Borobudur

I visited Borobudur Temple in last long weekend (July 19th 2009). Actually, it was my first visit time. And I've come in the right time, since there were Borobudur International Festival (BIF) held there for 3 days.

I spent 3 hours on my bike to reach Borobudur, and whalaaa... it was a very very crowded day, since it was a long weekend, so I don't have many chance to take a good picture cause there were too many people around.

Actually, there were many event held in BIF, and I really hope that I can watch the dance performance from other countries, but the dances were performed in the evening, started from 7 pm till 10pm, and I couldn't stay there that long, since I had limited budget (:">), but I am glad enough that I can visit Borobudur temple. I was so amaze to see the glory and detail of the temple's relief, and still wondering on how did the people can build such a great building, since in that time, they were only use a traditional methods and techniques.


There were some exhibitions too, like fashion, art, and paint. Read More...

Save The Earth With Responsible Travel

Hey... the vacation season is over - least in my country here. But I just read about Responsible Travel. I think it's a good idea to enjoy travel while giving a contribution to help to save our earth.

One point I read is about visiting blue flag beaches and marines. Blue flag beaches and marines have some criteria relating about requirements and standards for water and safety qualities.

So by visiting these beaches or marines, there will be more beaches or marines that try to reach that requirements by rising their qualities, so it can be a support to save our earth.

However, when I read further information in the web, I can't find the beaches in my country in the list. I don't know why... is it because of our beaches and marines are too polluted? If it's right, well, that's not too wrong I think, that when I visit some beaches, in some region here, there are many litters spread around.

Well, I think that means we have to rise our tourism standards, right? Read More...

BACKPACKING

Im interest with backpacking since I red the 'Laskar Pelangi'. But that interest seems didn't grow for long time. And then, I went to Singapore, which I've told to the world in my other blog, and that interest start to rise again.

And now, since I became a productive jobless, I have plenty of leasure time, and I started to collect some things in my mind to realizing my dream.

After some days of thinking, I decided to visit Solo first. Since it will be my first backpacking adventure, so I choose the easy place first. Besides, I have some relatives there, so when things go too wrong, I have somebody to cry for help....hahaha...

But till now I still collect as much as information I need to go there safely and nicely.

So please, if there's somebody have some or many suggestion, ideas, or whatever to help... bring it on... Read More...

TELUK PENYU BEACH, CILACAP

It is probably not as famous as Kuta Beach in Bali or some other beaches in Indonesia, but, it’s famous enough in Cilacap, Purbalingga, West Java, Indonesia.

I went here last weekend. Actually, it is not in our schedule to visit the beach. We went to Cilacap to visit our family in Karang Talun, Cilacap.

We left Tegal at 5.30 in the morning, and arrived in Cilacap at 8.00. On the way to my family’s house, we suddenly had thought that it’s been a long time since the last time we had picnic together. So we decided to go to Teluk Penyu. Unfortunately, the beach is not too easy to find. There are some signs in the street that shows you the direction of the beach, but when we follow it, we get lost, so we have to asked some people around. And after about an hour, we finally found the beach.

After paid tickets for Rp 5000,- per each person, and the car has parked, we took a walk around the beach. But soon, it’s not the beach that attracked us most, but it was the souvenir shops that stand along the beach. There are so many of them. Most of them sold souvenirs and crafts made from shells, and other sea creatures. They sold, lamp caps, curtain, brittle, and some other kind of crafts. The price is ranged between Rp 10.000,- to more then Rp 100.000,-.

From the beach, we can see Nusakambangan, an island that famous for the prison that located there. But, Nusakambangan also interesting to visit because of its beauty.

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