Sunday, August 31, 2008

SURAKARTA PALACE


Surakarta palace at Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia. In javanesse, Palace means Kraton.It's the kingdom building several centurys ago. Before Indonesia formed, there was Surakarta palace. Surakarta has synonym with Solo. The king has biggest power. After Indonesia country formed,Surakarta integrate with Indonesia. Now, Surakarta's king doesn't has power like a king before, because Indonesia is a republic country. The king just keep the Javanesse culture in Solo and arround Solo.

The king always keep about Javanesse dance, javanesse traditional music called gamelan, and everything about culture.

It's nice place, and there is a Kraton museum. It has materials about kingdom,weapons and everything. The entrance just Rp 4.000,- for domestic and Rp 8.000,-for foreigner.

Silluette in Karimunjawa


Karimunjawa is a beautiful island in Jepara, Central Java. It has beautiful coral and good underwater view. This place is very nature, clean and it's like a heaven. We can fishing, snorkeling and diving.

We can go there by boat from Jepara moreless 6 hour and the tickets Rp.25.000,-.And we can depart from Semarang also by Kartini boat moreless 3 hours and the tickets is Rp 110.000,-

Morethan 13 small islands over there. We can choose which one we will visit. All of them are very beautiful.

We can enjoy the sunrise and sunset,swimming in the beach with white sand,....wwooooowww it's so amazing. To see local people fishing.

Wayang Kulit (Skin Wayang)


Wayang kulit is Javanesse traditional performance that using kulit (skin). Wayang skin made from cow’s skin or goat’s skin. Wayang formed like human, animal…etc. Wayang played by a player called dalang. Wayang kulit is combination about wayang and Javanesse traditional music called gamelan. Niyaga is music player.
There are 2 kinds of wayang story. There are Ramayana and Mahabarata. Ramayana tells us about a couple Rama and Shinta. Rahwana kidnapped Shinta. He wants to marry Shinta. Mahabarata tells us about Pandawa (5 brothers) fight with Kurawa(100 brothers), because of Astina kingdom.
In Semarang,Central Java, we could see the performance of Wayang kulit once a month. Every Thursday night /malam jum’at kliwon(Javanesse kalender). It’s free charge. We can see in TBRS(Taman Budaya Raden Saleh). The performance start at 09.00 pm-03.00 am. There are 3-5 woman singer called sinden. It’s too long story and maybe you will boring to see this performance, but I’m sure you will be hypnothized and forget the time.

Friday, August 22, 2008

HAVING FUN CANO


We can spend our time by cano if your hobby is canoing. We can play at the river in Dukuh Mojolaban Sukoharjo,Central Java. Dukuh village is 5 km to east from Solo City. It has fresh air, good view because of green rice field and we’ll see Merbabu mountain and Merapi mountain at the west side, and we’ll see Lawu mountain at the east side. The river has 2m depth and clean.
There are 2 kind of cano, balance cano and general cano. We could try general cano for beginner because general cano has good balancing, so we can’t fall in the water. You can try balancing cano if you expert already.
We’ll forget the time when we play cano because it’s so amazing. After play cano, we can swim in the river

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

SUKUH TEMPLE




Sukuh Temple is Hindu's temple. Sukuh temple in karanganyar,Central Java. It has good view and fresh air. The forest arround of it. Sukuh temple has unique statues. Turtles statue, gods statue and monster and his penis statue.

It's about 30 km from solo. You can by bus from Solo to Karangpandan bus station and pay Rp.5000. Then by public transportation Rp.5000. And finally by ojek(Motorbike transortation) Rp.7.000. Ticket entrance Rp 2500 for lokal people and Rp 10.000 for foreigner.

You will be satisfied because it has cold air and amazing view. We can buy rabbit sate for lunch about RP 7.000.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

tawangmangu

Tawangmangu called Grojogan Sewu,at Karanganyar,Central Java.Height moreless 25m. Grojogan sewu is a waterfall under Lawu mountain.It has nice view, fresh air and so many monkeys over there.It's still nature.
It's so easy to visit grojogan sewu waterfall, because so many bus from solo to tawangmangu. We just pay ticket Rp.10.000,-. from Solo, you must stop in the Tawangmangu bus station.We could walk and enjoy the view to waterfall. Entrance Rp.6.000,- for domestic and Rp.19.000,- for foreigner.
We must walk moreless 500m,then we arrive to waterfall.We will so tired, but when we arrive we forget if we're tired because of fantastic view and so many monkeys arround of us. We can eat over there,favorit menu is sate kelinci(rabbit sate) and chicken sate.It's so delicious and cheap just Rp 7.000,-.We eat on the carpet.
Tawangmangu disebut juga grojogan sewu. Terletak di Kabupaten Karanganyar,Jawa tengah. Ketinggiannya kira-kira 25 meter. Air terjun grojogan sewu merupakan air terjun di lereng gunung lawu. Pemandangannya sangat indah, udaranya sejuk, dan kera- kera yang lucu manambah keindahan tawangmangu yang memang masih alami.


Akses jalan ke tawangmangu sangat lancar karena banyak bus jurusan Solo-Tawangmangu yang harga tiket bus hanya Rp.10.000,00. Bus jurusan Solo-Tawangmangu akan berakhir di terminal Tawangmangu. Sembari menikmati kanan kiri jalan yang indahj, kita bisa menapaki jalan menuju lokasi air terjun. Sesampai disana,kita bisa membeli tiket seharga Rp. 6.000,00 untuk wisatawan domestik, dan Rp.19.000,00 untuk wisatawan mancanegara.


Untuk mencapai air terjun, kita harus menapaki anak tangga kuranglebih 500 meter. Cukup melelahkan juga sih,tapi rasa lelah segera terbayar oleh keindahan panorama air terjun yang fantastis. Rasanya tidak sabar untuk segera membasuh muka dengan dinginnya air tawangmangu. Kera- kera dengan nakalnya bercanda dan menunggu makanan yang diberikan pengunjung.


Setelah berbasah- basahan di air terjun, perut rasanya lapar. tapi jangan khawatir karena disitu tersedia sate kelinci maupun sate ayam, dan kita makan lesehan