Yogyakarta

yogyakarta tourism

General Information

    Yogyakarta is a city in Central Java, which is your choice to spend the first time a tourist is full of culture, art and history in Indonesia. A population of nearly half a million people, was built around the Sultan's palace and the royal gardens, where was the capital of the Republic of Indonesia between 1946-1949. Her toddler today is "Yogya" and 30 kilometers south of the volcano "Mount Merapi."

 

    Muslims constitute in Yogyakarta nearly 90% of the population, and the primary language in the city and the region are Javanese. Yogyakarta is located in the middle of the street, "Jalan Malioboro" full of trees and filled with shops and bustling industrial goods and handicrafts and restaurants. Besides the royal palace There Palace "Baku Allam," The Museum "Sono Bodio" and the homes of prehistoric man-made, as well as statues of Hindu-Javanese and the effects of bronze.

    University in Yogyakarta "earnestly Mada" The Islamic university is the University of Indonesian Islam, and the Library Foundation Hatta and a number of art colleges. One other important tourist centers, there is a bird market and the painters Copyright batik, printed fabrics or any coded manually cover the parts that are not intended painted waxy layer, and Prince Tiggo Kozomo School of Dance and the Army Museum. It also constitutes a shadow puppet theater (shadow) favorite pastimes in Yogyakarta, accompanied by music Aljamilan (percussion).

    Yogyakarta and attract thousands of tourists a year come for the enjoyment of its rich cultural and civilizational and tourist centers, especially the beautiful nature and charming, which has kept its hotels on the Indonesian heritage and submitted new look.

    The highlight of Yogyakarta Bmabidha religious, where highlights including Mabdaha Prambanan Hindu and Buddhist Burodor, that included a list of human heritage. It also constitutes a temple Burodor important Buddhist shrine where built in 800 AD, which is the famous Buddha statues and sculptures. The tour can be done in this temple on the back of an elephant.

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