Agung Mosque of Yogyakarta

Masjid Agung lies on the western side of the north square. It is a place for praying and place for holding religious ceremonies as well Religious ceremonies like Sekaten and Garebeg are held every year to celebrate the Islamic holidays. The mosque provide the Kraton for religious activities. This Mosque is designed with traditional architecture. The style has a special roof called "Tajug", such a roof that is especially used for religious buildings. This traditional mosque becomes the most interesting part of the building because of the architecture.

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Dirgantara Mandala Museum

This museum is located in the Lanuma Adisucipto complex and keeps pictures and models of aeroplanes. Some are models of aeroplanes left by Japanese army which then were used by the Indonesian airforce, the other models are fighting, transportation, and exercise aeroplanes. Visitors have to inform the officer in charge at least one day in advance to visit the museum.

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Peak of Jayawijaya

Jayawijaya Mountains were located in the Puncak Jaya Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia . If you supposed that in the tropical area will not find mountains that were covered snow, you could correct this view after visiting to Jayawijaya Peak, the highest peak in Sudirman Mountains (Sudirman Range) in the Papua Province. The Jayawijaya peak or that was shorter was mentioned Puncak Jaya, had the height reached 4.884 meters above sea level, so as to enable this area was covered by eternal snow.

However, this eternal snow will estimated shrink, in fact dried up. In several researches was concluded that ice sediment in these mountains from the year to the year experienced the serious contraction. In the site http://aapgscundip.wordpress.com was mentioned, global warming in these Sudirman Mountains resulted in the contraction of snow. So, it was in the future not impossible for these mountains to lose snow like that happened to the Kilimanjaro Mountain in Tanzania. So, before the estimate really became real, there were not mistakenly you tried to conquer the highest peak in Indonesia.

However, this eternal snow will it was estimated shrink, in fact dried up. In several researches was concluded that ice sediment in these mountains from the year to the year experienced the serious contraction. In the site http://aapgscundip.wordpress.com was mentioned, global warming in these Sudirman Mountains resulted in the contraction of snow. So, it was in the future not impossible for these mountains to lose snow like that happened to the Kilimanjaro Mountain in Tanzania. Nah, before the estimate really became real, there were not mistakenly you tried to conquer the highest peak in Indonesia.

The truth of the Carstensz report was expressed after almost three hundred years afterwards, when in 1899 a Dutch expedition made the map of the Papua Island and found the peak of the mountain that was covered snow as being reported by Carstensz. To honour Carstensz, then the peak of this mountain was afterwards given by the name in accordance with his name. Whereas the term Jayawijaya Peak was giving of President Soekarno after succeeding in grasping the sovereignty of West Papua from the Netherlands. This name contained the meaning “Win of Peak”, as the expression thank heavens on the unification of West Papua with the Republic of Indonesia Unitary State (http://groups.yahoo.com).

The first climber who was recorded had conquered Jaya Peak was the team of the expedition that was led by Heinrich Harrer during 1962. Heinrich Harrer was a skilled climber and the veteran writer. His book that was famous, Seven Years in Tibet, was the roaming true story and his friendship in Himalaya Mountains, Tibet. Before Harrer, actually has many of the other climbers who tried to carry out the climb, but to never there are those that was successful. After Heinrich Harrer, followed the expedition from Indonesia succeeded in reaching the peak. The expedition that was led by Letnal Colonel Azwar Hamid from Directorate Topografi of this Army was successful reached Jaya Peak during 1964.

Jayawijaya Mountain was known as one of the seven highest peaks of the world (seven summit). Therefore, climbed the peak be as high as 4.884 meters was the goal of the true climbers, moreover the climb to Jaya Peak was the subjugation against the mountain that was covered snow. Various barriers that were served in the climb, as the condition for steep nature, the very cold temperature, the strong wind and rain, as well as the insignificance of oxygen in the area of the height were the challenge that must be conquered by the climbers.

Jayawijaya peak was one of the peaks of the snow-covered mountain available in crossing of the equator, apart from mountains in Africa and Latin America. If being seen from air, Jayawijaya Peak visible likes the black carpet that was covered by the white shade. If the sun was clear, then this snow carpet will reflect the sunlight that dazzled. The content of ice in these mountains it was estimated reached 5 percent of the reserve of world ice that was outside the Antarctica Continent. However resulting from global warming, this number from the year to the year increasingly shrank. If being seen from the type of his glacier, according to website http://aapgscundip.wordpress.com the snow-covered region in Jayawijaya entered the Alpine Glaciation type. Now the glacier (the current snow) in this territory entered the Valley Glacier type, that is the glacier current that flowed from the high place towards the lower area. Therefore, in this area was enabled to be gotten the glacier current.

Only did not enjoy the attraction of snow-covered nature in the tropical area, in these mountains tourists could also witness directly geological proof concerning the history of the formation of Jayawijaya mountains. Geological researches found proof empiric that these mountains originally were the seabeds that in. A geologist was named Fransiskus Benediktus Widodo Margotomo (in http://www.e-samarinda.com) mentioned that the formation of the Papua Island with his peak in Jayawijaya happened around 60 million years ago. This island was formed from the sediment stone that was lifted resulting from pounded the slab of Indo-Pacific and Indo-Australia in the seabed, so as to result in the seabed being lifted changed into a big island. These proof could be seen from the fossil of sea animals that was left in the Jayawijaya mountainous stone. Therefore, apart from becoming heaven for the climbers, this region also was heaven for the geological research.

If you were interested in exploring Jayawijaya Mountains, of course the main matter that must be prepared was physical readiness, supplies, and the logistics. The routine exercise in the area with the quite cold temperature was some ray that was quite effective to avoid the threat hipotermia (hypothermia), that is the body heat loss because was in the area that temperature very cold. Besides this, the aspect of permission must be also prepared far the day before the implementation of the climb. Because, apart from because of the track that was heavy, the Papua region was often ravaged the disturbance, the war between the ethnics I, as well as the disturbance of the other security. The permission difficulty to climb “Top of Indonesia” this often showed the expression: ”more difficult to arrange his permission than climbing the mountain”.

Considering the difficult climb tracking area, the process of complicated permission, as well as the security guarantee when the process of the climb, better the climbers made use of the experienced service of the trip agency. Various trip agencies that had the international reputation provided two choices of the climb route, that is the classic route went through the Ilaga Village, or the second route that was more comfortable by getting a lift in the helicopter headed base camp the Bukit Danau (the Valley Lake).

This service of the trip agency usually handles also the problem of permission, the transport from Jakarta headed Papua, rental of the helicopter headed base camp, the climb guide, the insurance, as well as the exercise and condition of the team before the climb. Of course, the cost per the person for one team of the climb by using the service of the trip agency needed the quite big cost, that is approximately 10,000 USD per the person (or around one hundred million rupiah more).

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Cendrawasih Gulf National Park

The National Park is located in the district of Manokwari, West Papua, and Paniai Regency, Papua Province , Indonesia . Cendrawasih Gulf National Park is located on the island of Papua, and is the largest marine national park in Indonesia. National Park which was inaugurated by the Minister of Forestry in 1993, has extensive 1.4535 million ha, consisting of land and coastal areas (0.9%), mainland islands (3.8%), coral reefs (5.5% ), and ocean waters (89.8%). Paradise Bay has 14 species of protected flora. Most consist of tree species kasuarina. Moreover, in this park there are also 36 species of birds, where 18 of them are protected.
There are also 196 species of molluscs, 209 species of fish, and some turtles (hawksbill, green, leatherback, and hawksbill false). This area is also a good place for whales and dolphins. Both types of these animals can live in peace here because there is no hunting whales or dolphins, as well as still an abundance of food provided for them Paradise Bay.

Come to Cendrawasih Gulf, visitors can enjoy a variety of interesting objects scattered throughout the park. If you want to do marine tourism, Nusrowi Island, Yoop Island, and Island Mioswaar can be an attractive option. In the waters of these islands, visitors can enjoy the underwater beauty of the colorful and rich in objects that seduce the eye with a dive. In addition, visitors also can observe the behavior of whales and dolphins. If you want to explore the cave, visit just Mioswaar Island. Here there are natural caves and ancient relics are also hot springs that contain sulfur without salt content. This cave is a cave where there is historic because the framework Wandau ethnic ancestry. That said, they were the first human groups who came to this island. Numfor Island, also found a cave where there is a human skull and antique plates and coffin-like engraved. If want something a bit different, try to come to Cape Mangguar. Here, there are caves in the water with a depth of 100 feet. In addition, there are still Rumberpon island that offers a variety of interesting experiences. In this island, visitors can make observations on the birds, deer breeding, marine tourism, and also can see the framework of a sinking Japanese aircraft during World War II.

Visitors are not charged a ticket to enter Cendrawasih Gulf National Park. Only, if visitors want menjalajahi Paradise Bay are encouraged to report to the Hall of Cendrawasih Gulf National Park (BTNTC) in Manokwari to get Entry Mail Location (Simaksi). Meanwhile, for foreign tourists are required to obtain entry permits from the Forestry Department.

In this area are not yet available tourism facilities such as Dive Center, inn, or resort. However, for visitors who want to stay can use a tourist lodge in the District BTNTC Rumberpon or in people's homes. What is the mechanism to obtain lodgings can directly contact BTNTC. If you are in need a guide to explore Cendrawasih Gulf National Park, include these desires in a letter to the permit application BTNTC. Later, the party that will give BTNTC / appoint advisors.

Cendrawasih Gulf National Park can be reached through or from Nabire Manokwari (the capital of Paniai ). From Manokwari to the site of the National Park which is about 95 km can be achieved in several ways. First, visitors can use a motor boat which came three times a week with a 2.5-hour long journey. Second, the guests also can use with outboard motors travel time approximately 60-10 hours, or use a boat trip with my old pioneer PELNI between 18-20 hours. PELNI ships usually come to this park once a month. Third, visitors can also ride the Twin Otter aircraft owned by Merpati Nusantara or MAF's Cesna. However, after air travel, travel and equipment should be continued further with outboard motors submarine 3-4 hours.

In the meantime, if through Nabire, visitors will travel a distance 38 km to reach the Cendrawasih Gulf National Park. From here, visitors can use a motor boat with a travel time of 2-6 hours (depending on the type of motor boat).

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Tanjung Puting Nasional Park

Tanjung Putting National Park is located in District Kotawaringin Kumai in the West and in the District of Hanau and Seruyan Hilir Regency, Central Kalimantan, Borneo Island, Indonesia.

Tanjung Putting National Park was originally the Tanjung Putting Wildlife Reserve was established by the Dutch East Indies colonial government on June 13, 1936 with a total area of 305,000 hectares. By the Government of the Netherlands East Indies, the region used as a refuge orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and the proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus).

Subsequently, on May 12, 1984 the Government of Indonesia, Tanjung Putting is set as a national park and an area to 300,040 hectares. In 1996, the total area of Tanjung Putting National Park has increased to 415,040 hectares consisting of Tanjung Putting Wildlife Reserve of 300,040 hectares, 90,000 hectares of production forests, and the area approximately 25,000 hectares of water area.

Tanjung Putting National Park is an important conservation area to protect endangered species such as orangutans, proboscis monkey, gibbon, gibbons, sailors, and others. The area is defined by UNESCO as the lungs of the world (biosphere reserve), this type of ecosystem, including lowland tropical rain forest, freshwater swamp forests, mangrove forests, and coastal forest. This area has a flat to slightly undulating topography with an altitude of 0 to 100 m ASL (above sea level). Casement including wet tropical climate with average rainfall is 2400 mm per year and has high humidity.

Tanjung Putting National Park is a forest area that has some type of ecosystem, such as lowland tropical forest ecosystems, forest ecosystems of dry land (heath forest), freshwater swamp forest ecosystem, the ecosystem of peat swamp forests, mangrove forests or mangrove ecosystems, coastal forest ecosystem, and secondary forest ecosystems. In the national park with various types of ecosystem, visitors can see the incredible natural wealth, be it wealth of flora and fauna.

The wealth of flora in the Tanjung Putting National Park covers the plants are like meranti (Shorea sp.), Ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), (Dyera costulata), aloes, wood street, keruing (Dipterocarpus sp), ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwagerí), tengkawang (dracomentelas sp.), palm (Nypa fruticans), and others. While for the lower layers of forest vegetation consists of the types of rattan and regeneration / tree saplings.

While the wealth of fauna including mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Mammals: Tanjung Putting National Park area is inhabited by approximately 38 species of mammals. Seven of them are well-known primates and protected, such as the orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus), proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus), gibbon, gibbon (Hylobates agilis), and sun bear (Helarctos malayanus). The types of large mammals like deer, sambar, barking deer (Muntiacus muntjak) (Tragulus javanicus) and pig (Sus barbatus), also can be found in this area. In fact, some species of water mammals such as dugongs (dugong-dugong) and dolphins are reported to have been seen in waters around the area of Tanjung Putting National Park.
Reptiles: Some species of reptiles can be found on the Tanjung Putting National Park area, including crocodiles sinyong chopsticks (tomistoma Schlegel), estuarine crocodiles (Crocodilus porosus) and bidawang (trionyx cartilagenous).
Bird: Carrying more than 200 species of birds that live in the area of Tanjung Putting National Park. One bird species exist in this region, namely Sindang yarn (Ciconia stormi) included 20 species of the world's rarest birds. Tanjung Putting is also one place for all types of bird colonies "great alba" like egrets alba, arhinga melanogaster and Ardea purpurea.

The best way towards Tanjung Putting National Park is through the District of Kumai. If visitors choose the path of the sea, Kumai can be accessed using a ship PELNI (Krakatoa, Bukit Raya, and Lawit) which departed from Semarang, Surabaya and Banjarmasin, twice a week. However, if pursued through the air, visitors should stop first at Pangkalan Bun, the capital of West Kotawaringin. Because, just in Pangkalan Bun airport there is a link with cities like Ketapang, Palangkaraya, Sampit, Banjarmasin, and Semarang. From those cities, flights to Pangkalan Bun average once a day. Having arrived at Pangkalan Bun, a trip to Kumai can be reached by using public taxis or chartered taxi.

Once on Kumai (either air or sea using the point), there are several routes of travel to get to Tanjung Putting National Park. By using klotok or speed boat, visitors can enter the park area from several different entrance routes that have been selected based on, among other

Kumai-Cape of Good Hope (20 km), takes about 0.5 hours. Kumai-Tanggui Cottage (30 km) takes about 1 hour. -Camp Leakey Kumai (40 kilometers) took approximately 1.5 hours. Kumai-Natai Lengkuas (40 km) takes about 1.5 hours.

Around the area of Tanjung Putting National Park, especially in Sub Kumai and Pangkalan Bun there are means of accommodation and facilities such as: hotel / inn (the average charge Rp 10.000 - Rp 75.000/malam), restaurants, mosques, guest house, guesthouse researchers , the tower of view / observer, shelter (resting place), path, speed boat / klotok, and others.

For tourists who visit Tanjung Putting National Park with more than 1 day, there is a hotel / guesthouse in the village of Cape of Good Hope, on the banks of the River Sekonyer. Room rates vary, ranging from Rp 300,000-Rp 500.000/night. However, for tourists who do not want to stay at the hotel, there are other alternatives, namely staying in the guest house in Tanjung Putting National Park, which has a capacity of 10 persons and at the camping ground which provides 5 tents, or staying in a rented klotok.

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Makassar City

Makassar City stood at around the year 1607, the year 1971 until 1999 officially known as Ujungpandang which represents both municipalities and the provincial capital of South Sulawesi. Municipality is the largest city in the 5 ° 8′S 119 ° 25′EKoordinat: 5 ° 8′S 119 ° 25′E, on the southwest coast of Sulawesi island, overlooking the Strait of Makassar. Makassar is known to have a beautiful Losari. Makassar is ranked fifth largest metropolitan city after Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan and Bandung.

Since the 16th century, Makassar was the dominant trading center of eastern Indonesia, and later became one of the largest cities in Southeast Asia. Makassar kings adopted a strict policy of free trade, in which all visitors to Makassar right to conduct commerce there, and refused to attempt the VOC (the Dutch) to obtain monopoly rights in the city.

Makassar amazing achievement this year is the participation sertaannya represent Indonesia to compete Insight Clean City Awards Environmental or Sustainable Environment City (ESC), the ASEAN level. Makassar will compete with ten ASEAN member countries plus the six countries of East Asia and the Pacific. Namely, India, China, Japan, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Actually sponsor seven cities namely Indonesia Surabaya, Palembang, Padang, Makassar, Balikpapan, Pekanbaru, and Central Jakarta. However, when the verification data, and Pekanbaru, Makassar and have better data completeness and most ready. Makassar related to readiness, it also is supported by the predicate of Makassar who have obtained a certificate from the Blue sky Ministry of Environment in 2008.

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Nusa Dua - Bali

Nusa Dua is the name of the peninsula that extends off the southern tip of the island of Bali, and it’s also the name of the island’s major international resort area on that peninsula. This area was specifically created during the 1980s to house high-end resorts and conference centers, and as a way of showcasing Indonesia in general.
The resort area is similarly as beautiful as much of the rest of the island, but in most ways it’s quite the opposite of everything else. Much of Bali’s infrastructure and all of its charm were already firmly in place when tourist began discovering it in earnest in the early 1970s. So as the tourism boom gained momentum in the traditional cities and towns, and particularly concentrated in the Kuta/Legian area, the scene always reflected local sensibilities and the unique culture of the island. But Nusa Dua was purpose-built from the ground up to be exactly what it is, so in some ways it has more in common with modern-day Las Vegas or Macau than it does with the rest of Bali.
The roads in the area are new and well maintained, and there’s even a guard gate you must pass through in order to reach much of the resort section. Few, if any, locals live independently in the area, although the massive support staffs of most of the large hotels are primarily locals so it’s not like you won’t come in contact with actual Balinese while in Nusa Dua.
Should you stay in Nusa Dua?
The answer to this question will have more to do with your budget and your goals than anything else. Places tend to be far more expensive than elsewhere, but these truly are international 3, 4, and 5-star hotels with no corners cut. On most of the rest of the island even the nicer places tend to be more casual and not as “professional” (for better or worse).
If you are coming for a honeymoon or some other special occasion, then Nusa Dua might be the ideal place. It really does have that tropical paradise dream-like feeling to it, even though there are those that criticize anyone wanting to stay in this exclusive area. But with this in mind, if you do choose to stay in Nusa Dua you’ll be cheating yourself in a huge way if you don’t explore other parts of the island. You might say that Nusa Dua is like the most expensive restaurant in Disneyland. There’s nothing wrong with having a meal there, but to visit Disneyland and skip the rides and everything else is a near criminal waste of a holiday.

If you stay in Nusa Dua you can skip the grungy surf and nightlife city of Kuta, but you should absolutely plan at least a day trip to the inland arts village of Ubud. You can arrange an excursion there from Nusa Dua, and you should try to do it as early in your stay as possible because it may inspire you to see other worthwhile parts of Bali before you leave.

Where to stay in Nusa Dua
As mentioned above, the area is mostly a collection of resort hotels that range from nice to world-class. Don’t expect to find a budget hotel in this area, and if you are on a tight budget this is the worst part of the island to visit anyway. Accommodations in Bali tend to be generally affordable, with the exception of Nusa Dua.
You can get much more information on the Bali resorts page and also on the Bali hotels page.

Getting to Nusa Dua
Nusa Dua is about 10 kilometers from the Bali International Airport. You can rent a car at the airport and drive in about 20 minutes, but hiring your own driver and van for island sightseeing may cost even less, believe it or not, and that way you don’t pay for a rental car on the days you plan on staying in Nusa Dua.
A taxi to or from the airport will cost under US$10 each way and will take around 20 minutes as well. You can prepay for a taxi at a special counter at the airport, which actually costs just a bit more than if you pay the driver, but at least you know you won’t be taken the long way and charged even more.

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