Lampung, aim your Streets

Saturated trips to the area of ​​Puncak, West Java Anyer and Carita or beach, Banten? Lampung could be an alternative to your vacation destination. Apart from close of Jakarta, the potential of tourism in the southern tip of Sumatra island is also quite promising. During this time residents of Jakarta and surrounding areas choose Peak, Anyer and Carita as a holiday destination. In addition to the proximity factor, if compared to Bali or Yogyakarta, tour packages are also relatively inexpensive. Lampung could be an option. The province is rich in attractions. Superior package also varied, both physical objects and attractions.
The trip to Lampung can be started from the toll booth Slipi, Tomang, or Kebon Jeruk toll gate to the port of Merak, Banten and then forwarded to cross the Sunda Strait toward Bakauheni.Peacock can be reached within one hour or one hour 15 minutes.In Peacock, the ship quickly sailed to Bakauheni that only during the day between 06.00 am or 6:30 until 17:00 or 17:30 with a long sail 40-45 minutes.
If you take a private car, take the bus from Jakarta to Bandar Lampung or traveling at night, crossing can only be done by ferry for about two hours. Lampung also be achieved through the air.Several airlines serve, Radin Inten Airport (Lampung), and Soekarno-Hatta.
Bandar Lampung is a strategic city for the tour to visit various attractions. This city can be reached within 1.5 hours from Bakauheni and 30 minutes from Radin Inten Airport. Beach attractions, culture, nature or adventure tourism in the mountain forests and rivers, diving and fishing, easy to reach from the city.
Because the object of one another and close together, we can be sure your visit or tour to be not monotonous, the experience becomes more diverse as many places to see.
Bandar Lampung is the union of two old cities, namely Telukbetung and Tanjungkarang. Adequate infrastructure and facilities available here, such as taxis, buses in the city and intercity, train, taxi antarjemput intercity province, and shopping centers.
In Telukbetung there is a monument to the eruption of Mount Krakatau in the Garden Dipangga. This monument is a sign of sea weighing half a ton who was thrown from the tsunami tidal waves as high as 30 feet that caused the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.This park is part of Lampung resident office location.
Traditional homes or custom homes, town forest and a butterfly garden can be seen here. In many places you can easily find a fabric filter, which is typical of Lampung fabric woven from yarn, cotton or traditional pineapple fiber. Cloth embroidered with gold thread or silver thread sulum intestinal various motives.
Want to tour the beach? Come to the lips of the Gulf Coast stretching from Lampung in South Lampung Kalianda to Bandar Lampung. A bay area with beautiful beaches and then into the Gulf of Watermelon in Tanggamus.
Sulphur hot springs Way, Beach Reporter, Kalianda resort, Laguna Helau, Peacock Belantung, Pasir Putih, Tanjung Selaki, Sand Island, Beach Marina is a coastal tourist area in the Bay of Lampung in South Lampung.
There Kalianda Beach Marina and Resort. Marina Beach has beautiful scenery with rocks that form varies. According to folklore, there is a rock called the Rock Hall is where Prince Cindar Earth receive visitors. This beach is located in District Sidomulyo 43 kilometers from Bandar Lampung, or 22 miles from Kalianda. The facilities available here vary.
Kalianda tourist resort area located 30 kilometers north of Bakauheni, 20 kilometers north of Kalianda, and 45 kilometers from Bandar Lampung. This area provides facilities such as adventure tour to Krakatau and surrounding islands of the southern Bay of Lampung, diving on the island of Sebuku, fishing, camping places, bungalows, jetsky, disco, cafeteria overlooking the beach, bike rentals, and boat rowing.
Other sights are the archaeological park, traditional villages, agro Ancient tomb of Prince Jiwa Kesuma, an area sacred stone, waterfalls, camp boat, lake and native villages spread over 10 districts and cities. Everything is easily accessible from Bandar Lampung.
Sights that only a fraction of the wealth of attractions Lampung. The mascot is a tourist attraction of Mount Krakatau Islands, National Park Way Kambas and Bukit Barisan. Three objects are already known around the world. In addition to the physical object, Lampung tourism attraction package also presents a peak is Krakatoa Festival.
Lampung is alternative tourism areas are the most popular people in Jakarta and other areas in Sumatra. Every weekend throughout the hotel in Lampung, ranging from hotels to five-star hotel, guests are always solid. The occupancy rate of hotels in Lampung could reach above 65 percent. The vast majority of hotel guests coming from Jakarta and surrounding areas, such as Attack and a small portion of Kilkenny or Bengkulu.
Since 2002, hotel occupancy rates began to solid since Friday night. In previous years, new hotels filled with visitors starting Saturday. So, do not need all the way to choose a vacation spot.Cheap, which is important to briefly off fatigue from your occupation in Jakarta.

Bangkirai Hill, Stunning Natural Area Tourism

Category: Nature Tourism If you want to travel on weekends, Bukit Bangkirai natural tourism area which is located in District Samboja likely to be a choice vacation with family, relatives or lovers. In this Bangkirai Hill area, tourists can enjoy the atmosphere of tropical rain forest that is still natural and even the birds singing and the voices of other forest animals still can be heard.
Not only that, the tourists who have problems at altitude might be able to try the challenge to pursue a canopy bridge or bridges connecting the canopy suspended from 5 trees Bangkirai. Surely there's an eerie feeling, but exciting when down the suspension bridge at a height of 30 feet from the face of the land while the cool breeze enough chilling goose bumps, especially the swinging bridge at the moment we've only reached half way.
But for those whose souls do not have the problem of height, canopy walk down the bridge really fun. From the upper canopy bridge, tourists can freely view the panorama of tropical rain forest (tropical rain forest) Bangkirai Hill and watched from nearby stands of canopy formation "Dipteropcarpaceae" which is characteristic of tropical rain forests, which form the upper stratum of mutual connection connects.
Length overall canopy of existing bridge on the Mount Bangkirai is 64 meters long that connects the 5 trees Bangkirai. To reach the canopy bridge, there are two towers of ironwood trees established around Bangkirai.
"Canopy existing bridge on the Mount Bangkirai this is the first in Indonesia, both in Asia and the eighth in the world. Its construction was made in the United States, and in terms of security is also quite secure." said Ir Ruspian Noor, one of the officers of Inhutani I.
As a natural tourism area, a variety of facilities and infrastructure has been prepared for the tourists who come like a restaurant with a menu that is varied enough, Lamin for meetings that can accommodate 100 people, as well as lodging in the form of cottages with air conditioning and jugle cabin, the cottage is not equipped facilities electricity so that tourists who stay there can feel the atmosphere of an actual forest.
Hill Regions Bangkirai which covers 1500 hectares is forest conservation has an important role to develop the natural tropical moist forest monuments that can be used as a means of environmental education and forestry.
The forest area of ​​this tour aims to develop the tourism potential of natural and scientific research and improve the environment and the affection of the forest. On March 14, 1998, 510 hectares of this area was established as tourist areas by Djamalludin Suryohadikusumo, Minister of Forestry of Indonesia in the Sixth Development Cabinet as an effort to develop the tourism potential of natural and scientific as well as to increase the love of the environment, especially the flora and fauna.
Natural tourism area is named for Mount Bangkirai Bangkirai dominant tree species that grow in the protected forest area.Bangkirai tree was then used as the mascot of the main attractions which has worldwide this. In this area there are many Bangkirai trees older than 150 years to reach a height of 40 to 50 m, with a diameter of 2.3 m. Growth banir (root board), a large and powerful make this tree has a value of its own beauty.
Bangkirai Hill is located about 150 km from the town of Tenggarong or Samarinda and only about 58 km from the city of Aberdeen and 20 km from the capital district Samboja. To achieve this natural tourist area, tourists can take it by road using four-wheel vehicles and motorcycles.
Geographically, the area of ​​Bukit Bangkirai including lowland (lowland primary) "dipterocarp forest" that is stable, so that this area be a place of invasion of birds from the Forest Park of Bukit Soeharto (approximately 30 km) and the surrounding areas affected by forest fires. From the observations that have been done, there are 113 bird species live in the area of ​​Bukit Bangkirai this.
The types of fauna that exist in the area of ​​Bukit Bangkirai is Owa-Owa (Hylobates muelleri), monkey (Macaca nemestrina), Red monkey (Presbytus rubicunda), Long-tailed monkey (Macaca fascicularis), Warthog (Susvittatus), Flying Squirrel (Squiler ) and Sambar (Corvus unicolor), which has ditangkarkan.
The area is also rich in Bukit Bangkirai wild orchids that grow naturally on trees that are still living and the dead. There are at least 45 species of orchids that can be found in this region, including the Black Orchid (Coelegyne pandurata) is very famous and became one of East Kalimantan's mascot. In addition to cultivation of natural orchids, as well as to develop a new hybrid orchid Orchid Kala, Apple Blossom and Orchid Orchid Vanda. In addition to the orchid garden, nature recreation area is also equipped with orchards covering an area of ​​4 hectares.
To maintain the integrity and preservation of trees bangkirai in this area, the manager of the Mount Bangkirai Tree Adoption program offers to its sponsors or donors to become "foster parents" for the trees bangkirai desired. Currently, the adoption of the tree is mostly done by the JICA Japan VIVO. You are interested in adopting a tree? Come to the Mount Bangkirai, recreation while preserving nature. 

Enchantment Tours Mount Bromo

 Category: Nature Tourism The existence of Mount Bromo with sea sand has been quite phenomenal long been known as one of the leading tourist destination in Indonesia. Mount Bromo is one of the mountain on the Tengger Mountains.
With a height of 2392 meters above sea level, beautiful panoramic views emitted when the natural charm that will never-ending. Mount Bromo is derived from Sanskrit which means god Brahma or a major and are located in four regions, namely Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Lumajang, and Malang.



The attraction of Mount Bromo crater special is in the middle of the vast sea of ​​sand that stretches around the crater of Bromo, white smoke. Mount Bromo mesh body shape between valleys and canyons with the caldera or the sea of ​​sand covering some 10 square kilometers.
Mount Bromo has a crater with a diameter of ± 800 feet (north-south) and ± 600 meters (east-west). While the danger area of ​​a circle with a radius of 4 km from the central crater of Bromo. The height of the relatively "low" for the size of the mountain to make the trip to Mount Bromo is relatively easy.


 
From the top of the volcano is still active, you can enjoy the vast expanse of ocean sand, and watched the towering majesty of Mount Semeru reaching for the sky. You also can look beautiful sun went out of peraduannya or otherwise enjoy the dim twilight of the ridge Bromo.
To view them, you have to climb Mount Pananjakan which is the highest mountain in the region. Terrain that must be traversed to get to Mount Pananjakan quite heavy. To reach the foot of Mount Pananjakan, you have to go through desert-like area that can make you get lost. When the need to climb Mount Pananjakan, narrow streets and many sharp turns, of course requires a high driving skill.
For that, many visitors who choose to rent a car hardtop (a type of jeep) driven by the community. Surrounding communities come from the Tengger tribe was friendly with the visitors. Up above, there are many shops serving coffee or tea and a fire to warm themselves while waiting to tebitnya sun. There are also stores that rent warm clothing. 


Watching the sunrise is an interesting event. Evidence, the visitors are willing to wait since 5 am facing the east so as not to lose this moment. You also do not always able to see this event, because if the cloudy sky, the appearance of the sun is not seen clearly.
However, when the sky is clear, you can see the roundness of the sun first of all just as small as a match pins, slowly enlarge and eventually form a full circle and give information so that we can see the views of the mountains in this region. Among others, Mount Bromo, Mount Batok, or Mount Sumeru which is the highest mountain in Java.
The history of the formation of Mount Bromo and the mountains around it originated from the existence of Tengger Mountain (4,000 meters above sea level) which is the largest and highest mountain at that time.
Then came the massive eruption which created a caldera with a diameter of more than 8 kilometers. Material volcanic eruption is now transformed into a sea of ​​sand, the material is said to have covered by water. The volcanic activity with the advent of the hall lead to the formation of magma new mountains such as Mount Bromo, Mount Widodaren, Gunung Batok, Gunung Watangan, Mount Chairs and Mount Semeru. 
Bromo does have its own uniqueness compared to other mountain panorama. In the vicinity of Bromo until the peak does not exist other than green plants shrubs. Mount Bromo is still contained in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park is also the only conservation area in Indonesia, which has a unique form of sea sand area of ​​5250 hectares.
To reach the foot of Mount Bromo, you can not use the vehicle.Instead, you must hire a horse with a price of USD 70 thousand, or if you feel strong, you can choose to walk. But, it should be noted that walking is not easy, because of the scorching sun, a far distance, scattered dust can make the journey harder.
From the foot of the mountain was phenomenal, you have to climb the ladder whose numbers reach 250 stairs to see the crater of Mount Bromo. Arriving at the top of Bromo, you can see the crater of Mount Bromo that emit smoke.
You can also glanced down and saw the sea of ​​sand with a temple in the middle. After lingering at the top, if travelers are feeling hungry, at the bottom of the Bromo there are stalls offering warm, instant noodles, mineral water and cheap snacks. .
Besides watching the beautiful panorama offered by the Bromo-Semeru, if you come at the right time, then you can watch Kesodo ceremony, which was held by Tengger society. This ceremony usually begins at midnight to early morning every full moon around 14 or 15 in Kesodo [tenth] according to the Javanese calendar.


Photo credits - Rhamadian Qadafi / Portaltiga
Kesodo ceremony is a ritual to invoke the abundant harvest or decline the request for reinforcements and cure various diseases, in particular by offering offerings and threw it into the crater of Mount Bromo. When the procession took place, other Tenggerese rollicking down the cliff of the crater and the offerings being thrown into the crater, as a symbol of blessing from the Almighty.
There are a few tips that need your attention now to the region of Mount Bromo, among others, Have a look in the dry season, not the rainy season, so you will get a perfect view of the moment.Prepare cold protective clothing, such as the guard house, slayer, scarves, gloves, jackets, and do not forget the shoes because the weather is quite cold here. Also take glasses to shield from dust while in Segoro Wedi sand. Do not be in the crater of Bromo on top at 9 am to avoid the risk of poisoning.
There are four main gate to enter the Bromo Semeru national park areas are: Village Cemorolawang if through the Probolinggo, Pasuruan Village Wonokitri with lines, Ngadas Village and Village of Malang path is the path Lumajang Burno.
The route can be taken is as follows: - Pasuruan-Cafes-Tosari Dowo Wonokitri-Bromo-use cars with a distance of 71 km, - Malang-Shack-Tumpang Klakah Jemplang-Bromo-use cars with a distance of 53 km - Malang-Purwodadi-Nongkojajar-Tosari-Wonokitri-Penanjakan about 83 km
Enjoy the exotic beauty of Mount Bromo! (Emery Taufik Gobel)