Showing posts with label resorts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resorts. Show all posts

Sunday, March 11, 2012

De Kleine Switzerland (Small Switzerland in Java Island)


Moment people mention the fruit apples, air cool, and natural charm beautifully definitely his memory will remain on the City Tourism Batu. The icon that is what differentiates the Stone Travel City with other cities in Indonesia. Geographically, the city in East Java Province is located at an altitude between 680-1700 meters above sea level with temperatures ranging between 15-19 degrees Celsius. Precisely in the west of Malang, with a distance of approximately 19 km. If the opposite of Surabaya City, a trip to Travel Town Stone takes approximately 2 hours.

De Kleine Switzerland (Swiss Small in Java), so once the Dutch called the city winsome. They like to go to the Rock when he was missed by the world's most beautiful cities in Switzerland. According to them, just one that does not exist in Batu compared with the Swiss snow.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Mendut Temple



Mendut temple located 3 km to the east of the Borobudur Temple, a Buddhist temple which was built in 824 AD by King Indera of the dynasty dynasty. Inside Mendut there are 3 (three) big statue.

  1. Cakyamuni who was sitting cross-legged with your hands turn the wheel of dharma.
  2. Awalokiteswara as Bodhi Satwa help mankind. Awalokiteswara is a statue of Amitabha who is above the crown, Vajrapani. She is holding a red lotus flower is placed on the palm of the hand.  
  3. Maitreya as the savior of the future human

There are stories for children on the walls. This temple is often used to celebrate the Vesak ceremony every May on the night of full moon and visited by pilgrims from Indonesia and foreign countries.

This temple is older than Borobudur temple. Architecture and has a rectangular entrance on the ladder. The roof is also square and terraced, there is a stupa on top.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Prambanan Temple, Most beatiful temple in the world


Prambanan is a stunningly beautiful building built in the 10th century during the reign of two kings, and Rakai Rakai Pikatan Balitung. Rose as high as 47 meters (5 meters higher than Borobudur temple), the foundation of this temple has fulfilled the desire to show Hindu triumph in the land of Java. This temple is located 17 kilometers from the city center, in the middle of an area that now functions as beautiful park.
There is a legend that Javanese people always tell about this temple. Once, a man named Bandung Bondowoso loved Roro Jonggrang. Because of his love, Jonggrang asked Bondowoso make 1000 temples with statues in one night. The request was nearly fulfilled Jonggrang asked the villagers to pound rice and make a big fire that created an atmosphere like the morning. Bondowoso who only completed 999 statues cursed Jonggrang be a statue of the 1000 because he felt cheated. 


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Borobudur Temple




Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the 9th century measuring 123 x 123 meters. Borobudur was completed centuries before Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Niagara Watter Falls

One from any place i want to visit is Niagara Watter Falls, Niagara is a large waterfall on the Niagara River at the internasional boundary line betwen United States state of New York with the Canadian province of Ontario. This waterfall is about 17 miles (27 km) north northwest of Bufallo, New york and 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Toronto, Ontario.


Niagara is a group of three. The tird waterfall is waterfall Horseshoe (sometimes referred to as Canadian's waterfall). waterfall America, and the smaller Bridal Veil waterfall. That is separated by an island, Luna Island the main waterfall.