Friday, May 17, 2013

Rowo Jombor

Klaten, the town located between Solo and Yogyakarta, has special known place called Rowo Jombor. This place give special scenery and special food as it on the water. It is located in Krakitan village, about 8 kilometers from the the city centre.
People who come here will be served specially at warung apung. Warung apung means floating restaurant.And the special foods are fishes.
The other facilities given here are musics, karaoke, kindergarten, and many more.
Warung apung here are many, so when you come to Rowo Jombor you can choose which restaurant you want to visit. 
The services also best, given in each restaurant. From the menu, there are many foods and beverages offered.
Before reaching warung apung, you must use a small raft to get there from the parking area. the raft made from bamboo and some drums below. No worry if the customers afraid of water. They would not fall into the water.


Kalibiru Nature Tourism

Nature Kalibiru Community Forest is located in the hills Menoreh, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta, located at an altitude of 450 m above sea level. This is the location of the tourist areas in the west of the city of Yogyakarta at a distance of approximately 40 km (+ 1 hour drive), or just 10 km from the City Wates, Kulon Progo Regency Capital.

Nature was built at the initiative of the State forest communities are desirous that the forest still grows green, cool, and sustainable. Development of this nature can not be separated from the long process of community efforts around the forest to recover from forests that were once barren and arid. 

Development of nature tourism Kalibiru done as a form of environmental services on the basis of the Community Forest Utilization Permit for 35 years - (effective from 14 February 2008) - acquired forest groups on kepercayaaan given by the Government to the people in the State forest .
 One appeal of this nature is a tourist area of ​​beautiful landscape which is a harmony between the green expanse of hilly forest with very spacious with beautiful natural scenery and fascinating. Natural beauty is more interesting when the combined with the friendly atmosphere of the village, well mannered, and are still dominated by a sense of kinship and mutual cooperation, which still maintains a wide range of traditional arts and culture. The atmosphere is able to induce a sense of calm and convenient for anyone visiting the region's natural attractions.
 Some of the activities that can be carried in the Community Forest Nature Kalibiru among others:
  • Outbound Training
  • Rural Tourism
  • Cultural Tourism
  • Tourism Education
  • Family Travel
  • Tourism Trekking
  • Off-Road
  • Down Hill
  • Travel Natural Therapies
  • etc.  
 


resource: translated from http://kalibiru.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Pre-Trip Tips

In nature tour and trip, almost all people get some problems while they are enjoying their trip. All they want are having fun but no other thing sometimes travelers or tourists get stuck even finding many risks in trip. To avoid or decrease the risks below some tips can be read.

  • Praying
    In any chase, before going anywhere, praying is easy one to do that we want to be safe from God. More and more nature can't be predicted, at first the weather looked good but later become worst. So it is true that God is one who will give us hope.
  • Listing
    We must making list about what we bring out in our bag or baggage. Anythings in our bag until the little one must be listed. All include in the listing for example clothes, foods and drinks, permission letters, identity card, passport, etc.
  • Location and Guiding
    Before taking the tour and trip make sure that we know about the place where we want to take. We can browse the information from the internet, brochure, travel services, etc. In other way, we also rent the guides for the trip, so we don't get lost when enjoying the trip.
  • Warming Up
    Especially, in nature trip, we need to keep our body in fit condition. So, before making trip we need to take small exercises for example jogging. We can do the exercises at home, park or sometimes we can visit fitness centre.

Ok guys, hope some tips above can help you enjoying the nature. And for you the adventurer just wait and see my next tips post.

Ello Fun Rafting



Rafting, people probably know it well. It is not a dangerous sport anymore. Nowadays, this kind of sport already go public. Everyone can enjoy it as a tour. Many places give and offer many kind of rafting package. The safety procedure until the accommodation also offered. The tour will lead by a guide as a skipper and there will be shown many good sceneries and kind of adventure, especially rapids. In every session, many people like to get the rapids touching their whole body. It is the excitement when we going down on the boat and enjoy the river adventure.

Near Yogyakarta, we will find this kind of tour adventure in Magelang. The river’s name is Ello. This river already famous and great for people who want to drive in their adrenaline. The rapids are good to have fun and baiting more adrenaline. The river itself is about 12 kilometers. The tour itself takes about 2-3 hours. This river class include into grade two which mean not so many dangerous rapids and can be well explored. The good high of water surface in this river is about 70 up to 80. This parameter can be seen under the bridge. Usually many tourist, domestics and foreign, visit and do rafting in holidays, for example Saturday an Sunday. And perfectly, rafting also best in wet season.