Sate, it’s a name for Indonesian culinary made from sheep or goat’s meat. Many people like this diet very much.

Above is the picture of Sate.

When the chef cook sate, the smell of the burning meat really make my stomach hungry. It can’t wait any longer to taste it.

It has been a long time ago since my last visit to Waduk Sermo (Sermo reservoir) which is located in Wates, Kulon Progo regency, Jogjakarta. It is not too far from the downtown of Wates, only about 20 minutes or less to the northeast. This tourism attraction is located on the hill where beautiful view and green trees are the most attractive factors.

Riding my motorcycle, I start down the road to Waduk Sermo. The road is in good condition, I found no holes on the road from Wates downtown to the location. No traffic jam along the road to the tourism location, or I said it is quiet. The only handicap is running uphill, which is not too high. During the Durian season, we will see many sellers along the road. unfortunately, the season is over.

It was about 20 minutes I rode my bike until finally I get to Sermo Lake/reservoir. I could see the lake clearly, and it’s beautiful. I stopped for a moment to enjoy the view and took photograph. A few minutes later, I continued my tourism course to go around the lake. The landscape was beautiful. Many hills around the lake was creating good landscape. I really enjoyed the view. There were many people fishing, and indeed it is a good location for fishing. They get fishes like Tilapia or ikan Nila in Indonesian language and gouramy.

Waduk Sermo has great landscape view but in my opinion it should be available more attraction. I found boats dock, which provide visitors see around the lake. It costs IDR5000 per person to enjoy the lake from boat. Tourists must looking more attraction other than views and green trees like an amusement park or food stalls which sell special culinary. Looked around for a while, but I couldn’t find the things I want. Yes, I found several food stall, but what they sold are very common like bakso. What a pity for such beautiful place but no investor want to develop it. The government should be more concern about it.

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.