10 most visited spots in Indonesia

How much do you know about Indonesia ? Bali... of course, but what else ? Here are 10 best locations to spend your holidays with your family or your friends.
1) Bunaken, Manado

where you can explore underwater, snorkeling and diving
for more info : http://www.sulawesi-info.com/bunaken.php

2) Raja Ampat, Papua

A hidden paradise, yes it is... a great place to surf, many surfing competitions have held there, and the competitors are professional  surfers from different counties.
for more info, visit : http://www.diverajaampat.org/info/
Not only surfing, but also diving, snorkeling, waveskies, and many more water sports for your enjoyment :)

3) Tropical Rainforest, East Kalimantan
Home of Orang Utan.

Do you love outdoor activities ? then this is a best place to visit, take treks deep into the lush jungle, enjoy canopy walks high above the tree and spot exotic flora and fauna.
for more info : http://www.extremeborneo.com/Kalimantan_Rain_Forest.html

4) Lake Toba, North Sumatra
Lake Toba or Danau Toba is the largest volcanic lake in the world, 100 km long, 30 km wide, as deep as 1,666 ft and elevation of 3,000 ft

for more info : http://wikitravel.org/en/Lake_Toba and http://www.indonesia-tourism.com/north-sumatra/toba_lake.html

5) Bali
The most popular island in the world. It has many attractions, beautiful beaches, temples, etc.

One of the must see attractions is Tari Kecak (Balinese Dance) It involved more than 100 dancers to perform.
For more info about Bali :  http://www.bali-indonesia.com/attractions/

6) Lombok 
is an island near Bali, located in West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.
You can visit many places as Gili Island, Komodo Island, Mount Rinjani, Senggigi Beach and Pink Beach. Visitors heads here on Lombok for both underwater and on-land exploration.

Tangsi beach or pink beach is located in the small village Sekaroh, Jerowaru - East Lombok, it's part of Tanjung Ringgit. The white color sand mixed with crushed pieces of pink coral, natural procession along the reef and flake fragments are then fused and formed pink.
  For more info, visit : http://wikitravel.org/en/Lombok

7) Bromo, East Java

Bromo have known by all of visitor of the worlds. They come to Bromo to watch the sunrise. The visitor also can look down to the crater that full of its smoke. There are many kinds activities that could be carried on this area such as; Camping, watching the scenery, horse riding to sea of sand or walking.

For more info : http://wikitravel.org/en/Bromo-Tengger-Semeru_National_Park

8) Borobudur, Central Java

One of the 7 wonders in the world. Borobudur is  a 9th centuries Buddhist temple in the Mahayana tradition, is the largest Buddhist monument in the world, located in Magelang - Central Java. Older than Angkot Wat in Kamboja.

For more info :  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borobudur and http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/592

9) Prambanan, Central Java

Prambanan is a 9th-century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia, dedicated to the Trimurti, the expression of God as the Creator (Brahma), the Preserver (Vishnu) and the Destroyer (Shiva).

a Folktale about Prambanan is also well known as the legend of Roro Jonggrang.

The legend tells of the story about Prince Bandung Bondowoso who fell in love with Princess Rara Jonggrang, the daughter of King Boko. But the princess rejected his proposal of marriage because Bandung Bondowoso had killed King Boko and ruled her kingdom. Bandung Bondowoso insisted on the union, and finally Rara Jonggrang was forced to agree for a union in marriage, but she posed one impossible condition: Bandung must build her a thousand temples in only one night.

The Prince entered into meditation and conjured up a multitude of spirits (demons) from the earth. Helped by supernatural beings, he succeeded in building 999 temples. When the prince was about to complete the condition, the princess woke her palace maids and ordered the women of the village to begin pounding rice and set a fire in the east of the temple, attempting to make the prince and the spirits believe that the sun was about to rise. As the cocks began to crow, fooled by the light and the sounds of morning time, the supernatural helpers fled back into the ground. The prince was furious about the trick and in revenge he cursed Rara Jonggrang to stone. She became the last and the most beautiful of the thousand statues. According to the traditions, the unfinished thousandth temple created by the demons become the Sewu temple compounds nearby (Sewu means "thousands" in Javanese), and the Princess is the image ofDurga in the north cell of the Shiva temple at Prambanan, which is still known as Rara Jonggrang or Slender Virgin.

for more info : http://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Prambanan

10) Yogjakarta

It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to 1949. One of the districts in Yogyakarta, Kotagede, was the capital of the Mataram Sultanate between 1575 and 1640. The city is named after the Indian city of Ayodhya from theRamayana epic. Yogya means 'suitable, fit, proper', and karta, 'prosperous, flourishing'

One of the most popular place to visit is Malioboro, this street is the centre of Yogyakarta's largest tourist district surrounded with many hotels and restaurants nearby. Sidewalks on both sides of the street are crowded with small stalls selling a variety of goods. In the evening several open-air streetside restaurants, called lesehan, operate along the street. Less obvious to the tourist, but more for the local population, side streets, lanes and structures that lead on to Malioboro are as important as the street itself. Wanna buy merchandises for your friends and family back home ?  http://www.indonesia.travel/en/destination/268/shop-till-you-drop-in-malioboro

for more info : http://wikitravel.org/en/Yogyakarta

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