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ABOUT

This website is a media campaign. dedicated to tourist-related natural beauty of Indonesia. Which is certainly very interesting to visit. Starting from food, natural attractions, heritage, customs, traditions, culture, various tribal nations, to the harmonious relationship that exists between religion in Indonesian society.

You can also consider your vacation plans, to visit in Indonesia. Because we also provide information about the cost of the accommodation that you need during a visit to Indonesia.

In addition to offering great natural beauty, breathtaking panoramas, as well as relics from prehistoric times to the colonial era and the wonders of the world were there. Indonesia is also one of the destinations that are relatively cheap, but also has a tour quality is not inferior to other countries.

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KLEWER MARKET

As the biggest batik market in Indonesia Klewer Market shouldn't be missed, especially for travelers who love to shop. Ranging from thousands rupiahs batik cap (stamped batik) cotton shirt to millions rupiahs silk batik tulis (written batik) can be found.

PASAR KLEWER
North Alun-Alun Complex
West of Kasunan Surakarta Royal Palace
Solo, Central Java

KLEWER MARKET

The Legendary Batik Market

 As people said, during the colonial era Klewer Market was a train station. People also used this place to sell merchandises to the train passengers; therefore, it was called Slompretan Market. The word slompretan comes from slompret (means trumpet) because the departing train’s sound is almost similar to the sound of the trumpet blown. Slompretan Market was also thronged by merchants who sell their textile products such as batik. These merchants sold their batik by carrying them on their back/shoulders and the batik looked dangling (klewer). Later, this market is well-known as Klewer Market - dangling market.

In 1970s, this market was renovated into a huge two stories permanent building. This market accommodates two thousand kiosks and the buyers would feel more comfortable to shop because of the wide stairs giving more open space.

The Cheap Textile and Batik Wholesale Center

 Walking along its wide aisles, from one block to another block, various kinds of batik clothes as if persuade you to buy them. From kebaya (Javanese traditional woman cloth), fabrics, formal clothes, to batik shirts, house dress, beautiful blouses and kids clothes. Not only Solo Batik, this market also provides batik collections from Banyumas, Pekalongan, Madura, Yogyakarta, etc. You will easily find both the stamped batik for thousands rupiah and written batik which is way cheaper than the one in boutiques/stores. Bargaining skill is the most important thing to get the best price. Most of the kiosks also sell wholesale for cheaper price instead of buying in retail.

Go to the second floor, you will find various kinds of textiles, from school uniform, shirt, jacket, ties, cotton fabric, and silk. The unique thing is, there are tailors in this market, ready to sew the fabric you bought into your dream cloth in less than a day.

Tired of shopping and walking around this textile market, you can go to either the front or the side of the market. Various kinds of food stalls are not only ready to be a rest place, but also the place to enjoy various kinds of traditional food. Nasi Pecel, Nasi Liwet, Tengkleng, Dawet, Gempol and many kinds of food and drinks are ready to relieve your thirst and hunger.

Tips for taking care of batik

To maintain and taking care the beauty of your batik, there are some tips for you:

    Avoid washing your batik by washing-machine and detergent. Wash it with your hand, use either shampoo dissolved with water or body-soap.
    Dry it under the shade without pressing it before. Avoid drying under the direct sun light. Let it dry naturally.
    Foil your batik with another cloth before ironing. Avoid the direct heat from the iron.
    Avoid spraying cloth fragrance, softener, or perfume directly on the batik.

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GABUSAN ART MARKET

GABUSAN ART MARKET

 

Address: Jl. Parangtritis km 9,5 Yogyakarta 55186, Indonesia
GPS Coordinate: S7°52'40.2" E110°21'5.7"


Gabusan Art Market that accommodates 444 craftsmen has been a paradise of handicrafts in Bantul. Facilitated with information center, this market will eventually accommodate 8,015 handicraft units from all parts of Bantul district.

Gabusan Market, Handicraft Paradise in Bantul

There is another way to enjoy art works of Bantul people without having to wander about villages that produce them, namely by visiting Gabusan Art Market. The market that is located on Jalan Parangtritis km 9 has been the center of handicrafts trading for the last 2 years. Other facilities such as cafeterias, information technology access and groceries are there for you, too.

Gabusan was designed to open access for craftsmen to international market. For the reason, the design of the market accommodating around 444 craftsmen is of international standard. The design of the market was done by both domestic and foreign architects by, of course, accentuating local architecture. Divided into 16 stalls, Gabusan sells handicrafts of various raw materials, ranging from leather, metals, wood, clay to water hyacinth.

Arriving at the area of Gabusan market, you will be greeted by an interestingly designed gate. On the gate, there are restaurant, crossing bridge and ramp. Having your meals in that restaurant, you will be able to see the entire market from the top view. Close to the area, there is a shop as an information center as well as the place for visitors to get their stuff. This shop is designed so artistically that it has its own interest.

Entering the first stall, you will enjoy bag handicraft made from rattan. Neat woven of the bag gives durable image and combination of the cloth and accessories gives meaningful added value. Various unique, elegant designs produce multifunctional bags for multi purposes. Other handicraft that is available in that stall is a box made from woven bamboo. Despite its simple design and function, the box still looks unique in various bright colors.

If you want to buy candle stands for your guest rooms, you will find them in stall eight. Many types of candle stands from different materials are available. There is a candle container forming like a small, brown bowl with string decoration around it. Another candle stand is made from bamboo some part of which sides are split to make stands with string ornaments on them. In addition to functioning as stand for the glowing candle, the beautiful design of it will attract your guests in your guest room.

Still related to home decorations, you will find interesting masks of various designs in stall six. Some leather masks are carved beautifully in enchanting colors. If you like artificial flowers included the vases, you will get them in stall thirteen. The vases are made of wood or clay with special ornaments of the surfaces. Plain vases without ornaments are not less interesting as well.

Small functional items with artistic designs give valuable added value for you and your family. A standard photo frame, for example, is designed so beautifully with special ornament such as dragon. Pencil case is also available in different variations. There is a pencil case in the form of a sitting man with his white hair as the ornament and the pencil holes are in the front part. Many other items are beautifully designed by the people in Bantul area such as tray in various enchanting designs.

The information center will help to find any kinds of product that you can find in the market. Details of products, prices, location of the stall where you are going to put your orders are all available there. Connected to Internet network, this information center indicates that you can put your order on line. Gradually, this market will accommodate 8,015 handicraft units. The earthquake on 27 May 2006 hit this market mildly but it is being recovered now.

Text: Yunanto Wiji Utomo
Photo & Artistic: Sutrisno
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GUNUNG NGLANGGERAN

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Address: Desa Nglanggeran, Patuk, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
GPS Coordinate: S7°50'26.052" E110°32'41.964"

Mount Nglanggeran is an ancient volcano form a giant boulder. Besides being able to watch the sunset & sunrise dazzling and sparkling Yogyakarta at night, in the East Peak Nglanggeran there are also the mystery of hamlet with 7 heads of households.

MOUNT NGLANGGERAN
An Ancient Volcano with 7 Families

Watching the gorgeous sunset from the top of a mountain is a very special moment that not everyone can enjoy. The extreme route, unpredictable weather, hard track, and long distance become the obstacle for many people to go mountain climbing. However, you don't need to deal with those difficulties when you go to Mount Nglanggeran in Patuk, Gunungkidul. It only takes 1 to 1.5 hours tracking, you will get its western peak, which is called Mount Gede. Beautiful landscape will be in front of you. You will see the spread of clouds, a range of mountains forming unique shape, housing, and also green field. When the day is getting dark, Yogyakarta will look like the ocean of light. The twinkling of the stars and the sparkling of the lamps in distance becomes romantic scene for those who have camping activity there.

Mount Nglanggeran is an ancient volcano that used to be active million years ago. Located on Baturagung karst area, Nglanggeran was lithologically formed by old volcanic material fragment. It has two peaks, namely western and eastern peak with a caldera in the center. Nowadays, Nglanggeran is a range of huge rocky mountain which has exotic view, unique shape and names, and also history behind it. The mountains in the range are usually named based on their shape, for example Mount 5 Jari, Mount Kelir, and Mount Wayang.

It was still in the morning when YogYES got to the eastern peak of the mountain. According to the organizer, it was the best spot to enjoy the sunrise. Unfortunately, when we were there, dark cloud covered the sky and the sun. Since we couldn’t see the sunrise, we decided to visit Mbah Redjodimulyo as the elder living on the top of Mount Nglanggeran. According to him, a village on the top of the mountain named Tlogo Mardidho, could only be occupied by 7 families. If their number was more or less than 7, there would be something bad. It could be seen from the cemetery. Furthermore, when their children has got married and born children, the new family should leave the village.

After visiting a village occupied by 7 families, we got back to base camp and tried to climb Mount Gede. Different from the eastern peak which was possibly reached by motorbike, this peak forced us to do tracking. Walking along the path with stony hill around us became a wonderful experience. The higher we climb, the steeper the track. To help the climbers on the tracking, rope was set. Soon after we passed that route, a new challenge came since there was a very narrow and steep gap between stony hills on each side was in front of us. It can only be passed by one person, so we had to walk one by one. After passing the gap, one of us said "It's like something happened in a movie entitled 127 Hours. It's tense but cool..."

Ticket: IDR 3,000 (in afternoon); IDR 5,000 (at night)

Package Tour:

    * Tracking (at least 3 people): IDR 25,000 for each
      Includes: ticket, guide, village tracking, and a portion of kelapa muda (young coconut) or dawet    Kalisong
    * A package 4 hours in Dewa Pesona Purba (at least 5 people): IDR 35,000 for each
      Includes: ticket, guide, village tracking, cacao cultivation lesson, and a portion of kelapa muda
    * Outbound 1 (at least 40 people) : IDR 50,000 for each
      Includes: ticket, guide, village tracking, games, cacao cultivation lesson, kelapa muda/soto omahan
    * Outbound 2 (at least 40 people) : IDR 100,000 for each
      Includes: ticket, guide, village tracking, games, cacao cultivation lesson, flying fox, a meal time, and twice snack time
    * Package eastern peak : IDR 100,000
      Includes: includes ticket, guide, village tracking, Tlogo Guyangan, mystery of 7 families, sunset in Nglanggeran, and kelapa muda
    * Package Sunset & Sunrise : IDR 300,000
      Includes: ticket, guide, village tracking, home stay, sunset and sunrise in Nglanggeran, and twice snack time

Notes: The ancient volcano Nglanggeran is fully organized by Karang Taruna Desa Nglanggeran (Youth Organization of Nglanggeran Village). For more information or reservation, you can call Sugeng Handoko (+62 818 0260 6050), Heru Purwanto (+62 818 0410 3999).

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TAMANSARI

TAMANSARI

 

Address: Jl. Taman, Kraton, Yogyakarta 55133, Indonesia
GPS Coordinate: S7°48'36.4" E110°21'34.2"


Visit Tamansari (Taman Sari), you will find a unique atmosphere of the past periods.

Tamansari (Water Castle)

 Formerly Tamansari was a recreation garden or a resting house for the Sultan and Family. The other resting houses including Warungboto, Manukberi, Ambarbingun, and Ambarrukmo functioned for the vacation and meditation for the royal family. The other function is used as hiding place for royal family to defend against the enemy assault.

Tamansari is located about 2 km south of Yogyakarta Palace. 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 extremerly large swimming pool (if the canals opened).

The Tamansari complex consist of:

   1. The Sacred Room
      There is the sacred place in the complex showing a separated building, which once functioned as a hermitage place for the Sultan and his family
   2. The Bathing Pool
      This part was formerly a pleasure place for the royal family. Consists of two bathing pool that are separated with a 2-storey building. From this building the Sultan watched all the women swimming in the outer pool. Then he might ask some of them to accompany him into the inner pool. The water sprouts from a forming animal statue into the pool. The pool is also adorned with some big flowerpot.
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      Kenanga or Cemeti Island
      This part compounds of some building such as Kenanga or Cemeti Island (forming Island), Sumur Gemuling and underground tunnels.

      This artificial island is a high building used as resting room and reconnoitering place. This will be the only building surfaced when the canals opened and the water over flew this area. From the higher place it like lotus floating in the middle of big pool.

      Sumur Gemuling is building constructed in circle such a well (Javanese: sumur) where some rooms formerly used as praying room.

      The tunnels in this area were underground passageways to the Sultan palace. The legend says about secret tunnel connecting to the south sea (Indian Ocean) where Nyai Roro Kidul or the Queen of the South has her palace. The supernatural Queen becomes the wife of Yogyakarta Sultan for many generations. This secret tunnels is gateway to the world where the Sultan meeting is supernatural wife. However the building also functioned as a hiding place for the royal family against the enemy attack.

Tamansari is an interesting place to visit. Besides the location is very closed to the Sultan palace, Tamansari has it owned speciality in attraction reflecting in some unimpaired ancient building and its atmosphere as the main tourist object of Yogyakarta.

There is Masjid Sokotunggal, a unique mosque with a single pillar that is different from Javanese traditional architecture. Although built in the early of XX century, the mosque gives another attraction of this area. Kampung Taman that lies in the Tamansari complex nearby known for the batik craft. Visitor can buy or watch handmade process for both batik painting and batik clothes. Therefore people from all over Indonesia and abroad have visited this village. Not for from Tamansari is Ngasem traditional market, the biggest bird market in Yogyakarta. All of those attractions have made Tamansari become one of main tourist object in Yogyakarta besides Yogyakarta palace.

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PANGGUNG KRAPYAK

PANGGUNG KRAPYAK

 

Address: Jl. DI Panjaitan, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
GPS Coordinate: S7°49'39.5" E110°21'37.9"

Panggung Krapyak is famous as the place where the kings of Yogyakarta Sultanate went hunting. It is located in a location that used to be popular as Krapyak Forest, where the son of Panembahan Senopati passed away.

Panggung Krapyak, where the Kings Went Hunting

 It was told that Krapyak area, which is now located to the south of Yogyakarta Kingdom, was a dense forest. There were various kinds of wild animals, one of them was deer or in Javanese language it is called menjangan. It is not surprising that this area was used as a place to go hunting by the kings of Mataram.

Raden Mas Jolang who was called Prabu Hanyokrowati, the second king of Islamic Mataram Kingdom and the son of Panembahan Senopati, was one of the kings utilizing the Krapyak Forest as a hunting place. In 1613, he got an accident while hunting and died here. He was buried in Kotagede and was named Panembahan Seda Krapyak (that means the king that died in Krapyak Forest).

The other king who was fond of hunting in Krapyak Forest was Pangeran Mangkubumi (Sultan Hamengku Buwono I). He constructed Panggung Krapyak 140 years after the demise of Prabu Hanyokrowati in this forest. Panggung Krapyak is a historical sign telling that Krapyak area was functioned as a hunting area in the past. If you are interested, you may visit the place by going southwards as far as 3 kilometers from the South Square or Alun-Alun Kidul, passing through Plengkung Gading and D.I Panjaitan Road. When you get there, you will see Panggung Krapyak in the middle of the street.

The architecture of this building is unique. Each side has one door and one window. The door and the window are without shutters. The base of the door and the window is square while the top part is arch as the design of the doors and windows of a mosque. In front of the door, there is one stair in the form of half-rounded.

Panggung Krapyak is divided into two floors. The ground floor functions as an entrance while the first floor functions as a hunting place. The two floors were connected by a wooden ladder that could be positioned in southwest and southeast parts of this building to enable the king to ascend it. Now, the ladder is not available so that we cannot access the first floor.

This building describes the comfort that the king obtained, even when he went hunting. The high building provides feeling of comfort and secure for the king; he should not have to worry to be attacked by wild animals while looking out the targets. The first floor is also a secure, wide, open place that is bordered with hollow walls of medium height. There might be the roof on the building but it disappears now.

In addition to functioning as a hunting place, some people tell that Panggung Krapyak also functioned as defending post of the Kingdom. From this place, the movement of the enemies from south direction could be detected to tell the Yogyakarta Kingdom if there would be an attack. Some soldiers were on guard in this post.

To the east of the stage, there is a pond that local people call it umbul. Unfortunately, the condition of the pond is not that good.

Visiting Panggung Krapyak means visiting one of the important buildings of Yogyakarta Kingdom. Panggung Krapyak is located in the imaginary line of Yogyakarta, connecting the Merapi Mountain, Tugu Jogja, Yogyakarta Kingdom, Panggung Krapyak and the South Ocean.

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Text: Yunanto Wiji Utomo
Photo & Artistic: Agung Sulistiono Mabruron
English Translation: Emanuel, Downhill English Services

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