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Sendang Dhuwur
The impressive gateway of Sendang Duwur can be found on a hilltop not far from the coast at Paciran north of Lamongan or east of Tuban. The place name is taken from a Moslem Saint, Sunan Sendang, who was buried there in 1585. Sunan Sendang Duwur is one of the Islam spreaders in Java. His charismatic is the same as Wali Songo.
The stylistically decoration of the gateway is describe about the transition from ancient Hindu / Javanese to Moslem principles. The symbols of Hindu Majapahit lie alongside Arabic Calligraphy. The outer gateway to the graveyard has Bentar style and inside of the gateway has Paduraksa style. The beautiful woodcarving surrounds the main tomb. In the right and the left side of the wall is decorated with two giant heads from the black stone material. The pilgrims from all part of the region, often visit to this beautiful graveyard.
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Thursday, December 23, 2010
Sendang Dhuwur Graveyard
Bakti Alam Farm
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Bakti Alam
Bakti alam agro-tourism, is located in Nongkojajar, Pasuruan, East Java. Precisely on Ngembal village, Tutur sub district at an altitude of 450 to 550 elevation. It was open on 1998, and along with its development, Bhakti Alam is already complete the collection of their exotic plants.
We can get many things by visiting Bhakti Alam, instead of we can enjoy the diversity of tropical plants which we can also take the fruit when we met in its season, we can also relaxing our tense during the week days and daily routines.
There are some interesting spots that we can explore in Bhakti Alam, like
- Garden tropical plants, like Durian, Longan, Rose water and many more
- Dairy cattle
- Milk Procession
- Green house
- Training nursery / plant propagation
- Camping ground and outbound
Bhakti Alam is about 55 Km far from Surabaya, 30 Km from Malang and easy to be access. For those whose on the way from Malang and Surabaya t to visit Mount Bromo, it is recommended to "stopping by" at Bhakti Nature before continuing the trip to Mount Bromo.
With its altitude and position, we can see the beauty of the ocean, bordering the town of Pasuruan with an open sea. It is become more beautiful when the lights out, flickered the ship visible at night.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Jember Cigarette Industrial
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Cigarette Industrial
Cigars are made of rolled dried tobacco leaves. Nusantara Plantation Corporation 10 lies eight kilometers north of Jember. The cigars are exported to Europe, America and Australia. However, it also produces Indonesian cigars for domestic consumption. All visitors can see the process of cultivating seedlings, drying tobacco leaves, picking as well as the making of cigars. Dutch visitors can especially enjoy the nostalgia of the site as they participate in the agro tourism. The first people who introduced the process of tobacco cultivation were the Dutch. Jember became known to Europeans as the “Tobacco city” particularly in Germany. To reach the Nusantara Plantation the visitors can take public transportation from downtown.
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Wonosari Agrotourism
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Wonosari Tea Plantation
This plantation pleasure gives special and peaceful impression of the nuance of tea plantation. The plantation is situated on the slope of mount Arjuno, it belongs to Wonosari - Toyomarto village, Singosari district. In this tourism object, the visitors can enjoy the processing of tea from the leaves taken to the ready-to-drink. The location is reachable, about 30 km away to the North from Malang. Facilities: swimming pool, cottages, jogging tracks area, camping grounds, and many other.
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Blawan Waterfall
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Blawan Waterfall
Blawan Waterfall is located in Kalianyar village, Sempol district. It is about 52 km of Bondowoso town. Blawan Waterfall is the continuation of Kali Pahit River, which is also the disposal place of the water from Kawah Ijen, which contains of much sulfur. The water from Blawan Waterfall goes down to the earth then it shows up again in Asembagus, Situbondo district.
Blawan waterfall is surrounded by sharp cliffs and there is also stalagmite cave. It is believed that a long time ago this cave was often used for meditate. There are also macademia plants in this area. Besides Blawan Waterfall, there is also a hot water spring for bathing in this tourism area. The tourism facilities are including; a shelter, hotels, etc.
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Condido Agro
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Condido Agro
Condido agro herbal, located in Sawiran district, Pasuruan. You can find numbers of Indonesia herbal plants here. The visitors can also buy herb medicine and consulting your health to the herbalist.
Condodido Agro Herbal was first open on 1997, it was an idea of Romo Willy M Batuah, the founder of Condodido Agro Herbal to introduce the farmer how to plants the organic vegetables by utilizing the existing manure around the house to be processed into Bokashi.
In 1999, Condido agro herbal have starting the ornamental plant cultivation. One of them is chrysanthemum flowers, which was in 2001 opened a partnership with farmers to start the same business.
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Belimbing Means Starfruit
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Karangsari Agrotourism
Karangsari Village, Regency of Sukorejo, Blitar is become popular because of the Star Fruit (Belimbing) cultivation. What makes this star fruit become so famous is coming from the size, which has jumbo size, and it has sweeter taste than common star fruit, and has bright light yellow color.
Long before as famous as today, one of the starfruit farmer trying to plant the star fruit seed, which is a gift from a friend, and amazingly this person can change the people around for they can cultivate the star fruit as a commodity. And so on, this village become popular as the biggest star fruit producer.
The type of star fruit that largely produce is Bangkok, which is grafting by local type and Bangkok, there are also the Philippine type that trying to cultivate.Actually, for both type, Bangkok and Philippine the fruit are having the same size and taste. But, for Red Bangkok Type the fruit is more dense and having sweeter taste, instead of needs extra maintenance.
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