EAST JAVA AND MOUNT BROMO
East Java has many natural attractions with its splendour volcanoes actives Mount Bromo and Kawah Ijen, and the many Park Nationals such as Baluran and Alas Purwo, Yogyatours.com provide the informations
about tourist destinations in East Java to help you visit easier Bromo and Kawah Ijen as the most popular tourism objects.
Surabaya
The city established by Raden Wijaya the first king of Majapahit Kingdom in 1923. As the second biggest city in Indonesia and the capital province of east Java, Surabaya has many tourist attraction especially the colonial building and the complete zoo in South East Asia with the giant lizard of Komodo, The traditional harbor of Kalimas with the Phinisi, Arabic quarter od Kampung Arab. China town of Kya-kya and the museum of sampoerna, the biggest
cigarette factory.
The most spectacular and accessible park in the Indonesia archipelago, it lies between 78 54′ – 8*13′ South latitude and 112*51′ – 113804′ East Longitude on the globe. The area covers 58.000 hectares of administration of the Directorate General of
Forest and Nature Conservation. There are 4 main reserves, namely:
(a) the Laut Pasir Reserve (6.290 ha ) : the sea of sand- declared
in 19919 as a protection of 10km wide soft bed of the Caldera
(96 ha). (b) The ranu Pane - Ranu Regulo l 14 km away
from he active Bromo on the southern of the Caldera (c)
Ranu Kumbolo Reserve (1,340 ha) The Kumbolo lake is
surrounded by a ring of the hill ops and scattered conifers. Both
(b) and (c) were established in 1921. (d) the Ranu Darungan
Reserve (380ha). was only recently included in October
1982. The whole region stretches 40 km from the north from the
to the south and 30 km from East of West.
Semeru
The highest peak is the 3.676 meter Gunung Semeru followed by Gunung Kepolo (3.035), Gunung Arcopodo (3.150m), Gunung Jambangan (.020 m)Gunung Bajangan (2.800 m), Gunung Ayek-ayek (2.819 m), Gunung Kumbolo (2.390 m), Gunung Lanang (2.313 m ), Gunung Iderider (2.527 m ), Gunung Widodaren (2.614 M ), Gunung Bromo (2.392M),Gunung Mungal (2.480 m), Gunung Batok (2.440m), ending at panoramic platform of Gunung Pananjakan (2.770 m ) which is about 14 km from the village of Wonokitri which is less than 2 km from the town Tosari.
Kawah Ijen:
Great
beautiful scenery of green sulfur lake, at 2000 m above sea level, where the story about humanity begin everyday in the morning.
We can see the poor porters running down the mountain with 90 kg sulfur. Walking through the passage of the sulfur porter
The ijen plateau his is the centre of the Ijen – Merapi. Malang Reserve. The Principal attraction at ijen is the large, Superheroes crater lake which lies hidden between sheer walls of deeply furrowed rock at more than 200 meters. The ijen crater itself lies at approximately 2.300 meters above sen level. It form a twin volcano with the now extinct mount Merapi. The enormous crater lake. which is 200
meters deep and covers an area of more than halt a million square meters. Contains about 36 million cubic meters of streaming. Acid water ijen crater shows a special type of vacancies feature common to Indonesia, About 1 kilo meters in diameter and 175 metres deep
Baluran
Reserve national where we find the habitat of lastJavanese bulls and the others exotic animals. Blaluran is wild
game preserve and occupies about 25.000 hectares of open savannah,and hill country to the north of banyuwangi. the park is a havenfor a great variety of native animals and bird species including deers, wild pigs, buffalos leopards, peacocks, monkeys, and the banteng – the Javanese wild ox. you can abserves the animals in their native habitat from a specially constructed tower.
Sukamade
The beach in where the turtles leave their eggs to regeneration Conservation efforts at Meru Betiri
are Foused largely on the tour the nesting benches, of whies Sukamadeis the most famous. Five species of turtle are known to lay eggshere. Emerging from the sea under cover of darkness, usually betweenabout 9 pm and midnight, the turtle crawl slowly up the beach,deposit their eggs beneath half a meter of sand and return tothe water in a process that takes several hour to complete
Malang
Malang is quiet and atmospheric, with magnificent scenery.the town is well situated for exploring some fine hindu templeruins. the countryside on this run is particularly beautiful andmalang is a pleasant city with just enough altitude to take the edge of the heat. it gets few western visitors, although it hasgood parks and trees and a large central market also it has manyattractions in its surroundings, such as apple plantations, CobanRondo Waterfall, Singosari temple etc.
