Going to Ngrenehan Beach and enjoying the grilled fish will be complete if you drop by Ngobaran Beach that is located adjacent to it. The location of the beach with high cliff is around two kilometers from Ngrenehan Beach. It is not far, isn't it? Local people of Ngrenehan Beach even talk and visit Ngobaran Beach, why don't you?
Ngobaran is such an exotic beach. When sea water falls, you can see spread of both green and brown seaweed. Being looked from the top, the spread of the algae growing in between coral reef looks like spread of rice field in a densely populated area. Tens of sea animal species also present in between the coral reef, ranging from sea urchin, starfish, to various types of cockle shells.
What you will not find in other beaches is the cultural enchantment, ranging from the building to the local food. One interesting place is four praying places that stand side by side. Is it form of multiculturalism? Who knows.
The most prominent one is a building that looks like a temple with ornaments of god statues in white color. The building was built in 2003 to commemorate the arrival of Brawijaya V, one of Majapahit's king, in Ngobaran. The people who use the place are of Kejawan belief. The name 'Kejawan' originates from the nickname of Brawijaya V's son, namely Bondhan Kejawan. The person who built the building acknowledge to be the descendant of Brawijaya V and appointed one person in the community to keep this place.
Walking to the left side of the praying place, you will see Javanese building, Joglo, which is used by followers of Kejawen belief to say their prayer. When we visited this place, some people were saying their prayer. The people tell that Kejawan belief is different from Kejawen one. However, they cannot pinpoint the differences.
If you continue your way in front of the joglo, you fill see a stone box with dry plant on it. The plant is confined with grey wood fence. The point where the dry plant grows was the place where Brawijaya V pretended to burn himself. He took this step because he was not willing to fight his son, Raden Patah (the first King of Demak).
The truth of this story about Brawijaya V is doubted by many historians. The reason is, if Raden Patah attacked Brawijaya V, it will give an image that Islam was spread in a violent way. Many historians suggest that the existing historical evidences do not sufficiently conclude that Raden Patah made an attack. You may search any information for further assurance about it.
Some meters of the box where the dry plant grows there is a temple for Hindu people to say prayer. No detail information of its foundation.
In front of the dry plant grows, there is a mosque with the size of around 3x4 meters. The mosque building is quite simple since the floor is of sands as if it unites with the beach. What is unique is its direction. Most of the mosques in Indonesia face westwards, but this mosque faces southwards. The front part where the religious leader leads the prayer is open so that it directly sees the ocean. When YogYES asked local people about it, no one knows the reason. They even get surprised because the founder of the mosque is a well known kyai of Nahdatul Ulama who lived in Panggang, Gunung Kidul. For correct direction for those who want to pray in the mosque, local people make a sign on the wall using red pencil.
After being astonished with the religious site, you can get down to the beach. When you come early in the morning, you will see people take seaweed. They sell the seaweed at 1,000 to 1,500 Rupiah per kilogram. They use the earnings for their daily lives.
If you come in the afternoon, however, you will see people searching for sea urchin for their side dish at their dinner. The spines of the sea urchin must be cut first then it is pried using a sickle. The meat inside of the sea urchin is then taken out. When searching for the sea urchin, people usually bring bucket, coconut sieve, sickle, and hat to prevent them from the sun.
The ingredients to cook sea urchin are salt and chilli. It is then fried. Not many people sell this menu. They say that the meat is quite delicious. If you really want to have a try, please ask them to cook specially for you. Maybe you have special recipe to cook sea urchin so that it can be served as favourite cuisine and increase society welfare.
Isn't it complete yet? There might not be other choices for the beach beauty, enchantment of the praying places, and tempting cuisine other than this beach.
Colonizing Indonesia for hundreds of years, including Yogyakarta, Dutch people left some historical buildings. The buildings were called loji by local people because of its grand size and wide yard. You can enjoy the beauty of some of the buildings cheaply; you only have to walk along the area in the city center of Yogyakarta, starting from the crossroad of the Grand Post Office or kilometer 0.
The oldest loji in Yogyakarta is located precisely opposite the Grand Post Office, namely a building named Benteng Vredeburg or Vredeburg Fortress. The building of the fortress that is often called Loji Besar or Loji Gede meaning the Grand Building was built in 1776 - 1778, only two years after the foundation of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat Kingdom, one of Mataram Kingdom fractions. The fortress initially named Rustenburg was intentionally built in the axis of Kingdom - Tugu in order to control what the Kingdom did.
Being a fortress, the Loji Besar area was equipped with various supporting buildings, for example the spying place and the resting place for the soldiers. When Loji Besar was still used as fortress, there was a canon that intentionally was directed to the Kingdom in a ready-to-fire position to ease the raid. It was done in order for the Kingdom to acknowledge the power of Dutch troops.
Now, you can explore each corners of Loji Besar because it is open for public. In addition to the fortress with characteristic European architecture, you can also see diorama of Indonesian struggle to reach the independence. The weird thing of the fortress is that the name does not reflect the image of a fortress; rust means resting, vrede means peace and burg means fortress. Rustenberg that means fortress for resting and Vredeburg meaning fortress of peace are not suitable names.
From Vredeburg, the most visible loji is Loji Kebon, which is now known as Gedung Agung or the Great Building. The building with European style was built in 1824 and functioned as Residence Building. The yard of Loji Kebon is so wide and is decorated with statues that Dutch officers collected from different corners of Yogyakarta. In 1912, the complex of Loji Kebon was equipped with Societeit de Vereniging building where Dutch officials danced accompanied by violin.
Just like Loji Besar, Loji Kebon also serves as historical witness. The construction of the building that was designed by A Payen was stopped during Prince Diponegoro war in 1825 - 1830 that nearly made the Dutch went bankrupt. During Japanese colonization, this building served as dwelling place of a Japanese official named Koochi Zimmukyoku Tyookan. When the capital of Indonesia was moved to Yogyakarta on 6 January 1946, this building functioned as presidential palace. Up to present time, even though the capital of Indonesia is in Jakarta, this building still serves as a presidential palace.
The other loji area is Loji Kecil that is located to the east of Vredeburg fortress, to be exact in the area of Shopping Center to the crossroad of Gondomanan. Different from Loji Besar that functioned as a fortress and Loji Kebon as government building, Loji Kecil serves as a dwelling place. Now, even though only a few left, you can still enjoy several old buildings, one of them is located in Taman Pintar complex. In the same complex, there is also Societet Militair building where Dutch military troops used to relax.
The area of Loji kecil was the center of dwelling place of the first Dutch people in Yogyakarta. Now, you can enjoy the beauty of some supporting facilities such as Protestansche Kerk church that was built in 1857 (it is now named Marga Mulya Christian church, located to the north of Gedung Agung) and Francis the Xavier church of Kudul Loji (the old building) that was founded in 1870, which is located to the south of Loji Kecil area.
Another loji area that is not less interesting is Loji Setan or the Satanic Building. It bears the name since the building that by far is not known when it was built is eerie. Many people tell that in the eastern room and the center hall there are often crying voices for help and sound of dance music. Governor Raffles was told to drop by in the building that now functions as the office of Local House of Representative on 15 May 1812 when Dutch was triumphant in Yogyakarta.
Loji Setan had functioned for different purposes. In the past, the building was often used for meditation and exhibition room, for example the exhibition by Luch Bescherming Dienst in 1940. After the independence, the building that initially was named Loji Marlborough was used as the office of Indonesian National Committee (1945 - 1949), the office of Nation Defense Council and the place where cabinet meeting was held (1948).
Walk around each loji, and you will enrich your history insight from compiling each story of them.
To the south campus, there is a market people are known as Pasar Gede. Although the architecture of the building using only simple and sober, traditional markets built on the Senopati Panembahan has become one of the central economic activity mentawisan community. This is to make known the name of Kota Gede market or Sargede previously.
About 50 meters south of Market Yam in the way the Great Mosque, a stronghold with a gate length of the site to protect one of the successes of Mataram tempo, but still well maintained, a Petilasan Kotagede Palace. Some of the trees later berjulur long that signifies that he has the old guard seems to be the sacred place. Passing through the second gate there is a high wall about two meters with the road on both sides hinder the view from the third gate of the complex road to the Great Mosque.
In the middle there was complex Mosque in the first Kotagede surrounded the house of Abdi Dalem. The mosque was built by Sultan Agung together with the local community - most of the time the Crusaders Hinduism and Buddhism - the architecture also adopted a pattern typical of many Hindu and Buddhist architecture. One is the mosque gate, which resembles a carving Buddhist monasteries. Wood sculptures that decorate almost every corner of the mosque also figured style of Hindu and Buddhist. This is a unique apart from the mosque. In the mosque there is also a unique platform that carving, tributary of the Duke of Palembang to the Sultan Agung.
South Mosque complex, there are the graves of relatives and the Kingdom of Mataram kingdom of the family who is also a place to live, Ki Ageng Pemanahan previously. There is a widower building (now a cooperative) when passing through the first gate before entering the second gate.
Passing through the second gate into a complex point barrier once connecting to the tomb also Sendang others (bathing place). In this complex, there are offices, warehouses, stalls and stalls Lor clamp clamp south.
In the west there is a complex gate to the tomb complex. Entering the complex, the tourists required to wear traditional Javanese and implement tahlilan (prayer) before the open graves. Beyond around 720 graves, visitors will be sent to a main building where the family stayed the Great Kingdom. Among Mrs Ageng Nis and P. Djoyo Prono which is the grandparent of Panembahan Senopati, Ki Ageng Pemanahan (father of the Senopati Panembahan), Panembahan Senopati to Kyai Wonoboyo Mangir, while at the same time the enemy Panembahan Senopati makamnya half outside the building to be unique in this confinement. Perhaps the death of Kyai Ageng Mangir dibenturkan caused his head to rock the throne by the Senopati Panembahan Panembahan own. The stone itself can still be seen in the south mosque complex about 100 meters.
According to Mr. Muji one of Abdi Dalem to we, visitors usually pray and implore blessing safety and success in each tomb King.
Meanwhile in the south of the tomb there is a bathing place is divided into Sendang Kakung for men and women to Sendang daughter. "Revitalize themselves in the place where this can be a healer of disease, and some crave success and prosperity" added Mr. Muji.
Compared with the Prambanan and Borobudur, the temple of Queen-Boko his famous same with the second temple. Temple of Queen-Boko Palace or the Queen-Boko, which is located at the top of the hill, save the tourism potential that is not owned by the Borobudur and Prambanan. Travel or trekking through the hills of Queen-Boko is a hidden potential that now start attracting tourists.
Beautiful scenery and the natural environment that is still in pristine areas such activities make trekking a new challenge that can be sold. Natural beauty and the potential for trekking tourism has inspired the management of Borobudur, Prambanan and Ratu Boko-to-Ratu Boko area where the exploration of natural impressive. The business is realized in the cultural tour packages and trekking.
The core of that unforgettable tour is a sunrise seen from the Bukit Tugel in the spread of rice local rice fields full color. We only operate in Yogya, and only carry a unique way. By visiting this website, you are holding our world in your hands.
Travel starts from the center of the Palace of Queen-Boko at 03.00 pm and return at 09.00 hours. After roaming the mountains of Queen Boko-up to Mount Tugel (or Mount Pegat), you can enjoy the beautiful sunrise when the weather allows a rest. Travel and then proceeded to the nearest temple as Ijo Temple. You can spend the night in tents, cottage, or - if you like - can stay in the homes of people who are already our sight. In return trip to the Queen-Boko, breakfast will Serve in in the bamboo hut, on top of the hill, a mountain view Sumbing, Sindoro, Merapi and Lawu. According to the trekking can also enjoy breakfast while enjoying the beautiful rural scenery.
English-speaking guide, a simple breakfast and mineral water are included. To implement this tour is required at least 2 participants. We also provide tents for those who want to spend the night camping in the pages of our calm before the start of the tour. Here you can see the beautiful sunset and the lava flow down from the mountains of Merapi.
Kraton as a cultural center, rich with various types of cultural adiluhung that up to now still exis enough, one food culture. Now people can try various vegetarian Special Kraton, which are presented by Bale Raos.
Bale Raos located around the Palace of Yogyakarta, Java architect in the atmosphere, building Joglo standing with the stately, and the aura of the Palace of thick add more to enjoy your meal in the Bale Raos.
Bale Raos Restaurant has the capacity indoor 80 seat that is divided in two Joglo and seat capacity to 200 in the form of a combination of indoor and out door party, with opening hours are 09.30 hours - 21:30 WIB (except Monday open 09.30 - 15.00 WIB).
Food dish in the Bale Raos can be enjoyed by:
* A'la carte, buffet lunch or dinner
* Course set menu (full waiters serve)
* Jamuan riztaffel a graceful
In addition to enjoy a special, on certain days can live are Javanese gamelan and dance classic (beksan), and every Saturday night Bale Raos presents live music performance rumbling.
Trained chef who will serve the meal taste the high cuisine favorite of Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono VII to the Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, and various family meal Kraton.
Bale Raos is the right choice for various events both formal and non formal. Among other family events, guest relations, gathering, private party, as well as a place of the typical culinary tour and authentic.
Food menu authentice from the Kraton, among others:
* Duck Suwir Suwir (Sultan HB X)
Menu special kingdom of Yogyakarta, made of sliced duck meat that is presented with sliced pineapple sauce and fried Kedondong scars.
* Semur Piyik (Sultan HB IX)
Made unique dish of squab processing.
* Urip urip Scroll (Sultan HB VII)
Catfish fillet that was baked and served with sauces confused.
* Sanggar (Sultan HB VIII - X HB)
Original menu from the Kraton, which is made of sliced beef with the flavor of roasted spices with coconut saputan and in the jaws with the bamboo.
* Soup Timlo (Sultan HB X)
Soup Javanese classical sense of the combination of ginger and soy sauce and blend of various materials.
* Beer Java (Sultan HB VIII)
Of the original Drink Kraton, which was created from various ingredients such as ginger, wood secang, clove, orange juice, etc..
Various exotic menu in the Bale Raos:
* Goat Pnggang.
* Aloe Bestik
Variations bestik dish with beef tongue presented with a thick sauce potato ongklok and serces (a kind of stoop favorite vegetables Sri Sultan HB IX).
* Java Bestik
Cattle miller with a sweet sauce semur presented with the pure potato and sauted vegetables.
* Duck Ungkep Fry
Diungkep duck dish in which sugar with spices and fried with a sweet taste.
BALE RAOS
Jl. Magangan Kulon No.1
Kraton Yogyakarta (Close to Pasar Ngasem)
Phone/Fax: +62 274 415550
