Garut

Garut is an Old Dutch hill station and a characteristic Sundanese town in the highlands, surrounded by mountains, volcanoes, and crystal clear lakes. Garut's Hindu temples and hot springs are often the destination for hikers attracted by spectacular views from the mountaintops. The choices of where to plan the next trek in the area are as varied as the sights along the way. Some like to hike across to Mount Telaga Bodas with its pale-green Crater Lake bubbling with pure sulfur. This cool place can be reached from Bandung in approximately one hour. Due to the scenic beauty of this there are many places of interest for nature lovers. The northern part of the region is reserved for the development of the city of Garut while the southern region is rich with a beautiful coastline, nature preserves and beautiful scenery. Since the time of the Dutch occupation, this region has been developed as a resting place.

The inhabitants of Garut are mostly Moslems and more than half of the people live on farming. The specific food from this place, which is very famous, is "dodol Garut", a sweet food made from sticky rice flour and sugar with various flavorings. This food is offered in different wrappings and can be store for a long time. In the past, Garut was also famous for its high quality oranges.

The hot springs resort at Cipanas has comfortable accommodations. Many people visit these laden springs, which have medicating effects to purify their skin. Mount Papandayan's crater is probably one of the most spectacular mountain scenes on Java Island. There is the Cangkuang temple situated by Cangkuang Lake, which was a major discovery of archaeological value as it was the first of its kind found in West Java, dating back to the 8th century. The site is located 17 km from Garut and 50 km from Bandung.

Garut has a specific cultural attraction, the "Ram Fight". Two strong male Ram, with big, long and strong horns are made to fight against each other in the center of a arena, usually in a field, accompanied by "Kendang Pencak" music. There are three centers for ram high performances: in the districts of Bayongbong, leles and Samarang. The participants mostly come from the surrounding place. In Garut there are a lot of interesting places to visit, some have been developed, some others are being developed and there are places, which are still left natural.

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Pariaman

Pariaman is a coastal city in West Sumatra. Pariaman has 72,089 inhabitants (based on 2002) census and has 73.36-km2 areas. According to the limited early sources available, by the sixteenth century Pariaman was an important port city serving the Minangkabau settlements in the interior highlands of central west Sumatra. Traders from western India and later from Europe visited the port, trading in pepper, gold, and other products of the interior. In the early seventeenth century the port came under control of the Sultanate of Aceh, to the north; an Acehnese governor was stationed in the town. The port formally came under Dutch control in 1663 by treaty with Aceh. By the early twentieth century the port was less prominent on the coast, as Padang, just to the south, was the focus of Dutch activities in western Sumatra and had a railroad link to the interior. The city is administratively divided into three districts: Pariaman Selatan, Pariaman Tengah, and Pariaman Utara.

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Gulai Balak

Gulai Balak is a kind of Lampung food, beef goulash, a kind of beef cooking. This is a speciality beef goulash from Lampung, Lampung province, Sumatra island. This Lampung style goulash made of beef with coconut milk, garlic, cumin and another spices.




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Indra Patra Fortress

This old fort was built during Iskandar Muda time. It probably functioned as a defense against invaders. (Damaged because of Tsunami)





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Dago Street

Do you want to feel as if you were in the cities of Europe ? just come and enjoy this atmosphere in Dago street, Bandung. The nuance of Dago street offers much coolness and beautiful scenery which has millions of enchanment and puts in order, so that make the street more beautiful. Walking along the street, you will find a lot of big trees which has function as the shelter especially in the day lights. The street is also completed with sidewalk for pedestrians to walk along in shady and pleasure.

Historically Dago street was used to be an elite house complex area in Dutch colonialism era. As the main road is Dagoweg [Dago Street] or nowadays namely Jl. Ir. H. Juanda. Until early of 60s decade, thi street still has a special line for pedestrian, baby carriage, bycicle, cart and a special line for motorcycle. Dago Street in old time consists of two-ways asphalt streets width around 2 metres where both side of the street have green area planted by resin trees which becomes the landmark of this area. Besides that, in the middle of both lines has a half meter square of park filled by various green plants.
Nowadays Dago has become a business center and place for teenagers to hang out. There are many shopping facilities and hotels in this street, such as Dago Plaza, Cafe, Book Store, numbers of FO, Dago Tea House Culture Park, hotels from budget to 5 stars one etc.

Another exclusive side of Dago Street is as the area of architecture laboratory. This elite complex is rich with architecture houses created by old European architects. The foreign architects had permittions easily from Dutch government at that time to make creations here. Therefore many architects involved in creation on Dago Street. It can be seen from every part of the area has its own architecture style.

Walking along Dago Street at day lights or at night will give you unforgetable experience and romanticism of Bandung city.

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Teleng Ria beach

Teleng Ria beach is the nearest from Pacitan, it is about 5 minutes from the city. This beach faced to 'Pantai Selatan' with extent of white sand along about 3 km length. The distance from the Capital of Pacitan regency to the location is only 3,5 km, and it is easily reached with various vehicle.

The wave is medium and enjoyable for swimming and also to have a picnic with family. It has white sand and beautiful panorama guarded by limo mountains.

Various supporting facilities which have been built are; Watch Tower to enjoy the south sea wave, swimming pool and play ground, a stage for cultural event for Bonggo Budoyo and camping area, fishing area, hotels, and traditional food of Pacitan.

This beach is also applied for Fish Auction Place (TPI) so that the visitor can buy fresh fish.

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Yali Country

The highlands east of the Baliem Valley are much more rugged than those to the west. Trekking here is much harder, but very rewarding. There are no regular flights here, though missionary airstrips do exist. The most popular destination in this region is Angguruk, centre of the Yali, who are one of the most traditional highland groups. Angguruk's teeming markets are an unforgetable sight - even though like everywhere in Papua, the percentage of traditionally-dressed people has dropped sharply, from about 95% during my first visit in late 1999 to about 5-10% by early 2008.



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Yapen

This elongated, hilly island south of Biak is home to fine woodcarving traditions, interesting stilt villages , birds of paradise, inviting little off-shore islets and some good reefs.

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Kokas

Across the peninsula from Fak fak, Kokas is a small town home to plentiful relics of WW II - in the form of Japanese caves and disused weaponry. The bay in front of it has beautiful rock islands, which in turn are home to ancient rock paintings, cliff graves, stalactite caves and some fishing villages.



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Juanda International Airport

Juanda International Airport, ia the international airport that serves Surabaya city, East Java and its surroundings. Juanda has length basis 3000 meters. This airport actually located in Sidoarjo region, 20 km south side of Surabaya city. Juanda International Airport operated by PT Angkasa Pura 1 (Persero).

PT (PERSERO) I is one of body State owned Enterprises (BUMN) of Communication Department, which active in management and enterprising of airport service in Indonesia. The company mission is to carrying out the management of airport exploiting and its surroundings well and innovative.

The new Juanda Airport has 51500 M2 widths, or about twofold compared to stripper terminal which only 28088 M2. This new airport is also equipped with farm facility to park with a width of 28900 M2 capable to accommodate more than 3000 vehicles. This airport is estimated can accommodate 6 million to 8 million passengers per year and 120000 tons cargo / year.

Every day air transport activity through Juanda Airport is noted of 320 times air transport of international purpose and domestic with passenger more than ten thousand, air transport majority of akarta purpose.

The airport building is enough luxury and wide earns parallel with Public Square. The door interfacing to space boarding, which have been equipped with counters air of transport firm. The second floor is awaiting passenger space. Its glass wall has faced to basis racing and way cab (the plane road towards base raced). The passenger can see the going and coming of the plane, and also that park in apron.

As in Soekarno-Hatta Airport, the passenger is not necessarily go up bus towards door of plane. It is available 11 trunks (garbarata) that become the bridge towards the plane entrance. The wide screen is put down in some corners. From this Flight Information Display System (FIDS) facility, the passenger can see the arrival schedule and also the plane departure.

By this supply of international standard like domestic passenger waiting room (14 M2/orang) and the international (20 M2/orang). As a whole, the airport can serve 6 million passengers and 120000 cargo tons every year.

This airport is also equipped with 4 tanks for fuel supply, with capacities 2000 kilolitre. All development funds are assisted by government of Japan through the program Official Development Assistance from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).

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Barongsai

This art is an alliance of Chinese traditional art, Guntaw, and Sundanese traditional art, Penca.
In its developed, this art is known as Barongsai Art, consist of Pencak Silat and China Martial Art element and also combined with Barong Art. On that time (until the year of 1942), this art were popular in Sekeloa District, which is generally shown on the Selamatan Kariaan (Khitanan) ceremony.

Now, Barongsai often performed for celebrate Indonesia Independent Day, celebration at government office or university. Barongsai is parade like another art that are the player dance using Giant Barong Mask and escorted by Pencak Silat Music’s.

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