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Tanjung Kelayang Beach

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Thu, 17 May 2012 09:41:00 +0000

Tanjung Kelayang Beach is located in district Kelayang Sijuk, it’s about 27 km from the capital Tanjung Pandang in Belitung Island. This beach is famous with spectacular scenery which is content of stretch of soft white sands, granite stones that stand out neatly, and a calm sea. When looking at the beach, there are islands that were located fairly close to a very exotic.

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The word ‘Tanjung’ means ‘Peninsula’ and ‘Kelayang’ means ‘a kind of bird species’. Tanjung Kelayang is surrounding by small islands that framed the beautiful sunset. Many tourist stay here for enjoy the moon that shines the seawater. The visitors can spend their holiday here by diving, swimming, sun bathing, fishing, etc. Walk along Tanjung Kelayang, the visitors will see the spread of boulders in the beach. These boulders that almost 5 meters size, are in piles each other uniquely. There is big stone that stick by three small stones.

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Many visitors that interest to visit the small islands around the coast of Tanjung Kelayang Beach, around the coast there are many fishing boats can be rented. With such a close distance from the coast, using boat in traveling for approximately 10 minutes and visitors can walk around the islands are uninhabited because of all the island surrounded by white sand. Do not forget to bring enough drinking water supply because there is no drinking water in these islands.

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Image 1 : http://levi-tour.com

Image 2 : http://www.traveldudes.org

Sanur Beach, Bali

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:01:00 +0000

Sanur beach is located in the east of Denpasar, the capital of Bali. Sanur Beach is located in Sanur Village, approximately 6 km from the City of Denpasar, Bali Province, and Island of Bali. Sanur beach is easily reachable from Denpasar, about a 5 to 10 minute drive. Sanur beach is the beach for family recreation; many families come from the City of Denpasar to Sanur beach for relaxing.

Sanur is the second best diving spot in Bali after Tulamben, blessed with reef bed aquatics and various kinds of marine organism. Its moderate wind and transparent water surely provides water sport enthusiasts with a playground of the first degree in terms of quality and safety. Head yourself north to find a wilder swell at Keramas Beach. If you just need a break from your daily routine, strolling along the grainy beach in the morning whilst catching the sunrise is surely a good remedy. At Sanur beach, many foreign tourists sunbathing on the beach while enjoying the beautiful Sanur Beach. Sanur beach is famous for the beautiful sunrise. The sunrise in the morning in Sanur is so beautiful. Sanur Beach is an excellent site to watch the sunrise; this is the opposite from Kuta beach which has an amazing sunset.

Swimming is the prime water activity in Sanur. The lower tide, clean and cool water are some of the reasons you might choose to swim in Sanur over Kuta or any other beach in this island, not to mention its smaller crowds and safer waves. Swimming in Sanur is safe for minors as well as for adults. Aside from Sanur Beach, southern Sanur’s Sindhu beach is also the site of an excellent salt water lagoon. Sanur is also offer many things like surfing, windsurfing, cruise and underwater cruise, marine walk, kite flying, etc.

Picture Resources : Travel Beatiful Indonesia

Semeru, Highest mountain in Java Island

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:43:00 +0000

Semeru or be known with Mahameru is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, and also the highest mountain in Indonesia with height about 3.676 meters from sea. This mountain is located in Malang, East Java. For climbing this mountain is taking around 4 days for up and down. Semeru's eruptive history is extensive. Since 1818, at least 55 eruptions have been recorded (10 of which resulted in fatalities) consisting of both lava flows and pyroclastic flows. All historical eruptions have had a VEI of 2 or 3.

There are not only for adventure when people climb this mountain, Semeru offering many things, from the amazing scenery, an adventure when start to climb, etc. There are two beautiful lakes, in the up side is called Ranu Pane and the other one nearby called Ranu Kumbolo, Ranu is mean lake. In the evening, it is very cold to stay here. Its population is about 600, surviving their lives from vegetable agriculture. For the first time, people can’t imagine in the height like that there is beautiful lake.

Climbers forbidden to pass through the southern path because of the poisonous gas and lava path, as an active volcano, Semeru still release of toxic gases and also often experience an earthquake. In the route, we will pass pine forest, field weeds, range of edelweiss and if we luck we can see wild birds and wild cocks. Many tourist local or foreign come to climb this mountain. In the top of the mountain, called Mahameru, We can enjoy an unforgettable and fantastic panorama towards many peaks of East Java, coasts and seas, and sunrise in the east horizon. The climbers must wait an exploded crater to take a picture. Before 9 AM the climbers must leave the peak, because the explosion toward to the peak, bring poison, sand, stone, ash, and dust.

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Senggigi Beach, Lombok

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:50:00 +0000

Senggigi beach is located in Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia; it’s around 12 km in northwest Mataram. This beach is known with natural beauty, pure and the condition is calm. Many foreign prefer for coming to this beach compare to Sanur or Kuta in Bali. Visitors can feast the eyes with broad view of the sky in south, a row of trees on the east and Agung Mountain (east part from Bali Island).

Visitors can swim, diving or snorkeling, surfing, sunbathing and playing with the sands. There are many sharp rubble and marine animal in the sand, so visitors is always use the footwear if want to play in the sands. This beach is also known with the sunset, amazing view from the sunset can hypnotic every eyes. Especially in the full moon, many residents come to the beach and buried their body in the sands up to neck for 2 until 3 hours. People believe that doing this ritual can be medical therapy.

The access to this beach is easy, visitors can use ferry from Karang Asem Port, or use plane from Bali to Selaparang airport in Mataram Lombok. From Karang Asem port there are need 30 minutes, but if use plane just 15 minutes. In Senggigi beach many Hotels and restaurant that row along the coast. Visitors also can enjoy typical food from Lombok, and in every restaurant usually perform traditional music and dance.

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Karapan Sapi, Traditional Festival from Madura

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:37:00 +0000

If in Spain we can see Matador with bullfight, in Indonesia there is a traditional festival that called Karapan Sapi, this festival like racing but use Cow as the subject. We can see this festival in Madura, a region in northeast Java Island. Karapan Sapi is not an ordinary race, for Madura’s people this festival like a way to dignity.

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In Karapan Sapi, one person must use two cows where in the shoulders mounted a chariot of the wood as a jockey to stand and to set up a pair of cows in terms of direction and speed. To initiate a race Karapan Sapi usually accompanied by “Saronen”; Gamelan music that typical of Madura Island. And the jockeys use traditional dress that call “pesa’an”; is black color clothes and on the inside there are sleeve shirt that colored red and white stripes. Besides of tradition, Karapan Sapi is also a party after harvest rice and tobacco in Madura.

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The history of Karapan Sapi is beginning in 13th century, this festival been famous by Pangeran Katandur from Sapudi Island, Sumenep. In the past, Cow is using by farmer to cultivate the land to be farm, and after the farm produce or harvest, Pangeran Katandur ask his society to do Racing with cow. And from that time, people always do Karapan Sapi after harvest.

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Gudeg, traditional food from Yogyakarta

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:32:00 +0000

Yogyakarta is not only famous with culture, tourism and history of Yogyakarta palace, there are one of the traditional food that be characterized for Jogja, that is Gudeg. This food is made from young jackfruit cooked with a long process. The young jackfruit and small sliced boiled with spices typical. In order to become red, the young jackfruit boiled with teak leaves that will provide a natural red color.

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The real taste from this food is sweet; people can add sauce or pieces of chili if want more spicy. Usually Gudeg will be served with rice, boiled egg, tofu, Tempe, chicken, scribble, etc, according to the taste of visitors.

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Gudeg is easy to find in Jogja, almost throughout the city of Jogja we can find it. But there is one place that has been The Central of Gudeg in Jogja, its Wijilan Street. This place is near with Keraton Yogyakarta. In Wijilan Street we can see more than 10 Gudeg shop that line up along the way. In 1942 there is only one shop that sell Gudeg, as times goes by the number of shop is continues to grows. Every shop is offers different package of Gudeg, from the taste and a away to present is different.

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Picture 1 and 2 : http://pinkancp.blogspot.com

Tana Toraja, The Beautiful Culture from South Sulawesi

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Tana Toraja is one of regency in South Sulawesi; it’s located around 350 km from North Makassar. Tana Toraja is known with the traditional houses that called Tongkonan. The shapes from this house is unique, it has a huge roof, like buffalo horns. Beside the traditional houses, Tana Toraja is also known for the culture. If in Bali we know about Ngaben for funeral ritual, in Toraja funeral is known with Rambu Solo.

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Rambu Solo ceremony

Rambu Solo is a big ceremony in Toraja, it’s like a party but for the dead. Every family must slaughtering buffalo, and the number of buffalo is different depending of the class of community. Tana Toraja is inhabited by ethnic Toraja, in there we can see many sacred places, like Londa, Lemo, Batu Tumonga, Kete’Kesu etc.

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Londa

Many interesting event in Toraja like Rambu Solo (funeral) and Rambu Tuka (is like thanks giving), both of them is the annual event in there. Besides that, visitors are also can see the storage bodies in holding of corpse. This place is like containers in a big size with 3 meters of the width and 10 meters for the height. And also there are tongkongan with 600 years old in Londa, Rantepao. Tana Toraja is offering culture and history education for tourist.

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Tongkonan, traditional house of tana toraja

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Picture 1 and 2 : tongkonanku.blogspot.com

Picture 3 : rudydewanto.com

Raja Ampat, A Paradise of Underwater Tours

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:07:00 +0000

Raja Ampat or Four of King is one of the regency in West Papua, Indonesia. This regency has 610 islands; four of the islands are the biggest island (only 35 islands that been inhabited). The named of Raja Ampat is taken from four biggest island, they are Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo Island. Raja Ampat is famous with the underwater tours; there are more than 540 kinds of coral, 1.511 species of fish and 700 kinds of molluscs. According to the report of The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International, there are 75% marine species of the world live in this island.

Hanacaraka; One of the nation's wealth of Java that’s still preserved

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:31:00 +0000

If in Japan we know Hiragana or Kanji, in Korean there is Hangeul, and in Middle East we know about Arabic, in Indonesia is also has a symbol or language that be used by Javanese ethnic, it’s known with Hanacaraka or Aksara Jawa (Javanese Script). We can see the form of Hanacaraka from the picture, which is general form of Ha Na Ca Ra Ka.

Taman Sari; One of the most historical buildings in Yogyakarta

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:13:00 +0000

Taman Sari or known as Taman Sari Water Castle is one of the cultural heritages from Imperial Palace of Yogyakarta (Keraton Yogyakarta) that still standing until now. Taman Sari is a site of a former royal garden of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. Tamansari is located about 2 km south of Yogyakarta Palace. It built by Portuguese architect in European aquatic construction adorned with Javanese Symbolize ornaments. Tamansari was built in the Sultan Hamengku Buwono I period in the end of XVII Century. Tamansari not only just a recreation, but it's also a compound of bathing pool, canals, rooms and extremely large swimming pool (if the canals opened).

Bunaken Island; Heaven from Manado

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000

Bunaken is an island with 8 km², part of the Bunaken National Marine Park. Bunaken is located at the northern tip of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs administratively to the municipality of Manado. Scuba diving attracts many visitors to the island. The Bunaken National Marine Park was formally established in 1991 and is among the first of Indonesia's growing system of marine parks. The park covers a total surface area of 89,065 hectares, 97% of which is overlain by sparkling clear, warm tropical water. Bunaken National Park extends over an area of 890.65 km² of which only 3% is terrestrial, including Bunaken Island, as well as the islands of Manado Tua, Mantehage, Nain and Siladen. Although each of these islands has a special character, it is the aquatic ecosystem that attracts most naturalists.

Lawang Sewu; Exotism building in Semarang

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:45:00 +0000

Lawang Sewu is the building that located in the centre of Semarang city. It’s build between 1904 until 1907 by Nederlands goverment in the colonialization era. In the past, Lawang Sewu was used as Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij office. Now, Lawang Sewu is one of historical building in Central Java.

Borobudur Temple; The Biggest Buddha’s Temple

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:28:00 +0000

Borobudur is a name for Buddha’s temple that located on Borobudur, Magelang, and Central Java, Indonesia. It’s around 100 km from Semarang or 40 km from Yogyakarta. This temple has 1460 relief and 504 Buddha’s stupa in the area. Borobudur is one of the buildings that belong to World Wonder Heritages.

Klayar’s Beach; The Exotic Beach in the East Java

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:02:00 +0000

Klayar’s Beach is one of the beaches in Pacitan city; it’s located on Donorojo Subditrict. This beach have white sands that extends along to the beach. The sand is very smooth. We can see the other interest thing from this beach, on the east we can see coral rock that soared high like coconut tree. In the back of coral, we can see extends of coral that be attacked by Indian Ocean wave. In this place we can also see water poured out of the hole from coral. This is because the pressure from wave.

Dieng Wonosobo; The Beautiful Plateau in Central Java

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:59:00 +0000

Dieng is an area in the plateau that located between Wonosobo and Banjarnegara, in Central Java. This area has located around 26 km north Wonosobo, with height until 6000 feet or 2.093 m. The temperature in Dieng is cold for Indonesia climate, on the day the temperature around 15 until 20° C and 10° C on the night. Even in July-August the temperature can reach 0° C in the morning.
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Karimunjawa Island; The Amazing’s side from North Java

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:01:00 +0000

Karimunjawa is one from nine National Marine Park in Indonesia; this is because Karimunjawa has amazing underwater scenery. Karimunjawa contain from 27 islands, only five islands are populated and the others is an empty island. Karimunjawa located in North Sea of Jepara city, central Java, it’s around 4 until 6 hours with ship from Kartini’s Harbor, Jepara, or just 30 minutes used plane from Semarang airport.
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Malioboro; Icon of Yogyakarta

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:49:00 +0000

Malioboro is a famous as the place in Yogyakarta where you can buy cheap gifts from Yogyakarta. But that is only one reason why people love to go to Malioboro. There are other things that make Malioboro so interesting to visitors. Here you can see the Office of Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta’s Government, Benteng Vredeburg Museum, and the Gedung Agung.

Siung’s Beach; The other scenery from Yogyakarta

noreply@blogger.com (Tour de Nusa) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:35:00 +0000

Siung’s beach is located in Purwodadi village, one of the isolated place on Wonosari, Gunung Kidul’s regency. The distance far is 70 km from Yogyakarta, or around 2-3 hours. Usually people like to use motorcycle or car for reach this beach. Because public transportation like colt or bus is rare and taking long time.