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Alas Purwo National Park
Alas Purwo National Park is situated on Blambangan Peninsula, at the south eastern tip of East Java. The park’s name means “First Forest”, in accordance with a Javanese legend that says the earth first emerged from the ocean here. With an area of 434 km², the park is made up of mangroves, savanna, lowland monsoon forests and coral-fringed beaches. An internationally renowned surf break peels along the edge of the park at Plengkung, on the Bay of Grajagan. Mount Linggamanis (322m) is also located in this national park. Between the months of April and September, thousands of surfers from all over the world visit G-Land, which is about half a day’s travel from Bali. Plengkung, in the southern part of the Park, is almost legendary among the world’s top surfers. They call it “G-Land”. The name is derived from its location in Teluk Grajagan (Grajagan Bay), which resembles the letter “G”.Moreover, it is located a short distance from a stretch of tropical rain forest which always looks green (hence green land or “G-land”). Plengkung is one of the top four locations for surfing in the world and can be ranked alongside surf sites in Hawaii, Australia, and South Africa. Walking along the white sand beach from Trianggulasi to Plengkung, visitors will come across an area of buckshot-like sand. The grains are yellow in colour and have a diameter of around 2.5 mm. Sadengan is the feeding ground for wild animals in the area of Alas Purwo National Park. The visitors can see the wild animals such as wild bull, barking deer, wild pig, peacock, jungle fowl and many kind of birds.
Bromo Mountain, Probolinggo East Java
This National Park is one of the most beautiful places of interest in East Java. The beauties of mountain covered, give a special and characteristic green plants, arousing great interest. Tenggerese traditional farming also makes this famous place being more interesting and attractive. In addition, cool and breezy wind always blows freshly giving ever visitor special deep impression a unforgettable memories.The accessibility has no problem and very reachable (via Malang, Pasuruan, Probolinggo or Lumajang). Surely, different access give different characteristics scenery landscape. The elevation reaches about 2.392 meter sea level above and the temperature varies from 3 up to 20 degrees centigrade. Facilities: Star Hotels, home-stays, restaurants, and many others that visitors needed can be found. The people who live in this area are supposed to be descended from Majapahit Kingdom about six hundred years ago. The belonged to Tenggerese Hinduism with old traditional. That tradition still survives up to now. Every year, they always carry out the traditional and religious ceremonies, and the most popular ones is Yadnya Kasada, an offering ceremony held at the edge of the crater on the top of mount Bromo.
Pasir Putih Beach, Situbondo
Pasir Putih Beach is a maritime and nature tourism object because it lies between a sea and a mountain. And it said that the Situbondo Pasir Putih Beach became known because of its nice and beautiful, concave beach, with its sparkling white sand. The sea, the beach, the forest and the mountain are the main tourist attractions that you can enjoy. Pasir Putih tourist resort lies on the north coast of East Java and along Bungatan district – 21 km to the west of the centre of Situbondo and easily accessible by any transportation because it is by the side of a main road from Surabaya to Banyuwangi. It is 174 km from Surabaya to Pasir Putih Beach and takes about 4 hours by bus and about 2 hours from Ketapang, Banyuwangi. As a marine tourism resort, Situbondo Pasir Putih Beach is the ideal place to practice water sports, such as swimming, diving, and wind surfing. This beach also often becomes the water sports competition arena, either of regional, or national scale. Like wind surfing, sailing, as well as traditional fishing boat competitions, are often held here. Many attractions that you can enjoy over there, they are: Diving, Canoeing, Swimming, Sailing on traditional boat, Wonderful Sunrise, and in October you can see festval “Petik Laut”. Pasir Putih tourist resort is under Situbondo local government management and operated by a state enterprise of the local authority. It provides visitor with some necessary facilities. You can get to Pasir Putih from two directions. First, from Bungurasih (Surabaya bus station), you can take the bus going to Banyuwangi and the fare is 16.000 rupiahs by a regular bus and it takes about 4 hours, but the fare is 26.000 rupiahs if you take patas bus (an air conditioned two-two seat which round trip route in one province with fixed fares). The second direction is from Banyuwangi, you can take the bus station with the bus fare of 13.000 rupiahs and from the station you can take a public transportation (bemo) or regular bus and fare is about 2.500 rupiahs.
Baluran Savannah National Park, Banyuwangi Situbondo
Java’s Little Bit Of Africa. Baluran is the easiest place on Java to see an impressive variety of plant species and animals. Its wildlife features monitor lizards, wild dogs and pigs, squirrels, fruit bats, giant woodpeckers, crab-eating monkeys and leaf monkeys in the upland forests. Groups of 30 or more barking deer are common. This park is a forest preservation area that extends about 25.000 ha on the north coast of East Java. The location is in Sumberwaru village, Banyuwangi district, Situbondo (on the east border of Java Island). You can enjoy the panorama of savannah and mount Baluran (inactive volcano) in the center of area that becomes habitat of many exotic animals such as wild pigs, deer, peacocks, wild chicken, some species of monkeys and also bulls as the protected animals in the area. You can enjoy the amazing scenery of the forest and do the safari activities in the wild life and feel the magic of the forest. You also can observe hundreds species of birds such as hornbills, peacocks and bulbuls. If you like to observe the tropical forest vegetation, the park is a heaven for many species of trees, plants and flowers such as pecan nut trees, Maja, Gadung, Java tamarind trees and mount Widara. This park is so unique because 15 km from the main entrance, you can find a beautiful white beach called Bama Beach, here in the habiat of coral reef, fish and mangrove.
Mount Merapi, Yogjakarta
Mount Merapi or Gunung Merapi in Indonesian language (bahasa), is a conical volcano in Central Java, Indonesia. It is the most active volcano in Indonesia and has erupted regularly since 1548. Its name means Mountain of Fire. It is very close to the city of Yogyakarta, and thousands of people live on the flanks of the volcano, with villages as high as 1700 m above sea level. Several of its eruptions have caused fatalities. It was erupting from 1992 to 2002, and a particularly large explosion killed 43 people in 1994. It began erupting again in 2006, and scientists believe a large eruption is imminent. In light of the hazards it poses to populated areas, it has been designated a Decade Volcano. Merapi is the youngest in a group of volcanoes in southern Java. It is situated at a subduction zone, where the Indo-Australian Plate is sliding beneath the Eurasian Plate. It is one of at least 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, part of the Pacific Ring of Fire – a section of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and South East Asia. Stratigraphic analysis reveals that eruptions in the Merapi area began about 400,000 years ago, and from then until about 10,000 years ago, eruptions were typically effusive, and the outflowing lava emitted was basaltic.
Shallow Hal (2001)
Shallow Hal sebuah film drama komedi yang di produksi tahun 2001 dan dimainkan oleh Jack Black, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jason Alexander. Shallow Hal ini menceritakan seorang laki-laki yang mempunyai pemikiran dangkal mengenai kecantikan dan disini Jack Black yang berperan sebagai Hal Larson seringkali bersikap seolah-olah dia orang yang keren dan menarik bagi wanita disekitarnya. Pada kenyataannya wanita itu malah muak atas sikap Hal yang hanya melihat sesuatu dari Kecantikan Luar. Suatu hari dia terjebak di sebuah lift bersama seorang ahli terapis psikolog bernama Tony Robins yang akhirnya menghipnotis Hal untuk dapat melihat Kecantikan Dalam/ Kecantikan Hati dari seorang wanita. Itu sebuat penggalan cerita awal dimana Hal Larson yang berpikiran dangkal (Shallow) menerima anugerah dapat melihat Inner Beauty seorang wanita. Film ini mempunyai momen yang penting dan bagus yang haus ditonton, seperti saat dimana Hal bertemu dan berbicara dengan Rosemary pertama kali atau saat hal berkunjung ke rumah sakit. Dalam film ini terdapat beberapa momen atau biasanya disebut scene yang menurutku bagus, dan sebaiknya anda menonton sendiri untuk mengetahuinya. Film yang layak tonton karena memberikan hikmah tentang pilihan atas hidup kita ke depannya dalam hal percintaan dan tidak seperti film yang saat ini banyak beredar yang berorientasi pada hiburan semata. Saat ini saya beruntung karena selain koneksi internet yg lancar dan juga menemukan link untuk mendonload film ini dan untungnya tidak broken, saya akan membagi linknya. Maaf kalo sewaktu-waktu linknya broken dan terpaksa saya tidak bisa mengupdate karena suatu hal. Untuk mendownload film ini silahkan klik link dibawah ini.
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