7 Wonders Exist in Indonesia

Borobudur Temple,Central Java

Borobudur is the biggest temple in Indonesia. Borobudur temple is located in Magelang, Central Java, in addition to being a bustling tourist attraction visited, also a center of worship for Buddhists in Indonesia, particularly in every celebration of Vesak. This is consistent with the meaning of the name of 'convent in the hills ". Currently established as one of the Borobudur World Heritage.

Komodo Island,NTT

Komodo Island is an island located in the Nusa Tenggara Islands. Komodo Island is known as a habitat for native animals dragons. This island is also the Komodo National Park which is managed by the Central Government. Komodo Island in the eastern island of Sumbawa, which are separated by the Sape Strait.

Administratively, this island including the District of Komodo, West Manggarai regency, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Komodo Island is the most western tip of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, bordering the province of West Nusa Tenggara.

On the island of Komodo dragons animals live and breed well. Until August 2009, on this island there are about 1,300 dragons tail. Coupled with other islands, such as Island and Rinca and Gili Motang, their numbers totaled about 2500 tails. There are also approximately 100 individuals dragons in Wae Wuul Nature Reserve on the mainland island of Flores, but not including the Komodo National Park.

Besides Komodo, the island is also store a variety of exotic flora Sepang timber which by local people used as medicine and dye clothes, this nitak tree or sterculia oblongata in the believe is useful as medicines and seeds are tasty and delicious like peas.

Lake of Three Colors Flores,NTT

Flores became world famous because 3 different colored lake located at its peak. During its existence as a legend that attract tourists to come and see the beauty.

At its peak at an altitude of 1650 m above sea level Kelimutu (Keli = Quality = beautiful mountain), save 3 pieces lake. Residents around and especially Lio tribe believed that the souls of people who died will be residing in the three lake. Each is: Tiwu Ata Mbupu black lake that houses the spirit of parents, Tiwu Nuwamuri Koofai green lake which became the ghost of young people and Tiwu Ata Polo brown lake that became the place of the wicked spirits or fortune-teller.

Peak Jayawijaya,Papua

The peak is also listed as one of the top seven continents (Seven Summit), which is phenomenal and the target of mountaineers around the world. Jayawijaya Peak National Park is located in Laurentz, Papua. The peak was covered by eternal snow. Eternal snow on the Peak Jayawijaya is one of three fields of snow in the tropics which are in the world. In our country it traversed the equator, Indonesia witnessed snow on certainly something that is impossible to be understood. Carstenz Pyramid (4884 masl) is one of those snowy peaks. The highest peak in Southeast Asia and the Pacific is located in the Sudirman Mountains series. Peak is famous not only because of the high, but also because there is a layer of snow on the peak.

Bali Island,Bali

Bali is an island known as the Island of the Gods. Bali's natural charm keeps the exotic. Many tourists both at home and abroad. The beauty of the beach are juxtaposed with the beauty of many beaches on the island of Hawaii. According to recent surveys, Bali is a tourist favorite place second in the world to use their spare time. Here are the attractions on the island of Bali.

Tana Toraja,North Sumatra

Tana Toraja is one of the Indonesian tourist attraction, inhabited by a tribe who inhabit the mountains of Toraja and maintaining a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi, which is very interesting and you should not miss.

Mount Krakatau,Sunda Strait

Krakatoa is a volcanic archipelago that are still active and located in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra. This name ever pinned on a volcanic peak there (Mount Krakatoa), which vanish because of its own eruptions on 26-27 August 1883. The eruption was so powerful; hot clouds and the resulting tsunami killed about 36,000 people. Up until December 26, 2004, this is a terdahsyat tsunami in the Indian Ocean region. Cracking noise was heard up in Alice Springs, Australia and the island of Rodrigues near Africa, 4653 miles. Yield estimated at 30,000 times the atomic bomb that was detonated in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
Sunda Strait

The eruption of Krakatoa caused global climate change. The world was dark for two and a half days due to volcanic ash that covered the atmosphere. The sun was shining dim until next year. Scattering of dust visible in the sky Norway to New York.

The explosion of Krakatoa is actually still less than the eruption of Mount Toba and Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Mount Tanpo in New Zealand and the Mount Katmal in Alaska. However, these mountains erupted deep in the human population is still very small. Meanwhile, when Mount Krakatoa erupted, the human population is dense enough, science and technology has evolved, the telegraph was invented, and subsea cable already installed. Thus we can say that moment of information technology is growing and developing rapidly.

Noted that the eruption of Krakatoa was the first major disaster in the world after the invention of the telegraph under the sea. Progress is, unfortunately, has not been matched by progress in the field of geology. The geologist was not even able to give an explanation of these eruptions.