Tomohon Garden


with the concept of "Balance of Nature and Spirit", Raya Garden Tomohon want to give more value in the appeal to the other park. Different types of native plants from the region are presented in Wallacea is this botanical garden. Not only the type of plants, but the botanical garden is also presenting a natural feel with the exotic background pegununga

Borneo- Orang Utan


Orang Utan come from kalimantan.
Borneo Orang Utan listed as a threatened species and is estimated between 55,000 Ð 40,000 remaining in the wilderness. In Sebangau National Park, Central Kalimantan, Orang Utan populations continue to decline from almost 13,000 individuals between 6900 into 1996 and 2003 due to habitat fragmentation, illegal logging, forest conversion, illegal trade, and forest fires. They likely will not be able to survive in the wilderness, except Òmanusia forest merahÓ this dilestarikan in areas with well managed and protected forest landscapes and in the wider connected by a corridor.

Orang Utan conservation efforts in our National Park Sebangau conducted in a manner that is complete, which provides protection to the Orang Utan populations through habitat protection, while also working with our various partners to promote social and economic development for local communities around the park. In the Betung Kerihun National Park (BKNP), we began working with the Orang Utan population identify where after that we facilitate the establishment of joint patrols involving local communities, NGOs, the guards BKSDA and national parks.

Description physical Borneo Orang Utan:

* Hair on the face of Borneo Orang Utan fewer people rather than their relative Utan from Sumatra;
* Having a very long hands that can reach 2 m in length. Legs relatively short and weak, but the arm and hand is very strong;
* It is the largest mammal tree climber, moving from one tree to another tree, where they do not want to climb down the tree to the ground;
* Jantan be mature because the large size, bag ball in the throat and cheeks on each side of the face.
Moving with hands clench on the ground;
* The length of the body is approximately 1.25 Ð 1.5 m;
Weight adults 30 to 50 kg for females and 50 Ð 90 kg for males;
* Bulunya reddish brown.

source : http://sudhew.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/orang-utan-borneo-pongo-pygmaeus/

Transport in Bali

Traffic situation

Traffic is crazy in Bali, especially because the roads are overcrowded, especially in the south around Kuta, and especially at the rush hours in the morning and evening. Also there seems to be no rules, or no one seems to know the rules. The traffic has simply a flow. But ok, there are some rules, but they will not be written down somewhere:

  • The bigger wins (most important rule), so never try to get the priority from a bus or any bigger vehicle.
  • If you cross a small road use the warnung lights it means you want to cross the road and go straight.
  • If you flash your light it means you want to force your way - not you are giving priority (as you might be used to e.g. in Europe).

Petrol prices

Petrol prices in Bali are among the cheapest in Asia, with about 50 Eurocents per litre premium.

Motor bike rental:

You can rent a cheap bike for about 10,000 Rupiah per day, this is very cheap (it is about 1 USD). The traffic has a flow, and it needs some kind of experience to drive in this traffic. As hospitals are not so good - here in Bali, it is recommendable to hire a car, it is also very cheap - and you can share it.

Just you should not have a motor bike accident here - look carefully around and see those people with one leg, or with heavy accidents and think. Or just ask any guy from here if he knows a friend with a heavy accident.

Car rental:

For one day you pay for a modern 4 seater Toyota about 200,000 Rupiah per day. If you rent the same car for 4 weeks, it will come down to 110,000 Rupiah or eventually 100,000 per day (including an insurance). For the cheapest, a two seater Suzuki Jeep it will come down to 75,000 Rupiah/day. Be careful, most old and cheaper cars do not have an insurance with it. Car with driver comes up to 400,000 Rupiah a day.

Apropos insurance: Strange, but most cars and vehicles in Bali have no insurance. So, only if you rent a newer car they will come with an insurance. And even this insurance might have an own part of USD 750, which you have to pay as your contribution.

OK, basically you will need a car to go around, with our without driver. You can call Putu Tirrta Wirsata (0062 81 23904268), he will pick you up at the airport and give you a fair price. An alternative is a guy called OBIE and his number is 0062 361 701864. With both you need to negotiate. With driver expect 30 to 50 EUR, without driver 10 to 12 EUR a day. Dont'f forget to tune in 98.5 FM - the best radio in town.

source :www.eart.org


Gudeg Yogyakarta

gudeg food is typical of the city yogyakarta, sweet foods that match the tastes yogyakarta, making way

Material:

* 1 ½ kg young jackfruit
* 1 tbsp tamarind
* 2 tbsp palm sugar
* 6 pieces bay
* 4 cup coconut milk
* Salt
* Cooking oil
Mashed the ingredients:

* 8 grains of red onion
* 4 cloves garlic
* ½ tsp coriander,
* ½ tsp caraway,
* 10 grains candlenut

*jackfruit young sliced 4 cm size ago secukupnya boiled with water until cooked, lift
* Dissolved tamarind and brown sugar with a little water.
* Heat oil, tumis ingredients are mashed together with the bay, water, brown sugar and tamarind water.
* After fragrant, enter jackfruit, poke the average, add salt
* Finally, coconut milk and cook until boiling and slightly curdle milk and oily.

For 5-6 people.

Borobudur

Simply to remind us again how to appreciate the importance of history and heritage objects such as artefacts, artefacts, temples, inscription, or the other, let us see how the Borobudur be reconstructed so that the building and including a magnificent seven wonders of the world. To mengawalinya we need to see how the names and Borobudur known.
Forest grove
Around three hundred years past, the temple is still a forest grove that is called by residents of surrounding Borobudur Redi. For the first time, the name Borobudur known manuscript of the paper Negarakertagama MPU Prapanca in the year 1365 BC, is mentioned about a monastery in Budur. Then in the Babad Tanah manuscript ox (1709-1710) there is news of Mas Fund, a rebel against King Paku Buwono I, caught in the Redi Borobudur dijatuhi and the death penalty. Then in the year 1758, tercetus news about a prince from Yogyakarta, namely Prince Monconagoro, interested to see the statue of a knight in a narrow cage. Then in the year 1814, Thomas Stamford Raffles got the news from subordinates on the hill filled with stone-carved stone. Based on the news that Raffles sent Cornelius, a fan art and history, to clean up that hill. Once cleaned for two months with the help of 200 people, building the temple and clear proceed to the restoration in 1825.
At 1834, Resident Kedu clean temple, and stupa temple 1842 years to be reviewed for further research.

Borobudur own name on many experts interpret the ancients, among them Prof. Dr. Poerbotjoroko Borobudur explain that the word comes from two words Bhoro and Budur. Bhoro derived from Sanskrit which means bihara or residence, while Budur word refers to the name of the place. This strengthened by Prof.. Dr. WF. Stutterheim is that Borobudur means Bihara on a hill. Meanwhile, Prof.. JG. De Casparis build on Prasasti Karang Tengah said the establishment of this year, the Year Sangkala: sagara kstidhara taste, or Caka 746 years (824 BC), or during the Sailendra dynasty glamourize the god Indra. In inscription didapatlah name Bhumisambharabhudhara which means a place of worship of the ancestors for the soul-spirit leluhurnya. Shift in how the word is going to be Borobudur? This is because the pronunciation of the local community.
Dynasty dynasty
In history lessons, the Borobudur temple that is made during the dynasty of Sailendra Buddhis under the leadership of King Samarotthungga. While creating the temple, according to tuturan community called Gunadharma. Development temple was completed in the year 847 M. According to the inscription Kulrak (784M) the making of this temple is assisted by a teacher from Ghandadwipa (Bengalore) called Kumaragacya a very respected, and a prince from Kashmir Visvawarman named as the expert advisor in Buddis Tantra Vajrayana teachings. Development of this temple began in the Dananjaya Maha Raja Sri Sanggramadananjaya the title, followed by her son, Samarotthungga, and by the daughter and grandchildren, Dyah Ayu Pramodhawardhani.
Before restored, such as Borobudur temple ruins as well as artefacts, artefacts found a new temple now. When we visited Borobudur and enjoy the natural beauty of its surroundings on the top of the temple, sometimes we never think about who is meritorious rebuild Borobudur is a magnificent building and a wealth of the nation of Indonesia.

Further restoration after by Cornelius at Raffles and Resident Hatmann, done in 1907-1911 by THEODORUS van ERP rebuild the order form from the temple ruins eaten because of the age, to the form now. Van ERP actually an engineer building Genie Military rank of lieutenant with one, but then attracted to research and learn the tricks of Borobudur temple, falsafahnya start to the teachings of dikandungnya.
For that he was trying to appeal to study for several years in India. He also went to Sri Lanka to see the top of the stack building stupa in Sanchi Kandy, to finally find the form of ERP van Borobudur. While the foundation and philosophy of religion found by Stutterheim and NJ. Chrome, which is about the teachings of the Buddha Dharma with mainstream Mahayana Yogacara-and there is a tendency also mingled with the flow Tantrayana-Vajrayana. Therefore, the pemugar must have sekelumit history of religion in Indonesia.
Research on the order of building the temple and brought the philosophy of course that does not need a little time, especially if dihubung-connect with the temple buildings of the one family. As well as between the Borobudur temple and the temple Pawon Mendut which geographically is on a path.

Materials temple
Borobudur temple is the second largest after the Temple Ankor Wat in Cambodia. Borobudur similar building Cheops pyramid in Egypt Gizeh. Area of 15,129 m2 of Borobudur Temple is composed of 55,000 m3 of stone, of 2 million discounted stones. Size stones average 25 cm X 10 cm X 15 cm. Length overall discount stone 500 km to the overall weight of 1.3 million tons of stone. Walls of Borobudur Temple surrounded by images, or relief, which is a series of stories that terususun panel in 1460. The length of each panel 2 meters. So if the series of relief that dibentangkan then more or less the whole length of 3 km relief. The number of levels there are ten, the level of 1-6 square-shaped, while the level of 7-10 circular shape. That there is a statue in the temple buildings of 504 units. Meanwhile, a high temple of the surface soil until the end of the main stupa was 42 meters, but now live 34.5 meters after tersambar lightning.

According to the results of an investigation etnolog-Austrian anthropologist Robert Heine von Geldern, the ancestor of the Indonesian people are governance culture at the time of Neolithic and Megalithic originating from South Vietnam and Cambodia. Megalithic that at the time of the ancestors of Indonesia make graves leluhurnya form of worship as well as a multilevel pyramid building, the more up to the small. One of them is found in Lebak Sibedug Leuwiliang Bogor in West Java. There are similar buildings in the temple Sukuh near Solo, the Borobudur Temple. If we see from a distance, Borobudur layout will look like berundak or building such a pyramid and the stupa.

Unlike the giant pyramid in Egypt and Teotihuacan in Mexico Piramida Borobudur is another version of pyramid building. Pyramid of Borobudur kepunden berundak form that will not be found in the region and any country, including in India. And that was one of the advantages Borobudur is a peculiarity of the architecture Budhis in Indonesia.

See the grandeur of Borobudur temple, and at this time, other temples in Indonesia has provided a great knowledge about the Indonesian nation. Various sciences involved in the reconstruction effort Borobudur made by van Teodhorus ERP. We should appreciate the efforts given the various constraints and difficulties faced in rebuilding this temple.

Until now there are a few things that still be a mystery around the Borobudur Temple, for example, in the order of the stone, how to carry stones from the area of origin to destination, whether the stones are already in the desired size or shape as the original stone mountain , how long the process of cutting the stones to the size you want, how menaikan stones from the bottom of the page to the top of the temple, a tool that is used if the crane? Given that at that time there were no pictures blue (blue print), and whether the facilities if they want to negotiate the steps which must be done, in terms of relief images, whether the stones that image after ago is, or in plain stone new to be chiselled drawn. And from which the image be chiselled, from top to bottom or from bottom to top? And many more mysteries that have not yet revealed the knowledge, especially about finding space on the main stupa temple.
Restoration in the years 1974-1983


Treasure trove
Restoration done in the next year 1973-1983, the lapse of 70 years of restoration the van ERP. Restoration is intended as no other attempts to preserve the priceless cultural value. This is the "treasure trove" that surely can not be sold especially with the money to pay off debt. Awareness of the community to participate in secure buildings, including temples are also expected from the tourists.
Excavation, research and restoration plan to the temple or temple-property historic other recently found of course takes time and costs that are not small. Restoration of archaeological and cultural development is not a modern building. Each building has a cultural meaning that it is special and can not be ignored in the restoration of old buildings are. Therefore need support from various parties, both from within and from abroad. Efforts to rebuild a civilization of symbols that have lost the means to open the eyes of our heart-history of human civilization that India is rich with culture and science. Thus, we will become capable of human berbudaya appreciate their own culture as a form of identity and the identity of an independent nation.

Finally, we must appreciate the passion back up the things that heritage is not only a rich community and the nation, but also a wealth of knowledge that will continue to reveal the facts of history. Enjoy the beauty and keep kelestariannya is a form of awareness which is very meaningful. Of course, the role of institutions related to the protection of these heritage needs to be improved by providing the understanding, dissemination and understanding of the importance of maintaining and preserving these objects.

Legal protection should also ditegakkan consistently so that it does not happen again defect-defect law is leaving for the public sense of injustice, as well as cases of blasting Borobudur in 1983 .*** Stay a mystery, just to Borobudur temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the world with 34.5 meters high and the area of 123 x 123 meters. In dirikan on a hill that is located approximately 40 km southwest of Yogyakarta, 7 km south of Magelang, Central Java.

Borobudur was built by Sailendra dynasty between 750 and 842 BC. Buddhist temple is the most likely abandoned about a century after the center was built because of the kingdom at that time moved to East Java. Sir Thomas Stanford Raffles find Borobudur in 1814 in a damaged condition and ordered that the site is cleaned and learned thoroughly. Borobudur restoration project in a large-scale and starting from year 1905 to 1910 led by Dr. Tb. van ERP. With assistance from UNESCO, the second restoration to rescue Borobudur was conducted from August 1913 until the year 1983.

However, until now Borobudur is still a mystery to deposit. A number of mysteries that, for example, who designed the temple of Borobudur, the amount of people to be built temples, of which only the stone to build the temple? Philosophy is used to make temples? But that this temple is a critical asset for India in the international world. We must be proud and always keep kelestariannya.

Ragunan Zoo


Ragunan Garden Station was established in 1864 and moved in Cikini to Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta in 1966. Markets Ragunan garden is inhabited by more than 260 types of animals, including animals of rare and endangered from Indonesia and some of the world.

Come and skip day-to-day with a beautiful family and your friends at the Park Station Ragunan. Is the place that is fun to travel and you will surely also impressed on the heritage of Indonesia Margasatwa of us that is unique.Zoo entrance ticket you can buy at Rp 4000, - for adults and Rp 3.000, - for children. Animals that are here just as full a range of birds (bird pelikan, peacock, eagle, etc.), various Primate (monkey, bekantan, etc.), various types of snakes, honey bears, elephants, deer, camels, kudanil, bison, bats. For wild animals, you can see the tiger, white tiger, lion, crocodile, bear. In addition to viewing the animals, you can also invite your child to play in the children's playground, where there are a variety of games and games from various balloon.

At the zoo there is also this "Schmutzer Primate Center." You must purchase tickets at Rp 5,000, - to go to the place. This place is special to display different kinds of Primate with a different atmosphere and there is a museum Primate to increase knowledge of children. The first time you log in, we have to climb stairs, and then from above we can see the gorilla the size of humans. Primate others here who have, among other gibbon, hoop, white monkey, and various other types.

There are also "the Orang Utan," here we enter the long and dark tunnel that is made like a cave, where between each section separated by a rope-a rope-like roots of trees. On-hand side of the tunnel appears to be a thick glass so that we can see the Orang Utan outside.

Once out of the tunnel, we can climb a tree house that is running high among trees or through suspension bridge. On the other hand, there is a balinese garden. Places like this are made balinese atmosphere. There is also a playground for children, such as swaying, the trees can dipanjat, bergelantung rope or play in the sand.

TOur Maninjau Lake -West Sumatra


Lake is a lake Maninjau vulkanik, in the height of 461.50 meters above sea level. Extent of 99.5 km ² and has a maximum depth of 495 meters. The existence of Lake Maninjau create a legend of the story "Bujang Sembilan", which is trusted by the people around her. Alkisah have a family consisting of 10 men, 9 men (celibate) and a woman named Sani. Keelokkan look and behavior Sani hornet into power for a young man named Sigiran. Short words and then they make love. One day they were allegedly doing unscrupulous acts by the footman. To membuktikannya, they jump to the mountain crater Review. They swear if they do follow the unscrupulous mountain will not erupt, and if they do not take action then the unscrupulous mountain will erupt. Finally, mountain, and the resulting explosion burst the shape of the crater and then filled by water and become lakes, such as now.

B. Specialties
First President of the Republic of Indonesia Ir. Soekarno when on a visit to Lake Maninjau and amazed with the beauty. Kekagumannya to reveal he is writing a poem that reads, "If arai Pinang eat, eat betel with the green, do not come to Ranah Minang, if not stop by to Maninjau. Poem written by the first President of the Republic of Indonesia, simply represent the beauty of the panorama to describe the nature of Lake Maninjau nan exotic.

C. Location
Maninjau Lake District is located in the Tanjung Raya, Agam regency, West Sumatra Province, Indonesia.

D. Access
To reach Lake Maninjau, travel through the land applied. There are 2 alternative routes to go to Lake Maninjau. First, enter the path from the West and two from the East. From the West, starting from the travel path through the Pariaman Lubuk cone (the capital of Kabupaten Agam), more or less go for 1 ½ hours. For transportation can use public transport, travel, and car hire. From the east, starting from the trip to and from the town of Bukittinggi Bukittinggi travel on to Lake Maninjau meanders through 44 use public transport, private cars, or car hire. Travel time be approximately 3 hours.

E. Tickets
To enter the item does not travel free of charge.

F. Accommodation
Around Lake Maninjau many hotels that can be used as a place to stay, ranging from class to class star jasmine. In addition to the hotel, there are also home stay, which is managed by the community, which can serve as an alternative for the tourists to stay places. Meanwhile, to treat hunger, the tourists can choose the preferred place to eat, because many restaurants are available along the lake edge with the various menu presents a variety of good cuisine and the cuisine of other countries.