EAST JAVA AND MOUNT BROMO

East Java has many natural attractions with its splendour volcanoes actives Mount Bromo and Kawah Ijen, and the many Park Nationalssuch as Baluran and Alas Purwo, Yogyatours.com provide the informations about tourist destinations in East Java to help you visit easier Bromo and Kawah Ijen as the most popular tourism objects.

Surabaya
The city established by Raden Wijaya the first king of Majapahit Kingdom in 1923. As the second biggest city in Indonesia and the capital province of east Java, Surabaya has many tourist attraction especially the colonial building and the complete zoo in South East Asia with the giant lizard of Komodo, The traditional harbor of Kalimas with the Phinisi, Arabic quarter od Kampung Arab. China town of Kya-kya and the museum of sampoerna, the biggest cigarette factory.

Bromo
The most spectacular and accessible park in the Indonesia archipelago, it lies between  78 54' - 8*13' South latitude and 112*51' - 113804' East Longitude on the globe. The area covers 58.000 hectares of  administration of the Directorate General of Forest and Nature Conservation. There are 4 main reserves, namely: (a) the Laut Pasir Reserve (6.290 ha ) : the sea of sand- declared in 19919 as a protection of 10km wide soft bed  of the Caldera (96 ha). (b) The ranu Pane -  Ranu Regulo  l 14 km away from he active Bromo on the southern  of the Caldera (c) Ranu  Kumbolo Reserve (1,340 ha) The Kumbolo lake  is surrounded by a ring of the hill ops and scattered conifers. Both (b) and (c) were established in 1921.  (d) the Ranu Darungan Reserve (380ha). was  only recently included  in October 1982. The whole region stretches 40 km from the north from the to the south  and 30 km from East of West.

Semeru
The highest peak is the 3.676 meter Gunung Semeru followed by Gunung Kepolo (3.035), Gunung Arcopodo (3.150m), Gunung Jambangan (.020 m)Gunung Bajangan (2.800 m), Gunung Ayek-ayek (2.819 m), Gunung Kumbolo (2.390 m), Gunung Lanang (2.313 m ), Gunung Iderider (2.527 m ), Gunung Widodaren (2.614 M ), Gunung Bromo (2.392M),Gunung Mungal (2.480 m), Gunung Batok (2.440m), ending at panoramic platform of Gunung Pananjakan (2.770 m ) which is about 14 km from the village of Wonokitri which is less than 2 km from the town Tosari.

Kawah Ijen:
Great  beautiful scenery of green sulfur lake, at 2000 m above sea level, where the story about humanity begin everyday in the morning. We can see the poor porters running down the  mountain with  90 kg sulfur. Walking through the passage of the sulfur porter
The ijen plateau his is the centre of the Ijen - Merapi. Malang Reserve. The Principal attraction at ijen is the large, Superheroes crater lake which lies hidden between sheer walls of deeply furrowed rock at more than 200 meters. The ijen crater itself lies at approximately 2.300 meters above sen level. It form a twin volcano with the now extinct mount Merapi. The enormous crater lake. which is 200 meters deep and covers an area of more than halt a million square meters. Contains about 36 million cubic meters of streaming. Acid water ijen crater shows a special type of vacancies feature common to Indonesia, About 1 kilo meters in diameter and 175 metres deep

Baluran
Reserve national where we find the habitat of last Javanese bulls and the others exotic animals. Blaluran is wild game preserve and occupies about 25.000 hectares of open savannah, and hill country to the north of banyuwangi. the park is a haven for a great variety of native animals and bird species including deers, wild pigs, buffalos leopards, peacocks, monkeys, and the banteng - the Javanese wild ox. you can abserves the animals in their native habitat from a specially constructed tower.

Sukamade
The beach in where the turtles leave their eggs to regeneration
Conservation efforts at Meru Betiri are Foused largely on the tour the nesting benches, of whies Sukamade is the most famous. Five species of turtle are known to lay eggs here. Emerging from the sea under cover of darkness, usually between about 9 pm and midnight, the turtle crawl slowly up the beach, deposit their eggs beneath half a meter of sand and return to the water in a process that takes several hour to complete

Malang
Malang is quiet and atmospheric, with magnificent scenery. the town is well situated for exploring some fine hindu temple ruins. the countryside on this run is particularly beautiful and malang is a pleasant city with just enough altitude to take the edge of the heat. it gets few western visitors, although it has good parks and trees and a large central market also it has many attractions in its surroundings, such as apple plantations, Coban Rondo Waterfall, Singosari temple etc.

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