Sunday, July 18, 2010

Seropan Cave

Gunungkidul has abundant potential for ecotourism, including cave karst (limestone caves in the area of land). One of the caves that have been traced in the village is the Cave seropan semuluh Gunungkidul district Semanu Yogyakarta Special Region. 888 meter long cave with this. intimate embrace with the softness of the river water that flows underground in it. Feel the sensation of being in the depths of the earth Gunungkidul, uncover the beauty of desert country behind.


Seropan Cave, has a beauty that was born from the mating between a stalactite ornament 3d engrave exoticism and underground streams
make eye stunned. In karst cave formed at a depth of 60 meters below the ground surface have a waterfall that can be utilized for electricity generation using microhydro technology. Many of the potential that can be extracted, living how to blend government and society to empower them. Seropan caves, the beauty that was born from the result of a carve perkimpoian between exoticism 3d stalactite ornament and underground streams make eye stunned. In karst cave formed at a depth of 60 meters below the ground surface have a waterfall that can be utilized for electricity generation using microhydro technology. Many of the potential that can be extracted, living how to blend government and society to empower them.



Cave is located in the district Seropan. Semanu, Wonosari, with typical waterfall where there is a fairly high (7 m) and an underground river natural scenery as well as stalagmites and stalactites are amazing. If the Visit in Jogja do not forget to drop by this place. To reach the cave entrance, we had to descend a fairly steep stairs. Account after that, we will be a sight for sore during free dg ahead of us. Stone - the rock around the mouth of the cave is made of water droplets / stalactites.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

15 The Beautiful Coast at Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

The capital of Gunung Kidul regency, Wonosari, is located south-east of Yogya city 65 km from Yogyakarta City. You will pass Wonosari City, as capital of Gunungkidul Regency, the distance approximately 40 kilometer from Yogyakarta. Road infrastructure to Wonosari City is good enough. Gunung Kidul in the line of the Southern Mountains and also Sewu Mountains. This area is the limestone hills and the karst landscape, barren and lack of surface water. The center is hollow Wonosari (Wonosari Basin) which has undergone tectonic processes so that the plateau was Wonosari. So normal that many people think that Gunung Kidul is hot. However, behind it Gunung Kidul has its own charm, rich in natural attractions, from karst to the beach. Gunung Kidul has many beautiful beach tourism. From the coastal region whose length is about 70 km.

Gunung Kidul has its own charm, rich in natural attractions, from karst to the beach. Gunung Kidul has many beautiful beach tourism. There are 15 beach tourism area become a mainstay of tourism in Gunung Kidul. Beaches were spread in several districts, including District Tepus, Tanjungsari, Girisubo, Saptosari, Purwosari, and Bake. Call it Kukup Beach, Baron, Beach Beach Gesing, Ngobaran Beach, Beach Krakal, Sundak, Along Beach, Ngandong Beach, and Beach Wediombo that presents the beauty of white sand, marine biota, and coral reefs. Hundreds of species of ornamental fish can be seen directly at the surface of calm sea water. Sadeng beach which is the mainstay for the supply of fresh sea fish in the country. Among other things, bawal fish, tuna, snapper, Layur, lobster, stingrays, and sharks. The beauty is also decorated with beach trees, such as Drini Beach, has specificity Drini tree, which is a kind of shrubs that grow on rocks Drini beach.

Few Beach In Gunungkidul :










Pantai Baron


Pantai Sepanjang


Pantai KukupPantai Drini
Pantai Krakal
Pantai Sundak
Pantai Parang Racuk
Pantai Siung

Pantai Wediombo
Pantai Sadeng
Pantai Langkap
Pantai Butuh
Pantai Slili
Pantai Ngungap
Pantai Ngrenehan

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Similarities and differences between the temples of Central Java and East Java

The temples in Indonesia distinguish between the temples of Central Java and Java Temple Timur.Adapun important differences architectural temples of Central Java and East Java, which is as follows.


Central Javanese temple architecture
1. Form building fat;
2. The roof-terraces terraces
;
3. The peak-shaped stupa;

4. Doors and niches decorated kalamakar;
5.
Relief arising somewhat high and naturalist paintings;
6. Location of the temple in the middle of the page;
7.
Materials are generally made of stone temples andesite












East Javanese temple architecture


1. The slender building;
2. The roof is a fusion levels;
3. The climax cubical;
4.
Makara no;
5.
Doors and niche just above the threshold are given a head kara;
6. Relief arising slightly resembles a puppet and symbolic paintings;
7. Location of the temple in the back yard
;
8. Materials are generally brick temple









Although there are differences in some of the things above, but in broad outline that the temples have in common in terms of its building, because the temple consists of three important buildings, among others, legs, body and roof.

While the equation of the temple are as follows:

  1. Feet below the temple is part of the temple. The building has a symbol of the underworld or "bhurloka". In form of square equipped with ladder on one side.
  2. Body of the temple is the center of the temple that bebrbentuk cube which is regarded as among the world or "bhuwarloka". The body of the temple consists of a chamber (room) that the middle contains a "Arca", on the outside of the booth were given niches and there are roads around the so-called "pradakshina".
  3. The roof of the temple is part of a temple that became a symbol of the world's top or "swarloka". In general, the roof of the temple consists of three levels of increasingly smaller size and at its peak made a "Ratna".

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Cetho An Exotic Temple

Cetho Temple is one of the temples are located in the Hamlet of Ceto, Gumeng Village, District Jenawi, Karanganyar District, at an altitude of 1400m above sea level. Until now, the temple complex is used by local residents who are Hindus as a place of worship and popular as a place of hermitage for genuine religious circles Javanese / Javanese beliefs.





Location of Cetho Temple on Gunung Lawu slopes is delightful. Rolling hills, valleys and plateaus, coffee groves and vegetable plots give way to tea plantations at about 1,000m. At 1,400m and some fifteen kilometres from Candi Sukuh lies Candi Cetho which sits at the top of a steeply sloping Hindu village of the same name. It dates from the same period as Sukuh, but could not be more different. You would think you had been transported several hundred kilometres to Bali, with whose temples Cetho shares many similarities. It is an exquisitely attractive place, even if little visited.