Surakarta Sultanate Palace

In the reign of Sinuhun Pakubuwana II (1726-1749), Sultan Kartasura precisely moved to Solo on February 17, 1745. New royal palace in Solo was named Kraton Surakarta Sultanate. Surakarta Sultanate Palace is a palace Kasunanan Surakarta. This is the last royal palace Palace Kingdom of Mataram, was established in the village of Sala (Solo), a small port on the west bank Bengawan (river) Concrete / Solo. After the official palace of the kingdom of Mataram was completed, the village name was changed to Surakarta Sultanate. The palace was also a silent witness to the transfer of sovereignty by Susuhunan Pakubuwono Mataram Kingdom II to the VOC in the year 1749. After the Treaty of Surakarta December 11, 1749.

Palace (Palace) in Surakarta is one of the exotic buildings in his time. One architect of this palace is Prince Mangkubumi (holding the title of Sultan Hamengkubuwono I) which is also the main architect of Sultan Palace. Therefore it is not surprising that the basic pattern of the second spatial palace (the Yogyakarta and Surakarta), many have a general equation.

Keraton Surakarta as can be witnessed today was not built simultaneously in 1744-1745, but was built in stages by maintaining basic spatial patterns that remain the same as initially. Development and large-scale restoration recently performed by Susuhunan Pakubuwono X (Sunan PB X) who reigns from 1893 to 1939. Most of the palace is nuanced white and blue with a mixture of Javanese-style architecture of Europe.

Dieng Plateau

 Dieng is a plateau in Central Java, who entered the district of Banjarnegara and Wonosobo regency. It lies to the west of Mount Sindoro complex and Sumbing.

Dieng is an active volcanic area and it can be said is a giant volcano. Crater craters are often found there. The average altitude is about 2,000 m. above sea level. Dieng cool temperatures in winter approached, ranging from 15-20 ° C in the daytime and 10 ° C at night. In the dry season (July and August), air temperature can sometimes reach 0 ° C in the morning and bring frost by the locals who called the poison bun ("dew poison") because it causes damage to agricultural crops.

Dieng name comes from a combination of two ancient Sundanese words: "in" which means "place" or "mountain" and "Hyang" which means (God). Thus, Dieng mean mountain areas where the gods and goddesses residing. The name comes from the Sundanese Dieng as predicted in pre-Medang around the year 600 AD the area was under the influence of the Kingdom Galuh politics.

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur Temple from side

Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the 9th century measuring 123 x 123 meters. Borobudur was completed centuries before Angkor Wat in Cambodia. This Buddhist temple has 1460 relief panels and 504 Buddha effigies in the complex. Millions of people are yearning to visit the buildings included in this World Wonder Heritages.

Borobudur was built by King Samaratungga, one of the kings of Old Mataram Kingdom, Dynasty descendant dynasty. Based Kayumwungan inscription, an Indonesian named Hudaya Kandahjaya revealed that Borobudur is a place of worship was completed on 26 May 824, almost a hundred years from the time the construction. Architects who contributed to build this temple according to a story passed down through generations named Gunadharma.

Thousand Islands National Park (Taman Nasional Kepulauan Seribu)

Thousand Islands National Park (Taman Nasional Kepulauan Seribu) is one of the representatives of marine nature conservation area in Indonesia is located approximately 45 km north of Jakarta.

There are 78 large-small island with a height of not more than three meters above sea level., And it is a group of islands reefs.


In hundreds of years ago, the islands were formed on top of coral colonies of coral animals are already dead. The colony was initially grown on the shallow sea floor, and the upper layer of the surface and experienced weathering. Then on top of the rock land, growing pioneer species of shrubs, trees and there was some kind of land. The land is on islands are not the same as land which consists of land. Likewise, the wealth of plants and satwanya.

Jakarta

Jakarta was first known as one of the port of Sunda kingdom called Sunda Kelapa, located at the mouth of Ciliwung River. The capital of the Kingdom of Sunda, known as Dayeuh Pakuan Pajajaran or Pajajaran (now Bogor) can be reached from the port of Sunda Kalapa a two-day trip. According to Portuguese sources, Sundanese Kalapa is one owned by the Kingdom of Sunda port other than port of Banten, helter, Cigede, Tamgara and Cimanuk.Sunda Kalapa that in this text called Kalapa considered to harbor the most important because it can be reached from the capital of the kingdom which is called by the name Dayo (in modern Sundanese: Dayeuh which means the capital city) within two days.Kingdom of Sunda itself is a continuation of the Kingdom Tarumanagara in the 5th century, so this port is estimated to have existed since the 5th century and is the capital city is estimated Tarumanagara called Sundapura.