Jogjakarta City (Yogya)

Jogjakarta City (also Jogja, Yogya, Jogjakarta) is a city in the Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia. It is renowned as a center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. It is also famous as a center for Indonesian higher education. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to 1949.

The area of the city of Yogyakarta is 32.5 km². While the city sprawls in all directions from the kraton, the core of the modern city is to the north, centering around the site of a few buildings with distinctive Dutch colonial-era architecture and the contemporary commercial district. Jalan Malioboro,

Tanah Lot

Tanah Lot is one of the famous background when tourist want to take a picture when they visiting Bali Island (include myself). The silhouette of Temple in tanah lot create a special beauty,  especially on sunset. There is two Temple or pura which located on a big stone above sea. One of them is on the top of the stone, and the other is on the bank. In a good weather, you also can see Pura Uluwatu from here. Tanah Lot is a rock formation off the indonesian island of Bali. It is home of a pilgrimage temple, the Pure Tanah Lot and a popular tourist and cultural icon for photography and general exocitism

The word of Tanah Lot is consisted of two words that are Tanah word interpreted as a reef looking like gili or isle. Lot or Lod word has meaning the sea. So Tanah Lot is

Alas Kedaton

Have you heard about Alas Kedaton? (in english, alas=forest, kedaton=palace). Alas Kedaton  is a small forest which located in the middle of the rice field in Tabanan regency, west Bali. More precisely is located in Kukuh countryside, Marga Sub district, Tabanan Regency. The total size of this forest, temple and its supporter facility is about 12 ha. In this forest or alas, there is a temple which called as Alas Kedaton Temple and owns the natural environments that is looked green with its fresh air and create the calm, quite and holy atmosphere. The monkeys in Alas Kedaton are domesticated / very tame and free gallivanting in temple yard, so that the calm atmosphere is sometime solved by noise voice of the monkey, which are playing around and scrambling of food.

The monkeys who dwell in this forest, there are

Solo / Sala / Surakarta

Surakarta, juga disebut Solo atau Sala, adalah kota yang terletak di provinsi Jawa Tengah, Indonesia yang berpenduduk 503.421 jiwa (2010) dan kepadatan penduduk 13.636/km2. Kota dengan luas 44 km2 ini berbatasan dengan Kabupaten Karanganyar dan Kabupaten Boyolali di sebelah utara, Kabupaten Karanganyar dan Kabupaten Sukoharjo di sebelah timur dan barat, dan Kabupaten Sukoharjo di sebelah selatan. Sisi timur kota ini dilewati sungai yang terabadikan dalam salah satu lagu keroncong, Bengawan Solo. Bersama dengan Yogyakarta, Solo merupakan pewaris Kerajaan Mataram yang dipecah pada tahun 1755. 

Jimbaran Beach (Pantai jimbaran)

Jimbaran is a fishing village and tourist resort in Bali, Indonesia. Located just at the south of Ngurah Rai International Airport, the beach is cluttered with seafood restaurants and some of the finest luxury hotels in the world. Tourism in Jimbaran has increased rapidly that has boosted local economy It is administered under Kuta South District along with Nusa Dua peninsula. 

Jimbaran lies on the 'neck' of the southern peninsula in Bali and is widely known for the fresh seafood kiosks that are scattered along the beach. Diners select the live seafood that they wish to eat, and it is immediately prepared, generally grilled over a fire of coconut husks rather than charcoal. 

~ Istalastu ~ 

Source : Wikipedia