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…
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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.…
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…
Tanjung Uban, Bintan – Riau Island
Tanjung Uban Tanjung Uban is a town districts in Bintan, Riau Islands Province. The city is also included in Bintan Island which has a sea port for expedition ships and pioneer passenger ships belonging to PT. Pelni. Kota Tanjung Uban is also the access to Batam Island and Singapore. In Tanjung Uban lies an BIIE industrial area in Lobam and BRC tourist areas in Lagoi. Before 1963, the community of Tanjung Uban use Singapore dollars in transactions, as well as residents of other Riau Islands. Rupiah Riau Islands (KR) becomes…
Borneo Orangutan Tour In Tanjung Putting National Park, Pangkalan Bun
Orangutan Green Tours is one of Borneo tour agent who will help the visitors enjoy a trip to the forest and introduce the Borneo Orangutan to the visitors. OrangutanGreenTours (OGT), specially dedicated traveling to the Orangutan and Unique wildlife, indigenous people, Community and Nature conservation based tours, Eco-tourism destination around Borneo and Indonesian parks. OrangutanGreentours will lead you to Borneo homeland which known as The third largest island after Greenland and New Guinea. Borneo was cover 746,309 sq km bigger than Texas and Oklahoma combined five time the area of…
Borobudur Temple, One of Indonesia’s Wonder Site, Magelang – Central Java
Borobudur Temple is one of World Seven Wonder that located in Magelang, Central Java. At early begin, this magnificent temple was built by using, more less, 55.000 m3 of stones. This temple is a 9th century temple and it is a Mahayana Buddhist Monument. The monument in the building is decorated with 2.672 relief panels and there are 504 Buddha Statues. At the main dome, wich located at the top of the platform, there are 72 Buddha statues surrounded and seated inside the perforated stupa. The entire series of reliefs…
Wae Rebo; The Traditional Manggaraian Village, Flores – East Nusa Tenggara
Wae Rebo Wae Rebo is one of Indonesia’s precious destinations in the formn of an old Manggaraian village. It situated in pleasant, isolated mountain scenery in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara. The village offers visitors a unique opportunity to see the authentic Manggarai housing and to experience the everyday life of the local community. In Wae Rebo village, the visitors can see “Mbaru niang”, a traditional, circular cone-shaped houses with very unique architecture. Nowadays, it is still a place to hold meetings, rituals and Sunday-morning prayers together. Wae Rebo can…
Alas River, Where You Can Having Fun Streaming – Aceh
Alas River Alas River is located in Aceh Province, and this is the longest river in the province that passes through Gunung Lauser national park, continues to flow to the Indian Ocean. This river is located along the Southeast Aceh District, Gayo Lues District and South Aceh District. The origin of the name was derived from the tribe of Alas, the indigenous tribe who inhabit the Southeast Aceh District, this river crosses the entire land in the Alas community. While local people named it as Lawe Alas river. Situated at…
Siberut Island, The Home Of Mentawai Tribe – West Sumatra
Siberut Island Becomes part of Mentawai Islands, Siberut is the largest island at the northernmost and becomes the main important island for Mentawai People. The Mentawai tribe still maintains the lifestyle and traditions passed down from their ancestors from thousands of years ago. They live in houses locally called ‘uma’, made from wooden scaffolds which house contains several families each. Siberut is located in the Indian Ocean, approximately 100 km off the west coast of West Sumatra, and separated from the main island by the Mentawai Strait. The island…
Tanjung Puting National Park, Pangkalan Bun – Central Kalimantan
Tanjung Puting is one of the natural wonders of the world. You may not believe this after you have been there only two days or three days, but after the fourth or fifth day something happens. Tanjung Puting is covered by a complex mosaic of diverse lowland habitats. It contains 3,040 km2 (or 1,174 square miles) of low lying swampy terrain punctuated by blackwater rivers which flow into the Java Sea. At the mouth of these rivers and along the sea coast are found nipa/mangrove swamps. Mangroves teem with animal…