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A Unique Night Traditional Market |
 A Unique Night Traditional Market Have you ever been to visit night traditional market ? When you happen to Surabaya, you can visit Keputran Market. This traditional market is always crowded along the night and the crowd is getting more and more intense when the night creeps.
Some people find this market is just like a laboratory consist of variety of human characters. As the sellers come from various towns all over East Java, no wonder that one can find and hear various dialects along the sunset, night and dawn. Both the sellers and buyers show diverse and unique cultures. |
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The Tangkuban Perahu Mountain |
The meaning in English is “the overturned boat”. The legent recounts the forbidden love between Dayang Sumbi and Sangkuriang.
Sangkuriang is a handsome young man who returns to his village and meets Dayang Sumbi. They fall in love and decide to get married. However, he doesn’t know that Dayang Sumbi is actually his mother, who had been given eternal youth by the God. |
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 Have you ever seen earthy, well built pots and ceramics in high-class furniture stores, or at large exhibitions from Kasongan ? Kasongan's handicrafts are eagerly sought the world over. Kasongan ceramics are sold at prices that make you wince since their price are very cheap. For example, a vase as tall as small child is sold for only Rp. 50.000,- ( USD 6,00). Small ceramics items, all kinds of unique and interesting shapes representing horses, elephants, even Javanses women are sold for around Rp. 15.000,- (less than USD 3,00).
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 Although Yogya is an important city in Indonesia, it is not big, so it is rather peaceful there.
First, about hotels. If you want to stay very close to Kraton (Sultan's Palace), maybe you would consider Natour Hotel, Mutiara Hotel, or Melia Purosani Hotel, all of these are around Malioboro, the most famous street in Yogya, which also leads to the Sultan's Palace.
If you want to stay close to the airport, then you would probably like Sheraton, Quality, or Jayakarta Hotel (it has changed its name, i forgot what it is now). For those backpackers there, you should consider to stay around Malioboro. There are plenty of hostels there, no worries. Second, about interesting places or stuff. Let's talk about the city itself first.
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Deep in the Indonesian archipelago lies the island of Sulawesi. A fertile land of tropical jungle, mountains and lakes; it is without doubt one of the most fascinating islands on the planet. On the southeast part of the island in a valley surrounded by mountains is the highland province of Torajaland, acknowledged as one of the most beautiful regions of Indonesia. The word "Toraja" means people of the mountains and this remote region has its own very distinct culture. When the rest of Indonesia was under Dutch control, Torajaland was still independent. It did not succumb to Dutch rule until 1906, although other parts of the island had been under |
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