January 20, 2011

Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Yo ma reader friends,

In this chance, I want to introduce to you all the amazing things that Yogyakarta have. Yup, Yogyakarta is very rich of culture and history .

It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows.


The area of the city of Yogyakarta is 32.5 km². While the city spreads in all directions from the kraton (the Sultan's palace), the core of the modern city is to the north, centring around Dutch colonial-era buildings and the commercial district.
One of the pavilion inside Kraton


Jalan Malioboro, with rows of pavement vendors and nearby market and malls, is the primary shopping street for tourists in the city. At the southern end of Malioboro, on the east side is the large local market of Beringharjo, not far from Fort Vredeburg a restored Dutch fort.


"Beringharjo" Market
Bank of  Indonesia--with Dutch -era building style


Three cycle vehicle a.k.a "Becak"


one of the attraction place in Yogyakarta--Water Palace




Prambanan Temple

Yogyakarta is known for its silver work, leather puppets used for shadow plays (wayang kulit ), and a unique style of making batik dyed fabric.

One of the process to make leather puppet
One of the process to make "Batik"

variety of Batik


Well guys, there are still too many of beautiful places, nice and unique objects I wanna share with you. However, I will continue some of them in the next page.

Visit Yogyakarta...nice city, very friendly people surrounding, delicious food, Very Recommended!!

Thank you for visiting my blog

Regards,

YS World









January 12, 2011

Shrine of Remembrance-- Melbourne

Dear Readers,

As on previous page I talked about the beautifulness of Royal Botanic Gardens, in this page I will talk about the greatness of Shrine of Remembrance which is only located a short block to Royal Botanic Gardens.

The Shrine of Remembrance, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia was built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I and is now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war. 
It is a site of annual observances of ANZAC DAY (25 April) and Remembrance Day (11 November) and is one of the largest war memorial in Australia. *


Here some snapshoot of the building architecture and features :




Some of the exterior of the building


One of the four groups of statuary which mark the corners of the Shrine



Shrine of Remembrance on sunset 
The building complex is huge. We can enter the building and mesmerize the history written there.
Inside the Shrine is the Sanctuary, a high vaulted space entered by four tall portals of Classical design .

At the centre of the Sanctuary is the Stone of Remembrance. 
This is a marble stone sunk below the pavement, so that visitors must bow their heads to read the inscription on it: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN
Overall, this Shrine of Remembrance is recommended to be visited. 
*Wikipedia
Thank you for visiting my blog and see ya on the next page..

Regards,

YS World

January 9, 2011

Royal Botanic Garden--Melbourne

Dear the Reader of YS World blog..How R you?? well yeah I hope You are all fine.

This page I will write about the beautiful of Royal Botanic Garden in Melbourne.
It is located near the center of Melbourne on the south bank of the Yarra River
They are 38 hectares of landscaped gardens consisting of a mix of native and non-native vegetation including over 10,000 individual species. It is among the best in the world too.


I like to spend my spare time by just walking around the Botanic Garden. It is so relaxing after the 5-days work.
They have very smoothing nice view, variety and colorful flowers..breezing wind and a quiet space .


Here some snapshots from Botanic Gardens


Royal Botanic Gardens












When you are in Melbourne, spend time to visit this Botanic Garden and enjoy its scenery..
RECOMMENDED 


Thank you for visiting my blog and wait for the next posting


Regards,


YS World

January 2, 2011

Christmas time at Ivanhoe--Melbourne

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year my friends

Rolling back to past view years where I spent Xmas in Melbourne, Australia.

My friends brought me to visit this suburb called Ivanhoe. They said that every Xmas time, there will be a lot of Xmas spirit such as Xmas tree, Xmas lamp and of course Xmas present.

After arriving at Ivanhoe, I discovered that night a lot of people came to enjoy Xmas spirit which presented by each house in Ivanhoe.
colorful Xmas tree 

shinning red nose

some Xmas decoration on the front-yard

Look at the window

woody soldiers

Awesome


How is it guys? Very beautiful isn't it? yup, I will go back there again if I have to spend my Xmas in Melbourne :D
Anyway, Merry Xmas & Happy New Year everyone!!


Cheers,

YS WORLD