Taman Ayun Temple Badung, Bali

Taman Ayun Temple is located in Mengwi Village, Mengwi sub district, Badung regency, about 18 Km north side of Denpasar City. It is strategically located beside of major roadway between Denpasar to Singaraja. It is set on the land which is surrounded by the big fish pond and look like a drift on the water. It owns the beautiful temple building with multistoried roof and Balinese Architecture. The wide beautiful landscape garden in front courtyard to welcome all visitors who come and visit this temple. It is a beautiful place to visit on your vacation in Bali.

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Rafting at Elo River Magelang

Just few minutes from Borobudur temple, you can find interesting outbound vacation. Rafting. In Rainy season, nothing more interesting than rafting. Strong stream in rain, with hot coffee at the end of the journey, that's heaven.

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Ketep Pass, an Interesting Place. Was?

Few years ago, i went to ketep pass, an interesting place just few kilometers from Merapi vulcano. Merapi and merbabu are side by side mountain, and ketep pass located at the top of a hill at west of them, so we can see those two mountain very clearly. Seems like you can reach the lava by your hand :).

Ketep Pass located about 60 km from Yogyakarta (Jogja) to the north. Use your gmap to locate them precisely. To go there easily, just ask to your cab driver. You'll arive there about an hour from Jogja.

What to do at ketep pass?
1. Watch the mountains closely
2. Watch the panoramic view
3. Eat bake corn
4. Take pictures
5. Feel mountain weather
6. Watch eruption movie
7. Whatever you like..., no sex,.. no motel up there


Not interested yet? Visit there right now, Merapi will give you deathly kiss... the explosion is still.. no cold winding cloud, only boiled steam, dust, and stone as a welcome party member right now.

Candi Jogja and Prewedding Pic

Meneer, nickname of talented photografer from Jogja, have made nice pre wedding pic using candi as a background. Some touch made all of those pic look so artistic. Well done. If you all come to Indonesia, bring your best camera. Don't let all memory go away.

Borobudur Welcome Statue

Anyone who like japanese cartoon will see Doraemon in this statue. Do you like Doraemon? This is Doraemon from 8 Century ^_^...

Prambanan Temple

The Candi/temple names derived from the village where it is located. Also known as Loro Jonggrang temple, Prambanan temple is the biggest and the most beautiful hindu temple in Indonesia. The temple complex of Prambanan lies among green fields and villages. It has eight shrines, of which the three main ones are dedicated to Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.

The first open-air theater on the southern side of the temple was built in 1960 and the new theater on the western side of the temple in 1988. During full moon evenings in the month from May to October, the Ramayana ballet is performed right here.

This temple is easy to visit. Only 17 Kilometers from Yogyakarta, you can reach it using taxy, bus, or minibus. Cause so near with Yogyakarta, you don't need to rent hotel room. Less than an hour from Yogyakarta, stay there for a while, and than back to Yogyakarta. 5 hours trip will be enough if you don't have any other interesting place around to visit.

Malioboro Street, Traditional trade center

Enjoying shopping experience, hunting exclusive souvenirs of Jogja, you may walk on foot along the arcades of Malioboro Street. There are many vendors selling their merchandises, ranging from such local handicrafts as batik, rattan ornament, leather puppet, bamboo handicrafts (key holder, ornament lamp, and others) as well as blangkon (Javanese / Jogjanese traditional cap) and silver goods to general little things that you may find in other trading places. Along the arcade, you will not only enjoy shopping peacefully on sunny or rainy days but they also enjoy bargaining prices. If they are good at bargaining and have good luck, they will end up buying at third quarter or even half of the prices offered.

Please make sure that you are not cheated by the offered prices. Usually, the vendors will increase the prices for tourists. But be wise too. Buy if the price make sense to you, cause high price for indonesian probably still very low for you.

Borobudur

Just because indonesian people don't have any information about new 7 wonder, this temple not listed there. If you come here and visit this temple, you can judge yourself this temple good enough to be listed or not. It build around 8C, considering age and the difficulties of build huge 123x123 metersqure of building full of statue and artistic stone, its not too much to say that Borobudur is one of the most wonderfull building in the world.



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Just for addition. It's not common that great building exist at south east asia, right? It's not a center of ancient culture, science, or anything. It just build by javanese.