The Minahasan region covers an area of approximately 418,862 Ha with a population of 733,029 people (1996).The capital of this district is Tondano, a town close to Lake Tondano.It is situated on a plateau 700 m above sea level, surrounded by magnificent countryside with cool mountainous air. Minahasan people believe the legend that they are descendants of Toar and Lumimuut. The reminders of this time long ago are the Waruga, stonegraves in Sawangan Airmadidi, and Watu Pinabetengan in Tompaso.
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Posted by by admin on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Tana Toraja is located at South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The word toraja comes from the Bugis language’s to riaja, meaning “people of the uplands”. The Dutch colonial government named the people Toraja in 1909. Torajans are renowned for their elaborate funeral rites, burial sites carved into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan, and colorful wood carvings. Toraja funeral rites are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days.
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Bromo - Tengger located at Semeru National Park. Its covers some 800 square kilometres in the centre of East Java. It is the largest volcanic region in the province and contains the island’s highest mountain, Semeru, which rises 3,676 metres above sea - level. The ten kilometre wide ’sand sea’ of Bromo has become East Java’s most famous attraction.
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Posted by by admin on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
On the year 1883, located between java and sumatra, a giant volcanic mountain was erupt. This giant volcanic is krakatau, some calling it krakatoa. The eruption was one of the most violent volcanic event on record, a wrath of earth. With a huge explosion equal to 150 megatons of TNT, mount krakatoa destroy area around its, turn the seawater into steam and create giant tsunami with wave hight reach almost 40 meters. The explosion was heard more than 4000 km (2500 miles) away and be heard by 1/8 people in the world, the dust from the eruption affected weather in the world for several years, it reach Norwegia to Newyork. The explosion equal to 30.000 hiroshima/nagasaki atomic bomb and kill more than 35 thousand people.
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Posted by by admin on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
