Batu Lemo, Tana Toraja Place of burial or funeral bodies shaped holes in the wall rock. This place is the result of human creations remarkable Toraja. How not wake that has existed since the 16th century were made by means of sculpting.
At that time, of course with very simple equipment. Lemo is located in the village (valley) Lemo. About 12 kilometers south of Rantepao or six kilometers north of Makale.
Lemo named because some models burrow circular stone and mottled fruit resembling an orange or lime. The graves stones are considered the burrow paa '.
There are 75 holes in the wall rock. Some of them have statues lined the so-called tau-tau. The statues are a symbol of social standing, status, and their role during the life of the local nobility.
These objects are crowded with visitors since 1960. Besides watching the stone tomb, tourists can also buy various souvenirs or walking path around the object is witnessing a ripe fruit fruit pangi brown. The fruits were processed and prepared foods typically eaten as a Toraja tribe called pantollo pamarrasan
Source: http://www.wisatanesia.com/2010/06/batu-lemo-tana-toraja.html
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 NBC - Want a trip to Nusa Five? You are likely to raise eyebrows and a moment later, you ask, where is it? Nusa Dua in Bali is certainly familiar to you, now called Nusa treasury Five beautiful place in Nias should complete the list of places you will go to fill your vacation.
Previously, people familiar with the Mount Sitoli Nias Heritage Museum, Beach Lady, Peak Laowömaru, Beautiful Estuary. After the earthquake March 28, 2005 popping up new tourist sites, such as Nusa Beach Lima and Carlita.
Five coastal tourist sites are located in the village of Nusa Foa, District of Mount Sitoli Idanoi, Sitoli Mountain City, 16 kilometers from Mount Sitoli or 2 kilometers ahead of the airport Airport Binaka from the direction of Mount Sitoli.
You are not hard to find. Arriving in the village of Foa, in front of the mosque Foa, a signpost left side of the road emblazoned with the words "Five Nusa Beach 500 m". From this location hotmix road connected by a road onderlag-stone, sand and gravel that was compacted width of about 3 meters. All types of motorized vehicles can enter this region.
Over an area of 1.3 hectares has now been established Saung 36 units, capacity of 50-20 people. One unit of hall 9 x 16 meters, can be modified as a model with a capacity of 250 people, restaurant, meeting rooms 6 x 13 m, capacity 100 people, a unit mushala, as well as ample parking space. It also provided the facility sound system, keyboard and singer. "I've spent about $ 500 million to prepare for this location," said Kurniawan Harefa, Nusa owner told NBC Lima, 26 April 2011.
With such facilities, Nusa Five very appropriate as a place of execution of events in the form of meetings, parties, warm-hearted. To attract visitors, Nusa Five also carry out annual beach volleyball tournament and to support government activities in the development of Sapta charm to the community and visitors.
This new tourist attractions not only offers natural beauty alone, like the sea which gives coolness and the sounds of birds in the trees are lush, but the service employees satisfying the visitors.
When NBC entered the site on Tuesday (4/26/2011), a young man at the front entrance welcomes with a smile and immediately directed us to the park so neatly arranged. The young man then gave a warm greeting, "Welcome to our site, please choose a suitable Saung," he said kindly.
A moment later after selecting saung overlooking the sea, a pair of neatly dressed waiter with a smile offers a menu of food they provide. That afternoon our choice fell on grilled grouper.
Five managers seem to be able to read Nusa opportunity to make a meeting place which is sufficient not only intended for individual or family visitors. Thus, various organizations, including government officials, many are choosing Nusa Five as a place to hold meetings or celebrations.
One visitor NBC encountered at the site revealed that each holiday and spare time he chose to spend time in this place. "If you visit this place, I feel comfortable," said Yanuari Zebua (30), the villagers Lölözasai, District Gidö, Nias regency, as he looked toward the sea coast with Foa and her friends enjoy the shade of the trees around the place.
Yanuari also claimed that non-governmental organizations where he worked to choose the venue for a meeting in Nusa Lima. "The atmosphere of this place is cozy and beautiful scenery, perfect as a venue for meetings," he said.
Other interesting thing is free to enter visitor attractions without having to pay money into or ticket. "We the youth can enter this region with a free tour and enjoy periods of courtship without the cost," said Martin Ndraha (28), a visitor.
According Kurniwan Harefa, the beaches are managed now formerly known names Foa Coast. However, until 2007, Beach Foa no longer visited by people for not properly managed. In fact, in the past Foa Coast was once a famous tourist destination for the people of Nias.
Seeing conditions, youth with educational background of one of English Literature in the Field of Higher Education is interested in exploring the popularity of the site again. He then bought the land area of 1.3 hectares of the local community.
Kurniawan admitted often travel to a number of areas and look at the concept of tourism development there. From the observation that he began to develop tourist sites in Nias and build Nusa Beach Lima in 2007.
For youth born 23 November 1982, the developing tourism businesses is not easy, for him a challenge to do all my soul.
Capitalize comparative study and read a book, started to open his business in December 2007. And started its operation since July 2008.
To create a new tourist site name of the building, Kurniawan was inspired by the name of Nusa Dua in Bali. According Kurniawan, word 'five' is taken from the five elements Afo (betel)-in which the materials are composed of five types, namely tawuo (betel leaf), Fino (areca), betua (lime), Bago (tobacco) and gambe ( gambier leaves).
Talk menu provided by Nusa Five, can be quite varied. Visitors can choose different types of seafood, like grilled fish, fried shrimp flour, flour fried squid, fried rice, fried chicken powder, cap cay, cah kale and various other foods and soft drinks.
Now, Nusa Five has 20 employees who were recruited from the local community Kurniawan. There are 10 permanent employees, seven employees off, and three security officers. In addition, since 2009 Nusa Five facilitating children's elementary and junior high school to learn it for free with two subjects, namely Mathematics and English in the place.
With the presence of these five sights Nusa now gives additional revenue for local governments in the form retibrusi permit trading business, recreational license, permit crowds, billboard tax, and environmental sanitation reports.
Source: http://www.nias-bangkit.com/2011/04/nusa-lima-nusa-duanya-nias/
Last Updated ( Friday, 16 December 2011 17:37 )
NBC — Consuming meat of monitor lizard or locally called biawak? It sounds strange to hear that menu, let alone eat them. People commonly recognizes monitor lizard as a reptile with one meter in length with hard shell and scales in grayish color. It weighs about three kilograms and sometimes known as wild reptile.
Richly flavored curry of monitor lizard. Photo by Jannerson Girsang.
At the beginning I doubted when a friend offers me richly flavored curry of monitor lizard at a food stall at Jalan RRI at Iraonogeba Sub District, Gunungsitoli. However, upon noting the proper serving as it is the case of the meat simmered in richly flavored curry, I attempt to try to taste it to satisfy my curiosity. In fact, the monitor lizard, or in Latin it is so-called Varanus albigularis, turns to be delicious menu with a good cooking technique. The taste is almost similar to the beef or mutton commonly consumed.
The monitor lizard, which in Nias is locally called boroe, here is well known by Nias people, particularly those residing in Gunungsitoli. At least, there are three restaurants in Gunungsitoli serving monitor lizard meat as their menus.
We go to the restaurant owned by Atulö’ö Telaumbanua, 45, who is better known as Ama Andi Telaumbanua, to taste the menu here. Ama Andi in collaboration with his wife has been running this restaurant since 2006. In his restaurant, the monitor lizard meat is considered the prominent menu. “I love extreme culinary, let alone after traveling across Indonesia for case study engaged by the government program,” he says.
As to Atulö’ö, there is an increasing number of monitor lizard meat lovers in Gunungsitoli. In a week they get up to one ton of monitor lizard supplies. They are caught from some places in Nias including Alasa, Sirombu, Lahewa, and Tuhemberua. “Up to the moment, we got supply of monitor lizard meat from Nias,” says Atulö’ö who has travelled across many regions in Indonesia after graduating from Machine Engineering Vocational School (STM) majoring in Chemical Engineering.
Prior to serving the simmered lizard meat, the supplied reptiles are kept in one cage behind his house yard. “”We get the supplies from some markets that have known us as their customer,” he adds.
In this restaurant, the monitor lizard meat is then cooked in various menus such as soup and richly flavored curry. He still uses manual tools to cook the meat. Atulö’ö collaborates with his wife and his six employees to go through the cooking processes.
In addition to the great taste, monitor lizard meat in fact has many benefits as it could serve as the medication for uric acid. As to Atulö’ö, two Dutch and French professors who have ever tutored him during his case study in Indonesia, gave him this information. It is also believed that monitor lizard can make the skin shiny as told by many sources taken from internet.
Thanks to that sort of information, the number of the reptile meat lovers is increasing. Yosima Halawa, 28, is the example. The woman loves to consume monitor lizard meat. “People say it serves as the medication of uric acid. But I prefer consuming this reptile due to the great taste,” she says smilingly.
Similarly as what Yosima says, Syukur Zendratö, 26, also admits the delicious taste of the cooked monitor lizard meat. “It tastes like chicken meat. Let alone, it is said that the meat could cure uric acid,” says the young man who consumes this reptile meat after his colleague told him.
You need not to worry about the price. One portion of the cooked monitor lizard meat in this restaurant costs IDR10,000. It is really affordable.
Do you want to have more than monitor lizard meat? If you are extreme culinary lover, the restaurant also provides other special menus such as escargot (locally called sigi), frog (talaho), bat (bögi), scaly anteater (sigölu), deer (nago), mouse deer (laosi), snake (gulõ), and crocodile (buaya). However, it would be better to order first due to the mounting demand which leads to run out of stocks. “All animals are mostly derived from Sirombu, Mandrehe, Alasa, and Idanögawo” says Atulö’ö Telaumbanua.
The most expensive culinary in this restaurant is scaly anteater as it costs IDR25,000 per portion. This kind of meat is quite high-priced because the scaly anteater costs up to IDR300,000 per kilogram. Are anxious to taste them?
Source: http://www.nias-bangkit.com/2011/04/rendang-biawak-kuliner-ekstrem-nan-lezat/
Last Updated ( Friday, 16 December 2011 17:37 )
PONTIANAK, KOMPAS.com - Indonesian likely to become the international language of conversation in the world. More and more foreigners are interested in learning the Indonesian language.
Only by learning the Indonesian language, foreign citizens can understand the cultural diversity of Indonesia is very typical. To that end, Indonesia should be a good cultural packaging so that more and more foreign nationals who want to understand it.
Body Language Researchers Ministry of Education and Culture, Dendy Sugono, Wednesday (14/12/2011), said the cultural diversity of Indonesia is the most important factor that causes a lot of foreigners want to learn Indonesian language.
"Only by learning the Indonesian language, foreign citizens can understand the cultural diversity of Indonesia is very typical. To that end, Indonesia should be a good cultural packaging so that more and more foreign nationals who want to understand it enough to learn the Indonesian advance," said Dendy.
Indications began receiving the Indonesian language in international relations is the high interest of foreign nationals studying Indonesian at the center of learning Indonesian in their country.
"Countries of the existing central Indonesian language is the countries in Europe, Japan, the United States, South Korea, Egypt, and Russia," said Dendy.
Besides Saudi Arabia, which includes signage Indonesian can also be found in Frankfurt, Germany. "In Saudi Arabia, there are reasonable written in Indonesian language on the board of directions. When in Germany, it is rather special because the Indonesian language is one of six foreign languages to be learned in school," said Dendy.
Source: http://oase.kompas.com/read/2011/12/14/15021075/Bahasa.Indonesia.Berpeluang.Jadi.Bahasa.Internasional
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Friday, 16 December 2011 11:24
Combination between the adventure places, scenic view, man-made heritage, historical and cultural site in East Java. Visit Mt. Bromo, Baluran National Park and Tabuhan Island
Experience the white water rafting, enjoy the beautiful sunrise at Mt. Bromo, and trekking up to Ijen Crater, rest in the mountainous resort with beautiful panorama at Kalibaru plus an adventure to Sukamade Beach to see endangered turtles.
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