days two in lombok : Tours craft.

for handicraft products, the province's warehouse. Before heading out of town, there's no harm come to the village saying, unfortunately, from the chakranegara centers only slightly uphill. Villages in the district of Inbound, Mataram Municipality is one of the crafts center in the city. The most commonly found here is the craft of wood. Start crate Lombok with a sprinkling of different shells to gecko-shaped wall hangings, masks, and others. Anyway, all-wooden craft.

Out of the cakranegara, there Banyumulek village, Kediri district, western Lombok. About 15 kilometers from Mataram, really quite close. Here are a variety of pottery. Lombok typical plate made of clay, a large jar or pitcher-gum unique of this island, which must be filled from the bottom, is produced here. Demand from abroad had already often filled by artisans. Home residents average a pottery showroom. Their work space, were generally around the house, so you can watch the manufacturing process. They also provide packaging services so that the craft of clay that you buy will be safe until the destination.

After Banyumulek village, the long journey south began. If you want to be completely satisfied look handicrafts Lombok, after entering the town of Praya district, first to the village beleke. About 15 km from the Praya. Slightly deviated from the direction of Kuta beach, but here can be found in the center of woven bamboo and rattan craft. It comes in various forms of home decoration products. As the tissue, the base food, trays, coasters, baskets and more. After that, go back and headed towards Praya sukarara.

Most people probably would directly lead to sukarara village, district of sacramental west, east Lombok. About 25 km from Mataram. This is the village artisans of traditional woven with motifs that are categorized as typical in Lombok. Not far from sukarara headed to Kuta beach, there's more dasa pottery artisans, namely Penujak village, district of western Praya, Lombok middle.

One more and then stop off at the village or villages Rambitan Sade. Lombok typically settlement that is still traditional. Old houses are still preserved, including the floor of the house of clay mixed with buffalo dung and the roof of reeds. Unique culture and tradition, so often a stopover local and foreign tourists. Daily activities of the mothers were weaving can also be found here. A number of souvenir items can be obtained here. It lies about 56 km from Mataram. Population of residence in this village is known as the Sasak tribe. About 14 km from the village sasak this, you will arrive at Kuta beach.

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combing southern lombok ; day first

There are three dimensions that is never separated from the current holiday in Lombok: Senggigi beach, three gili (water, Trawangan, meno), and mountain rinjani. from the airport Selaparang, Ampenan, all three are easy to reach. perhaps this year you want to try another area? along the southern Lombok, Mataram directly to the beach of Kuta with a stop at a craft center along the road. ends at the seger beach , lively during the bau Nyale ceremony was held between February and March each year.

first day

culinary lombok. trip from Jakarta-Mataram is generally accomplished in 1 hour 50 minutes. there by direct flight, there is also a stopover in Surabaya. between Jakarta and Mataram there is a difference about an hour. Mataram time earlier. general aviation at 10:30 pm or 16:00 pm GMT. As a result, on the first day, you can do is around the town of Mataram.

This activity is actually just a nice thing because Mataram offers a variety of offerings that really can make the tongue addicted. one that should not be overlooked is Plecing kale, chicken Taliwang, until beberok. all spicy and make eating a gusto.

did not bother, you can look at the various shops to restaurants in this city. one restaurant that is famous is chicken Taliwang irama, the way Ade Irma Suryani No. 10. if you want to taste of his homeland, try to village Taliwang, Cakranegara. here there is a row of houses Taliwang chicken restourant with a delicious aroma. roast chicken with herbs typical, a typical chili paste, tomatoes, red peppers, palm sugar, and red and white onions. then feels crunchy spinach, kale is different on the island of Java. combined sprouts, fried peanuts, and of course the chili sauce. full after eating, rest, long trip starting tomorrow morning.

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memories of the dutch in camp cideng

the houses in jalan tanah abang 2 nomor 108, central jakarta does not lookso unique from the out side. it is an ordinary house that was renovated just like the buloiding on its left and rigth. in the garage, some chairs can be seen. the left side of the porch is full of plants, some antique ornaments and enlivened by the sound of the waterfall from the pond.

but when the feet go through the two antique wooden doors, it will feel like entering the past, precisely, when the Dutch still set foot here, followed by japan who broke in and occupied our motherland. moreover, there is a lady wrapped in kabaya encim and sarong from batik behind the counter that is full of pictorial ceramic pieces. travel to the past is complete.

this is family house, restaurant with the initial concept was to preserved the family tradition of huize trivelli heritage restaurant. djalaludin soeoed and wahjuni baliningtyas bought the house in 1953, since the wife who loves to cook presented traditional culinaries of the family for their guest since 2006. this old house was built in 1939 where the first resident was dutch, mevr JCH de jongh geboren van slooten. this house was the home of a ducth family during the ducth colonial period while during the japanese occupation it became one of  the camps for the dutch, known as camp tjideng. it used to be the largest camp because it was inhabited by about 10 thousand people consisting of women, children and the elderly.

guest not just eat but also to gets inputs on indonesia globally, jakarta and cideng in particular. that is why it is called a heritage restaurant. the concept is to provide dishes as in the menu in the dining table of the family, dishes that has been presented from one generation to another. while eating, people also can learn about history through the decoration on the walls, the room and the books displayed in the shelves. the interior of the room is with the theme mooi indie in the years 1880-1950.

the food serve are typycal indonesian food. only, it has been influenced by the taste from the kitchen of other countries. sometimes not only in taste, the influence can also be seen in the presentation of the food. such as local menus that are presented mini rijsttafel. it is nothing but a variety of local menus, but presented in a full dining menu, from appetizer to dessert and presented one by one by group of waiters. be it semi indonesian, semi european. there are about 20-25 dishes in the main menu, one that is quite popular is tong biefstuk nyonya ooet, ie, pieces of beef tongue combined with various vegetables such as peas, carots, green beans, broccoli and fried  potatoes. the prices is Rp. 65 thousand per portion. another dish in the main menu that is unique is galantine de poulet nyonya ooet. it is a dish made from one whole chicken stuffed with minced chicken stuffed and serve with sauce. the price per portion is Rp. 300 thousand ; certainly this dish can be shared by number of people.

for snack or appetizer, there is a dish called insulinde pastei, a mixture of pureed potatoes, vegetables, pieces of mushrooms, chicken, milk, cheese mixed with spices typical of nyonya huize trivelli. another unique appetizer is the rissoles chicken ragout. rolls made from flour with ragout as the content and thinly coated in breadcrumbs, fried and tehn served with sauce typical of this restaurant. some foods like klapertaart, rissoles, and croquette had already became local food. however, the only thing sustained is the filling of the croquette which is ragout. and as for klappertaart, it has a strong rum flavor.

for drink, there is a mixture of bier pletok and ginger, cengkeng, secang, and cinnamon drink. there is also sinjoo seneng di hati which is traditional red syrup  combined with milk and ice cubes. the aroma of the syrup is definately unique. want a cup of warm drink; the wedang jahe secang is available for order.

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stranded on the Bandengan beach jepara

Bandengan Beach also known as Tirto Samudro Beach, located 8 km north of the square Jepara, Central Java.

The story is developing in society, Bandengan name can not be separated with the legend of the island of Karimun Java. The legend is told about the concerns above delinquency Sunan Muria his son, Amir Hasan. The Sunan ordered his son to live on an island that looks "kremun-kremun" (vaguely) from the top of the mountain Moriah with the intention that the child is able to reap the science lesson on the island. On the way to the island by Sunan muria Karimun named it, came to his son on a beach that has the marsh and in it there is a lot of fish. Then the son was named the beach with "Bandengan Beach ".

In this tourist boat tours available which are ready to take visitors around in the vicinity of the beach or to the long island which is famous for its rich flora and fauna. Charge Rp. 5000 per person to tour around the coast and Rp 10,000 per person for a single journey to Long Island.

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