Ijen Crater Ijen Crater or Kawah Ijen is another volcanic tourism attraction in Indonesia. Ijen Crater (Kawah Ijen) is a famous tourism object, which has been known by the domestic and foreign tourists because of the beautiful and charming nature. It is 5,466 hectares, 2,386 meters high from the depth of the sea, with a 92 hectares tourism forest. Its temperature is between 2 to 8 degree centigrade and the crater area lies at 2.386 meters above sea level (mdpl). There are many beautiful species of plants that can be…
Category: East Java History & Glorious
The Ancient Jawi Temple Pasuruan
JAWI TEMPLE This temple is a holy building of Hinduism and Budhism that has built in 1300 AD by Kertanegara, the last king of Singasari Kingdom. It is located at Candi Wates village Prigen subdistrict on the way Tretes Pandaan, it’s about 40 minutes drive from Surabaya. The height of this temple is about 24,50 meters with the length 14,20 metres and 9.50 metres wide. Jawi Temple is one of Pasuruan historical temple that has a unique form. This temple is an old temple in East Java that build for…
Madura’s Traditional Bull Race
Maduraness Bull Racing Bullrace is one of Madura’s culture, which become the special characteristis of Madura Island. The beginning of the bullrace originated from the fact that Madura is not so fertile that is not good for agriculture, instead the Madurese cath fish and breed cows and bulls which are also used for farming especially to plough the fields where paddies or second crop plants are grown. A man named Syeh Ahmad Baidawi who firstly introduced the weay of working the soil with using bamboo sled pulled by two bulls…
“Hati Kudus Yesus” Church Malang
The church of “Hati Kudus Yesus” The church of “Hati Kudus Yesus” in Malang is one of the building a church that is influenced by the Gothic style that evolved in the centuries XII-XIV. One of the characteristics is the rose window. Research end of this task is the meaning that there is a rose window above the front gate to the church using the method fenomenologi. This study begins with knowing the meaning of the rose window in the church until the analysis the results of interviews of some…
The Ancient Book Of Soekarno
Soekarno’s Book One of the tourist attractions in Blitar municipality is the tomb of Soekarno, an Indonesian proclamation reader and the first President of the Republic of Indonesia. It is located at 60 Slamet Riyadi Street, Bendogerit village, Sunan wetan district, about 2 kilometers from Blitar city. The architectural “Joglo” dominates the tomb. It is in East Javanese style and combined with Gateway of Bentar. Beside the main building formed cover grave house of ‘Bung Karno’, this graveyard complx also completed with support building that is; Gapura Agung (The Great…
Tomb Of Princess Champa
Tomb of Princess from Champa Lying to the north east of the Kolam Segaran is a Muslim tomb dating from the year A.D. 1448. Popular belief has it that this is the grave of a princess from Champa (Vietnam), who married the last king of Majapahit and converted him to Islam. The princess is further connected with the Wali Songo, or ‘nine saints’ of Islam, who were instrumental in spreading the new religion throughout Java during the 15th and 16th centuries. More info visit: www.mojokerto.eastjava.com
Ledhug Suro Ceremony Magetan
Ledhug Suro Ceremony So many ways are being used by the local government to celebrate the new year of Hijriah. At Jogjakarta there is Sekaten, at Solo (Mid Java) there is Grebeg Syuro because it coincidently come with the change of Java’s year which starting from Suro. Any other places like Sukabumi (West Java) is also celebrate this Islamic new year by doing Larung. Different with other places, in Magetan East Java, in order to attract the visitors to come, they make “Ledhug”. Lesung Suro and Bedug Muharam (Ledhug) is…
Coban Baung Waterfall Pasuruan
COBAN BAUNG WATERFALL The waterfall is 100 meters high as one of natural attractions. It is located at Purwodadi village exactly in the east of Purwodadi Botanical garden. It has surrounded by a protected forest with various animals like monkey, deer, etc. It has provided with camping ground. This natural waterfall has clear water from the mountain and surrounded by natural forest. So that the visitor can relax to enjoy the scenery and fresh air with their family. The visitor also will show the fantastic fresh water that fall down…
Ranu Pane Lake Lumajang
This area has beautiful scenery. It is located in Panupane village in Senduro district, about 50 km west of Lumajang on the slope of Bromo and Mount Semeru . There are a wide variety of home stay options available. Pane, Regulo and Gembolo / Gumbulo Lake are the fantastic lakes in Lumajang regency. Enjoy the clear water, nature scenery, fresh air, comfortable situation in these area. For More Details Please Visit: <a href=”#//www.lumajang.eastjava.com”>www.lumajang.eastjava.com</a>
Grebek Suro Ponorogo
Is the biggest culture event in Ponorogo regency that held on a certain occasion of welcomed Islam New Year or Saka New Year that often known as one suro date (one of Javanese month). This agenda entered East Java tourism calendar (Calendar of event). Grebeg Suro is the ritual culture incident and became the party site of Ponorogo people. Usually it begun a week before 1 Suro. It is the series of Grebeg Suro agenda is Reog National festival, various good activity sorts the race and the exhibition and ended…