Recent Posts Tagged With 'semarang'

• Gua Kreo and the Monkeys

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 07:01 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  Question brings knowledge. It was because an open ended question that I raised to the driver of a rental car that made me knew the existence of Gua Kreo (Cave of Kreo). It was the last place that I visited in my last trip to Semarang. Gua Kreo is loc...

• Rawa Pening

  Posted on Saturday May 23rd, 2009 at 21:37 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  The name of Rawa Pening had already been registered in memory since I was a kid. It was because my father worked as Wedana at Jatinom, Klaten, until 1966, and we often travelled to places within Central Java and Jogjakarta. Rawa Pening was one of tho...

• Museum Kereta Api Ambarawa

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 20:14 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  Still within the city of Ambarawa, Museum Kereta Api (The Ambarawa Railway Museum) was the next target after visiting Monumen Palagan Ambarawa. It was only a few minutes drive from the heroic monument. Museum Kereta Api, which loooked like a typical ...

• Monumen Palagan Ambarawa

  Posted on Thursday April 23rd, 2009 at 09:17 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  After visiting Museum Palagan Ambarawa, I walked around circling the shady Monumen Palagan Ambarawa (Ambarawa Battlefield Monument), and took a few pictures of the monument from different angles as well as photos of military vehicles and weaponry tha...

• Museum Palagan Ambarawa

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 10:54 in travel, java, photos, museum, semarang

  After leaving Candi Gedong Songo, the next target was to enjoy breakfast with menu of local nasi pecel at Ambarawa city terminal, as advised by Ika Rahutami. The warung was unfortunately closed. Apparently the local Strategic Reserve Command military...

• Gedong Songo at Dawn

  Posted on Tuesday April 14th, 2009 at 21:48 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  I woke up at about a quarter to four on that Saturday morning, took a quick shower, went down to reception counter, checked out from Novotel Hotel, Semarang, and greeted the driver from TRAC who was already awaiting for me. The rental fee was Rp.500,...

• Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah

  Posted on Monday April 13th, 2009 at 09:33 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  The visit to Masjid Agung Jawa Tengah was actually happened more than a year ago, accompanied by Senja, a fellow blogger from Semarang, but I just got a chance to publish it. The Central Java Grand Mosque, the biggest and most glorious one in Central...

• Pantai Marina Semarang

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 08:10 in travel, photos, semarang

  Pantai Marina is another place in the city of Semarang that you may want to spend time when visiting this capital city of Central Java. The beach is located in the northern part of the city, approximately 4 km from Tugumuda, not that far from Pekan R...

• Museum Ronggowarsito

  Posted on Thursday November 6th, 2008 at 05:54 in travel, java, photos, museum, semarang

  The only museum in Semarang that I could pay a visit was Ronggowarsito Museum. The military museum was closed when I arrived. Located at Jl. Abdulrachman Saleh, Ronggowarsito museum consists of four two-storey buildings, houses different type of col...

• Vihara Mahavira Graha

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 09:19 in travel, java, photos, semarang

  It's one of the belated postings from my last visit to Semarang a few months back. A middle-aged taxi driver took me to the seemingly biggest Vihara in Central Java, named Vihara Mahavira Graha, on a bright windy morning. It's really windy since the ...