Tape Bondowoso Bondowoso is famous as Tape City (Kota Tape). “Tape” is a typical traditional food from Bondowoso and it is spread in almost every area in Bondowoso district. This food can be considered as a good and nutritious snack. The taste of tape is sweet and made from slightly fermented cassava. Tape Bondowoso has special sweet taste and cannot be imitated by other towns. Tape is contain of B1 vitamin for body. B1 vitamin is very important for women who have just given birth to restore the new energy…
Year: 2011
Sawentar Temple Blitar
Sawentar Temple Sawentar Temple is located at Sawentar village, Kanigoro district, to the east of Blitar. The temple shows similarities in form to Kidal temple. A tentative date of around the early to mid 13th century has consequently been assigned to it. The base of the temple lies several meters below the present ground level, a result of having been buried under a mass of lava, presumably from an eruption of nearby Mt Kelud. The site was excavated during the early years of this century. This temple seems reside on…
Pemalang Regency
Pemalang Another regency in Central Java is Pemalang, having the capital with the same name. Pemalang is bounded with Java Ocean in north, Pekalongan regency in east, Purbalingga in south and Tegal regency in west. Like the larger cities of Tegal, to its west, and Pekalongan, to the east, Pemalang was dominated in the nineteenth century by sugar production. The area was known for its fertile soil, which had made it to be rich rice-growing region. By the end of the nineteenth century the coastal plain, the most fertile part…
Batu Night Spectacular
Batu Night Spectacular BNS or Batu Night Spectacular is one of tourism attraction in Batu city. Located in 30 KM on western part of Malang city or 30 minutes drive. Regarding the name, Batu Night Spectacular is open daily for night tourism attractive, it open from 15.00 PM until 02.00 AM. Hence, for those who want to spend the night enjoying the different nuance and fresh air in Batu, BNS is highly recommended to be visit. The entry fee for BNS is only Rp. 10.000 per person and the visitors…
Purwodadi Botanical Garden
Purwodadi Botanic Garden Purwodadi Botanic Garden is located at Purwodadi, in the countryside of Pasuruan, East Java and is situated on the main road which connects three cities in East Java, which is Malang, Surabaya and Pasuruan. It is about 24 km from Malang, 30 km from Pasuruan and 70 km from Surabaya. It covers an area of 85 ha which is at an altitude of about 300 m above sea level. Purwodadi Botanic Garden was established in 1939 by Dr D.F. van Slooten, as one of three branches of…
Pekalongan Regency
Pekalongan Pekalongan regency is one of Central Java regencies with the capital city of Kajen. This regency is bounded with Java Ocean and Pekalongan city in north, Batang regency in east, Banjarnegara in south, and Pemalang regency in west. The history of Pekalongan dated back to the early 12th century. A book written in 1178 by a Song dynasty official already had record of Pekalongan, then known to Chinese merchants as “Pukalong”, it was then a seaport of Java(then known as Dvapa); the king of Java lived at Pukalong, knotted…
Chrysanthemum Garden Pasuruan
Chrysanthemum Garden Chrysanthemum or often called mums or chrysant, this pretty flower is a genus of perennial flowering plants in family of Asteraceae, which originally come from Asia and Northern Europe. Chrysanthemum has more than 30 species in different marvelous colors and similar shape. Most of them can be found in Chrysanthemum garden, Pasuruan regency. These unique flower have multicolor and some similar shape. When we standing in the middle of this garden, it is like we can feel the situation where Maria Antoinette was running over her flower garden…
Lamongan Coconut Handicraft
Lamongan Handicraft At present, the number of small industry in Lamongan, either formal or npon-formal ones, reaches 23,843 units. Among those small industries and people’s crafts, some have exported the products to the markets of Korea, Belgium, Australia, and Germany. They are wooden craft, earthen ware craft, bamboo-plaited craft, bicycle-saddle craft, bag craft made of Enceng Gondok (water hyacinth) in Lamongan and Mantup village, small industry center of ATBM bounded weaving in Parengan Maduran, hand-written Batik craft, embroidery, and gold craft in Sendang Agung and Sendang Dhuwur Paciran. The home…