Museum Affandi (Affandi Museum)

Affandi Museum is located at Jalan Laksda Adi Sucipto No. 167, Subdistrict of Depok, Regency of Sleman, Province of D.I. Yogyakarta, Java Island, Indonesia.
Affandi Museum was built on a land area of 3500 m², which consists of a museum and Affandi’s house.
Affandi was a famous painter from Indonesia, the results of his work was already well known to the whole world. Affandi is a world class painter.
Affandi, born in 1907 in Cirebon, West Java. In 1933, Affandi married. Maryati is the name of his wife, a girl born in Bogor. From his marriage, Affandi and Maryati blessed with a daughter, who was named Kartika. Later, Kartika inherited his father's talent as a painter.
After years of work, on May 23, 1990 Affandi died, He was buried at the museum complex, adjacent to the tomb of his wife, Maryati. Furthermore, Affandi Museum was managed by The Affandi Foundation until now.
Although Affandi had died, but the name and his work will remain eternal.

Affandi had three consecutive times designated by the Government of Indonesia to represent Indonesia in the International Exhibition (Biennale Exhibition), namely in Brazil in 1952, in Venice Italy in 1954, and in Sao Paulo in 1956.
In Venice, Italy, Affandi succeed and win a prize.
Affandi never held an exhibition to go abroad, among others, to Singapore, India, London, Brussel, Amsterdam, Rome, Paris and others.
Affandi often exhibit paintings to various countries, so that the results of his work known to the world. Through his work, Affandi received numerous awards in Asia and Europe, among them:
- Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the National University of Singapore in 1977.
- Peace Prize of The Dag Hammarskjoeld Prize from Italy in 1977.
- Bintang Maha Jasa Utama from the Government of Indonesia in 1978.

Events At Affandi Museum
Affandi Museum other than as a museum exhibiting large paintings by Affandi, also used to place a lot of activities related to art activities and exhibitions. Some activities that regularly take place at the Affandi Museum is:
- Exhibition of Paintings Tonny Holsbergen (every month in February)
- Commemorating the late of Affandi (each dated May 23)
- Sorrandu Exhibition (each month June until July)
- Solo Exhibition of Kartika Affandi (every month November)

Supporting facilities in the Affandi Museum
Available: the library, the tower of view, the stage house, cart, gallery of performances (indoor and outdoor), guide, the performance space, conference rooms, Café of Loteng, Studio of Gajah Wong, mosque, souvenir shops, swimming pools and toilets.

Travel route to the Affandi Museum
From Adi Sucipto Airport in Yogyakarta, only ± 4 km. From the airport, travelers can drive a taxi, bus or car rental.
From Tugu Station (Railway Station) in Yogyakarta City, only ± 5 km. From the station, tourists can take a taxi, bus or car rental.
From the Bus Terminal of Giwangan in Yogyakarta, only ± 8 km. From Terminal, travelers can drive a taxi, bus.

Time a Visit to The Affandi Museum
Affandi Museum opened to visitors:
From 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM on Monday until Saturday
From 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM on Sunday
Affandi Museum is closed to the public every National Holidays / Religious, unless previously made a reservation to the manager of the museum.

Kebun Raya Cibodas or Kebun Botani Cibodas (Cibodas Botanical Garden)

Cibodas Botanical Garden is located at the foot of Mount Gede-Pangrango, Cianjur Regency, West-Java Province, Java Island, Indonesia.
Cibodas Botanical Garden located at an altitude of 1275 m above sea level, the landscape is mountainous, the rainfall was 2.380 mm per year, air temperatures between 17 ° C - 27 ° C, with an average temperature of 18 ° C.
On April 11, 1852, Cibodas Botanical Garden was founded by Johannes Ellias Teijsmann, a curator of the Bogor Botanical Garden. At first, Cibodas Botanical Garden named Bergtuin te Tjibodas or Cibodas Mountain Range Garden. Cibodas Botanical Garden is a place for the collection of tropical plants moist highlands.
Cibodas Botanical Garden with the extent of 125 hectares is one of the most interesting attractions for visiting tourists. Cibodas Botanical Garden not only serves as a tourist spot, but also as a place of education and research.
Cibodas Botanical Garden has the cool air, the wind blew gently, the view is beautiful, the trees and plants spread out green, not excessive if Dr. F.W. Went to say: If paradise still exist on earth, Cibodas must have been part of it. Dr. F.W. Went is a plant physiologist from Germany who had long lived in Indonesia.

Cibodas Botanical Garden Collection
Cibodas Botanical Garden has a collection of as many as 10792 plant species, as many as 700 kinds of seed collection, and herbarium collections of as many as 4852 species. Plant collection divided into two collections, namely a collection of estates and collections in a greenhouse.
Collection of plants in the garden there are as many as 1014 species.
Collection of plants in the greenhouse consisted of as many as 320 types of orchids, such as Anggrek Kasut Hijau (Paphiopedilum javanicum) that is native orchids from Java Island, and Kiaksara Orchid (Macodes petola). As many as 289 types of cactus, as Kaktus Kursi Mertua (Achinocactus grussoni), succulent as many as 169 species.

Typical plants in Cibodas Botanical Garden
Moss Park
Cibodas Botanical Garden, there is Moss Park that has 216 kinds of lichen and species of Hearts Moss from various regions of Indonesia and the world. Moss Park is 2500 square meters area.

Carcass Flowers (Amorphophalus titanum)
This giant-sized flowers and attract insects. Flowers issued a strong smelling.

Bunya-bunya (Araucaria bidwill)
This tree is a plant that is old age and a large trunk.

Sakura Flower Park
Sakura Park was built in 2006, and the extent of about 3200 square meters.
Sakura Flower (Prunus cerocoides) originally from Japan.

Cibodas Botanical Garden there are edible plants, like seeds from plants of Saninten (Castanopsis argentea), leaf of Rasamala (Altingia excelsa), Keresmen leaves or Mint (Mentha arvensis), which was spicy and fresh.
There are herbal plants such as Pegagan or antanan (Centella asiatica), which is very good for women who just gave birth, Tempuyung (Sonchus arvenis) to treat kidney stones, Ki Urat (Plantago major) can be used to treat Diabetes Mellitus, Quinine (Cinchona pubescens).

Cibodas Botanical Garden there is a waterfall, from the entrance to the location of the waterfall is ± 750 meters.

How to Achieve Cibodas Botanical Garden
From the Capital of Indonesia, namely Jakarta, Cibodas Botanical Garden can be within ± 3 hours (± 100 km) by car or motorcycle.

Time a Visit to The Cibodas Botanical Garden
Cibodas Botanical Garden is open daily, starting at 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

Museum Satwa (Animal Museum)

The museum is located under the slopes of Mount Panderman, Oro-Oro Ombo street, Batu City, East Java, Java, Indonesia. Animal Museum building in the design of ancient Roman architectural style.
Animal Museum is a place of recreation with educational nuanced. Besides as a place of recreation, Animal Museum can be used to increase knowledge about the fauna living in the ancient times and in the present.

Animal Museum Collection
Animal Museum has a lot of collections, in the museum there are many kinds of rare animals, various kinds of birds, land animals, sea animals, fossils of giant animals. Animal Museum collections, in addition to collecting stuffed animals are also collected fossils of rare animals.
There are many types of butterflies, bees, moths of trees, grasshoppers. Insects in this museum, mainly come from forests in Indonesia and the rest was imported directly from the country of origin, such as Thailand, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, China, Colombia, Peru, and so on.
In this museum there is a diorama, dioramas depicting the life of animals and nature at the time, which seemed to be real. Diorama is like a diorama of life under water (sea, rivers, marshes, lakes), snowy landscape diorama, diorama of the burning jungle scenery, diorama of the rocky landscape, and others.
The museum also provides theater presenting films about wildlife and its life in the wild nature. There is also a demonstration of simulated animal anatomy, so that visitors can better acquainted with the intricacies of animal anatomy.
The atmosphere of this museum is designed so that as the original habitat of these animals.

Museum Facilities
There is a room containing a variety of reading-related knowledge about the fauna.

Towards Animal Museum
From Jakarta, by travel car or bus to the City of Malang.
From the City of Malang, East Java, the museum is about 20 km.
From Batu Terminal or Batu Big Market, Batu City, to the Oro-Oro Ombo ± 2 km away.

Visiting
Animal Museum open from 10.00 AM - 08.00 PM

Taman Nasional Komodo (Komodo National Park)

Komodo National Park is located in the Province of East Nusa Tenggara, Nusa Tenggara Archipelago, Indonesia.
Komodo National Park consists of three major islands, namely Komodo Island, Rinca Island and Padar Island, as well as several large islands and small islands, some mountains and hills. In this national park, Mount Satalibo is the highest mountain peak (± 735 meters above sea level).
Komodo National Park, flanked by the Island of Sumbawa and Flores Island.
In 1980 the Komodo National Park was established, the aim is to protect the survival of some ancient animal, namely the Komodo (Varanus Komodoensis) and their habitats, including flora and fauna therein. In 1986, the Komodo National Park designated as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

On this island, tourists can see the Komodo. Komodo is the largest lizard species in the world, body length can reach 3 meters and weighing up to 165 kg. Tourists can witness the various activities of this rare animal, such as the Komodo marriages that occurred between May to August, Komodo eating deer, eating pigs, eating goats, see Komodo basking in the streets and in the branches of trees in the morning.
In addition to as the original habitat of the Komodo, Komodo National Park is also used as a place for the conservation of native animals from Indonesia. In the Komodo National Park there are also marine life, like hundreds of species of coral, thousands of species of fish, dozens of sponge. There are also wild animals such as horses, deer, wild buffalo, wild boar, ajag.
There are also papyrus trees, bamboo, rattan and mangroves.

Visitor activities in the Komodo National Park
Observed gestures of Komodo, see the fauna and flora, visit traditional villages, research.
Other activities: swimming, diving, snorkeling.

Visiting the Komodo National Park
Visitors can visit each year, namely on: March until June, the month of October until December.

Travel routes to the Komodo National Park
Route 1:
From Denpasar City (Bali Island) to Labuan Bajo City (Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara) by airplane, from the Labuan Bajo City to the national park using a ferry or speedboat.

Route 2:
From Denpasar City (Bali Island) to Mataram (Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara), next to the town of Bima (Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara), and the town of Sape (Sumbawa Island, West Nusa Tenggara), it takes ± 2 days' journey by land and sea. Sape to the location of the national park by using the ferry.

Facilities in the Komodo National Park
Available: inns, hotels, resorts, resthouse, researchers house, guest house, shelter, guard shack, the information center, restaurants, shops, souvenir shops, tour guide, public toilets, speedboat and etcetera.

Komodo National Park is often visited by foreign tourists, they call this a national park with Own World mention, because the Island of Komodo is unique. Komodo Island has a vast savanna, and impressed arid and barren, but busy with several voices of birds, wild horses and giant reptiles. The air temperature is hot and dry, the limited water resources, an open field that overgrown some papyrus trees, with mountain backdrop. All that is unique not found everywhere, and this is an Own World.

The situation in Komodo National Park
Air temperature: 17 ° - 43 ° C
Rainfall: 800 to 1000 mm / year
Elevation: 0 to 735 meters above sea level
Geographical location: 8°23' - 8°50' LS, 119°22' - 119°49' LE