Goes to 'Ngalam'

I had a very nice trip to Malang in November last year. I just forgot to write my story here, It's been almost a year already, so shy to tell, but Important to publish for such a beautiful place like this Ngalam ;). 

Actually, I went to Malang for the second time a year, My first visit was with friends of AS.Roma fans community for our annual gathering. And my second visit with my office colleagues for our annual 'Staff outing',  Including Bromo & Surabaya Tours.

As we know, This East Java's second largest city is now moves at a far more leisurely pace than the regional capital, Surabaya. Identically with its leafy, colonial-era boulevards and a breezy climate. Also it's home to a large student population, as There are several important universities here. Above all, Malang for me is an ideal base to explore the intriguing corner of East Java, Indonesia.

For everyone who have listed Malang as your next travel destination, You need at least one-week to explore every corner of city's tourist sites, then you'll be satisfied. Here i try to list down the places i visited last year for you:

1. Inggil Museum Restaurant. 
You must be questioning, Is it a restaurant or a museum? Both of them are correct. This is a museum that also provide restaurant inside the building, So If you're getting hungry when you're looking around, You don't have to worry as you just sit and order some foods to the staffs at the museum itself.

This museum displays a lot of antics collection with Javanese nuanced. Such as: an old alarm clock, old sewing machine, radio, coins and even an 84 years old hairdryer from Dutch is here. Amazing!

While for the restaurant, They serve some local foods from East Java of course likes: Corn rice, Rawon Buntut, Eggplant, Etc.

Fyi, This museum & restaurant is located in the center of Malang city. So i think it's easy for you to come, look and eat :D.

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 2. Batu Night Spectacular (BNS)
It is a Recreation Park which is very famous in the city of Batu, Malang. From this place, You can see the City Light of Malang, You'll also find some lampoons around the area, setting-up very romantic, becoming this place is deserved to visit with your family, girl/boyfriend, or even closed-friends.

Besides it, All visitors here can buy some local products for Oleh-Oleh which are available at the Night Market along the roads into the exit gates. And also The food court for you who want to have meals here.

The entrance fee to BNS is around Rp 25.000,- per person. (If i'm not mistaken).

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3. Museum Angkut
Let's explore the history from the automotive sides, then You won't get bored after all.
If you never like to visit Museum or There is no museum on your travel list, Now, You must to consider it again, As i propose here the most 'interesting' museum ever in Indonesia, probably in Southeast-asia as well.

This museum have a different concept than any other museum in this country.
I have two-times now visited this museum and seriously still got excitement. 

Museum Angkut collects and displays a lot of Old authentic cars. The cars collections coming from Europe, Amerika, Asia and even from the ancient time such as: A horse & cow cart.

And if You're idolized or respect to our First Indonesian President, There is and old car which is known ever used by President Soekarno displayed at the museum, make it wort to visit.

The entrance fee for this museum is quite expensive for me, But it's value for money. You need to spend around Rp 55.000 (weekdays) & Rp 75.000 (weekend).

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Beautiful Bedugul Bali

We did a short day trip yesterday, Feb 19, 2015.  It's public holiday here. We spent the day by doing a tour to one of bali's tourism icons, Bedugul & Tanah lot temple. I actually already visited the places about 3 times. But some of my friends never did. So we decided to go then.

Our first visit to the ancient Mengwi's kingdom palace, Taman Ayun. Located in Mengwi village, about 18km north side of Denpasar town. Historically, The function of Taman Ayun Temple is a place to pray the god in their manifestation. My friend took a picture at one spot in the area as below:

Taman Ayun Temple (photo by Adrian)

FYI, The current entrance fee for this tourist object is: IDR 10.000 (Domestic) & IDR 15.000 (International).

After that, Our tour continued to the highland of Bedugul, it's approximately takes around 1,5 Hours from Mengwi by car. Don't be surprised as en routing to this place, you will be welcomed by the cloudy, damp and possibly rains. This is an area of great natural beauty however.

The focus point of the area are the crater lakes of Bratan (Beratan) & The Ulun danu temple. This temple is probably the most photographed temple on the island after Tanah Lot and It's certainly one of the iconic images of Bali. The temple sits on the western shore of Lake Bratan and it can give the illusion of actually floating on the water. Absolutely stunning :) !

Ulun Danu temple, Bedugul

The panorama en route to Ulun danu/Lake Beratan, Bedugul

Tourism Ministry to Increase Tourist Visits Through Four Efforts

The Tourism Ministry has set four efforts to increase the number of tourist visits to Indonesia, thus improving the local people’s economy, an official has stated.

“At least we have four efforts to increase the tourist visits. The first is the government is encouraged to set bigger target of the tourist visits to Indonesia which previously only reached 8 to 9 million per year,” the Head of Tourism Resource Development Agency of the Ministry I Gde Pitana said here on Sunday.

The minister said President Joko Widodo has set a tourist visit target from 2014 to 2019 at 20 million, with an increase of 16 percent per year.

Pitana said the average development of international tourism sector is only at 5 percent.

“The approach can help the people who have business in tourism sector to conduct innovation in order to achieve the target at our tourism sector,” Minister said.

The second effort from the ministry is using digital media as promotion tools to international community.

“We will develop the awareness, interest, and decision of Indonesian tourism before tourist candidate went to the destination. The digital media is more effective to increase the awareness of Indonesian tourism and we have allocated 50 percents of our budget to develop the digital media,” Pitana said.

The third effort is the enhancement of the tourism marketing and promotion in foreign countries, he pointed out, adding that the total budget for the ministry has also increased to RP3.7 trillion for 2015.

“The fourth effort is the stepping up of attention to tourism human resources. The human resources factor is a key success amid the competition era,” Pitana noted.

The Ministry also planned to establish three new tourism high schools in Mataram of West Nusa Tenggara Province, Palembang of South Sumatra Province and Manado of North Sulawesi Province.

Source: thebalitimes.com