Yogyakarta is one of the famous tourism cities. The speciality of Yogyakarta is a tourism place by the cultural based and the governor is the king itself that it is not appointed by an officially election. He is Sultan Hamengkubuwono the 10th recently. The Yogyakartan people want the king to be the leader in every way. This is the reason that Yogyakarta is a cultural based tourism.
Where to go in Yogyakarta
In spite of Yogyakarta wellknown as a tourism and cultural city, it is wellknown as a student city and fine art city either. It has a lot of many tourism points. Refer to the resources belong to Yogyakarta, we can visit the points based on our each interest. They are cultural and heritage, natural view, fine art point, and education. When you are interest to visit the cultural points, you can go to Kraton, knowing more about the kingdom, the heritage site, the culture, some ceremonial and cultural performance, the Kraton fortress. Then it can be continued to visit Tamansari. It is a watercastle of the king.
The natural lovers are able to visit many beaches within Yogyakarta province; they are Parangtritis, Parang Kusumo, Depok, Kuweru in Bantul district. The more ones will be found in Gunung Kidul district; Baron, Kukup, Krakal, Sundak, Sandranan, Indrayati, and it has been found some hidden beaches and caves eithers. Otherwise when you want to enjoy the mountain, you can go to Merapi volcano. Although we can not do climbing recently after the explossion on 2010, at least you can go visit for lava tour. It is the effect region of the explossion. You don’t have to worry about the explossion, because it has been safe already to be visited. Yogyakarta has a lot of fine art people resources. It is supported by the Institut Seni Indonesia (Indonesian Fine Art Institute) either. You can find batik painting, claypot village in Kasongan, silver handicraft in Kotagede, and other handicraft those are made from wood, coconut shell, gold, bronze, etc.
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What to eat in Yogyakarta
Completing your visit to Yogyakarta, you can try any local food and beverage: gudeg, javanesse noodle, sate klathak, bakpia, yangko, geplak, wedang ronde, kopi joss, etc.
Welcome to Yogyakarta.
