"lawang sewu" Thousand Doors old building in semarang indonesia

Lawang Sewu is a building in Semarang, Central Java, which is the office of the Nederlandsch Indishe Spoorweg Naatschappij or NIS.  Built in 1903 and completed in 1907.  Located at the roundabout Tugu Muda Semarang who once called Wilhelmina Plein.

Local people call it Lawang Sewu (Thousand Doors.)  This is because the building has a door that many (in fact the door is not up to a thousand, maybe also because the window height and width of this building, people also consider it as a door).

Ambarawa train museum in indonesia

Are you interested in tracing the history of railways in Indonesia, we headed Ambarawa Railway Museum located in Semarang District.  This museum is quite interesting considering there is only one in the world that exhibit combined with steam locomotives that can still be way up the mountain.

     Ambarawa since the Dutch East Indies is a military area, so that King Willem I wanted to build a railway station in order to facilitate transport the troops to go to Semarang.  And so, on May 21, 1873 Ambarawa Railway Station was built with a land area of 127,500 m2.  Station heyday Ambarawa known as Willem I, stopped its operation as a railway station with majors Ambarawa Kedungjati Semarang.  And in 1976 to cross Ambarawa Secang Magelang also Ambarawa Parakan Waterford.

"colours lake" dieng's mount indonesia

Dieng Peak area in Wonosobo, Central Java has many wonderful natural panorama.  Among Lake and Lake Colors Pengilon.  In seputaran two of this lake there are some natural cave that holds the legend and mystical atmosphere.

Lake Colors will welcome the tourists who visit this tourist area.  Called Lake because it has a unique color associated with the color of the lake.  Sometimes green and yellow, blue and yellow, or rainbow-like colorful.  This color variation influenced the weather, time and place to see it.

sam poo kong tample indonesia

Forget Semarang. Forget Indonesia. We like the rich man who was a walk to China once entered klentheng Sam Poo Kong. Red lanterns, Chinese ornaments hallmark of our welcome. And then, what appears is the building with light color that is not found in the usual place.

Sam Poo Kong Temple is located in the center of town, the area of Simongan. Nothing would be difficult to see him. This location is referred to as a petilasan Semarang people, namely former first landing place of sojourn and a Chinese admiral named Zheng He, Cheng Ho or Sam Po Tay Djien. At that time, Admiral Zheng He sailed down the middle of the sea coast of Java, and was forced to land because there is a sick crew. He was down the river (now called Kaligarang) and landed in a village Simongan. The discovery of a rock cave which is then used to place meditate and pray, and this lasted until now.

After the jump a long history, the month of October 1724 held a massive memorial recalled Sam Po Tay Djien. It was added to the building overhang at the front of the cave. Followed by a second repair in 1879, initiated and financed by tycoon Oei Sien Tjie. Since then the complex was opened to the public. In 1937 Sam Po redeveloped complex. This time it was held a few additions, namely the gate, the park is also the other scriptures. Year 1950 was held back improvement by creating a new gateway from the concrete to make it more robust. Added also the flower garden in the backyard pagoda with two paseban Wie named Wan Ting and Ting Lok Pole and two pat kwa ting (gasebo octagonal). Recently, a door Selatn successfully completed and inaugurated by the father of the president last August. Until now, this klentheng remain clean. No wonder, when this building looks good too fancy.
To complement the 'visit' us to China, available services photo with Chinese clothing. With the money Rp 75.000, - we can style in 'China', and photographed by a professional photographer twice.

The time is right to come here actually when Chinese New Year holiday. The ritual was held to commemorate the birthday of Sam Poo Tay Djien. Beginning with a parade of the Tay Kak Sie Temple Gang Lombok to the Sam Poo Kong Temple. Of course, do not miss attraction of lion dance.

batik solo "original cloth from solo indonesia"

There are significant differences between batik motifs with motifs surakarta jogja. Motif batik jogja which tend to white / basik, while surakarta tend bright batik motifs. Patterned batik cloth Solo / Surakarta also have characteristics that differ with batik fabric from Yogyakarta. Solo batik cloth shades of yellow with no white.

history of borobudur "indonesia"

History records Borobudur is the largest temple ever built for the veneration of the Buddha. Just imagine the building reaches a height of 14.000m with up to 35.29 sq. m. An inscription Cri Kahuluan derived from IX century (824 AD) who researched by Prof Dr JG Casparis, Wangsa uncover genealogical three successive dynasty that ruled in those days, the King Indra, the son Samaratungga. Later, his daughter called Samaratungga Pramodawardhani.

At the beginning of this Samaratungga King built a temple named: Bhumisan-Bharabudhara, presumably meaning the barrow, hill or building levels which is identified with the designation kamulan Bhumisambharabudhara monasteries, which have a meaning an ancestral temple and the dynasty dynasty in the hills.

the legend of Toba lake indonesia

One day a young orphan who was poor. He lived alone in the northern part of Sumatra Island is very dry. He lived by farming and fishing.

    One day, he was fishing and got caught a strange fish. The fish was big and very beautiful. The color is golden. He then took off pole and holding fish. But when touched by hand, the fish turned into a beautiful princess! Apparently he is a fish that is cursed the gods for having violated a ban. Already are written, if he touched his hand, he will change shape to be like what's being touched. Because he touched people, he also turned into a human.

    The young man proposes marriage to the daughter and fish. Prince nodded his head a sign that fish are willing.

merapi after eruption 2010

Residents view of Mount Merapi from Kopeng, Kepuharjo Village, District Cangkringan, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta, Sunday (05/11/2010). Pascapenurunan status of a standby alert, many residents who come from a number of cities to see the damage caused by eruption of Merapi in disaster prone areas. Reuters JOGJA / HASAN Sakri Ghozali

kuta beach "the wonderful beach in bali , indonesia"

Kuta Beach is a tourist spot located in the south of Denpasar, the capital of Bali, Indonesia. Kuta is located in Badung. This area is a tourist destination abroad, and has become a mainstay tourist island of Bali since the early 70's. Kuta Beach is often referred to as sunset beach (sunset beach) as opposed to the Sanur beach.

In Kuta there are many shops, restaurants and places baths and drying herself. Besides the beauty of its beach, Kuta beach also offers various other types of entertainment such as bars and restaurants along the beach to Legian beach. Rosovivo, Ocean Beach

dieng highlands indonesia

Dieng is a region in the highlands on the border between the District and County Banjarnegara Wonosobo, Central Java. Villages are divided into Dieng Dieng Kulon, District of Batur, Banjarnegara and Dieng Kidul District, District Kejajar, Wonosobo regency.
This area is located approximately 26 km north of Wonosobo regency's capital, with a height of 6,000 feet or 2093 m above sea level. Dieng cool temperatures in winter approached. Temperatures range from 15-20 ° C in the daytime and 10 ° C at night. In fact, sometimes the temperature can reach 0 ° C in the morning, particularly between July to August. Locals refer to it as extreme temperatures upas bun that means "dew poison" because of this moisture causing damage to agricultural crops.

the history of olden krakatau and the biggest eruption of krakatau in indonesia

There are interesting article from Mr. H. Awang Geologists Satyana Blog's in Indonesia, about the history of the eruption of Mount Krakatau in the Sunda Strait. Apparently, the eruption in 1883 was not the greatest in the history of Krakatoa. Consider the following inscription.
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By Awang H. Satyana

Monday, August 27, 1883 at 10:00 pm is the last time residents in the vicinity of the Sunda Strait to see the sun was rising to its peak. Half an hour later, they dragged dying sea wave height to 40 feet ...! Total 36,417 people from 295 villages in the coastal region of Banten and Lampung. The next day and next day again, residents as far as to Jakarta and Lampung no longer see the sun - dark. What happened on that day like it is doomsday eruption of Mount Krakatau in the Sunda Strait. Eruptive sound heard so far 4600 miles and be heard in an area of 1 / 8 surface of the Earth. Much has been written and movies made around the world about the awesomeness of this eruption of Krakatoa. University of North Dakota Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) include two volcanic eruptions around the world who the greatest in modern history: 1883 Krakatau (VEI: 6) and Tambora in 1815 (VEI: 7).
Both exist in Indonesia, not far from us. May we, the Indonesian people - especially that calling itself the geologist, knew well these two volcanoes.

the beautifuly of pacitan beach indonesia

 Pacitan has many tourist places, such as pupil beach fun, beach wawaran, srau beaches and more beaches in Pacitan. in Pacitan there are also many caves to pacitan called PACITAN GOA. Every 1001 holiday a lot of visitors coming place-place. even ordinary days were also many who come to the place of tourism in Pacitan. That privilege pacitan town although small town but really affected