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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Indonesia Tourism PlaceSasirangan the Souvenir From South Kalimantan







Sasirangan is a traditional fabric from Banjar ethnic. Banjar is an ethnic in south Kalimantan, Indonesia. This fabric has become one of famous souvenir there. In that area, Sasirangan could be bought in clothes caused it has been a raw material to make long dress, sarong and many others. Sasirangan have various motif and content of:

1. Iris Pudak

2. Kambang Raja

3. Bayam Raja

4. Kulit Kurikit

5. Ombak Sinapur Karang

6. Bintang Bahambur

7. Sari Gading

8. Kulit Kayu

9. Naga Balimbur

10. Jajumputan

11. Turun Dayang

12. Kambang Tampuk Manggis

13. Daun Jaruju

14. Kangkung Kaombakan

15. Sisik Tanggiling

16. Kambang Tanjung

Taken from: Wikipedia.co.id/kain sasirangan

Monday, January 18, 2010

Indonesia Tourism PlaceToba Lake, North Sumatera


Toba Lake is a famous tourism place in North Sumatera, Indonesia. It length about 100 km and 30 km width, at the middle of lake there is a beautiful island namely Samosir Island. Toba Island has become tourism object from Holland colonialism era.

According to the scientist it is created by huge explosion about 73000-75000 years ago and well known as the newest super volcano explosion. The volcano explosion make about 2800 km2 material out from the earth and causing ash spread till China and Africa. Because of that explosion made 60% death in the world more over it is claimed make ice era in the world at time although this information still controversial.

Toba Lake is very beautiful place with the panorama at around. It is offers nurturing environment for fish such as Tilapia mossambica, Chana gachua, etc…Various flora organism such as phytoplankton and some fauna likes zooplankton and benthos. Toba Lake has become livelihood place for the villagers there. They take a fish from the lake and doing daily activity by using Toba’s water. So it is not strange if you see there some villagers take a bath and clean their cloths in the lake.

The villager’s activity has made pollutant in the Toba’s water although it is not lack the beautiful panorama there. I give you this information in order to the visitors and tourist who want to go there keep clean this place caused the pollutant which happened in Toba Lake not only made by the Villagers but it is contributed by the visitors too. Some visitors waste their rubbish in anyplace.

Source: http://id.wikipedia.org

Monday, January 11, 2010

Indonesia Tourism PlaceHave a Nice Holiday in Kodingareng Keke Makassar


Kodingareng Keke Island is located in Makassar, south Sulawesi. The name is a little strange and very odd in our ear but in fact that’s a beautiful island. It is an island from eleven which included as Spermonde shelf of Makassar.

This island is northern of Kodingareng Lompo, at about 14 kilometers from Makassar town. It’s an oval island content of white sand and various reefs. No villagers in this area but there are cottages there, with cheap tariff and very clean. It is very good place to spend our night by enjoying the beautiful panorama, moreover for the visitors who want to enjoy the beautiful reef; they can rent snorkeling equipment which has been prepared there.

Now, how about the transportations? This island could be taken by boat or traditional boat about 40 minutes from Bangkoa harbor. For the visitors who interested want to go there, the tariff only Rp 300.000 for ten people by boat or about Rp30.000/people. According to the visitors, this island is very interesting with the white sand, clean water without pollutant, various reef, and fish species. So just enjoy and prove by your self.


Saturday, January 2, 2010

Indonesia Tourism PlaceGitgit Waterfall (Waterfall in Bali)


Bali is a beautiful island. There so many tourism objects could be found in Bali. One of them is Gitgit Waterfall. Gitgit waterfall is located in Buleleng regency, about an hour from Bedugul.

In Gitgit waterfall you could enjoy the panorama of natural forest at around and get the fresh air. The water in this area is very fresh and pure so you could remove your stress as an effect from working rush hour in a big city moreover this place is good for tracking area; turning path and mounting location make this place offering great challenge.

How to get this place, maybe that’s the question. By using private car from Denpasar take a way to Singaraja trough Bedugul. You do not worry will be lost if you go to there, I mean just ask to the villagers if you lost and they will help you very well.

Picture taken from : dinnasabriani.wordpress.com

Indonesia Tourism PlaceHow to make Batik and where we could get the course

Yogyakarta is a beautiful town; you not only just buy and enjoy the great batik artwork, but get opportunity to learn the batik production. This package includes the interesting tourism traveling with short duration and low cost, surely its very comfort.

At that place you can learn how to make batik pattern such as hand-made batik, printed batik, and painted batik. Of course all place offering own specification about Batik which we are learned. For a day it’s divided into 2 sessions and the trainee teach to make batik from motif making, coloring, wax dying, and drying.

The batik pattern process will be begun when all material is ready. Pattern process will be done with wax as the main material, of course we need cloth looks like a canvas as media to make a pattern. If you want to make hand–made batik, we could use wax pen is called canting to make it, but if we want to make print batik it will be using copper print which has been design as our plan.

All unique patterns could be made according to the trainee such as ceplok pattern, cecek sawut, and semen pattern. All of that are pattern of ancient building in Indonesia. Ceplok pattern is Borobudur temple’s, cecek sawut is a bronze accessories pattern from bronze era, and semen pattern could be found in the Kalinyamat funeral.

Pattern process already finishes and continued to the coloring. The patterned cloth dips into the coloring bucket. Looks like this process is very simple but it’s difficult enough, moreover if we want to make Batik more than two color. Many Batik artisans still using natural coloring but some of them use synthetics.

If the coloring process already finish, batik process will be continued to dying the wax, or removing the wax attaching to the cloth. It is done by preparing boiling water mixed with soda ash and finally the cloth is dipped to remove the entire wax. If there is still wax attached, it must be cleaned after the dying process.

Final step in batik process is washing, if the artisans use natural coloring not suggest using detergent caused it will be removed the color. After washing process continues with the drying, the cloth placed in the windy area, it is proposed to avoid coloring damage. Batik with the synthetics coloring will be delight than the natural.

Batik course place in Yogyakarta prepare professional trainer so the trainee could be an expert in a short time. For information, some trainers could be speaking English well and it will be easier the foreigner to do communication.

Some of the batik Course in Yogya is Sanggar Kalpika in Kampung Taman, Batik course place in Kusumanegara Street, etc... The course place offering various costs to learn batik it is 250.000 rupiahs to 1.500.000.

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