Monday, February 12, 2007

The Old Kuta Beach

One of the beautiful beach in Yogyakarta, Sepanjang Beach is also called The Old Kuta Beach. Because you can feel the old Kuta's look like in past time. Sepanjang has long coastal lines, clean sand, and medium waves. It's lies some kilometres from Kukup and Sundak Beach, and it is one of newly opened beaches. The name 'Sepanjang' which means 'long' derives from the characteristic of the beach that has the longest coastal lines of all beaches in Gunung Kidul. The atmosphere of this beach is so natural. The seaside is decorated with palm trees and huts roofed with dry leaves. The coral reef in the rise and fall of tides area is kept well. The dashes of waves reflect blue color signaling uncontaminated seawater. With such a situation, it is not false if the local government and investors plan to make this beach as the second Kuta Beach. We can just choose: suns bathing under the bright sun, surfing, or just enjoy the beach beauty. We can enjoy all the things when we come to that beach.
Such as situation makes the local goverment and investors try to make this beach to became as second Kuta Beach! The natural atmosphere make this beach superior to Kuta Beach, but Sepanjang beach wasn't offer such as cafe, pub, or luxurious cottages, it keep you close to nature. Such as you can dig otu coral reefs to get mollusks and starfishes. You can also put out seaweed from the corals. But you must be careful for not to stick the sea urchin's spines. Such as another fun which you can find out on the Kuta Beach, do you think so?
Look at the back of the beach, you will see two hills one which valley where local people plant corn as their main food. The top of that hill has bought by investors to built some villa or motel in order that visitors can stay.

Seagrass Chopper

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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Krakal Beach, Yogyakarta

After visiting Baron, Kukup, or Drini Beach, you should go to the next beach, about 6 kilometers from Kukup beach, you will find the Krakal beach, one of the interesting places in Yogyakarta. Krakal is a white sand beach stretch along 5 kilometers. This is longest beach of the junction is located in Ngestirejo village, Tanjungsari district, about 3 km away in the east of Baron-Kukup-Sepanjang-Drini beach junction, has scratching white hill with blue slopes gently to the sea. The beauty of green lime-scratching hill with blue seawater offers a perfect harmony, which is very natural and ideal for sun bathing. Krakal beach mostly is a white sandy beach in Yogyakarta area. There's a development now because of its beautiful panorama of the southern sea. It should be careful here because it has big wave and the texture of the beach which are rocks meet the sands.

This is Krakal Beach.

Among all the beaches that stretch along Java beaches, Krakal with its white sandy beach surrounded with mountainous rocky hills is the most beautiful one. Krakal is close to Kukup beach and Baron cove. This cove is in fact an estuary of an underground river that comes up exactly at the waterfront. It is interesting to observe the combination of the beach and the cove from the protruding rocky hills that flank the caves on both sides.
Here are my photos:
I visited the beachs start from Baron to another just in a day, from morning untill sunset! Awesome...
This is photo taken from Baron Beach.

There are some big coral rock in Krakal Beach.


Krakal's big wave.
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Drini Beach - Yogyakarta



Drini Beach or Pantai Drini is an Interesting Places in Yogyakarta same as Baron Beach and Kukup Beach. Drini beach which reside in Ngestirejo village, Tanjungsari sub area, about 1 km away in the east of Sepanjang Beach. What's special? The special of this beach is the coral island with Drini trees on it. As is said, poisonous snakes avoid the wood of this Drini trees. So, maybe you should not expect to see snake if you have been there... :p



From this photo, you can see and feel a quiet atmosphere, i mean this beach is quite than Baron, there are no beachcomber like Baron Beach. But there are still people there to take a photos and relaxing. So, if you want to relax in a place that have open sea, Drini Beach is a good choice i think.
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Monday, February 5, 2007

KUKUP BEACH - JOGJAKARTA



KUKUP BEACH

Another INTERESTING PLACE is Kukup Beach, or call it Pantai Kukup in Indonesia. Kukup Beach is a white sandy beach located in Kemadang village, Tanjungsari district, about 1 km away in the east of Baron beach. So you can ride a bike to reach Baron from there. It has a pathway trough the hill up to Baron beach and also a coral island, which is connected by a senggol bridge. Kukup Beach, grey black sand dunes, treacherous ocean currents and jagged rocks. This beach is located near Baron Beach, only 1 km east! So you should see two of them.
Here are some photos that was taken by my phone's camera:


There are also fishes for sale...
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BARON BEACH - YOGYAKARTA


It's a nice place, beautiful beach with beautiful billow. One of an interesting place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In Baron Beach there is a mouth of Underground River that can be used for bathing after playing in the beach.

Baron beach lies in Kemandang Village, Tanjungsari sub district about 23 km in the South of Wonosari city. Baron beach is the first beach that would be found in the junction of Baron, Kukup, Sepanjang, Drini, Krakal and Sundak beaches area.
In Baron beach there is a mouth of Underground River that can be used for bathing after playing in the beach. The visitors can also enjoy various kinds of low prices seafood or fresh fish and Baron's special menu namely Kakap fish soup. There is limestone hill on can reach the place by passing through a path. Visitors could have a magnificent view of the beach, about 10 kilometers in the West of Baron beach there are Parang Racuk hill with mountain slopes, it challenge you to do some adventures.
Every syuro month (the first month of Javanese calendar), the fisherman societies organize Labuhan, sea offering ceremony, to express their gratitude to the God for the abundant fish harvest and for the welfare in fishing).
Here are some photos which was taken from my vacation...











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