Wednesday, January 21, 2009

A Little Pieces from a Beautiful Indonesia View


Exotic, charming and wonderfully embracing, Indonesia is one of Southeast Asia’s Top Travel Destinations. It has one of the world's greatest tourism destinations in Bali. With the capital city Jakarta, it is a very interesting country to visit.

With a population of over 234 million people, it makes Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority nation. It is also known as the world's largest archipelagic state. Comprising about 17,508 islands (including big and small islands). The main islands are Kalimantan (539,460 km2), Sumatera (425,606 km2), Irian Jaya (421,981 km2), Sulawesi (174,219 km2), and Java (129,187 km2). Indonesia shares its land borders with Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, and East Timor. Indonesia is also adjacent to Australia to the south, Singapore to the north-west, Philipines to the north-east, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Indonesia truly is an amazing place with so much to offer tourists. The regular and most popular destinations of Bali, Lombok, Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Batam, Padang, Medan etc are only small part of the country and there are so many more undiscovered charms to be found. Explore more about the unique of Indonesia multi culture, give you some ideas of where to go and what to do. Wherever you go you can be assure that the people will welcome you with open arms, and sparkle smiles, and you may well quickly fall in love with many of the sights and diverse regions that Indonesia has to offer.

Art and culture resources belong to humanity as a whole and those of Indonesian are explicit expressions of life, born out of an extraordinary rich cultural heritage which have become a garden of Eden for social scientists and culture vultures; a veritable treasure chest of tradition waiting to be opened.

Every nation requires a heritage with which people continually interact cross culturally as well as cross generations, one which fuses past, present and future and Indonesia is home to tremendous and glorious legacies of the past, be they cultural or natural heritages. So, be the witness of your own.

People may say that there is only one world and it is getting smaller; but when comes to Indonesian marine resource, there seems to be a totally different world. Once under the waves a whole new world is waiting magnificent multi colored sea gardens, enormous coral, and myriad technocolored fish, wild dolphins and turtles to mention a few. So magnificent, that you definitely forget about time.

Our tropical forests bestowed on us by God, are the envy of many nations because of their abundant bio diversity. They have been waiting there for us to experience for ourselves, first hand, the miracles of Mother nature, previously only known to use through text books.

One of the legendary indigenous plants proudly displayed in botanical gardens around the world is the “bunga bangkai” (Rafflesia Arnoldi), display, reaching almost 1.5 meters in diameter, you can wonder at the spectacular spots on its giant petals. But the most amazing quality of the bunga bangkai is its nocturnal scent, said to resemble that of a corpse! That’s how it got its nick name.

Incomparable and unique, only our beautiful tropical forests offer this breath-taking sight, it truly is a pride of our nation.