Bandung is the capital of west java in indonesia. Bandung is 180 kilometers southeast from jakarta. Although it has a population of over two million the pace of city life is slower than jakarta’s. Today bandung has a population of 2 million people, bandung area an estimated 4 million. Bandung is situated on a plateau 768 meters above sea level with a cool climate throughout the year. Bandung is the most european city of java. The raining season starts in bandung a little bit earlier, then the rest of indonesia. Bandung is cooler with the average temperature is 22. 7°f) throughout the year than most indonesian cities. The average annual rainfall ranges from 1,000 milimetres in the central and southeast regions to 3,500 milimetres in the north of the city. The wet season conforms with other indonesian regions, around november to april.

Bandung hotel offers various hotel facilities including 24 hour front desk, 24 hour room service, 24 hour security, business center, cable television, coffee shop, internet access, laundry and dry cleaning, lounge bar, massage services, pool bar, private parking, swimming pool. Family plan no charge for one child under 12 years old sharing parent’s bed. Electric power 220 volt, check-out time 12. Credit card accepted visa, master, jcb and bca card.

Bandung is amazingly popular with jakartanese and javanese in general. Every weekend, the roads are packed with visitors and day trippers, wishing to breathe in bandung ’s fresh air but finding themselves sadly stuck in traffic on one of the major thoroughfares. What is it that they seek? what does bandung have that makes it worth wrestling through the clouds of pollution? why on earth should you visit bandung ?. First of all, bandung is situated in one of the most beautiful natural surroundings of west java. In all wind directions you stumble upon volcanoes, tea plantations, strawberry fields and luscious green rice paddies.

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The Pasar Klewer (”Hanging Market”, a 2-storey department) is the best place to get original batik and, Pasar Klewer doesn’t have as much rubbish as Yogya’s big Pasar Beringhardjo. Children’s clothes are unbeliavably cheap, although bargaining is obligatory here and if you’re buying cap/imprint batik look over carefully for holes! With striped, colorful patterns, “lurik” is an hot item.

Don’t be misled by the plate “Mangkunegaran Palace Hotel”, the Palace is in the area of Pura Mangkunegaran where the Mangkunegaran Hotel has been founded on the domain of the Palace. This smaller court, still an impressive palace complex, contains a number of carved, gilded teak pavillons amidst a great tropical garden, an excellent museum, souvenir shop, and one of Java’s finest gamelan orchestras.

Bedhaya KetawangMaybe the today court-dance Bedhaya Ketawang is the upmost legendary dance with ancient traditions of the Far East, performed at Central Java. It is told the Southern Sea-Goddess inspired 9 maiden dancers to perform an upmost beautiful dance to disperse the King. So She could manifests Herself … in the Bedhaya “wedding-dance” as a 10th shade …The Bedhaya Ketawang is considered a sacred court-dance only performed on the special Jumenengan Dalam/Coronation Day the Susuhunan (shortened “Sunan”), not for tourists. Dance Of Heaven

After visiting Surakarta you can visit Jogjakarta. It’s near Surakarta

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The zoo was opened to public on the 31st August 1916 by a group of animal lovers. Now it is estimated that over 3,500 animals representing more than 400 species are housed in the zoo including Indonesia’s rare and other endangered animals in the world. There are many surabaya hotels

The tower in the zoo is a fantastic way to enjoy an all-inclusive panoramic view of the entire zoo. The zoo has become a mode of getting spellbound by its mesmerizing aquarium that contains thousands of diverse sea animals and reefs. Furthermore for tourists spending a long vacation, a variety of Surabaya Hotels that could be found within close proximity of the zoo.

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bunaken manado hotel

I had been dreaming of this diving trip for almost a year. Deep dramatic walls, 30 degree water with 30 m visibility, and bizarre creatures were just some of the descriptions. We planned 5 days at Two Fish Divers on Bunaken Island & stay at Manado Hotel.

 Part 1: Bunaken Island

After a very easy and comfortable overnight flight from Melbourne to Singapore, then a quick 3 hour flight from Singapore to Manado, Sulawesi we arrived at 1pm. The waters around Bunaken Island are surrounded by fringing reef before the wall descends into blue abyss. Upon arrival the first thing we did was hand over our dive gear. We had an introduction and run down on the resort and staff, and received our Bunaken Marine Park passes. The resort has 6 cottages, and rooms in the main house, all with western style toilet ensuites, large verandas and hammocks. The resort will only accommodate up to 20 people at a time. The resort itself is set backing the mangroves. I get REALLY hungry after dives and I was concerned that staying at a place that served food only at certain times would leave me hungry. Meals were served when we arrived back form the morning dives, then the afternoon tea was always a treat, and dinner was always divine and healthy. The food was prepared fresh for ever meal, plenty of fresh vegetables and delicious meat. My Buddy really enjoyed the local seafood meals, especially the local tuna dish. Two Fish are a 5 star PADI dive centre. It is also important for me to know that the organization I dive with takes an active stance in promoting sustainable diving practices and local interests. Two Fish Divers also provides training to locals so they are able to work as Dive Masters.

The dives are designed so there are 2 morning dives, leaving at 8 am. The maximum depth on any dive was set at 25m. This keeps the dives conservative and allows for a delightful no-limit bottom time. After the morning dives its back to the resort for lunch. The afternoon dive usually leaves about 2:30 pm and a night dive with Mandarinfish leaves about 5: 30pm.

Most divers, like ourselves opted to do 2 dives a day and every other day either do an afternoon or a night dive. For all of our dives it was just my buddy, our guide and I. All of the dive guides spoke English well. We met our guide, Agus the night before and had a chat about the diving. We soon found out that this is where the afternoon dives and night dive are held. Our first dives were on the walls off Bunaken village, ‘Lekuan I’ and wow was I blown away, literally. The current was racing and the wall was kilometers deep, We went zooming past a Green Turtle, who was nestled into the reef, schools of Red-toothed Triggerfish and colourful soft corals.Wall diving is simply astounding. Our dive lasted about an hour.

Our second dive was called ‘Lekuan III’ on a similar wall. These dives served as an excellent introduction to Bunaken, the famous dramatic walls and diverse marine life. The dive guides carried around these long tent peg things. On our second day we decided to do 2 morning dives and an afternoon dive. Our morning dives were along sandy slopes. There was coral and plenty of anemone fish as well as Sulawesi’s famous ribbon eels. The afternoon dive was on the house reef wall where there are plenty of rays, Mantis Shrimp and the local mafia triggerfish that kept a watchful eye. Truthfully I am a bit frightened of triggerfish and the dive guides and my buddy teased me about it. Agus was like my personal triggerfish security guard, ready with his tent peg if duty called.

The next day we did another sloping wall dive with giant clams and plenty of anemonefish then another amazing drift, wall dive. That afternoon we mentioned to our dive guide that we were going to take a walk to the local Bunaken Village. The village is only about a 15min walk from Two Fish. Our last day diving on Bunaken Island took us to ‘Fukui’ and ‘Mike’s Point’. ‘Fukui’ is a sandy sloping reef with plenty of strange creatures. ‘Mike’s Point’ is another excellent wall dive around the north side of the island with overhangs and gorgonians. We were taking advantage of the warm water and diving in either board shorts and a rash vest or a 1mm short sleeveless suit. The surface interval was enough to warm us up in between dives.

Seeing as it was our last day on Bunaken we decided to do a night dive.

Part2: Lembeh Strait

Once at Bitung we had less than a 30 minute boat trip to Two Fish Divers in Lembeh Strait. We didn’t know much about the Lembeh resort at all. We were to expect slightly less visibility and water temperatures, less coral and walls but plenty of strange and macro creatures. Many guests who had stayed at Bunaken either had already been or where on their way to Lembeh.Upon arrival we noticed some friends that we had met on Bunaken were staying at Lembeh for a few days.

The diving was set up in a similar but on an even smaller scale than Bunaken. Our dive guide was Frankie.

Over in Lembeh the tent pegs were even longer. Lembeh is a great place to dive if you really think you have seen it all in regards to diving. It’s muck diving at its finest. There are a few coral slopes as well. Diving in Lembeh is shallower as well, so this means as long as you rug up a bit more you can have really long bottom times. The Lembeh resort is more isolated than Bunaken and there isn’t a lot to do on the resort except dive, eat, relax in a hammock and look through fish books we found ourselves concentrating on the dives. Our first dive the next day was at ‘Hairball 1′. I also quite liked the pincushion sea star. We also saw a large cuttle fish. The next day we did 2 dives again. Diving in Lembeh Strait you will notice a bit more rubbish than at Bunaken. Old tires and bottles of coke are scattered around the dives sites. Our second dive was at ‘Nudi Falls’. The following evening after our usual 2 morning dives at ‘Aerprang’ and ‘Jahir II’, we decided to do a Mandarinfish night dive.

After the mandarin fish were finished doing their business a huge silvery swarm of sardines enveloped us as we swam around the coral gardens.

Once again we saw Pygmy Seahorses and the peculiar sea moth. Our last dive at ‘Maka Wide’ found us 2 common seahorses and the beautiful yellow Frogfish. I personally really enjoyed having the same guide for all of our dives (10). We got to know each other’s diving ability, equipment and preferences. By the end we felt as if we were diving with an old friend.

It made our trip very enjoyable. We never had to worry about our dive gear, they got it ready for the dives, rinsed and dried it afterwards and the food was always ready when we were. The hospitality at Two Fish Divers was simply astounding.

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hotel jogja

Yogyakarta is a major tourist destination in Indonesia and is the capital of the province of Yogyakarta Special Region. This airport is well connected with other major cities like Jakarta, Denpasar, Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi.

The city is also connected well through road ways.

The train facility from Yogyakarta’s Tugu station is also good enough and it offers regular service.

Being a small city, Yogyakarta makes it easy and cost effective for travelers to get around in the city. Attractions of the city
There are various good attractions at Yogyakarta. As it is one of the oldest cities in Indonesia, this city possesses many heritage buildings and monuments.

The Kraton or the Sri Sultan’s Palace holds some important attractions including Kraton Yogyakarta, Sultan’s Carriage Museum, Taman Sari, Siti Hinggil Selatan, Alun-alun, Masjid Gede Kauman etc.

Some of the popular museums that can be visited in Yogyakarta are namely Museum Dirgantara, Museum Sonobudoyo, and Museum Kekayon.

Yogyakarta is located about 500 km east side from capital city of Indonesia. Yogyakarta have many interesting place to be visit. The biggest temple is Borobudur temple. Let we see the vacation place and interesting place in Yogyakarta deeper. For a moment let we explore about temple in Yogyakarta.

Candi Borobudur (Borobudur Temple)
It’s located about 50 km north west of Yogyakarta and one of remarkable monument in Indonesia, a splendid work of art and the largest budhhist temple in the world. If you come and visit. Below is the photo taken when I went to Borobudur temple

Candi Sewu (Sewu Temple)
It hase about one thousand of temple located in one place. Well whether you believe or not, this place is interesting place to visit

Candi Sari (Sari Temple)
Another candi located 13 km from Yogyakarta. Almost same with the others, this temple is budhist temple.

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By Megha Poddar

Indonesia is one of the popular tourist destinations of Asia and Bali Island is the most popular tourist area within the country. To accommodate large number of tourist Bali also offers many luxury as well as discount Bali hotels room. In the Island tourist can get any type of hotel booking from luxury hotels booking to cheap hotels booking. Some popular luxury hotels in Bali are Hotel Le Meridien Nirwana Golf and Spa Resort, Hotel the Laguna Resort & Spa, Hotel Nikko Bali Resort and Spa, Hotel Conrad Bali Resort & Spa, Hotel Bagus Jati Health & Well Being Retreat.

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Bandung

Bandung is the capital of West Java province in Indonesia, and the country’s third largest city. Located 768 m (2,520 ft) above sea level, Bandung has relatively year-around cooler temperature than most other Indonesian cities. This topography provides the city with a good natural defense system, which was the primary reason of Dutch East Indies government’s plan to move the colony capital from Batavia to Bandung.

The European inhabitants of the city demanded the establishment of a municipality (gemeente), which was granted in 1906 and Bandung gradually developed itself into a resort city for the plantation owners.

During colonial times, the government of the Dutch East Indies built a supply road connecting Batavia (now Jakarta), Bogor, Cianjur, Bandung, Sumedang and Cirebon. In the 1930s the Dutch East Indies government planned for Bandung to become the capital of the Dutch East Indies due to its location, however World War II disrupted these plans. It is not known exactly when the city of Bandung was built. After Indonesian independence, Bandung was named as the provincial capital of West Java (Jawa Barat).

Landmarks

Bandung is known for its large number of old buildings in Dutch architecture:

• Gedung Sate, now functioning as the office of West Java government.
• Hotel Savoy Homann in Jalan Asia-Afrika
• Gedung Dwi Warna
• Gedung Merdeka, a historic building where the 1955 Bandung Conference or “”Konferensi Asia-Africa”" took place
• Gedung Pakuan, now the official residence of Governor of West Java
• Gedung Yayasan Pusat Kebudayaan
• Museum Geologi Bandung (Geological Museum of Bandung)
• Institut Teknologi Bandung
• Villa Isola - UPI
• There are several old buildings along the street of Braga

Other landmarks:

• Mesjid Agung Bandung (the great mosque of Bandung), located in the city square (alun-alun)
• Babakan Siliwangi
• The unfinished 2.8 Km bridge of Pasupati. The huge bridge (compared to the relative size of Bandung) is now unfinished, but it will surely be a major landmark once it finished

There are many hotel that you can choose when you stay in Bandung.

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