Gudeg, A Traditional Culinary Yogyakarta

Leave Yogyakarta without bringing a gift feels less complete, one of good culinary for a gift is Gudeg

Each regions would have a special culinary, as well as Yogyakarta which has Gudeg. Gudeg is a traditional culinary Yogyakarta. This culinary made with the main ingredients is gori (young jack fruit) mixed with coconut milk and cooked about 24 hours. Gudeg has a sweet taste and savory, for dish Gudeg usually coupled with krecek condiment (cow skin), egg, chicken, tofu and tempe.

There are 3 types of Gudeg namely Gudeg basah, Gudeg kering and Gudeg manggar. Gudeg basah (wet Gudeg) is served with yummy coconut milk gravy. This food is very good for breakfast. Gudeg kering (dry Gudeg) is cooked longer than Gudeg basah until the gravy dry and the color turn into brown. This Gudeg will not stale for 24 hours or more if it is stored in a generator. The last, Gudeg manggar. Gudeg manggar has main ingredients is coconut flowers. This culinary is hardly found because coconut flowers as the main ingredients has limited stocks.

Really, this culinary is good of choice for tasted when visit Yogyakarta. Gudeg has become daily food by Yogyakarta people and to get it is easy, Gudeg can be found in every place in Yogyakarta, but Wijilan and Barek are famous area as Gudeg center. 

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Parangtritis Sand Dune, Indonesian-Style Desert

"The scorching sun, air temperature and the surrounding environment will make your imagination to the Sahara Desert"

Who think Indonesia has a desert like Africa with Sahara desert ? Strange but true. This natural phenomenon does exist in Indonesia, exactly in Yogyakarta city. Unique, this desert is formed in Indonesia, which has a tropical climate with high rainfall. The uniqueness is named Parangtritis Sand Dune.

Entering this sand dune area, visitors will be welcome by the hissing of the soft sand blown by the wind. The harder the wind blows, the more sand particles are blown away. The hissing combines with the splashing wave of the south sea results in a harmonic tone. Not far from this place, there is a museum, namely Geospatial Museum. This museum serves as an educational attraction for add to visitors information about Parangtritis Sand Dune's geospatial condition. As well as a desert, Parangtritis Sand Dune has an extremely drastic temperature changes, hot sun like burning body and expanse of sand that the stretches wide. All of it, makes the imagination of visitors like being in the Sahara desert.

Because of its uniqueness dazzling, many photographers take photos here for photo sessions and many couples make this sand dune into the background of pre-wedding photos. Not only that, Parangtritis Sand Dune also used as a place for film-making and video clips.

As a rare natural phenomenon and the only one in Indonesia, even the Southeast Asia. This place become a famous tourist destination. Parangtritis Sand Dune has an easy to find location. The location is between Parangtritis beach and Depok beach, exactly in Parangtritis village, Bantul regency, Yogyakarta, is about 30 kilometers from Yogyakarta city. 

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Borobudur Temple, An Architectural Masterpiece of The Past

Borobudur temple is a great masterpiece of 9th century which become the large stupa complex in the world that is recognizes by UNESCO and center of wardship for Buddhist in the Indonesia

History

The founder of this temple is Samaratungga, king of the Syailendra dynasty. Borobudur temple built around the 9th century by the architect named Gunadharma. Borobudur temple is not used for a long centuries because it is covered bushes and volcanic ash of Merapi mount. At 1814, when the arrival of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles to Indonesia. He heard about the discovery of giants objects, so he ordered subordinates, Cornelius, to cleaned its area. Next, the Borobudur's name in this temple is given by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles with meaning 'biara di perbukitan' (monastery in the hills) which derived from the word 'bara' (monastery) and 'beduhur' (hills).

Feature

Borobudur temple is the second largest of temple in the world after Angkor Wat in Cambodia. This temple is not only large, the walls of the temple was filled with 2672 reliefs. This reliefs tells about the live of Buddha and their teachings which divided into 4 main story, such as karmawibangga, lalita wistara, jataka and awadana, and gandawyuda. To follow the storyline, visitors had to walk clockwise arround the temple. Enjoy the splendor of the temple is not enough to walk arround this temple area, because visitors can also see Borobudur Sunrise and Borobudur sunset from the top of temple. The natural scenery arround Borobudur temple is not less amazing, a row of Menoreh hills, Sindoro mount, Sumbing mount, Merapi mount and Merbabu mount as if a guard that guarded this temple. 

For visitors who want to buy souvenirs, near temple existing shops selling souvenirs such as ornate statue, replica of Borobudur temple, batik bags, T-shirt, neklaces, bracelets and others.

Location

Truly a beautiful and historical of tourist attraction. Borobudur temple is located in Magelang, Central of Java about 40 kilometers from Yogyakarta. This temple opened every day from 06.00 until 17.00. 

The entrance tickets 

• Adult                 : Rp 30.000
• Children            : Rp 12.500
• Foreign Tourist  : USD 15  

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Reliefs

Reliefs

Borobudur temple

Borobudur temple

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Taman Sari - Water Castle Yogyakarta

The sound of gurgling water, the beauty of its ancient architecture and the wonderful view make Taman Sari Yogyakarta become a amazing tourist attraction.

Taman Sari Yogyakarta is the bailey of Yogyakarta palace awarded by Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono I to his wives as respect for their devotion. As bailey, of course distance between Taman Sari with Yogyakarta palace is not too far. Only about 1 kilometers to the west of the palace exactly Taman street, Keraton, Yogyakarta or about 12 kilometers from Adisutjipto International Airport.

Taman Sari is a palace surrounded by segaran (artificial lake) with the fragrance of the flowers planted around it. Many visitors call the Taman Sari as a water castle because architecture value and the uniqueness of build and ponds is decorated by gurgling water. There are a tower where visitors can go up there to see reflection of the sun from the ponds and Taman sari area with clearly visible and very beautiful.

Taman Sari is the good of choice for recreation. Besides the beautiful tourist attraction, this place has also the uniqueness such as architecture of build. For visit it, visitors must pay a entrance tickets about Rp 3.000 and Rp 7.000 for foreign tourist. Taman Sari is opened to the public from 08.00 until 14.00






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Sikidang Crater - The Jumping Volcanic Crater

Dieng Plateau is a active volcano area and save a million natural beauty. One of the famous is Sikidang crater. Sikidang Crater is a tourist attraction which located in Dieng Wetan, Kejajar, Wonosobo regency, Central Java. From Yogyakarta to Dieng Plateau will take approximately 2,5 hours.

Barren stretch of land surrounded by hills with ponds continue to smoke will greet visitors upon arrival in Sikidang crater. Sikidang crater is ex-volcanic eruption that formed the crater and still active today but this place is safe for visit because of the low sulfur level. This volcanic crater has an area of 200 square meters is located in a flat area, so visitors can see clearly this crater.

Visitors who run in this crater should not be arbitrary, should look for a dry land to set foot. Sikidang crater has a temperature of 98 Celsius degrees. For safety, this crater is surrounded by bamboo fence. The uniqueness of Sikidang crater is always moving crater like a deer jump, then Sikidang crater often called the jumping volcanic crater.

Truly a very interesting place to visit. Provide the beautiful of natural scenery for visitors and an unforgettable experience. The entrance ticket for visit Sikidang crater is Rp 6.000 and Rp 20.000 for foreign tourist and this place opened from 07.00 until 16.00 in every day

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Ramayana Ballet Prambanan - Indian Epic Story in Java's Art

Ramayana Ballet Prambanan is a art show that combines drama and dance that lifts the story from Indian namely Ramayana. Ramayana is a Indian legend made by Walmiki and beautiful carved on temple walls Ciwa in the Prambanan temple area. This art show held in Prambanan temple area exactly Yogyakarta-Solo street, Prambanan village, Yogyakarta.

The visitors will notice in the location is a majestic stage with a background of glowing Prambanan temple.On the corner stage, there are gamelan musicians with their instruments. Ramayana told about Rama who aided Hanoman, fight for his wife, Shinta, from Rahwana's abduction.

During the two hours show, visitors will be amused by an extraordinary performances that visitors will not feel bored or disappointed. All of story is wrapped in such a series of dance movement and steps preformed by hundreds of gorgeous dancers to the accompaniment of gamelan (Javanese traditional music). There is no dialog spoken by dancers, the storyline described by sinden voice used Javanese language. For visitors who not understand Javanese language, there are Indonesia and English narrations available for visitors.

Ramayana Ballet Prambanan is staged three time a week that is a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday on 07.30pm until 09.30 pm. During May-October, the show will held in Ramayana open stage and during November-April will held in Trimurti closed stage, because this months is rainy seasons. The price of entrance tickets for watching a art show Ramayana Ballet Prambanan is many variations, such as

The Variation of Tickets Prices
CLASS	PRICE
VIP	Rp 350.000
Special class	Rp 250.000
Class 1	Rp 175.000
Class 2	Rp 100.000

   

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