Monday, June 18, 2012

TAMANSARI yogyakarta


The park is a park royal sari or vacation Yogya Sultan and his family. Actually, in addition Taman Sari, the Sultanate has a guesthouse as Yogyakata Warungboto, Manukberi, Ambarbinangun and Ambarukmo. All of which serves as a place to rest and meditate Sultan and his family. Besides the components of the show as a resort, vacation home, vacation home that always has a component of the defense. So is just to the Castle.

The location of the Castle is only about 0.5 km south of Yogyakarta Kingdom. Architect of this building is Portuguese, so briefly as if the building has architectural art of Europe is very strong, in addition to the symbolic meanings of Java will be retained. But if we observe, meaning more dominant building element of Java here. Castle was built during the lane I or around the end of the seventeenth century AD Castle is not just a royal garden, but this building is a complex consisting of swimming baths, water canals, special rooms and a large pool (when open water canal).

cendrawasih-bird of heaven

cendrawasih
Bird of Paradise is a family member of the order Passeriformes Paradisaeidae. They are found in eastern Indonesia, Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and eastern Australia. Size of Paradise birds of paradise from the King at 50 grams and 15 cm up to half-crescent of Paradise Black Paradise at 110 cm and Manukod crested rolling on 430-gram.


Paradise or paradisoaeidae apoda, minor, cicinnurus regius, and seleudicis melanoleuca is a typical bird of Papua Province. Of the 43 species of bird paradise, 35 of which can be found in Papua.

The specificity of this bird found on the beautiful feathers. And beautiful hair is only held by male birds of paradise alone. Well, generally the colors are very bright plumage with the combinations of black, brown, red, orange, yellow, white, blue, green and purple.

These birds usually live in dense forests or in the lowlands. He has a habit of playing in the morning when the sun began to show light on the eastern horizon.

Cendrawasih male wearing a charming neck feathers to attract the opposite sex. Very fascinating dance of male paradise. While singing on a limb, this stud wobbling in different directions. Sometimes even hanging upside down resting on the limb.

By people in Papua, birds of paradise was believed to be the incarnation of the legs or Apoda angel, a beautiful bird but did not legged, as they walk or just perched on a branch only.

BUNAKEN MARINE PARK

bunaken marine park

Bunaken Marine Park, known for its underwater beauty that is quite remarkable. There are many types of fish in the underwater gardens of Bunaken. It is estimated, there are approximately ninety-one species of fish, mollusk, coral reefs, and so forth. Of course, diversity is an attraction for the island. In fact, Bunaken is one of the ecosystems that have the highest marine biodiversity in the world.

Bunaken National Marine Park is representative of Indonesia's tropical aquatic ecosystem consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems.

Bunaken in Manado Bay with an area of ​​8.08 km ², located on the northern island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Bunaken is part of the government city of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi. Around Bunaken marine park is part of the National Park which also includes the sea around the island of Manado Tua is Siladen and Mantehage.

Bunaken Marine Park has a 29 point dive (dive spot) with a depth of 1344 meters start. Of the 20 point dive. 12 points include diving around Bunaken Island. The 12-point dive is frequented by divers and lovers of the sea sights.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Way Kambas National Park

Way Kambas National Park is representative of lowland forest ecosystems are composed of freshwater swamp forests, grasslands / scrub, and coastal forests in Sumatra.

 Plant species in national parks, among other fires (Avicennia marina), Pidada (Sonneratia sp.), Palm (Nypa fruticans), Gelam (Melaleuca leucadendron), salam (Syzygium polyanthum), mire (Glochidion borneensis), ketapang (Terminalia cattapa), casuarina (Casuarina equisetifolia), pandan (pandanus sp.), puspa (Schima wallichii), meranti (Shorea sp.), oil (Dipterocarpus gracilis) and ramin (Gonystylus bancanus).

 Way Kambas National Park has 50 species of mammals including Sumatran rhinoceros (sumatrensis sumatrensis Dicerorhinus), Sumatran elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), tapir (Tapirus indicus), jackal (Cuon alpinus sumatrensis), gibbon (Hylobates syndactylus syndactylus); 406 forest bird species including ducks (Cairina scutulata), yarn and clothing stork (Ciconia episcopus stormi), herons barrels (Leptoptilos javanicus), sempidan blue (Lophura ignita), pheasants (Argusianus argus argus), pecuk snake (Anhinga melanogaster); various types of reptiles, amphibians, fish, and insects.

PLATE DANCE

plate dance
The plate is the art of dance dance held by the Minangkabau people from West Sumatra. The dance depicts a sense of joy and gratitude Minangkabau society when the harvest season has arrived, where the young mudi swinging motion to move the play showcase their dishes in their hands.

 This dance is accompanied by the song that is played with talempong and Saluang, which is where the movement is done quickly while holding the plate in the palm of their hands. Sometimes these plates they throw into the air or they threw him to the ground and trampled on by the dancers are barefoot.

bogor botanical garden

bogor botanical garden
Bogor Botanical Gardens area of ​​111 ha was established in 1817 with a collection of about 20,000 species of plants are well-known botanical garden in the world. In the area of ​​the Botanical Gardens of Bogor Palace have a unique architecture.

 In addition to the Bogor Botanical Gardens with it's peculiar to his palace, in the Bogor area there are many other attractions the inscription Batutulis, Lake Lido, Safari Park and Lake Colors in the Peak area, hot water or shade of Mount Salak Ciseeng. Included in the tourist area of ​​Bogor is Cibodas Botanical Garden, the Nature Reserve of Mount Gede, Gunung Padang, Cipanas Palace, located in Jalan Raya Cipanas-Cianjur.

 Now a tourist attraction in the Bogor area increased with the opening-Cullinan Mekarsari Fruit Garden and Taman Bunga Nusantara.

KELIMUTU LAKE

kelimutu lake
For those of you lovers of nature of activity not complete it if has not been to the lake-color, kelimutu. The lake is located in the village of precisely kelimutu Pemo, District Moni, Ende, Flores, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
The sights can be reached less than 3 hours from Ende district downtown, and only about 45 minutes away from the village of Moni. The beauty of the scenery along the way can be a panacea for fatigue which is upon the time through the narrow streets, winding and uphill and deliver an exceptional experience and full of challenges.

To get to the lip of the lake, we still have to climb stairs and cobblestone streets about 20 minutes. Bird and insect sounds accompany every step of the forest to the lake is located 1690 meters above sea level until we get to the point of view.