Hope everyone will enjoy visiting Kebun Binatang Gembira Loka Zoo.

Glagah beach which positioned in the west side of Jogjakarta, precisely at Kulon Progo Regency, is becoming the area for eco tourism as it is a place to grow dragon fruits. The fruits which is from China has becoming more popular in Indonesia for the last 10 years.

Glagah Beach is about 25 kilometers from Jogjakarta. It is easy to get there by bus or rent motorcycle. There, we may enjoy dragon fruits juice or eaten as it is. Fishing would also be a great activity to be done, if you like. There is a river that will be a great location for fishing.

When you want to buy shoes when visit Jogjakarta you may go to many shoes shops. Recently there is a new place to buy shoes in Jogja, the place is at Jl. Mataram. It is street shoes shop that sells many shoes brand with good quality and affordable price when you are clever to bid. Just give you a tip, bid the price for half price offered by the seller, raise the price a little bit to get the right price.

The crop circle is in the rice field.

During Jogja International Street Performance 2010, 2 – 5 October 2010, there will be daily performance at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta with free entrance. The performances schedule are as follows:
Sunday, 3 October 2010
will perform Angela Lopez (Spain), Josef Gasdag (Hungary), Didik Nini Thowok (Indonesia), Poodja (India) at Taman Budaya Yogyakarta starting at 19.30.

Monday, 4 October 2010
Will perform Yuri Ozawa (Japan), Alejandro Pino (Chile), Miho Konai (Japan) at Taman Budaya starting 19.00.

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Will perform Jun Amanto (Japan), Tembi Dance Co (Indonesia), Mao Arata & Genjindan (Japan), starting 19.30.

Barber exists in every country, it is a profession to help people’s hair tidy and stylish. In a corner of Jogjakarta, I found a traditional barber who works every morning to style and cut people’s hair. A profession as a traditional barber is very different with the modern one, as a matter of earning and way of working.

The modern barber (salon) works in a clean room with air conditioner to keep them and the clients comfortable. As a result, the clients should pay a little bit higher.

Traditional barber works on any space available like in the corner of a market, kiosk, or even under big trees. It costs cheaper to cut our hair on them, about maximum IDR 4,000 (US$ 0.4). As a matter of quality, traditional barber has good quality but they sometimes do not follow trends, so that young people prefer cut their hair on salon.

Traditional barber usually only do cutting hair. They don’t have services like toning, hair spa, cream bath, rebounding, etc. Therefore, traditional barber is classified as a lower class in the hair styling field. But, it is the way the do for living. Their family depends on them. So, let us help by cutting our hair on the traditional barber.

Batik is a special painting on clothes. therefore, in Jogja or Yogyakarta, artists paint batik motif on a horse statue. It is beautiful and very detailed, unfortunately, I captured it with a VGA camera phone so that it has not a good picture quality. For everyone who has spare digital camera may donate it to us, we’ll be much appreciate.

Batik has many motives like parang, kawung, sidomukti, etc. Each of them has its own meaning and usage.

Borobudur, the temple at Magelang, Central Java, is an interesting Hindu heritage in Indonesia. Every year, thousand of people visit to observe the unique stone carving and to prove how great is the civilization in the past year. Starting from January 15, 2010, it raise the price of the entrance ticket. PT. Taman Wisata Candi Borobudur as the management promises to give more facilities to all visitors for both domestic and international tourists.

The facilities for the tourists that are promised to be better are free toilet, no charge for tourist to take photos and video, and better service in the tourist information. In addition, the management provide video about Borobudur, museum in the Giant Ship and museum Karmawibangga that are free to enter.
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The tourist information explains that the price of the domestic tickets are now IDR 15,000 for Monday – Friday, children IDR 10,000, IDR 17,500 for Saturday, Sunday, and Holidays, and IDR 11,000 for children. The ticket for special day like Christmas, New Year, and Idul Fitri is IDR 25,000 for adult and IDR 12,500 for children.

For international holiday tourists, the ticket price is US$ 15 for adult and US$ 8 for children. According to the Borobudur’s tourist information, the facilities for international visitors is including to ride park train.

There is a new regulation applicable from February, 2010, that every visitors should wear local’s batik sarong in order to respect the heritage.

Making Batik photo

Batik is one of the cultural heritage of Indonesia. In this country there are many cities that have their own batik characteristic such as Jogjakarta, Solo, Pekalongan, Kalimantan, Cirebon and many more. Batik from Jogjakarta or Yogyakarta has many motives or pattern. Each pattern has its own meaning and some motives can only be wore by certain people. So, what are the meaning?

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1. Kawung
Batik with Kawung pattern is worn by the king and the family. Kawung pattern symbolizes justice and power. This motif consists of four circle focused on a point means a King that is assisted by his servants.

2. Sido Mukti
Batik Sido Mukti is worn on a wedding by the bride and the groom. Sido means continuously, Mukti means prosper and full of happiness. It is expected the bride and groom who wear this batik will someday be happy and prosperous.

3. Truntum
Batik Truntum is worn by the parents of the bride and groom. Truntum means to guide. It is expected the parents are able to guide and giving wise advices to the bride and groom to stepping in the marriage life.

4. Parang
Parang means weapon (like a sword), it symbolizes power and speed.

5. Ciptoning
For those who wear Batik Ciptoning is expected to be a wise person, he may give wise advice and right suggestion in the life.

6. Sido Mulyo Semen
Sido means continuously, Mulyo means prosper. It is expected anyone who wear this batik will by prosperous.

7. Wahyu Temurun
The one who wears Batik Wahyu Temurun is hopefully will always get the God’s guidance and blessing.

8. Tambal
Tambal means to mend or repair, to be used more longer. It is believed any sick people will be getting well easier if wearing this batik.

9. Udan Liris
Udan Liris means drizzle, it symbolizes fertility.

10. Nitik
It is expected the one who wears Batik Nitik will be a wise person

11. Sido Mulyo
It means responsibility, prosperity and protect the earth.

12. Ceplok Kasatrian
The one who wears this batik will have the spirit of knight.

One of cultural Tourism attraction in Indonesia is a ceremony called Sedekah Merapi. In this event, thousands of people from around the slope of Merapi Mountain followed a ritual at 1 Sura or the New Hijri Year 1431 which focused on Lencoh Village, Selo, Boyolali district, Central Java, Friday (18/12) early morning. They are enthusiastically following the annual ritual ceremony, with one of the ritual is sacrificing a buffalo head and a number of offerings into the crater at the top of Mount Merapi. The ceremony is aimed to avoid the natural disasters due to the most active mountain in Indonesia.

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Merapi Mountain ceremony performed every 1st Sura with the aim to ask the God a salvation for people who live around Mount Merapi and be protected from natural disasters arising out of Mount Merapi. The ritual is a traditional cultural performed by communities around Merapi and it’s been done for generations since the time of the ancestors to the present. This is a very interesting tourism attraction in Indonesia specifically in Yogyakarta and Central Java.

People here are not likely to leave the ritual ceremony because it is merged with local custom. Therefore, every citizen who will have their own celebration usually initialed with a traditional ceremony to make offerings of food available in surround the mountains. As such, they will be given safety and agricultural products are abundant and prosperous life as a result of soil fertility from Mount Merapi.

The ritual procession that followed thousands of residents of local communities and from outside the area began with buffalos paraded around the village before it was slaughtered and sacrificed the head into the crater of Merapi.

Head of Tourism and Culture Boyolali District, Sumantri said that the buffalo head wrapped in white cloth is completed with offerings such as tumpeng gunung (cone shaped rice) made from corn, and brubus from Lumbu leaves. In addition, there is also gomok, acung-acung, Bothok sempurno with crops, klobot cigarettes (made from corn’s ear), bananas raja, kantil flowers, turmeric, egg and cash Rp100.

Meanwhile, before the head of buffalo and offerings are thrown into the crater of Merapi at 00:10 am, the people is firstly sing songs to praise and prayer (hymn) to the God to avoid disasters due to the mountain. The Buffalo’s head that will be sacrificed then taken by four men who wear traditional Javanese clothes to the crater at the peak of Merapi which is about four kilometers and will take approximately four hours. After the buffalo head is appointed to the top of the mountain, thousands of people who follow the procession are competing to get the offerings, the cone shaped rice from corn which is the typical food people on the slopes of Merapi.

The culture of this mountain ritual is aimed also to attract local tourists as well as from international to get closer to know the culture of the people living on the surrounding mountains, especially supporting the tourism point of Solo-Selo-Borobudur. Tourists who are willing to witness this ceremony are better to stay in hotels at Solo or Yogyakarta.
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