Chasing The Wave at Watu Karung, Pacitan – East Java

Pacitan has the cluster of beautiful south coast. Watu Karung beach is one of those beaches as the sea tourist destination for surfing sport in East Java. Watu Karung beach or known as WK beach at the end of village. Located not too far from Srau beach approximately 45 minutes trip. Because not many people know the existence of this beach make beach is still quiet and maintained continuity. Although the beach is not so widespread. Watu Karung beach is very beautiful, there are distant views of the large rocks…

Museum Tsunami Aceh, NAD

Tsunami Museum Located at Jalan Iskandar Muda, Banda Aceh, the museum is open every day (except Friday) at 10:00 to 12:00 and 15:00 to 17:00. The style of this building is quite unique, it has stage house style or Rumah Panggung, and it resembles a ship with a chimney, when we see from far. Inside the museum, you can find a narrow hallway with rumble noises waterwall on both sides as if to remind the enormity of the tsunami. Aceh Tsunami Museum displays an electronic simulation of the 2004 Indian…

The Sulfur Miners at Ijen Crater – East Java

Beside the mountain itself, the most amazing thing in Ijen is about the sulfur lake. This “Green Crater” has a lake made of 36 million cubic meters representing a solution of sulfuric acid and hydrogen chloride, the most powerful existing acids. When visiting Ijen Crater, we can see the sulfur miners that collect and carry huge loads of pure sulfur up from the crater floor along a steep, rocky path in the middle of clouds of sulfur dioxide gas. On the edge of the lake, therer are 4 tons of…

“Land Beyond The Cloud” of The Peak B29

The B29 peak Lumajang is an amazing tourism located in Argosari Village of Lumajang, East Java. B29 known as the location of the peak at an altitude of 2,900 meters above sea level. B29 area is still a part of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park. The view at the top B29 is very special, which is why called Negeri Di Atas Awan or “Land Beyond The Cloud”.  If you want to see the sunrise at the peak B29 preparation began at 04.00 am. The atmosphere at the peak like…

The Grebeg Pancasila Event in Blitar

Grebeg Pancasila is the Cultural Ceremony in commemoration of Hari Lahir Pancasila (Day of Birth of Pancasila) which is designed as a cultural event. Conducted by Blitar artist with ethnic touch and infrastructure, aesthetics without leaving the sacred and the meaning of a ceremony. It is held in Blitar City square (Aloon-Aloon Blitar) every June 1st. Ritual steps of Grebeg Pancasila in Blitar City consist of three major event. Those are Cultural Ceremony held in Blitar City square, Gunungan Lima (five artificial mountains) held in some main roads of Blitar…

Kerinci Seblat National Park, Jambi

Kerinci Seblat National Park Kerinci Seblat National Park is one of the largest national parks in Indonesia. Kerinci Seblat protects almost 14,000 sq kilometres of tropical rain forests in central western Sumatra running down the Barisan mountain range and its foothills and covering parts of four provinces. The terrains varies from lowland forests up to the peak of mighty Mt Kerinci at 3,805 m. This national park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra and one of the most important tiger reserves in the world.…

Governor Suryo Monument, Surabaya – East Java

The Monument of Governor Suryo is the respect presentation to the first East Java Governor who had killed during PKI rebellion in Madiun 1948. This monument located in near to Apsari Park Complex in Gubernur Suryo Street in front of Grahadi State Building. Under that statue, there is Speech inscription at November 9th 1945 on 23.00 Pm in Nirom Broadcast, Embong Malang Street Surabaya (Nowadays is JW Marriott Hotel), it is written: “Repeatedly we have told that our position is better fallen to pieces than colonized again. Also now in…

Bohorok Rehabilitation Center, A Shelter for Orangutan

Bohorok Rehabilitation Center Bohorok Rehabilitation Center is a shelter for Orangutan in Sumatra that settled in Bukit Lawang. Bukit Lawang is one of the top destinations in Sumatra; Bukit Lawang is a small village on the edge of Gunung Leuser National Park in North Sumatra. Situated around 90 km north-west of Medan along the clear Bohorok River and on the outskirts of the tropical rainforest. As we know, The Gunung Leuser National Park is also one of the homes to Orangutan that spread in entire Sumatra Island. Thomas Leaf monkeys, Black Gibbons, White…

Meru Betiri National Park, Banyuwangi – East Java

  Meru Betiri National Park Meru Betiri is a national park area that covers mangrove, swamp forest and lowland rain forest in Java, which is located in the administrative region of Jember and Banyuwangi. To access this national park can be achieved by 2 routes, from Banyuwangi in the east, or through Jember in the west. The routes are: Banyuwangi – Jajag – Pesanggaran – Lembu River – Sarongan – Kandangan – Rajegwesi Beach (the gate to national park) – Sumbersuko – Sukamade. Sukamade is a famous beach area as…

History Tengger Tribe of Mount Bromo

  The most popular also well-known of East Java’s tourist attractions is undoubtedly Mount Bromo. The pre-dawn departure and trek across the mountain’s famous ‘sand sea’, to watch the sunrise at the crater rim, has become something of a ritual, enacted daily by people of every nationality. Bromo is actually just one crater in the vast, 800 km2 Tengger massif, which forms the largest of East Java’s five main volcanic ranges. Although by no means the highest mountain in the region (2,392m), it has gained its reputation partly because of…