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Sorake beach is the second best place after surfing beaches of Hawaii,  Sorake Beach is located in the west island of Nias island of Sumatra.  South Nias district is one-one districts in North Sumatra on the island of Nias.

There are 2 (two) alternative paths can be taken to get to the island of Nias :

1.  Overwater

To reach the island of Nias, the distance that must be taken is approximately 85 miles of sea travel or approximately 12 hours of sea travel by using the ferry from Sibolga, from northern Sumatra to the dock the ship Mount Sitoli, From the Gulf to the city of Gunung Sitoli require travel time in about 4 hours travel by four wheel drive vehicles.

2.  Road Through the Air

Travel to the island of Nias using airplanes leaving from Polonia Airport, Medan, North Sumatra. Polonia Airport takes approximately 1 hour to get to the airport Binaka located about 20 kilometers south of Gunung Sitoli, the island of Nias. Binaka Airport, can use the rental vehicle on a road trip or travel to the Gulf to the city that takes about 4 hours drive.

The Things That Attract From Coast Sorake

Sorake beach is a tourist attraction for domestic tourists and foreign tourists. Every year many tourists from around the world come to the beach Sorake for surfing sports activities.

Sorake beach has a distinctive because it has high waves and waves can be rolled up kebibir whole coast and has 11 times the wave before it broke with a wave height of 3 meters to 5 meters, the waves have 5 levels so that surfers can perform a variety of styles on each attraction menaikki levels and surfers can surf up to a distance of 200 meters because it has the character of the long waves that are rarely found across the globe.

Sorake beach is quite unique because there is no sand that slope, there is a rock-strewn. Edge of the rocks that are directly dealing with the outer sea having a depth of 2 to 3 meters.

If you want to surf do not need to swim as far ketengah, but just walk away just off the beach filled with rocks and swim as far as 2 or 3 feet into the sea and then just waiting for the tide to roll.Facilities Available
There is a home stay, lodging, hotel.

Best time to visit the beach Sorake

On holidays, especially Saturday and Sunday, Sorake beach visited by just refreshing the surrounding community to enjoy the beauty of the sea with blue clouds above the sea or the swimming lane.

Sorake Coast Surfing Competitions are often held to be local or international. Nias Open is one of the beach surfing championship Sorake followed by various surfers from various countries. Surfing championship is usually held in June and July is when the waves are large-magnitude.

 

South Nias has beautiful beaches, white sand beaches and clear blue sea is stunning. Besides the tourist beaches, Nias has also megalithic cultural heritage, traditional houses various works of Nias and Nias communities that have lived for hundreds of years.

Located Bunaken National Marine Park in Sulawesi, North, and a group of 8 km from the mainland city of Manado ±. The strategic location of the park is easy to be visited by domestic and foreign tourists.

Bunaken Marine Park is a popular tourist destination for large local and foreign tourists 1-1.

Doing business in the Bunaken National Marine Park, such as sunbathing on the beach, ocean swimming, diving (diving), snorkeling, and exploring the forests along the coast.

A total of Bunaken Marine National Park covers an area of ??75 265 hectares of the area in which there are five islands, and the island of Bunaken, Manado, only an island, Siladen Island, the island with many of the islands Mantehage of Iceland and the participation of Naen child. Although the marine park consists of five neighboring islands, but the most famous dive sites of Bunaken and Iceland.

Bunaken area in 1991 as a national marine park by the Secretary of the Navy and the lake and educational attraction to see the potential of the natural and marine activity dedicated to the protection of this region. Besides tourism, and a garden ideal for the development of adult education and knowledge of children on the natural and marine resources.

Bunaken National Marine Park is 1-1, in the most beautiful marine park in the world and known for its coral formations and wide. Marine Park is home to more than 3000 fish species with extinction, such as yellow tail fish lolosi (Lutjanus Kasmira), and fish gusumi HP (horse hippocampus) goropa (Ephinephelus spilotoceps) known as OCI (Seriola rivoliana) and many others have the same needs to be a protected species and rare aquatic species such as dolphins, manatees and dugongs, and manatees are also different types of fish are very beautiful.

Bunaken National Marine Park over an area large enough to make the dive, still confined to the dive sites on the coast about five islands, will be done in order to facilitate the safety of visitors and staff in monitoring visitors to the beach.
Visitors can soak and watch the tropical fish and coral reefs, picturesque and beautiful, so visitors are guaranteed to enjoy, and can be forgotten.
For diving Bunaken National Marine Park is among the best dive sites in the 10 world’s most popular.

There is a 20-point dive (diving), with different depth of 1344 meters up from the marine park. 20-point dive to 12 points, which is around Bunaken and Iceland are often visited by tourists and divers

Marine natural phenomena that exist in the Bunaken Marine National Park is. Unique, and almost certainly not found in marine parks, marine park has this keunikkan is a stone wall and a large hang vertically above or below the so-called wall of water or curved walls. Tracks are also a food source for fish in the waters around the island of Bunaken.

Access to the Bunaken National Marine Park
To visit the park, visitors can use the boats hired from the beach in the city of Manado is set on Gulf Marine Park.

Services are available
About the location of hotels and resorts, private rooms, swimming pool office, restaurant and post, control tower, security, speed of the boat. There is also a rental of diving equipment, and sneakers.

The best time to visit the Marine Park National Park
Best season to visit the national park is a marine park from May to August

Carry mandatory equipment
Under certain conditions to protect the sea breeze, you need to get a jacket or sweater and a scarf, hat and neck to keep warm as well.

Should be cautious
And ‘well, in a visit to Bunaken National Marine Park in the field of health form.

Bogor Botanical Gardens (KRB) or the Botanical Garden is a large research farm in the town of Bogor, West Java, Indonesia.

Extensive botanical garden is approximately 80 acres and has 15,000 species of tree and plant collections.
Bogor Botanical Garden is visited by many visitors from different areas of children, adolescents, families, tourists and even from abroad. Bogor Botanical Gardens, the oldest botanical garden is 1-1 in Asia and has its own beauty.

Bogor Botanical Gardens is a place for recreational and educational activities. Included in the Bogor Botanical Gardens Animal Museum (Natural History Museum), Library, Bogor Palace, a collection of Orchid Garden, a center of research and developmental biology, as well as a collection of thousands of species of tropical plants are grouped by type, such as the family of palms, bamboo and ginger and there is also a tree ancient trees, rare and hundreds of years old.

History of botanical gardens
Bogor Botanical Gardens, in the beginning was the Samida (artificial artificial forest or park), which has existed during the reign of Sri Baduga Maharaja (King Siliwangi, 1474-1513) of the Kingdom of Sunda, as stated in the inscription Batutulis.

Artificial forests with environmental goals, which is used as a place where seeds of rare wood, made to preserve the preserve.Forests will be conquered by the Sultanate of Banten Kingdom of Sunda and finally abandoned in the middle of the 18th Century to the Governor-General van der Capellen build a vacation home on the corner of one of the artificial forest.

In the early 1800s, the Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles concerned (who inhabited the Bogor Palace at the time) in the Yard production, Bogor Palace in a beautiful park, is further supported by the botanist, Bogor Palace yard turned into a classic English garden. This is the beginning of the establishment of the Botanical Gardens, as it is now.

W. Kent, who helped establish Kew Gardens in London is 1-1, involving the design of the park.
Olivia died in 1814, Raffles (wife of Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles), and at Batavia, later immortalized by the creation of the monument of Lady Raffles, who also served as First Lady of Java, a monument to himself in the Botanical Garden was established burial unknown.

The initial idea began with the founding of the Botanical Garden is Abner biology. GAGPh Abner wrote a letter to the Governor-General. Van der Capellen, it declared its intention to introduce a piece of land as a park that is used by plants, but to apply for teacher training places, and a collection of other plants for the garden development.

Prof. Karl Georg Caspar Reinwardt is a scientist in botany and chemistry (Germany), which is then used in the Netherlands are interested in investigating a variety of facilities to move and collect all of these plants disebuah Bogor botanical garden in the city, at the time called Buitenzorg (Dutch: Do not concerned).Reinwardt also a pioneer in the field of manufacturing and is known as the founder of the herbarium herbarium Bogoriense.

On May 18, 1817 opened the Botanical Gardens officially renamed s’Lands Plantentuinte Buitenzorg. Bogor Botanical Gardens was established by the Governor-General Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der Capellen. Implementation of plantation development was supported by Prof. Karl Georg Caspar Reinwardt by James Hooper and W. Kent (the famous Kew Gardens in Richmond, UK). Once the center of Bogor and the development of agriculture and horticulture in Indonesia. At that time an estimated 900 living plants were planted in this garden. The first area is used as a botanical garden is the soil around the presidential palace in Bogor and former Samida.
Reinwardt in 1822 returned to Holland and was replaced by Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume. Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume and then take inventory of the collection of plants that grow in the garden and also compiled the first catalog of the garden, no less than 912 species (kinds) are absorbed by plants.

John Elias Teysmann (1831), an expert in the palace gardens, the Governor-General Johannes van den Bosch, which is supported by Justus Karl Karl Hass, he made arrangements with a vast collection of plants for planting the tribe (family).

John Elias Teysmann replaced by Dr Carel Christiaan Rudolph Herman Scheffer in 1867 he was director, and then continued by prof. Dr. Melchior Treub.

Establishment of Botanical Garden is the initial development of science in Indonesia, and here are some other scientific institutions, such as the Bibliotheca bogoriensis (1842), Herbarium Bogoriense (1844), Cibodas Botanical Garden (1860), Laboratory Treub (1884), and the Museum of Zoology and laboratory-born (1894).

On May 30, 1868 was officially separated from the Botanical Garden, management is pleased with the Bogor Palace Yard.
At the beginning of this garden is to grow only as a testing ground for the park which will be introduced to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) is used. But on further development is also used as a forum for scientists at that time (1880-1905).

Bogor Botanical Gardens is always a significant development, Prof. Ir natural. Koestono Setijowirjo (1949) is the first Indonesian leader who served as an international research institute.

Bogor Botanical Gardens in its history has many names and nicknames, such as: s’Lands Plantentuin Syokubutzuer (Japanese occupation), Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg Botanical Gardens Indonesia, Gede Park, Garden Soul Mates, prepare the garden.

Pull the Bogor Botanical Gardens:
Carrion flower (Amorphophalus titanum)
These flowers bloom at the time would come close to the show, is a strong scent of carrion. Higher interest rates can be as high as 4 meters with a diameter of about 1.5 meters and is the world’s largest plant compound interest.

Lychee trees (Litchi Chinenis)
The oldest tree in the Botanical Gardens is a tree of lychees from China. This tree was planted in 1823, in Bogor botanical garden near the lake.
Not far from the lake and there is a statue of a mermaid’s hand of God, which is a duplicate of this statue in Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Frangipani flower Fragnant
Fragnant frangipani flowers, roots always come from the land.

Lily flower Java
Bogor Botanical Gardens has a collection of Java-lilies, which have been rare.

King of trees
The tree is native to Borneo. The tree is called the king because the king in Kalimantan, the trees are used, can be put together to attract bees and honey are made happy.

Palm
Bogor Botanical Gardens has a collection of the oldest palm trees in Southeast Asia, which still lives today.

Bat house
There is a large old trees, which is a bat house where it hung.

What to Carry Accessories
Use long sleeves to the Botanical Garden, essentially to protect the skin from the sun and the journey to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Bring a hat, drinking water, snacks.

How to achieve the Bogor Botanical Gardens
Bogor Botanical Gardens is located in the middle of the bustling city of Bogor, it is not hard to find.
Jakarta (± 63 km to the Bogor Botanical Gardens):
By bus to the terminal followed Baranangsiang-Bogor, by riding public transportation in the botanical gardens and close the doors down at IPB Bogor Botanical Gardens.
Followed by train to Bogor station, from the free-ride public transportation department Sukasari towards the Bogor Botanical Gardens, and the door of a market near Bogor.

Time to visit the Botanical Gardens
Began to open up to 8 hours of 17.00 hours.
The main gate is located in the south, the other doors that only on Sundays and public holidays.
On Sundays, public holidays and long holidays, a busy Bogor Botanical Gardens.

Information:
On June 1, 2006 (± at 8:00 p.m. to 20:30 GMT), fall storms and high winds, which in no less than 124 ancient trees in the Bogor Botanical Gardens, among the many trees over 100 years old.