Indonesia

One of best destinations in West Java is Ciwidey, South of Bandung. I had visited there, once in the middle of 90, when Bandung is still cool (not like today, the weather is getting hot). You can reach the place by public transportation (bus or private car) from Bandung (Leuwi Panjang terminal) to Ciwidey. It takes [...]

Jakarta has many destinations, but you know…Ancol is still the best and interesting destinations, especially in Lebaran holiday like now. This can be proved, since Lebaran, there are many visitors, domestic and abroad, spent their holiday in Ancol. The main destination in Ancol, still the beaches. You can see many kids (some with their parents) play [...]

One of the greatest Indonesian heritages is angklung. It came from West Java, Sunda. Many artists had introduced angklung, not only came from Sunda/West Java, but Mang Udjo (his full name is Udjo Ngalagena) is well known as artist that dedicated his life for angklung. Eventhough he had passed away many years ago, he left a [...]

There are many variants of batik. One of them is batik Laweyan from Solo. Laweyan was coming from the village where majority of the residents work as batik maker. On this village, batik become part of life, not only for (ceremonial) dressing but also for becak (one of traditional Indonesia vehicle) accessories. Nowadays, there is a batik [...]

Anak Krakatau, as one of best destination in Indonesia, for this week was announced as a prohibit destination to be visited. The cause was it’s activities were increasing, and it means it will endanger the tourism especially, and the civilization around it. However, Krakatau Festival 2008 Committee still put visiting Anak Krakatau on the agenda. Especially, [...]

Indonesia has many handycraft producers. One of them can be found in Pekanbaru, Riau. Een Kastalani is the person that I mean. She open her business on 1996 since she loves handycraft very much, especially in bordir (well, sorry I couldn’t find the match word for it). Her store provides Melayu bordirs in many patterns, but [...]

Segarra is one place in Ancol that provides place for relaxing and enjoying the beach. This can be happened since this place straight ‘touch’ with the beach. You will find an extraordinary atmosphere there. Why? Because while you having your dishes, you can see the situation of the beach. Luckily, once I was there in the [...]

Gedungsongo is one of destination on Central Java. It’s located in Bandungan, Kabupaten Semarang. This destination is quite famous around Central Java public, so there is no wonder this destination is quite crowded during week end. And you know what, during vacation, I mean school holiday, this destination is getting crowded. Usually, the visitor is about 200-400 [...]

In order to attract tourists, local government in Tojo-Unauna, Palu, will held Togean festival. This festival will be held on July 23-27 2008, the same time with European and American summer holiday. To promote the festival, the local gov had been already made deals with related sides, especially tourism biro, both domestic and abroad tourism biro. [...]

I think Bengkulu is almost forgotten as a tourism region whereas there are many tourism potential locations such as the beaches, jungles, historical places, and many floras. The ironic thing is this potencies were found by Singapore Ambassador, Ashok Mirpuri. He said Bengkulu has many marvelous places to be visited and he also said those potencies [...]