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BEAUTIFUL YOGYAKARTA:
Beautiful Yogyakarta means Yogyakarta is nice place, conducive, peaceful, tolerant with foreigner, welcome to every body who want to visit, very attractive city because very many- many “thing” which want to be seen.
When visitors come to inhale the air of Yogyakarta, they feel like they have lived. Some people said Yogyakarta has been best described as a "Never Ending Asia”, “Java's cultural heart", the "soul city of Java", and so on. It is the cradle of great Javanese empires. In Yogyakarta itself you can visit the impressive Sultan's Palace (the Kraton) under the watchful, but friendly eyes, of a hundred palace guards in their traditional and distinctive uniforms. You can tour its bustling markets and avenues and purchase arts and crafts created by Java's finest craftsmen and painters. Once you've seen enough of modern Java, you can then head for the countryside and marvel at some of ancient Asia's grandest wonder - the great 8th to 10th century Hindu and Buddhist temples of Prambanan, Borobudur and their subsidiary candis (temple) and shrines that dot the Javanese countryside.
JOGJAKARTA (or Yogyakarta ) is well known city in Indonesia because ever become capital of Indonesia in the year 1945 until 1949. Population (2006 est.) 500,000. It is the cultural centre of the Javanese ethnic group, and the centre for a rich agricultural region, producing rice, sugar cane, and tobacco. The chief industries are batik textiles, handicrafts, and tourism. It lies on the Jakarta–Surabaya railway via south region.
. It is the cultural center of Java, known for its artistic life, particularly its drama and dance festivals and handicraft industries.
Yogyakarta Special Region (Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, DIY) is officially one of Indonesia's 33 provinces. Yogyakarta is one of the foremost cultural centers of Java and rich of culture, such as :
“tari Bedoyo” ( Bedoyo dance), ketoprak, and wayang kulit ( leather puppet) .
The average daily temperature range between 26 degree and 28 degree Celsius with its minimum 18 degree C and maximum 35 degree C respectively. Average humidity is 74% with its minimum of 65% and maximum 84% respectively.
The Yogyakarta Special Region lies approximately 7degree South of the equator line and is bathed in tropical; sunshine along the year. Having a tropic climate the daily atmosphere feels a little bit hot and humid. These are only two seasons along the year, the wet or rainy seasons and dry monsoon. Usually the wet seasons begin at September and lasts about August. Generally there is no rainfalls from may to August and there fore the atmosphere feels hot and humid on the day and cool in the night and early morning. The monthly rain falling Yogyakarta varies between 3mm and 496mm in which those above 300mm take place during the month of January up to April. The heaviest rainfall usually occurs in February while the lowest commonly happens between May and October Average annually rainfall is about 1,900mm.