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The City with so many Arts Events

The picture above is an Open Air Jazz Performance which we can see in every SUNDAY MORNIG at Gadjah Mada University Boulevards, while the attendants could also enjoy a Sunday Morning Market with so many street vendors and open air Cafe stranded along the boulevards.

Yogyakarta is Daerah Istimewa or a Province of Special Territory, because in the 13th century it was a kingdom of Mataram, and up to now the monarchy was still exist.
Nowadays, Yogyakarta was wellknown as a student city, by many students come from all over Provinces of Indonesia and even from abroad, to study at various kind of Universities.
Yogyakarta was also wellknown as the CUTURAL CITY, so you could find so many kinds of Arts Performances, from Classical traditional music Gamelan and Angklung to Modern Jazz and Rock, From the Ramayana Dances and Wayang Orang, A Painting Exhibition and many more

Malioboro Street, Post Office and Keraton

If you visit Yogyakarta, don't miss Malioboro street as a symbol of tourist pride, one could not said coming to Yogyakarta if miss to see Malioboro. The other popular tourist spots are Post office which lied at the south end of Maliobor street, Keraton Jogja or Sultanate Palace.
From Yogyakarta, you could head on to a wellknown world heritages Borobudur(buddhist) temple and Prambanan(Hindu's)temple, and the other temples: Ratu Boko, Kalasan, Mendut, Pawon etc,
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Second IndonesiaTourist Destination

Yogyakarta is one of most popular tourist destination, here one can see beautiful of M0unt Merapi, which is still an active volcano, a unique of Malioboro street, an extravaganca of Keraton Yogyakarta, a Taman Sari Water Castle, Kaliurang mountain resort, Parang Tritis beach, Affandi Museum

  • Last visit to Yogyakarta Special Region: Mar 2008
  • Intro Updated Apr 1, 2008
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