Feel The Euphorias: August 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Blue Pond

Found this beautiful pond called Blue Pond - Telaga Biru at Cibodas, while we hiking at Cibodas..
This pond is very calm, quite and peaceful.. it looks like a lot of secret inside. Waiting to be explored..
I used this as Header in this blog.

Monday, August 30, 2010

Wood Ship

I bought this ship made by wood at Bali..
After bargaining with the seller, finally i bought it..
Guess how much for the ship?

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Fun at The Banten

Last week we went to Anyer and having fun at The Banten resort..
The beach is very good, we have a lot of fun there...
Banana boat, surf, ATV and swimming...

Saturday, August 28, 2010

View at The Banten

Pictures at The Banten resort - Anyer.
A beautiful resort and beach...

Friday, August 27, 2010

Open Coconut

This Old man was very awesome we really appreciate his hard work, climbing the coconut tree, pick the coconut and open it to us.
Just with 5K IDR we can have the fresh coconut water..
Thank you pak :)

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Another Fountain

Another Fountain found at Bogor Botanical Garden

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

The Wave and The Sea

The wave and the sea.. time to sunset at beach...

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Coconut Tree

Coconut Tree, every beach in all over the world will remain same, beach will has coconut trees..

Monday, August 23, 2010

Banana Boat

Banana Boat, one of fun activity in beach, it's very fun to enjoy this ride.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Swimming Pool - The Banten

Swimming Pool view at The Banten - Anyer

Saturday, August 21, 2010

WaterMelon

WaterMelon, one of my favourite fruit..
This is the first time i saw the WaterMelon tree.

Lotust

I found several Lotust pond when travelling.
Below is the pictures.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Spider at Flower

Just found, one spider sneaking and camouflage in this flower...

Deers

Deer at Bogor Palace, near Bogor Botanical Garden.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

ATV Four Wheel

ATV Four Wheel at beach...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Rafflesia Arnoldii

Rafflesia Arnoldii, a parasitic plant that has grapevine like roots and a fleshy flower which is the only part of the plant that appears above the ground.
This is the largest flower in the world and according and recorded at Guiness book of records, measured three feet in diameter, 3/4 inch thick and around fifteen pounds weight.
This flower can be found in south east asia, at Sumatra, Borneo, Malay Peninsula and Philipines.
The flowers look and smell like rotting flesh, hence its local names which translate to "corpse flower" or "meat flower".
After years of research, Bogor Botanical garden scientist succeed plant this flower at Bogor botanical garden.
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Koi Pond

We went to Bekasi last month and fortunately we pass the Koi Pond, as with curious we took a look there.
There's a lot of Koi's, from small (seed) until Bigger one.
I took a snap and very sad because of the reflection..
I'm curious how to capture without reflection, can it just used CPL filter?

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

17 August - Panjat Pinang

17 August 1945, Indonesia independence day.
Now to celebrate it, many traditional games played at the day.
such as one below "Panjat Pinang".
The game played with team, 1 team usually has 5 peoples or more, and each people oiled with kind of oil (Kerosene) or others type.
Then they have to manage climbing one nut tree and at the top of the tree, there're a lot of gifts..
They have to climb until the top and drop down the gift from above.

Monday, August 16, 2010

The Great Mosque, Medan

This Great mosque is the most beautiful and biggest mosque in North Sumatra, located only 200m from Maimoon Palace.
This mosque was built in 1906, and now a lot of foreign tourist came to visit this mosque.
Until now this mosque was still used by Muslim community to pray every day.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Kesawan Street

Kesawan Street, one of the famous street in Medan, mostly of the building still with old or europe architecture, i guess this building is built with dutch architecture..

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Maimoon Palace at Night

Maimoon Palace was built by the Sultan of Deli, Sultan Makmun Al Rasyid Perkasa Alamsyah, in 1888 is a famous landmark in Medan.
Captured picture below at night... Maimoon Palace at Night.

Friday, August 13, 2010

Tjong A Fie House

Tjong A Fie House, located at Ahmad Yani Road, Kesawan, Medan (North Sumatra), was built at around 1900, nowadays already became Tjong A Fie Memorial Institute also known ad Tjong A Fie Mansion.
This house opened for public at 18 June 2009 to commemorate Tjong A Fie 150th birthday.
Built with combination of China, Europe and Malaccan design/architecture, this house fill with historical items from Tjong A Fie.
Tjong A Fie known as a famous business man, he was contributing in development of Deli Tua now is Medan.
He has 3 principle: Honest, Loyalty and united, during his business he applied his principle, even with his workers.
He also share 5% of profit to all his workers.
During his lifetime, he contributed a lot of things especially to Medan.
Below is the picture of Tjong A Fie house, we have captured it at June when we stayed at Medan.