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This female "sea" monkey was a firm believer that arriving to Ollie's back first meant it was hers. Ollie had to scare her with a stick.
Destination Jakarta today, Non-stop Amsterdam-Jakarta.
We arrived in Jakarta in the late morning and headed straight away for the old Harbor and Dutch Cityhall.
That was enough for the day and our 14 hour flight.
Leaving Jakarta already next morning, after a quick stop at the Monas, for Bogor and the Puncak pass, but the pass was deleted from the tour as the roads were blocked during this eastern holiday weekend.
Visited only Bogor Botanic gardens and headed to Bandung via Jakarta.
Bandung is famous for its Art Deco city center.
We boarded the train for a 5 hour scenic drive to Kroya .
Night-stop at Wonosobo with the Dieng Vulcanic area and Java's oldest Hindi temples are nearby.
Fortunatly it didn't rain during our visit to the famous Borobudur temple complex .
We arrived in Yogjakarta for a full package - 2 day visit.
A becak tour in the early moring to the the Sultans Kraton Palace, Shopping, Batik, silver and dinner show to name a few.
On the second day a bicycle tour near Prambanan and more World Heritage at the Impressive Prambanan temple complex
Our second scenic trainride ends in Batu.
Time to relax here and prepare for our ultimate sunrise experience at the Bromo vulcano.
One more stopover in Kalibaru with a nice Botanic Garden before we took the ferry to Bali.
A few days at Bali Sanur Beach, relax and enjoying the sun.
Despite a few activities : Mountainbike at Bali's famous Ricefields, snorkling and visiting art village Ubud as we headed for our last
visit at the Tanah Lot temple for sunset.
Our Unesco World Heritage visits
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TLOGO Plantation Resort
Jl raya tuntang - beringin km.2 kec. tuntang kab. semarang
Phone/Fax. +62-298-340111
Jawa Tengah - Indonesia
PO BOX 3
Salatiga
Tlogo Plantaion Resort is a small clean tranquil hotel complex set in the cool mountain plantations of lush tropical Central Java in Indonesia.
The plantation was originally started by a Dutch company, NV Cultuur Matschappy in 1838 to grow cocoa. Its first chief planter was a Mr.Van Drill who later lived with his family in the Pendopo plantation house . The original Pendopo was damaged during the eruption of Mount Merapi in 1872 and was rebuilt in its present solid form in 1901 The last Dutch plantation administrator was a Mr. Van Baasgeul, who took the Indonesian name of Budiman on marrying an Indonesian. Budiman, a successful and popular man spent his remaining days nearby the plantation until 1964. Budiman life at the plantation then are now on show in Viva’s Suite for all to see. In August 1954 the plantation was taken over by the new Indonesian government and is now owned by the government of Central Java who later added resort facilities. Over the years cocoa prices dropped in world markets and so the plantation was re-planted.
Presently of the 414 hectares (1023 acres) area of the plantation 233 ha is of rubber, 97 ha of coffee, 64 ha of cloves and 20ha of nutmeg and cinnamon. Rubber is still processed for export in buildings adjacent to the resort for all visitors to see and visit. The local tea harvest is picked in August and September. From their own website.
Natural rubber, also called China rubber or caoutchouc, is an elastomer (an elastic hydrocarbon polymer) that was originally derived from latex, a milky colloid produced by some plants. The plants would be ‘tapped’, that is, an incision made into the bark of the tree and the sticky, milk colored latex sap collected and refined into a usable rubber. The purified form of natural rubber is the chemical polyisoprene, which can also be produced synthetically. Natural rubber is used extensively in many applications and products, as is synthetic rubber. It is normally very stretchy and flexible and extremely waterproof. From: wikipedia.
Java is the world's most densely populated island (population: 136 million). It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. Much of Indonesian history took place on Java; it was the centre of powerful Hindu-Buddhist empires, Islamic sultanates, the core of the colonial Dutch East Indies, and was at the centre of Indonesia's campaign for independence. The island dominates Indonesian social, political and economic life. More information on wikipedia.
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Temple of Borobudur view of the basement representative of the human life and story of the people The pyramidal structure is representative of the buddism symbol of the way to the nirvana to up level