Bukit Bintang, Beautiful Views From The Top of Yogyakarta City

Bukit Bintang is a famous tourist place with very romantic at night. This place called Bukit Bintang (Star Hill ) because visitors can see the beauty of night from hill and see the twinkling lights of Yogyakarta city. This twinkling lights sourced from homes resident are viewed from the top of hill like star. 

The hills are located at a height of 150 meters from above of Yogyakarta city has cold air. Then, Bukit Bintang is the best choice to hangouts for adolescents and relieve fatigue after work during the day. The most visitors come to this place is a couple who want enjoy the beauty of Yogyakarta from top of hills and the beauty of hill with cold air or just talking and dinner in the restaurant around this area. 

Want to visit there ?

Bukit Bintang is located at Pathuk's hills, Gunung Kidul exactly at Yogyakarta-Wonosari street, approximately of 15 kilometers from Yogyakarta city. This place opened from 17.00 until 05.00 with entrance tickets is free.

Merapi Volcano Museum - Volcano Tourism and Educates

Indonesia has many active volcanoes, then Indonesia located in disaster-prone areas. One of tragedy that occurred in Indonesia is eruption of Merapi Mount in 1969, 1994 and 2006. To commemorate this tragedy, the government of Indonesia built a museum, this museum called Merapi Volcano Museum. 

Merapi Volcano Museum is located in the southern slope of Merapi Mount exactly in Boyong street, Hargobinangun, Sleman regency, Yogyakarta. The museum has a slogan of 'Merapi Jendela Bumi' (Merapi is the window of earth) is about 22 kilometers from Adisutjipto International Airport.

Merapi Volcano Museum has a land area of 3,4 acres and a building area of 4.470 square meters consisting of 2 floors. The first floor contains museum collection placed in several rooms with different themes. The themes is volcano world, on the merapi volcano trail, humans and volcano, earthquake and tsunami, landslide, diorama and others themes. The second floor functions as a theater showing movies about volcano. 

The contructions of museum reflecting characteristic of Yogyakarta city, such as the main entrance is representating of temple, the tpo of building like a Tugu Yogyakarta, overall building like a Merapi mount and the concept of built like a Keraton Yogyakarta. In the museum, visitors can know to chronology of Merapi mount's eruptions, photo documentation, visual aids about volcano phenomenon are completly displayed with billingual explanation, Indonesia and English language and Merapi mount zone. So, Merapi Volcano Museum has function as a center of information, research, education and volcano tourism for visitors add insight to the volcano. If the weather is nice, visitors can see the elegant peak of Merapi mount and shady trees scenery behind the musem.

The visitors who visit Merapi Volcano Musem must pay a entrance fee about Rp 3000. In addition, the parking charge is Rp 1.500 for motorcycle, Rp 2.000 for car and Rp 10.000 for bus. This museum opened from Tuesday until Sunday (Monday is closed) from 09.00-15.30.

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Miniature of Merapi Mount

Mockup Merapi mount

Vulcanic Bomp

Museum

A Tradition and Industries of Ngasem's Batik Village

Batik is a icon of Yogyakarta and a traditional works that are still occupied of Yogyakarta people. One of the village is Ngasem village. Ngasem village is a one of batik sell center of Yogyakarta and located in the west of Yogyakarta Palace, Keraton sub-district. The distance between this village and Adisuciptjo International Airport is 14 kilometers.

What are the features of Ngasem's Batik Village ?

Ngasem village is called batik village because all activities of this village is batik and batik has become the livelihood of the local people. In the Ngasem's batik village, visitors can see directly the process of making batik, from the pattern creation to the coloring process. This batik center offers various design and type of batik,  including hand-painted batiks from Yogyakarta and Solo, batik pesisir, stamp-blocked batik, Yogyakarta-style duster batik, Yogyakarta Palace unique batik and others batik. This village also offers fabrics for making clothes, bed sheets, pillowcases and others accessories in batik. Not only the process of making batik, Ngasem's batik village also sells their works in the souvenirs shop around this village. 

For the visitors who visit Ngasem's batik village will not admission charge, but there is a charge for parking area. The facilities of this village is parking areas, mosque and traditional food's restaurant.