6. A Foreign Visitor Has Only One Day to Spend In Our Country

Visit Yogyakarta

Indonesia has so many beautiful places to visit so, you do not need to confused where the place you will visit if you come to Indonesia. One of them is Yogyakarta. If you only have one day to spend your time in Indonesia I think you should go to Yogyakarta. Yogyakarta know as a friendly society and history places. People call Yogyakarta as ‘Kota Pelajar’. It is renowed as a center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, drama, music, poerty and many more. If you visit Yogyakarta, you may visit to tourism objects like Prambanan Temple, Yogyakarta Palace and Malioboro Street.

Prambanan is the biggest Hindu temple in Indonesia. Prambanan also known as Roro Jonggrang temple. The Javanese people believe that it is such a legend. Once, there was a prince named Bnadung Bondowoso who was fell in love with princess Roro Jonggrang. The prince asked Roro Jonggrang to accepted his marriage proposal but Roro Jonggrang ignored it because he had killed king Bako and ruled her kingdom. Roro Jonggrang will accept his marriage proposal with one thing. If Bondowoso could built her a thousand temple in one night and done before the dawn, she will accept his marriage proposal. Then Bondowoso called out supernatural spirits to helped him. Knowing this, Roro Jonggrang woke up the maids and the village woman to begin punding rice and set a fire in the east of temples as if the sun will rise. Bondowoso managed in building his 999 temples when the cicks began to crow. The supernatural sirits returned into the ground and Bondowoso killed her to built the last temple. Furious about the trick he cursed Roro JOnggrang into thounsandth. That’s the story about Roro Jonggrang and Bondowoso. Maybe the tourism will impress if they know the story or maybe some tourists already know about it and it attrack them to visit Prambanan temple. Well, the visitors who want to satisfy their curiousty about the history of Prambanan can visit a museum which provides the things about it. In this museum you can watch the complete audio visual footage of the history of Prambanan from its discovery to its latest renovation. For the visitors who bring their family, Prambanan temple also provides a playing ground for the children and mini carriages to take them around the resort.

There is another place to visit in Yogyakarta besides Prambanan temple. You can visit Yogyakarta palace. If you take a visit to visit Yogyakarta palace in right moment, you can have a sensation of travelling to Yongkarta palace. You can watch evidence of Yogyakarta Sultanate’s glory as well as enjoying adat ceremonies such as Grebeg Maulud in the palace complex. Then if you want to to shopping you can go to Malioboro. Malioboro is a major shopping street in Yogyakarta. The street has the most concentration of small and personalized sidewalk shops selling anything from Javanese handicrafts until funky clothes. There is a store named Dagadu is located on lower ground in the main highlight of the mall. Dagadu is selling funky and contemporary T-shirt and it is not bad for souvenirs to your friends, brothers or sisters. There is also traditional market called Pasar Bringharjo whisch is selling all kinds of local goods. Malioboro street looks modern and colorful and also always busy from the morning until night.

In short there are so many places which you can visit if you go to Yogyakarta. You can enjoy your time and spend your day in beautiful tourism objects. I guaranted that the tourism will impress with a history place in Yogyakarta and other tourism objects.