Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Exotic Bunaken National Park

Bunaken National Park is very representative of Indonesian tropical water ecosystems consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems.  In the northern part consists of the island of Bunaken, Manado Tua island, the island Montehage, Siladen island, the island Nain, Nain Small island, and some coastal areas of Cape Pisok. While in the Southern Cape coast includes some of Palm.
Potential land islands national park is rich in species of palm, sago, woka, silar and coconut. Types of animals living in terrestrial and coastal including Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra nigra), deer (Cervus timorensis Russa), and possum (Ailurops ursinus ursinus).

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Beautiful Scenery Dieng plateau settlement

Dieng plateau settlement is an active volcanic area, which can be regarded as volcanic environment, with an average altitude of about 2,000 m above sea level. Temperatures in Dieng range 15-20 ° C in the daytime and 10 ° C at night. From a distance, Dieng area looked like a broken mountain terrain with a lot of leaving a crater. That is why the Dieng Plateau are named with a mean plateau in the mountains.
Dieng name itself comes from Sanskrit language which is "On" meaning "high place" or "mountain" and "Hyang" from Khayangan word meaning place of the gods goddesses. So Dieng means mountainous area where the gods and goddesses residing, but according to other sources, Dieng name comes from the words in the language of Java "super" which means beautiful and "Aeng" meaning strange. Dieng means beautiful place and full of weirdness.