Taman Mini Indonesia Indah
Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) means Beautiful Indonesia Miniature Park. The entire area of TMII is actually located at four villages and three sub-districts, but it is simpler to say that it lies on Pondok Gede Road, East Jakarta.
TMII tourist object covers an area of 165 hectares. The ticket for entering Taman Mini Indonesia Indah is Rp10,000 per person. There are some additional costs for taking private transport into TMII, for example Rp 10,000 for a car and Rp 15,000 for a bus. As an integrated tourist destination attempting to give a brief sight of Indonesia, TMII offers harmoniously interesting mixture of traditional and modern architectures as well as its attraction, entertainment, service, and events that are held there. TMII is the best place to catch a very brief overview of Indonesian cultural heritages that encompass the arts, traditions, customs, ritual ceremonies, and traditional sports. Even more, it offers you with outdoor recreation sensation with the green field land covering almost the entire area. Taman Mini Indonesia Indah has been completed with some supporting facilities to boost your unforgettable experience during your visit to TMII. Those facilities include: pavilions of all provinces in Indonesia; 14 locations of museums; 11 sites of zoos; 12 locations of recreational parks; 8 sites of monumental buildings and monuments; and 6 places of worship. To enjoy the many tourism sites in TMII, you need a transport that you can rent, such as a car, a bus, or a bicycle. A rented car costs around Rp 35,000 per hour.
You can get to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) by car, taxi, or public transport. The public transports are relatively easy to find at bus terminals in Jakarta, for example, if you go by mini bus from the Pulo Gadung bus terminal, it costs you Rp 3,500 to get to TMII.
Malino is one of the most famous and popular tourist objects found in South Sulawesi province. It is in the highland area with an altitude of 1.5 kilometers above sea level and is situated in Gowa district, or about 90 kilometers from Makassar (the capital city of South Sulawesi).
Malino is very famous for its beautiful scenery, chilly weather, pine forests, waterfalls, and passion fruit. In Malino, fresh air flows through your nose and throat and to your thoracic cavity. There are many tourist objects in Malino such as Takapala waterfall, Lembanna waterfall, tourism forest including paved pine trees, and Lembah Biru or Blue Valley bathing place. Also, you can go around Malino by riding a horse. The local people rent their horses to visitors and tourists. In the tourism forest, you can see a variety of fauna, for example beautiful parrots, black monkeys, bold black birds, and also king prawns. Besides, there is a variety of flora including pines, acacia, banyan tress, eucalyptus, edelweiss flowers, rattan trees, and several types of clumps. The very special thing you can see in Malino is its passion fruit plantations. The fruit has truly special taste, a fit blend of sweet and sour. In local markets, you can directly enjoy the ripe fruit fresh or buy the processed form such as syrup and jelly. To spend the night in Malino, there are lodging and hotels facilities available, complete with restaurants, sports facilities, and entertainment.
Malino can be reached by public transport or rental car. It takes about 2.5 hours to get to Malino from Makassar. You can rent a car that costs between Rp 300,000 and Rp 400,000 for 24 hours.
Lubuk Linggau is one of the cities in Musi Rawas district, South Sumatera province. Eleven kilometers to the south of the city there is an interesting tourist object called Temam Waterfall.
To go to Lubuk Linggau, you can start from Palembang (the capital city of South Sumatera). From Palembang to Lubuk Linggau it takes about 6.5 hours by land transport. An alternative way to go to Lubuk Linggau is from Bengkulu city, which takes around 4 hours. From the city center of Lubuk Linggau it takes about 30 minutes to get to the waterfall area by car. There are two routes that you can choose: 1) from Air Temam urban village, and 2) from Rahma urban village. Actually, the tourist object itself (Temam Waterfall) is located more or less 50 meters from the country road that joins Air Temam urban village and Rahma urban village. Both routes provide you with fairly good road. Temam Waterfall is a natural tourist object. It is a waterfall that is 12 meters high and 25 meters wide. The waterfall water is clear, cool, and fresh. The waterfall location is surrounded by natural rock cliffs and green trees that perfect the tourist object beautiful view. You can bathe in the waterfall pool.
In order to enter this Temam Waterfall area, you are to pay a ticket (Rp 10,000) per person. And if you come into the area with your car, you have to pay Rp 30,000 for your car. Actually the parking lot in the area is not very wide, so if you cannot find a parking space there, you have to park your car beside the road.
