03/05/12

Tambora For Adventurer

Tambora volcano on Indonesia or at sumbawa island was the site of the world's largest historical eruption in April 1815.


This image Landsat Mosaic shows the 6-km wide caldera truncating the volcano. pyroclastic flows during the 1815 eruption reached the sea on all sides of the 60-km wide volcanicpeninsula, and the ejection of large amounts tephra caused world-wide temperature declines in 1815 and 1816.

But beside the dark side that happened in 1815, the beauty of Tambora Volcano always intresting for tourist that come from a whole world.

07/04/12

"Adu Domba" a wonderful culture from West Java



Sheep contest is one of the typical folk art of west java that is quite popular, especially in traditional circles. this culture is an heritage that still exist untill today.



The meaning of this culture is  not to harm the sheep, because in every fight, there is a limitation time that keep the sheep unharmed. Each game consist of two rounds, and in every round is not more than ten strokes of the head.  The contest is also devided into different classes based on weight of  the sheep.

02/04/12

Bangka Belitung Islands

Located in Karimata Strait, Banka Belitung is a province of indonesia that include two mean islands. Bangka Belitung Island offers you a beautiful places to visit. not only the beauty of nature, Bangka Belitung Island has some historical stories that you can reveal from the inside it.  Bangka Belitung is part of the regional ecosystem in the archipelago of Indonesia and also affords excellent scuba-diving, snorkelling, good fishing and sailing in open waters. The name Bangka is derived from the word wangka, which means tin. This word was also written in a Sriwijaya stone inscription dated 686AD and discovered near the town of Kota Kapur in West Bangka. 

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