solo is the second largest city in Central Java province, Indonesia. Solo is the tenth largest city in Indonesia. The east side of the city passed a river immortalized in a song titled a song of Bengawan Solo. The city has a tourism slogan "Solo as The Spirit Of Java". Expected to build a view of the city of Solo as the center of Javanese culture.
The establishment of Solo is inseparable from the history of Islamic Mataram, because Solo was once a seat of government, after the removal of the palace Kartasura in 1745. After the division of Mataram due Giyanti agreement, the city of Solo as its administrative territory Mataram Tamerlane. Agreement Salatiga 1753 made ​​the city divided into two: the southeast to the north of Surakarta and to Mangkunegaran. Unification of the new city government took place during Indonesian stands.
Solo became a tourist destination and offers some interesting sights such as Mangkunegaran and Kasunanan palaces, Triwindu antique market, Central Wholesale Solo, batik Klewer Market and nature located on the eastern side of the city of Solo, one of the natural attractions waterfall of Grojokan Sewu.

Semarang City

Semarang is the largest city in and the capital city of Central Java. At the beginning of muddy plains which later evolved into advanced rapidly and appears as an important city. As many large cities absorb immigrants, then made a living and settled in the city of Semarang to the end, after another the next life.
In the past, there was a prince of the Sultan of Demak named Raden Made Pandan Arang, leaving Demak to go to Semarang and spread the teachings of Islam. From time to time the more fertile region. From the sidelines, it appeared fertility tamarind tree that rarely, thus giving the title or name of the city Semarang.
Semarang has a harbor and it is large enough that the gold cape became a city of business. There are many old buildings that were built by Dutch and are still in good condition causing a well-maintained textile factory that has export quality, as well as having a considerable potential market, as well as plays an important role in trade.
There are some tourist attractions and culinary in this town:
  • Dutch heritage buildings: the Blenduk church and Lawang Sewu
  • Natural attractions are located in the mountains south of Semarang
  • Shore excursions: Golden Horn, Coastal Marina
  • Travel culinary: Loenpia, Wingko tripe, Milkfish presto

Sunday, 5 February 2017

Gili Trawangan Island

Gili Trawangan is the largest of the three Gili islands located in the northwest of Lombok. This Gili Trawangan is the only island of Gili whose height above sea level is significant. With a length of 3 kilometers and a width of 2 kilometers and has a population of about 900 inhabitants. Among the three dyke, Gili Trawangan has the means and facilities for a wide variety of travelers. The dense population is an east island.
Gili Trawangan has shades of the crowd more than Gili Meno or Gili Air because many parties all night every night of the show rotated by some public places. Activities that are popular and frequently performed by Trawangan tourists are snorkeling, swimming, and surfing. Also, some places for tourists to learn to ride around the island.
Gili Trawangan and Gili Air and Gili Meno, because there are no motor vehicles are not allowed by local rules. Common means of public transportation is the bicycle, which was lent by local people for tourists, and Cidomo, a simple horse-drawn carriage that is common in Lombok. For traveling from or to other Gili, people usually use a means of motor boats.
Nowadays, these Gili Islands are more popular, and more visitors as well from local and other countries caused of tourism promo which is done by the local government. Supported with hotel accommodations, restaurants, public, hospitals, and clean places everywhere.

Ulen Sentalu Museum

Ulen Sentalu Museum existence indivisible in Kaswargan Park, a neighborhood with historic sites Territories functions, like for example, Hastorenggo Guest homes, engineered by Sultan Hamengkubuwono VII (1877-1921) and Wisma Kaliurang place maintained 3 National Consultive Commission on The Independence Revolution land (1945-1949). Every Javanese cultural art museum is set within the province of Yogyakarta. Early begin Ulen Sentalu Museum depart from the love of a family and was raised within the variety of batik textiles. Seeing the truth that within the 1970's several ancient batik afraid by foreign collectors, raises deep concern for the family, then began a foundation to save Ullen Sentalu's ancient batik.
Disability is obtaining a positive response from four relatives of Kraton Mataram, however, they can shield the inspiration, including Sri Paduka Paku Alam VIII (Pengageng Pura Paku Alaman 1937 to 1998), Sunan Paku Buwono XII (King of Surakarta Kasunanan Hadiningrat 1945 to 2004), Wrestling Ratu Alit KGPH Kanjeng Poeger (Uncle of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X King Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat 1989) and Nurul Kusumawardhani Wrestling (Princess Sri Mangkunegara VII). Through this kingdom's relative repository, Sentalu Ullen things get personal grants within the kind of batik cloths, accessories, images, manuscripts, and a story concerning life within the palace.
The museum building's stunning design dominated and was noted within the field which entire construction of the building style as harmonization with the encircling surroundings. The creator of the Ullen Sentalu construct repository design is DR.KP. Widyadiningrat prophet. Sentalu Ullen Museum has 2 main buildings, particularly Guwa Selo Giri (catacomb) and floating village (complex of buildings on water Dravidians). Consists of the floating village building Sekar Bale Kedathon. The financial gain Bride jack fruit vogue, house Batik Yogyakarta and Surakarta special vogue, house Coast Batik patrician one thing longed for. This collection keeps in Selo Giri cave and conjointly within the village of Rock.