Karimunjawa, a culter of island, is administratively a sub district of Jepara Regency. It consists of 27 islands scattered along the java Sea with the sea 69 metres in depth. The average temperature 26-300°C. The total territory area is 107,225 ha which consists of 100.105 ha of land and 7.120 ha of water. Some islands are formed by coral reefs and covered with sand layers. The coast is mostly overgrown with mangrove and other marine plants. Five out of the 27 islands are inhabited, they are Karimunjawa, Kemujan, Parang, Nyamuk dan Genting. Due to its unique marine life, the islands are conserved and declared as The national Marine Park from Central Java.

The best time to visit the islands is from April through October. However,you can also visit from November through March which is during a rainy season so visitors may have to experience stronger winds and bigger waves.
The karimunjawa islands are accessible by air from Semarang, there is a regular flight which served by deraya Air taxi from Ahmad Yani Internatinal Airport-Semarang to Karimunjawa Island and takes about 30 minutes. If you prefer on going by boat, you need to go by bus first to Jepara Town either fro Semarang or Demak or Kudus.
Jepara is about 70 km away from Semarang. There are regular voyages which connect jepara and Karimunjawa island vice versa.

EXPERIENCED ATTRACTION LAND

Hiking
This activities can be done at Karimunjawa Island, Kernujan Island and Karang Island which most of them covered by any type mangrove.

Sun Bathing
Visitor can enjoy the sun bathing at westside of Menjangan Besar Island and the northwest of Pulau Cemara Kecil Island.

Camping
Camping area are Kemujan Island and next of Parang Island

Bird Watching
There are 33 species of bird land and coastal, while in the year of 1991 found 52 species of bird land in Karimunjawa Archipelago.
There are two island to enjoy bird watching acitvity, Kemujan island with has 12 species such as trucukan, kacamata gunung, raja udang, prenjakserta kareo and others is karimunjawa island whis has 34 species such as trocokan, raja udang, kacamata gunung, pergam kelenjar and cinenen kelabu

Cave Attraction
Available at Sarang Cave of Parang Island

WATER ATTRACTION
Swimming
Those who are interested in swimming can visit the northside Island of Karimunjawa, Menjangan Besar and Menjangan Kecil, around Kemujan Island, Parang Island, Kembar Island and Kembang Island

Snorkling
Just visit The island of Menjangan Besar and Menjangan Kecil, the westside Bengkoang Island, around Kembar Island and teh northside and East of Island Krakal.

Diving
Visitors who are interested in diving can visit North And West Karimunjawa Island, the east side of Menjangan Besar island, the south side of Menjangan Kecil Island, the south and west of Geliang Island, and the side of Bengkoang Island, Parang Island, east side of kembar island, around Katang Island, the north and east side of Krakal island, The west dan north side of Kumbang Island and around Karang Besi.

Fishing
There are a lot of fish species at the certain island which a great deal for fishing activity such as Menjangan Besar dan Menjangan Kecil Island, around Menyawakan Island , Tanjung Gelam, Seruni Island, Kemujan Island, Tengah Island, the west sid of Bengkoang Island, around Parang Island, Kembar Island, Kumbang Island and around Legom Lele.

Traditional acttraction:
The marriage of the Bugis Ethnic Group that was begun with the agenda of Mapuce-puce, masuro, maddupa, Mappaenre balanja and the Anggaukeng Party

Ceremony of the Roll-Out of Boat is a event of thanks which was finished the production of the boat.

Sunan Nyamplung Grave
Sunan Nyamplung is a former leader of Karimunjawa islands, a historical place where the first Dutch Ship landed. To visit here, visitors can rent a motor boat from the local fisherman

Wali Well
AS one of holly well at Parang Island. Local people believed if discover water in the well and able to bring it out then the fortune will comes.

The Traditional House
As results of the human culture considered to be tourist attraction, The diversity of the ethnic group that lived in the Karimunjawa Island was assets for the cultural tourist attraction The Bugis house of the ethnic group's tradition could be seen in the Batu Lawang Hamlet, Dukuh Legon Gede and Dukuh Tlogo (the Kernujan Island).
For the Buton ethnic group could be seen in the Island of mosquitoes.
The Madura ethnic group resided in the Dukuh Telaga (Kemujan Island) and Dukuh Karimun (Karimunjawa Island).

Vegetasi
Coconut tree is easier to find at tmost of island here such Menjangan Kecil island, Menjangan Besar island, Bengkoang island, Menyawakan Island and Kembar island.
Typical plant of Karimunjawa Island are Kalimaada, Dewandaru dan Setigi

Source: www.central-java-tourism.com

This is an article from kompas.com about Karimunjawa Island:

Vacation to Karimunjawa

After fulfilling friendship with the family on the Idul Fitri holidays, whether you need to stay? Lebaran holiday to Karimun, a beautiful island about 2.5 hours boat ride from Semarang, want to?

Karimun Jawa energizer marine tourism, Mubarak Ciptosari, Tuesday (8/24/2010), states ingredients Fitri holidays to Karimunjawa Island available through the Office of Tourism Information Centre (TIC) in Jalan Pemuda 147, Semarang.

"TIC offers Lebaran holiday to the island of Karimun with special price, ie, a package for two with a two-day holiday period. The time, leave Saturday and return Sunday afternoon," said Fitri Ciptosari a travel guide that many foreign tourists to the island of Karimunjawa.

Karimunjawa Island recently became the icons of nautical tourism in Central Java Province. Area located in Jepara region has six major islands are still in development stage with a bid of marine tours plus exciting activity.

In addition to sunbathing on the white sandy beaches, tourists can dive, snorkel, and enjoy a typical seafood karimunjawa. Each activity is accompanied tourists a professional tour guide and staff safety at sea.

"If you want to see fishermen harvesting seaweed could also, by making use of a yacht or a rickshaw ride around the island to enjoy the life of local communities," said Mubarak.

Package tours to Karimun Jawa is available in a choice of regional tourists with two packages and two days worth of Rp 600,000 to Rp 800,000 and a package of foreign tourists to travel alone with four days worth of Rp 6 million.

Package is inclusive of transport vessels from Semarang to Karimun Island, staying at the Karimunjawa Inn, tourism activities and facilities in waters that have a charm since it contains 242 species of ornamental fish and 133 aquatic. No lag, green and hawks hawksbill and green turtles.

Source: kompas.com

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RAFTING

Rafting Locations
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Borobudur is one of the wonders of the world are located in Indonesia. This ancient building so many stores history. Starting from the construction history to sunset due to volcanic eruptions and finally found back to the surface. "Who built the Borobudur?" This is the history follows:

Borobudur is located on Java island, located 40 km northwest of the city of Yogyakarta, and 7 km south of Magelang. Kedu plains surrounding it is often referred to as the "Garden of Java" (The Garden of Java), because this land is very fertile, and its population is also very diligent. This plain is surrounded by four mountains, namely Mount Sumbing (3371 m) and Mount Sindoro (3135 m) in the northwest, and Mount Merbabu (3142 m) and Mount Merapi (2911 m) in the northeast.

This ancient building is the oldest stupa complex and also the largest stupa in the world. His name was listed as world cultural inheritance by UNESCO and is considered as one of the seven wonders of the world. Borobudur Temple was built by Samaratungga Syailendra Dynasty for more than 50 years, namely in the year 778-856 AD, 300 years before Angkor Wat (Cambodia), and 200 years before Notre Dame.

It is said that King Ashoka, Indian relics ever divide (salira) from Buddha Shakyamuni to 84 000 eggs and spread and bury it in all corners of the world. By storing the original sarira of Sakyamuni Buddha, the royal Syailendra has mobilized several hundred thousand people, then finish nan stately and beautiful building such large scale.

Borobudur terraces pyramidal, consisting of nine layers of floor, sixth floor of the bottom square-shaped platform, outermost circle is filled with relief gallery, a heritage warehouse famous sculpture in the world, with full length reaches 2.5 km, so the Borobudur, together with Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China and Angkor Wat-Cambodia-named as the four ancient wonders of the east. 1.6 million pieces he composed by volcanic rock and built on a rocky hill dwarf with a height of 265 m above sea level, is the single largest Buddhist stupa in the world. The origins of the name "Borobudur" is expected from the Sanskrit "Vihara Buddha Ur," which means "temple of Buddha from the mountaintop."

Overall, Borobudur reaching 42 m high, but then once restored, the height is reduced to only 34.5 m, and has dimensions of 123 x 123 m. Borobudur has 10 floors or levels. First to the sixth floor of a rectangular shape, and the seventh to the tenth floor of a circle.

This temple faces east, and consists of 1460 panels, each of which has a width of 2 m. Area 2,500 m2 entire walls, and filled with relief. The number of panels that have existing reliefs 1212. According to research, the number of about 504 Buddhist statues, including the statues that are still intact and that has been destroyed. The restoration of Borobudur was done twice, ie from year 1905 - 1910, and the latter in the year 1973-1983.

As Found

In 1006 in a violent eruption of the volcano, Borobudur was buried under layers of volcanic ash, ancient Buddhist sites are buried and asleep in bed till one day in the year 1814 was rediscovered from behind a bushy tropical jungle. Raffles's deputy governor at the time the British to occupy the island of Java being Java, heard the story of hunters and residents of a large temple hidden in the jungle, so he sent WN-Dutch engineers to conduct a survey, Borobudur finally see the light of the sun again. In 1973 through the assistance of UNESCO, which launched a large-scale restoration of Borobudur before emitting his face, as seen today. Why Borobudur was built 100 years after the completion of Javanese people do not visit again to the place, even these complexes have been dumped, it is still a mystery.

Development of Borobudur Is Error Design?

Borobudur was built for approximately 50 years, through several stages. During the design of Borobudur was also amended several times.

The first stage
The first phase probably started around the year 780 AD. At this stage, a small building with three terraces piled established when another building was built and then destroyed. The building was probably originally designed as a multilevel pyramid.

The second phase

At this stage, the foundation of Borobudur widened, covering the original foot. In addition, the number of terraces is also reproduced, including two rectangular patio terrace and one round.

Third Stage
Changes more thoroughly carried out, whereby the top removed and replaced with a circular terrace with a series of three new circular patio. Stupa was also built on top of these terraces.

The fourth and fifth stages

There was little change in the monument, including the addition of new reliefs and statues of change on the stairs and along the road. Remain the same symbols on the monument, and most of the changes only in the decor.

Then, where is the location of design errors Borobudur? According to Director General of Culture, I Gusti Ngurah Anom in the "Symposium on The Secret Behind the Grandeur of Borobudur" organized Dhammasena Trisakti University in Jakarta, mid-March 2000, the design error was corrected by creating "extra leg" and covered the original foot. This is done in the second phase construction of Borobudur.

The existence of two feet was first known by Yzerman (1885) when conducting research to rescue Borobudur temple of danger of damage. Additional feet, as seen now, is very simple and is often called the terrace width. These cover a wide terrace at the foot of the original relief, which consists of 160 frames. In some frames there is a short article as simple guidelines for letters pemahatnya in Old Javanese. It turned out that the words used were also found in the book Mahakarmavibhangga which includes stories about how the law of karma in life.

Why genuine relief at the foot of Borobudur Temple is still a polemic closed among the archeologists. Some argue that the closure is just a technical problem so that the temple was no landslide, considering the original foot very steep. the others say that the closure was due to religious grounds. Argument, because the original reliefs at the foot of describing everyday life that sometimes memorable villain, seronok, and so forth. It is considered inappropriate is known by Buddhists who visit Borobudur (Kompas, 7 April 2000).

But is it really an error occurred in the construction of Borobudur is design, no one knows.

Buddha Statue

At Borobudur, there are statues of Buddha with six different forms, or mudras. Keenam mudra Buddha tersebut adalah: Sixth Buddhist mudras are:

1. Bhumisparcamudra or "calling the earth to witness". The position where the Buddha's right hand touching the earth, placed above the right knee, with fingers pointing downward. This mudra symbolizes the Buddha's request to the God of the Earth to witness behaviors that Mara was right when he denied the allegations. Mudra is typical for Aksobhya Dhyani Buddhas.

2. Abhayamudra. Buddha's position where his right hand placed on the right thigh, with your palms facing upwards, a position that represents the effort penghalauan against fear. This is the Dhyani Buddha Mudra Amoghasiddi, North Buddha.

3. Dhyanamudra or "meditation". Open and placed both hands in his lap, where his right hand above the left hand and both thumbs touching each other. This is assumed to come from Amitabha, the Buddha Dhyani West.

4. Varamudra or "charity". Rotated into the top right hand and fingers down and placed in the right knee. Dhyani Buddha is Ratnasambhava, South Buddha.

5. Virtakamudra or position carefully weighing the decision, is depicted with his right hand raised position above the right knee, with your palms facing upwards, and the tip of the thumb touching the index finger. Dhyani Buddha is referred to here is a Buddhist from all directions.

6. Dharmacakramudra, or "Law Wheel rotation," which symbolizes Sakyamuni's first sermon in the Deer Park at Benares. Both hands held at chest, left hand under your right hand, and rotated upward with the thumb touching the ring finger, ring finger right hand while touching the left little finger. Position thus giving the impression that the hand wheel rotation, and connected with Vairocana, Dhyani Buddha Peak.

Relief at Borobudur Temple

Another thing that is unique and beautiful that we can meet at the Borobudur Temple is a carved relief on the surface of the walls, and along the alley or lane contained here. In the first phase construction of Borobudur, there are a series of reliefs on the feet of the building. Illustration text taken from Karmavibhangga (Law of Cause and Effect). The text reflects the good faith and in return, but more emphasis on severe punishment for those who intend evil as killing animals, fight or slaughter.

The walls of the first gallery was decorated by four series of reliefs: two on the walls of the foyer, and two on the main wall. The second series of wall reliefs contained in the text is taken from Jatakas porch, or Acts births. It tells tales of life Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha) in various incarnations before finally born as a human. The theme of these stories is self-sacrifice as a means of obtaining the good and the birth of a better in his next life, by achieving nirvana as the ultimate goal.

Level of the lower main walls are decorated with the birth of another story, which tells the life of other people besides Shakyamuni who also obtained enlightenment. Unlike Theravada Buddhism, where in it is believed that only one person who can get in this age of enlightenment, the followers of Mahayana Buddhism believe many creatures that have reached this phase. This text is called Avadanas.

At the level of the main wall is higher, his first gallery showing reliefs that tell the life of Sakyamuni (Siddharta Gautama) throughout her life as an ascetic prince who became a teacher. These reliefs began with the Buddha while he was in heaven before his last reincarnation, and ends with the first ceremony in Deer Park at Benares. This text is called Lalitavista.

The fifth and final series of three gallery occupies the top of Borobudur. Text is used as a source of inspiration called Gandavyuha. This engraving contains the story of a young man, the son of a trader, named Sudhana, who learn from one teacher to another teacher in the search for enlightenment. Most of the reliefs showing scenes boy traveling with a variety of transportation including trains horses and elephants, as well as the scene when she knelt in front of the teacher (kalayanamitra, or "good friend"), whether men, women, children and Bodhisattvas. Sudhana exploration ended in the Palace of Maitreya, the Buddha of the future, at the peak of Mount Sumeru, where he was given lessons and have different views.

Last series of reliefs contained in the upper terrace is taken from this text continued, called Bhadracari, where Sudhana vowed to become a Bodhisattva, and follow the example of certain named Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

Bhadracari; "And then later, King Buddha will come, who will receive the enlightenment in the future, such a noble king Maitreya and so forth, and finally Samantabhadra, the Buddha of the Future"

Placement of relief at the highest level of the temple shows that this is the text of the most respected by the founder of the Borobudur. Relief scenes seem designed to encourage Sudhana pejiarah to follow the example when climbing a mountain, which symbolizes the highest goal and source of wisdom.

Overall, the fitting would not we call this temple is one very magical (that's why he became one of the seven wonders of the world!). Maybe before we never imagined, that in ancient times there was a human being capable of designing and building a monument as complex, as spektaluker, as well as beautiful Borobudur. Just imagine, piled stones one by one to form a high-rise buildings and mansions. Each part also has meaning, not original design.

Borobudur As One of the Seven Wonders of the World

Borobudur has been defined by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) as one of the seven wonders of the world human heritage. But these days we often hear that there were elections seven New Wonders of the World (New 7 Wonder of Nature), which will be announced on November 11, 2011, whereby the Borobudur Temple in the nomination does not go into these elections. However, UNESCO stressed that the selection of the New 7 Wonder of Nature is not a program of UNESCO but are made by private organizations that are domiciled in Munich.

This is video about Borobudur Temple:

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