Purwodadi Botanical Garden

PURWODADI BOTANICAL GARDEN 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. It is easily accessible from Surabaya it takes about 60 minute to drive. Enjoy this nature condition in Pasuruan that will create interesting recreation for the visitor. If you interesting with botanical tour, then this area is…

Life of Batak People

Batak People Batak People, is the indigenous tribe of North Sumatra Island. One of the significant tribe in Indonesia. They live on highland of Sumatra, precisely on Tapanuli. There are terms from Batak people, include of Batak Karo, Pakpak, Dairi, Toba, Simalungun, Mandailing, and Angkola. On daily life, Batak people use some dialect on their language, like Karo dialect that being used by Batak Karo people, Pak Pak dialect by Pak Pak people, Simalungun dialect by Simalungun people and Toba dialect that being used by Toba, Angkola and Mandailing people.…

Jatim Park Playground

Jatim Park East Java (Jatim) Park is located in Jl. Kartika 2 Batu offers recreation tourism of new entertainment amusement for all level. It begins from children, finite adolescent until grandmother and grandfather. Of course, this tourism object has drawn up as family tour area in East Java. To get to the location, is not too difficult, because, the object only 2, 5 kilos meters from Batu city. This tourism object is about 22 hectares width with 850 meters height to sea level, save the multifarious knowledge, and recreation area…

Rembangan Playground

Rembangan View Rembangan, 12 km to the north of Jember, is a mountainous tourism object complete with swimming pool, hotel and the coffee agro tourism of the Rayap plantation. Because of the fresh air and beautiful scenery, this tourism object is called a resort destination. Upon swimming in the pool in early morning, visitors can enjoy the beautiful sunrise. The visitors are surrounded by blue skies, green plants, and singing birds as far as the eye can see. The specialty of Rembangan is ginger tea and cheese bananas. There are…

Selecta Playground

Selecta Selecta was build by the dutch named Ruyter de Wildt on 1930 as tourism and a place for the dutch’ vacation when they are in Indonesia. the name selecta was came by Selectie, which is chosen. This tourism object is a marriage concept between beauty and mountain sceneries, which become the icon for East Java tourism. More info visit: www.batu.eastjava.com

The Great Mosque Of Ancient Time

The Great Mosque Of Baiturrahman What do you get about Nangroe Aceh Darussalam instead of the Tsunami tragedy 2004? Yes, that mosque. Baiturrahman great mosque. Settled on the heart of Banda Aceh city, Aceh province, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Baiturrahman great mosque have witnessed the time remaining of Aceh in the past to present time. As the time goes by, Baiturrahman great mosque has already become an icon for Aceh. Has been born to witness the historical time line from Sultanate era, Dutch colonialism, The Indonesian Uprising, Military Operation area until…

The Memorize of Singasari Kingdom

JAWI TEMPLE This temple is a holy building of Hinduism and Budhism that has built in 1300 AD by Kertanegara, the last king of Singasari Kingdom. It is located at Candi Wates village Prigen subdistrict on the way Tretes Pandaan, it’s about 40 minutes drive from Surabaya. The height of this temple is about 24,50 meters with the length 14,20 metres and 9.50 metres wide. Jawi Temple is one of Pasuruan historical temple that has a unique form. This temple is an old temple in East Java that build for…

The Situation on Ranu Grati Lake

Ranu Grati Lake The lake occupies about 197 hectares area located on the way between Surabaya – Ponorogo or it takes about 90 minutes drive from Surabaya. It is located at Grati Tunon village, Grati subdistrict. It’s about 16 km east of Pasuruan. The lake has mount Tengger’s beautiful scenery. According to a legend, the origin of Grati Lake resembles to the origin of Pening Lake. It has available recreational facilities such as boats and floating fishing net pond (keramba apung) used for breeding fresh water fish such as gurami,…

The Sight On Top Of Wonorejo Dam

Wonorejo Dam Wonorejo Dam is located in Wonorejo village, Pagerwojo district, Tulungagung regency, East Java province, Indonesia. It is about 12 km of the center of the city. With about 122 million meters cubic capacity, Wonorejo dam become one of biggest dam in Indonesia, even South-East Asian. Wonorejo dam is declared in 2001 by President of Indonesia , Megawati Soekarnoputri, after built almost 9 years since 1992. Wonorejo dam has function as the power of electricity and source of drink water in East Java province. This dam is also functioned…

The Historical City Of Madiun

Madiun Madiun regency, is the western town on East Java before entering Central Java. Madiun is surrounded by famous mountains like Wilis Mountain to the East, Kapur Selatan range to the south and Lawu mountain to the West. Madiun also noted as a significant city from the Indonesian History because there of the uprising of Communist Party of Indonesia [G 30 S PKI] which was had thousands of death. At early begin, Madiun was under the territory of Sultanate of Mataram. On Madiun history, noted that Madiun was a strategic…