The Beauty of Lembang, West Java

Lembang is a district in West Bandung regency, West Java, Indonesia. This district located at an altitude between 1312 to 2084 meters above sea level. The highest point of the district on the summit of Mt Tangkuban. As a region located in the mountains, the average temperature ranges between 17 ° -27 ° C. Very fresh air, so the area became a popular tourist destination in Bandung, which are frequently visited by domestic tourists from Jakarta area and surrounding.


The fresh air makes this region as the location of agro plantation. Some plantations are around the area, such as Sukawana tea plantations, flower garden Cihideung, Grace Vegetable Cibodas and also orchids and cacti.

As one of Bandung’s traveling destination, natural scenery in the valley of Lembang is very beautiful. There are several natural traveling destinations in Lembang, especially those that rely on the mountain scenery and abundant natural wealth. Some objects of nature tourism in Lembang, among others:

Curug omas.

This object has a source of hot water and contains minerals, there are also waterfalls Ciomas-high 25 yards. For those who like adventure from Maribaya can walking through the lush hills with pine trees of quinine, walk to Forest Park Ir. H. Juanda Arcamanik 5 km or regions. There is also a tourist attraction

Maribaya,

Maribaya tourism object is located 4 km south-east of Lembang. This location has hot water springs, gardens and waterfalls as high as 2.5 meters. Maribaya is a tourist site visited by many families, especially on holiday weekends. Hot springs contain sulfur Maribaya comfortable swimming or bathing.

Mount Tangkuban Perahu

the Mountain is famous with the Sangkuriang legend which is an original story of the people of west java. Tangkuban Perahu is one of the volcanos in West Java, to be precise in Lembang, about 30 km north of the city of Bandung, with a height of 2084 meters above sea level. To get there it takes approximately 30 minutes by motor vehicle. This mountain has many craters, between craters; the crater of the Queen is the largest crater, followed by Upas Crater which lies adjacent to the crater of the Queen. Some craters remove sulfur smell of smoke, there is even prohibited to descend the crater, because the smell of toxic smoke.

Cikole Camp

Cikole Camp / Cikole Endah a tourist location which is managed by Perum Perhutani is located about 30 km from Bandung, precisely in Cikole Village, Lembang district, west of Bandung regency.

Besides functioning as a vehicle for daily tours, this location is often used for camping. At this location there is the campsite that can accommodate 50 units of tents. The forest area of approximately 10 hectares and was previously a pine forest production has now developed into a campground. But not only pine in this area there are also many trees and calothyrsus Aghatis.

In addition to the above tourism object, in this district there Bosscha Observatory, which is one of the oldest star observation in Indonesia.
For more information, you can visit http://www.wisatalembang.com.

Sigiriya

Here is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Sigiriya mean Lion's rock. This site is an ancient rock fortress and palace ruin. Located in the central Matale District of Sri Lanka, surrounded by the remains of an extensive network of gardens, reservoirs, and other structures. Sigiriya is one of popular travel destination in Sri Lanka, also renowned for its ancient paintings which are reminiscent of the Ajanta Caves of India.

This beautiful place was built during the reign of King Kassapa I, about AD 477 – 495, and it is one of the seven World Heritage Sites of Sri Lanka.

Sigiriya may have been inhabited through prehistoric times. It was used as a rock-shelter mountain monastery from about the 5th century BC, with caves prepared and donated by devotees to the Buddhist Sangha. The garden and palace were built by King Kasyapa. Following King Kasyapa's death, it was again a monastery complex up to about the 14th century, after which it was abandoned. . The Sigiri inscriptions were deciphered by the archaeologist Senarath Paranavithana in his renowned two-volume work, published by Oxford, Sigiri Graffiti. He also wrote the popular book "Story of Sigiriya”

Sigiriya consists of an ancient castle built by King Kasyapa during the 5th century AD. The Sigiriya site has the remains of an upper palace sited on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includes the Lion Gate and the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palace that clings to the slopes below the rock, and the moats, walls and gardens that extend for some hundreds of metres out from the base of the rock.

Serengeti Park

Here is the national park that famous with the annual migration of over one million and a half white bearded (or brindled) wildebeest and 200,000 zebra. The Serengeti National Park is located in Serengeti area, Tanzania, Africa. This beautiful place covers s 14,763 km² (5,700 square miles) of grassland plains and savanna as well as riverine forest and woodlands.

The park is divided into three regions, such as Serengeti Plains which consist of the almost treeless grassland of the south is the most emblematic scenery of the park and many animal live there.

Western corridor or called “black Cotton”. This region is covered by the swampy savannah, many animals like Nile Crocodiles, colobus, monkey and also martial eagle live there. This place is passed by the animal migration from May to July.
Last region is Northern Serengeti, this area is a landscape which dominated by open woodlands and hills. This place is passed by the wildebeest and zebra migration about from July to august and in November. This beautiful place also cover by the bushy savannah is the best place to find elephant, giraffe and dik dik.

The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth. The essential features of climate, vegetation and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Early man himself made an appearance in Olduvai Gorge about two million years ago. Some patterns of life, death, adaptation and migration are as old as the hills themselves.

It is the migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.

The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area. This traveling destination also listed by the UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites.

The Nabatean city of Petra

This is one of the wonders of the world; Petra is an archaeological relic in Jordanian. This beautiful place lies between the mountains which form the eastern wing of a large valley of Wadi Aramba, precisely in the lowlands. Petra means rock, a former city that was founded by chiseling the stone walls, exactly in a 40-meter-high rock.

Petra was founded by Nabatean tribe in nine eighteenth dynasty of Egypt by the King Aretas IV as the city that are difficult to be attacked by enemy and secure from natural disasters such as sandstorms. Petra was the capital of the kingdom, which was built with an elaborate irrigation system and a theater that holds 4000 people.

The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage.

Now, this place is opened for tourist. In 2006 the design of a Visitor Centre began. The Jordan Times reported in December 2006 That 59.000 people visited in the two months October and November 2006, 25% fewer than the Same Period in the previous year.

Yellowstone National Park

This is the first national park in the world. Yellowstone National Park is one of beautiful places in USA, was established on March 1, 1872 by U.S. Congress. This park is located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though it also extends into Montana and Idaho and was lived by the Native Americans for at least 11.000 years.

With 3,468 square miles (8,980 km2), Yellowstone National Park is famous with the wild live and also many geothermal features, especially Old Faithful Geyser. The park includes other features like comprising lakes, canyons, rivers and mountain ranges. One of the famous features in the park is Yellowstone Lake, one of the largest high-altitude lakes in North America and is centered over the Yellowstone Caldera, the largest super volcano on the continent. The caldera is considered an active volcano; it has erupted with tremendous force several times in the last two million years.

This park is also a habitat for many species, such as mammals, birds, fish and reptiles including several that are either endangered or threatened. There are Over 1,700 species of trees and other vascular plants are native to the park, include the unique species of plants.

As one of popular national park in USA, Yellowstone becomes one of tourist attraction in that country since the mid-1960s.the government provides many facilities, so that area is very well managed for tourism. Concessionaires manage nine hotels and lodges, with a total of 2,238 hotel rooms and cabins available. They also oversee gas stations, stores and most of the campgrounds. Another 800 employees work either permanently or seasonally for the National Park Service.

Giant's Causeway

This beautiful places was declared as one of the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, Giant's Causeway is area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic eruption. This is one of beautiful places in United Kingdom, located on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, County Antrim.

The tops of the columns disappear under the sea, its form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot. Most of the columns are hexagonal, although there are also some with four, five, seven and eight sides. The tallest are about 12 meters (36 ft) high, and the solidified lava in the cliffs is 28 meters thick in places.
The Giant's Causeway is today owned and managed by the National Trust and it is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.

The site first became popular with tourists during the nineteenth century, particularly after the opening of the Giant's Causeway Tramway, and only after the National Trust took over its care in the 1960s were some of the vestiges of commercialism removed. Visitors can walk over the basalt columns which are at the edge of the sea, a half mile walk from the entrance to the site.

On the more cynical side, man of letters Samuel Johnson said, when asked about the Causeway, "Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see."

The Baikal Lake

With blue sea and the sky, the mountains, this beautiful place is very suitable for your honeymoon and traveling destination. The Baikal Lake is located in south of the Russian region of Siberia, near the border with Mongolia. This is the world's second most voluminous lake, after the Caspian Sea.

Baikal Lake consist of a habitat with more than 1,700 species of plants and animals, two thirds of which can be found nowhere else in the world. The Lake also called "The Pearl of Siberia", now famous as tourist object and drew investors from tourist industry as energy revenues sparked an economic boom.


For the increase of tourist, The Lake was also declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996

Plitvice Lakes National Park

This beautiful place located in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, in the mountainous region of Lika, Croatia, east Europe. This park are contain of mountains, forest, waterfall and lakes. Surrounded by three mountains part of the Dinaric Alps, Plješevica mountain and the Mala Kapela mountain, this park lies in the Plitvice plateau.

The beautiful view of lake, which are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria so make the water colourfull, ranging from azure to green, grey or blue. The colours change constantly depending on the quantity of minerals or organisms in the water and the angle of sunlight.



The Plitvice Lakes had become a major tourist attraction in the late 19th century. In 1949 the communist government of Yugoslavia nationalized the lakes and made them a national park. The park was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 in recognition of its "outstanding natural beauty, and the undisturbed production of travertine (tuff) through chemical and biological action".





The Plitvice Lakes are today one of Croatia's biggest tourist attractions. In 2000, the national park was expanded by a further 102 km².

(source wikipedia)