Owabong - The biggest water attractions in Purbalingga - Central Java Indonesia

For those of you who come to indonesia, and will enjoy a holiday in the provinces of Central Java, this paper may be a reference you can visit for an interesting tourism object for your visit. with the minimum cost you can enjoy the beauty and coolness of this tourism object. Objects called Owabong this tour, is the abbreviation of "Object Bojongsari Air Travel." Initially, this tourism object is a public bathing (swimming pool), which is located in the village location Bojongsari - Purbalinggga. To reach the location can use the public transport (angkot "Transport ta), or use a private vehicle. If the direction of the square Purbalingga, we could go through with Owabong Jalan Masjid Agung Darussalam to the north, then take to the right until the intersection Sayangan ago turn towards the right. This path is the road that connects Purbalingga - Bobotsari - Pemalang. Kira - approximately 7 km from the "Statue Knalpot Sayangan" we will reach the village Bojongsari. Owabong located 600 meters from the line to the Purbalingga Pemalang.

The biggest water attractions in Central Java, ± 3 hours drive from the provincial capital of Central Java (Semarang) with spring mountainous guaranteed fresh and cold, a lot of games that attract water, among waterboom, rafting, paintball, Reptiles Park, Flying Fox, 4D Theater, Hot Pool, etc. Every year the manager Owabong add at least 2 new tourism object, now has built a house and a swimming astray Eskimo. in Owabong there is also a game of war paint (Paintball) in which this game are much interested in all people at this time. In addition to spur our adrenalin, this game can also remove the existing fatigue after a busy day after all our activities.

You can enjoy the adventure across the pond with the flow of boat and life jacket, with a long track 200 m. Swimming flow is in the complex object Owabong tour Purbalingga. Many more objects that are in the tourist city purbalingga are Karangbanjar Tourism Village, Taman Air Tawar Aquarium Purbasari Pancuran Mas, tourism object Lawa Cave, climbing Mount Slamet, Development Agrowisata Serang, Kutabawa, tourism object Religion Ardi Lawet, Monument Jendral Soedirman births, tourism object bimac industrial ceramics, shell craft and glugu, hairpiece industry, of the distance from the Purbalingga as the capital of Semarang Central Java around 180 km with a time less of the more than 4 hours. If out of Jakarta, about 400 km distance with a time of the 8 hour drive time and 6 hours by train.

For lodging in the area of the cottage there is Owabong representative with 14 rooms and consists of ten suites and four rooms the size of the family.

Songkran Festival - Thai New Year (Water festival) in Thailand

Songkran festival in Thailand will be cerebrate in 13-15 April The most obvious celebration of Songkran is the splaching of water. Songkran is a Thai word which means "move" or "change place" as it is the day when the sun changes its position in the zodiac, It is also known as the "Water Festival" as people believe that water will wash away bad luck. But the Songkran in this particular instance is when the sun enters the sign of Aries or the Ram. Its full name is Maha Songkran or Major Songkran to distinguish it from the other ones.It is their traditional New Year when they can enjoy their holidays to the full with no economic hindrance.Songkran is a fixable feast on the solar calender. It begins on the 13th April and ends on the 15th April, but occasionally in certain years on the 16th April. The Songkran is in fact the celebration of the vernal equinox similar to those of the Indian Holi Festival, the Chinese Ching Ming, and the Christian Festival of Easter.

The values for community is to provide the opportunity to create unity in the community such as to jointly acquire merits, to meet each other and to enjoy the entertaining events. And for the society value is to create concern upon environment with cooperation such as to clean houses, temples, public places and official buildings. Thais value the religion bye means of merits acquisition, offerings alms to monks, Dhamma Practice, listening to sermon and monks-bathing.

In the afternoon, after performing a bathing rite for Buddha images and the monks, the celebrants both young and old, joyfully splash water oon each other. The most-talked about celebration takes place in the northern province of Chiang Mai where Songkran is celebrated from April 13 to 15. During this period, people from all parts of the country flock there to enjoy the water festival, to watch the Miss Songkran Contest and the beautiful parades.

The Songkran Festival is in a certain sense like April Fool's Day, when the maids of the village play pranks on any gallant who happens to pass by their way. He will be caught and bound by the united strength of the maids and they will daub him with blacking.

Yogyakarta BATIK COURSE, LEARNING DEEPLY THE CULTURE OF HAND-MADE BATIK TO BATIK PAINTING

Visiting Yogyakarta, you may not just buy and enjoy the marvelous batik artwork, but you have the opportunity to learn the technique of its production. The valuable opportunity packed in an interesting tour package with quite short duration and affordable cost will surely be fun.

Batik patterns you can learn involve hand-made batik, printed batik and painted batik. Each place usually has its special batik pattern to teach. For one day course, it is usually divided into two sessions; you will learn all processes of batik making that generally consist of pattern making, cloth coloring, wax dying and drying.

The process of pattern making starts when all materials, especially the cloth are ready. The making of this pattern is done with wax as the main material that is used to block color. If you want to make hand-made batik, the pattern making is done by using the wax pen called canting while printed batik is made by utilizing a prepared copper stamp with certain design.

You are free to choose the pattern you are going to make. Unique patterns you can make are, for example, ceplok, cecek sawut, and semen. You can find all of the patterns in historical buildings in Indonesia. Ceplok pattern can be found in Borobudur Temple; cecek sawut in a copper drum in Copper Time while semen pattern can be found in the tomb of Kalinyamat Queen.

The process is continued by coloring the cloth. The cloth with pattern on it is dipped into a bucket filled with coloring agent. This process seems simple, but actually it is difficult, moreover if batik must be colored more than two. Many batik artisans still use natural colors made from certain natural materials, but there are many who use synthetic coloring agents.

After coloring thoroughly, the process is continued by dying the wax, or removing the wax attaching to the cloth. Initially, prepare the boiling water mixed with soda ash and finally the cloth is dipped to remove the entire wax. If there is still wax attached, it must be cleaned after the dying process.

The final step is washing. When using natural coloring agent, the washing cannot be done by using detergent that will damage the color. After being washed, the cloth is dried under indirect sun to avoid discoloring. After this drying process, you can see the difference of batik colored with natural coloring agent; the color is usually less bright.

Batik courses in Yogyakarta provide professional instructors to make you competent even though with short course only. Some places also have instructors speaking foreign languages, especially English, to ease you understand the lesson.

One of the places providing batik course is Sanggar Kalpika in Kampung Taman, at the west of Tamansari. There, you can learn painted batik. If you prefer to learn hand-made and printed batik, Balai Batik is the right place. The institution that is located on Jalan Kusumanegara provides special staff and room for you to learn batik. The cost ranges from IDR 250,000 to IDR 1,500,000 based on the course types.

In addition to learning batik, you can also enjoy the activity and the works of batik artisans in Kampung Taman that 30 years ago has been developing painted batik. You can also see various batik styles exhibited in Balai Batik.

Text: Yunanto Wiji UtomoArtistic: Agung Sulistiono MabruronSource : YogYES.COM