Waterfall Two Color Sibolangit
Waterfall Two Color Sibolangit located in the village of Durin Sirugun, foot of Mount Sibayak, North Sumatra. Can be reached through land route, across the camp Sibolangit. Mileage from Medan - Sibolangit around 75km, and from the Main Door Campgrounds Sibolangit takes about 2-3 hours to arrive at Waterfall Two Colors.
Tugu Jogja
Tugu Jogja is a landmark of the most famous city of Yogyakarta. This monument is located right in the middle of Princes Street intersection Mangkubumi, Jalan General Sudirman, Jalan PM Sangaji and Jalan Diponegoro. Tugu Jogja nearly 3 centuries-old have deep meaning as well save some recording history of the city of Yogyakarta.
Floating Market
Muara Kuin Floating Market is a traditional floating market is located on the river at the mouth of the Barito river Kuin, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. The merchants and buyers to use jukung, boats in a language called Banjar. This market began after the dawn prayer until after seven o'clock.
Bedugul
Bedugul is a tourist attraction in Bali which is located in a mountainous area that has the atmosphere cool and comfortable, can enjoy thethe beauty of lake and Ulun Danu Beratan ,situated in the village of Candi Kuning ,Baturiti District ,Tabanan . The distance is approximately 70 km from the tourist area of Kuta / Airport Ngurah Rai.
Bunaken
Bunaken is an area of 8.08 km ² island in the Bay of Manado, located in the northern island of Sulawesi,Indonesia. This island is part of the city of Manado, the provincial capital of North Sulawesi,Indonesia. Bunaken Island can be chieved by speed boat (speed boat) or a rented boat with about 30 minutes journey from the port city of Manado.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Mendut
Prambanan
History
The legend
The popular legend of Lara Jonggrang is what connects the site of the Ratu Boko Palace, the origin of the Durga statue in northern cell/chamber of the main shrine, and the origin of the Sewu temple complex nearby. The legend tells of the story about Prince Bandung Bondowoso who fell in love with Princess Lara Jonggrang, the daughter of King Boko. But the princess rejected his proposal of marriage because Bandung Bondowoso had killed King Boko and ruled her kingdom. Bandung Bondowoso insisted on the union, and finally Lara Jonggrang was forced to agree for a union in marriage, but she posed one impossible condition: Bandung must build her a thousand temples in only one night.
The Prince entered into meditation and conjured up a multitude of spirits (demons) from the earth. Helped by supernatural beings, he succeeded in building 999 temples. When the prince was about to complete the condition, the princess woke her palace maids and ordered the women of the village to begin pounding rice and set a fire in the east of the temple, attempting to make the prince and the spirits believe that the sun was about to rise. As the cocks began to crow, fooled by the light and the sounds of morning time, the supernatural helpers fled back into the ground. The prince was furious about the trick and in revenge he cursed Lara Jonggrang to stone. She became the last and the most beautiful of the thousand statues. According to the traditions, the unfinished thousandth temple created by the demons become the Sewu temple compounds nearby (Sewu means "thousands" in Javanese), and the Princess is the image of Durga in the north cell of the Shiva temple at Prambanan, which is still known as Lara Jonggrang or Slender Virgin.
Borobudur
Evidence suggests Borobudur was abandoned following the fourteenth century decline of Buddhist and Hindu kingdoms in Java, and the Javanese conversion to Islam. Worldwide knowledge of its existence was sparked in 1814 by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, the then BritishIndonesian government and UNESCO, following which the monument was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Borobudur is still used for pilgrimage; once a year Buddhists in Indonesia celebrate Vesak at the monument, and Borobudur is Indonesia's single most visited tourist attraction.
Location
Thursday, March 26, 2009
North Sulawesi
Clear, warm waters (sea temperatures usually range between 27-30 degrees C), light currents and calm seas allow easy access to the underwater attraction awaiting visitors to the five-islands of the Bunaken-Manado Tua National Marine Park which sits directly offshore of Manado. Bunaken is the standout favorite, with the highest density of schooling fish and the greatest probability to see larger species such as turtles, sharks, and napoleon wrasse. There are enough sites here to keep any diver happy for over a week without going elsewhere.