BROMO KAWAH IJEN AND EAST JAVA
East Java has many natural attractions with its splendour
volcanoes actives Mount Bromo and Kawah Ijen, and the many Park Nationalssuch
as Baluran and Alas Purwo, Yogyatours.com provide the informations
about tourist destinations in East Java to help you visit easier Bromo
and Kawah Ijen as the most popular tourism objects.
SURABAYA
The city established by Raden Wijaya the first king of Majapahit Kingdom
in 1923. As the second biggest city in Indonesia and the capital province
of east Java, Surabaya has many tourist attraction especially the
colonial building and the complete zoo in South East Asia with the
giant lizard of Komodo, The traditional harbor of Kalimas with the
Phinisi, Arabic quarter od Kampung Arab. China town of Kya-kya and
the museum of sampoerna, the biggest cigarette factory.
BROMO
Splendour Mount BromoThe most spectacular and accessible park in the
Indonesia archipelago, it lies between 78 54' - 8*13' South latitude
and 112*51' - 113804' East Longitude on the globe. The area covers
58.000 hectares of administration of the Directorate General of Forest
and Nature Conservation. There are 4 main reserves, namely: (a) the
Laut Pasir Reserve (6.290 ha ) : the sea of sand- declared in 19919
as a protection of 10km wide soft bed of the Caldera (96 ha). (b)
The ranu Pane - Ranu Regulo l 14 km away from he active Bromo on the
southern of the Caldera (c) Ranu Kumbolo Reserve (1,340 ha) The Kumbolo
lake is surrounded by a ring of the hill ops and scattered conifers.
Both (b) and (c) were established in 1921. (d) the Ranu Darungan Reserve
(380ha). was only recently included in October 1982. The whole region
stretches 40 km from the north from the to the south and 30 km from
East of West.
SEMERU
The highest peak is the 3.676 meter Gunung Semeru followed by Gunung
Kepolo (3.035), Gunung Arcopodo (3.150m), Gunung Jambangan (.020 m)Gunung
Bajangan (2.800 m), Gunung Ayek-ayek (2.819 m), Gunung Kumbolo (2.390
m), Gunung Lanang (2.313 m ), Gunung Iderider (2.527 m ), Gunung Widodaren
(2.614 M ), Gunung Bromo (2.392M),Gunung Mungal (2.480 m), Gunung
Batok (2.440m), ending at panoramic platform of Gunung Pananjakan
(2.770 m ) which is about 14 km from the village of Wonokitri which
is less than 2 km from the town Tosari.
KAWAH IJEN
Kawah Ijen Great beautiful scenery of green sulfur lake, at 2000 m
above sea level, where the story about humanity begin everyday in
the morning. We can see the poor porters running down the mountain
with 90 kg sulfur. Walking through the passage of the sulfur porter
The ijen plateau his is the centre of the Ijen - Merapi. Malang Reserve.
The Principal attraction at ijen is the large, Superheroes crater
lake which lies hidden between sheer walls of deeply furrowed rock
at more than 200 meters. The ijen crater itself lies at approximately
2.300 meters above sen level. It form a twin volcano with the now
extinct mount Merapi. The enormous crater lake. which is 200 meters
deep and covers an area of more than halt a million square meters.
Contains about 36 million cubic meters of streaming. Acid water ijen
crater shows a special type of vacancies feature common to Indonesia,
About 1 kilo meters in diameter and 175 metres deep
BALURAN
Reserve national where we find the habitat of last Javanese bulls
and the others exotic animals. Blaluran is wild game preserve and
occupies about 25.000 hectares of open savannah, and hill country
to the north of banyuwangi. the park is a haven for a great variety
of native animals and bird species including deers, wild pigs, buffalos
leopards, peacocks, monkeys, and the banteng - the Javanese wild ox.
you can abserves the animals in their native habitat from a specially
constructed tower.
SUKAMADE
The beach in where the turtles leave their eggs to regeneration
Conservation efforts at Meru Betiri are Foused largely on the tour
the nesting benches, of whies Sukamade is the most famous. Five species
of turtle are known to lay eggs here. Emerging from the sea under
cover of darkness, usually between about 9 pm and midnight, the turtle
crawl slowly up the beach, deposit their eggs beneath half a meter
of sand and return to the water in a process that takes several hour
to complete
MALANG
Malang is quiet and atmospheric, with magnificent scenery. the town
is well situated for exploring some fine hindu temple ruins. the countryside
on this run is particularly beautiful and malang is a pleasant city
with just enough altitude to take the edge of the heat. it gets few
western visitors, although it has good parks and trees and a large
central market also it has many attractions in its surroundings, such
as apple plantations, Coban Rondo Waterfall, Singosari