Merapi Lava Tour

Merapi area at this time

Merapi area at this time

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Communities in Yogyakarta and Central Java must be familiar with the beauty and ferocity of Mount Merapi. With a title as one of the world's most active volcano, Merapi holds the potential of natural disasters in the form of an eruption or eruption. It has long geological researchers propose various theories about the malignancy of the eruption of Merapi. One of them came from the famous Dutch geologist, Reinout Willem van Bemmelen, who filed the assumption that the great Merapi volcano had erupted in 1006. This great eruption, by archaeologists and then interpreted as the cause for the centers of the kingdom of Mataram Kuna decline and then moved from Central Java to East Java.

After the beginning of the second Millennium, Merapi has erupted several times, including in 1672, 1786, 1822, 1872, and 1930. In the eruption in 1672, hot clouds and lava floods killed about 300 people. Meanwhile, the eruption in 1930 claimed more victims, which is about 1369 people. Then in subsequent years, the eruption of 1954, 1961, 1969, and 1972 to 1973, claiming dozens of lives each person. Another eruption occurred in 1994 that killed dozens of people, while the 1998 eruption did not cause casualties, due to eruptive pointing upward.

Gembiraloka Zoo

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History

The zoo is known as Gembiraloka this is the only zoo in the city of Yogyakarta. Although effective as a zoo, Gembiraloka still classified as a museum, which fall into the category Zoologicum museum or museum animals, also including a special type of museum. When viewed from the side of the history of its emergence, he is the second oldest museum in Yogyakarta after the Museum Sonobudoyo.

The idea of ​​beginning the construction of the Botanical Gardens and Zoo Happy Loka originated from the desire of Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII in 1933 will be a place of entertainment, who later called Garden Rojo. The idea is realized by Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX with the help of Ir. Karsten, a Dutch architect. Ir. Karsten then choose a location on the western rivers Winongo, because it is considered as the most ideal for crop development such Rojo. However, due to the impact of World War II and also the occupation by Japan, Rojo crop development stalled.

About Tourism in Yogyakarta

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YOGYAKARTA (often also called Jogja, Yogya, or Yogyakarta) is located in the middle of Java Island - Indonesia, where everything was cheap. Enough with the 200rb a day, you can stay, eat traditional cuisine of the famous, and rent a bike to explore the beaches are still virgin and ancient temples thousands of years old.


Borobudur Temple

A thousand years ago, Yogyakarta is the center of the ancient Mataram kingdom prosperous and has a high civilization. This is what founded the Kingdom of Borobudur temple which is the largest Buddhist temple in the world, 300 years before Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Other relics are the temple of Prambanan, Ratu Boko Palace, and dozens of other temples that have been restored and are still buried under the ground (see Temple Tour).