Feb 26, 2009

Maharani Cave

Maharani Cave, is located in Tanjung Kodok sea tourism area, Paciran district Lamongan regency, about 200 m from Tanjung Kodok gateway fringe the roadway to east. About 50 m in the south of the street, there is stone that its soil is tire to form the bank that has downwards. Here, some labourers had mine the coral soil, phosphate material and dolomite fertilizer that had sold out of Paciran region. On this area, is a countryside road, which is the footpath, and every day passed by non irrigated dry field farmers, the stone mineworker workers, also once in a while is crowded passed the boy scouts who performing a camp around the area.


This Maharani Cave found by 4 labourers who being led by Mr. Sugeng. This cave had found on 6 Augusts 1992. The name of this cave had selected by the situation of the beautiful cave like a palace from a beautiful queen. Before the invention, one of the members, had dream, she had met with a beautiful woman who had a beautiful as the property of a queen that called Maharani. The queen seems to be a head time door of the cave that had found. The name of this empress has specified by the fact of this cave condition. In platform of the cave named Paseban Maharani, there is stone which has crown form, the property of a queen, which named “Selo Mahkota Maharani”. This beautiful cave room also alike an empire palace of subterranean that is full of graven pillar and roof.



The situation of the nature cave of Maharani Palace is stay at 200 m from Java seashore residing in Tanjung Kodok area, Paciran district, Lamongan regency. This cave is easily to visit and fluent to obtain the transportation towards to the location.


Baturaden

Baturaden is a mountainous area 14-km from Purwokerto and located on the slope of Mount Slamet in 640-m from sea level. There is a park with a few children plays. Lots of flower sellers, several restaurants and souvenirs sellers. Along the way there are a lot of villas belongs to the rich who stayed in purwokerto and will have those used for special occasions or weekends. There are several smalls waterfall or known as “curug” in local dialect. The most famous ones are pancuran-3 and pancuran-7. Pancuran-7 has a hot sulphuric water, known good to remedy the skin diseases. There is one new strawberry plantation recently opened.


The origin of the name Baturaden is actually consisted of 2 words in Javanese language: Batur (means: servant/friend) and Raden (means the noble), there was a daughter of a noble man who falls in love and run away with her servant, until they arrived to a beautiful and cool place up in the mountain, then they resided there and the place then known as baturaden.



There are 2 more versions of this name. One is baturaden means flat slope, in relation to the mountain. Other story is about the Islamic Disciples who dis the praying in a location where a lot of stones located and then knowingly as many stones.



Wherever the names from, this place has been a local tourist destination to spend a days out, camping for students or only walk there to find and eat some hot snacks.


Feb 19, 2009

Purwodadi Botanical Garden

Purwodadi Botanical Garden founded in 1941 for the study of plants growing under relatively dry conditions, the Purwodadi gardens lie about 30 km northeast of Malang just off the Surabaya - Malang main road on the lowest slopes of Mt. Arjuno at about 300 meters altitude. It covers an area of about 85 ha (212 acres).


Purwodadi Botanical garden is a branch of Bogor botanical Garden that has managed by LIPI (Indonesian Scientific Institution). In this area visitor can see various collections of scare and dry plant. Beside this Botanical Garden as a place for recreation but it’s also used as making some research on botany.



Enjoy this nature condition in Pasuruan that will create interesting recreation for the visitor. If you interesting with botanical tour, then this area is suitable to add your tour experience. You also may visit this botanical garden with your family, children or friends.


Bogor Botanical Garden

Bogor Botanical Garden built in 1817 by Prof. G Reinwardt on 200-hectare area, the best known botanic garden for tropical plants in the world will amaze you with more than 15,000 plant species. You might see the Presidential Palace from this place.


The most renowned of public gardens and one which has won international acclaim, is the Bogor Botanic Gardens, 60 kms south of Jakarta.



Laid out initially at the orders of the British Lieutenant Governor Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with the help of experts from the Kew Gardens, the Bogor Botanic Gardens were inaugurated in 1817, after the end of the five-year British interregnum, by Dutch Governor General Van Der Capellen.



Bogor Botanical Garden It covers an area of 87 hectares [about 217,5 acres) and has a collection of more than 15,000 native and foreign plant species, including orchids and the giant Rafflesia which blooms only once a year.
Affiliated with the Botanic Gardens are the Herbarium Bogoriense containing preserved plant species, the Zoological Museum and the Treub Laboratory.


Feb 2, 2009

Ambarawa Train Museum

Since the days of the Dutch Occupation Era, Ambarawa had been known as a military area. That's why King Willem I decided to built a railway station, to make it easier for his troop to go to Semarang. Ambarawa Railway Station was built in May 21 1873.


The glory of the Ambarawa Railway Station (also known as Willem I Railway Station) started to fade with the closing of Ambarawa-Kedungjati-Semarang route. Then, finally in 1976, the Ambarawa-Secang-Magelang and Ambarawa-Parakan-Temanggung route were also closed, marking the end of Ambarawa Railway Station as an operating station.




In April 8 1976, Mr. Supardjo Rustam, then the governor of Central Java, decided to turn the Ambarawa Railway Station into a Train Museum. It now has a remarkable collection of 21 old locomotives which used to be troop carriers during the Indonesian Independence War.



Ambarawa Train Museum is located in a hilly town of Ambarawa, about an hour driving south from Semarang direction to Joyga. In comparison with various Train Museums have visited abroad, this particular Museum is definitely not well maintained, except the ones which is still being used commercially. The grand looking Old Steam Trains left rusted outside, instead of putting them into a kind of hangar (under the roof), as most other train museums do.



However, the station itself is very much still looked as good as any old stations, as far as my memory could tell. Punctuality in any trains system, especially during those good old colonial days is highly respected, therefore a grand old looking clock was always presence in any station. Amazingly, it is still perfectly working. Good old stuff !



However, in those colonial days, these trains traveled back and forth in a rather hilly terrains, serving passengers and carrying produce to the many plantations estates around the area, therefore it equipped with "gears", that were installed in the middle of the rails, in order to be able to climb up the hills.



These days, however, one of the old engines is used primarily to satisfy the tourists curiosity, who like to feel how is the traveling in those good old days might be. The Museum put up a price tag of some 3.5 Million Rupiah (approximately around USD 400.-) for a trip with The Old Grand Dad dragging two equally ancient looking passenger wagons, for a maximum of 40 people. The journey into the history, from the Museum to a village called Bedono, around 20 kilometers and back, takes approximately 2 hours.



This old museum with its old stuffs is apparently also popular for a so called pre wedding photography especially amongst the ethnic Chinese. While others happily uses the platform to walk the dog.


Papuma Beach

apuma beach with its white sands that make it more interesting. The beautiful white sand is pleasure to see and to walk on. The beach is always used as the place for sunbathing by foreign tourists. Besides its natural scenic beauty, it is also rich of animals, such as the lizard, forest cock, various birds, wild pig, deer porcupine, scaly anteater and many others.


This white sand beach is located approximately 37 km south of the city of Jember, or less than 235 km from the city of Surabaya. The beach area covers around 25 hectares of natural beauty. A carpet of white sand circling around a 1.5 km peninsula, and also some line of green hills with lush trees that encircle the beach.



Cape coast Papuma (Malikan White Sands) is an example of natural tourism that is not known to many people. Papuma located in the village of Sumberejo, Subdistrict Ambulu, Jember regency, East Java. The Papuma beach is rarely visited by foreign and domestic tourists despite of its natural beauty.



The coral rocks around the beach also enhance the beauty of the Papuma beach. Photographers usually visit the beach trying to capture its beauty, so if you decided to visit the Papuma beach don’t be surprised if you found a lot of people with SLR cameras with wide lenses trying to capture the Papuma beach’s landscape.



Papuma beach is also the docking place of the local fisherman, so there are many fishing boats around this area and you might find some of those boats very interesting. With the blue sea as far as the eye can see, white sand and high waves are the typical characteristic of the southern Java beach it is perfectly NOT save to swim in this area.