Time of evening on the Beach Thistle

Evening has arrived and the night will change. While the anglers are still busy fishing on the edge of the beach Thistle, Pemalang. They are fishing is not for sale but it is to be used as a side dish. Thistle beach is a tourist icon Pemalang district, Central Java.

Actually not too extensive coastline. If you plan to pass through the area and intend Pemalang after Lebaran come to this beach, then be prepared to be surprised. During Lebaran, this beach will be very full of visitors. So solid by locals and tourists. Nan Java Sea off became the main panorama.

Visitors can watch the sunrise and sunset at this beach. Grilled fish stalls are also increasingly pamper visitors. This attraction is perfect for families because there are a variety of waterpark rides games for kids.

Unfortunately, when Kompas.com stop at the beach, some sites are very dirty. This beach has the usual cliches problems faced by other beaches in Indonesia. Especially if the problem was not trash. Trash becomes destructive scenery. Especially in times crowded.

Solihin, one angler in this coastal region also deplored the beach is so dirty. "Happens to visitors who come can be reduced," he said.

In Pemalang also famous for its penchant of its citizens to ride a bike. Therefore, do not forget to stop by the bike market Pemalang. The distance is quite close to the beach Thistle. Pemalang bike market on the agenda must when you are a fan of bicycle.

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Pursue Travel Shanxi

Having visited Mongolia, north China's journey is usually also accompanied to Shanxi. Provinces with the capital city of Taiyuan has 2,400 years old is famous for its natural beauty and historical relics are scattered in each of its points.

The town is usually visited by none other than Datong, the second largest city in Shanxi. Be prepared to be amazed watching Buddha carvings found in the Yungang Cave Clan is one of the most famous sculptures, as well as the largest in China. This sculpture has predicted 1,500 years old and contains the teachings of the Buddha.

No less unique is suspending Hengshan Temple. Unlike the usual temples, this temple was built on the edge of Mount Heng and has rooms that are connected by corridors that meander along the cliff.

Not far from there Datong Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, a wooden pagoda that has been 850 years old. With more than 67 meters high, the pagoda is made with wood, without using nails at all.

Of Datong, the journey can continue to Wutaishan, one Buddhist shrine terkenal.Yang intended among other Buddhist Summit, namely ethnic Tibetan temple which has 1,500 years old and that no other Xiantong Temple Buddhist temples in Wutaishan oldest, built in 68 .

The city is adjacent to the Taiyuan Pingyao was no less exciting. This is the city received the title of UNESCO cultural heritage city in 1997. During the Ming and Qing dynasties (17th century), this city is a center of progressive trade.

Greatness of these dynasties can be traced in the Old City that is still surrounded by a fortress city. There is also Yayi is a former prison building and still shows the tools used to execute.

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Tips Traveling Without Damaging the Environment

Traveling is fun, but unwittingly traveling can give a bad impact on the environment, especially in terms of carbon emissions. Moreover, not infrequently a tourist area that previously has stunning scenery, damaged by the visit of the traveler who does not care about preservation of nature.

Here are tips that can be practiced in order to travel a minimal impact on the environment.

1. Avoid using vehicles that emit large CO2nya to travel to the destination.

2. Use of mass transportation, rent a bike, wagon or on foot to enjoy the beauty and uniqueness of the regions we visit beautiful places including hidden.

3. Acquainted with many people on the go, one way to be able to share a vehicle. It will save CO2 emissions, saving travel costs, and certainly adds a lot of friends.

4. Buy food at street vendors, shop, or restaurant population. It can reduce the emissions that are used to transport food from distant locations as well as contributing directly to local communities. In addition, the device usually eat at the local shop does not use a plastic / styrofoam.

5. Choose local food and drink. Besides being able to taste food and beverages from the region of origin, also to reduce CO2 emissions generated from imported goods.

6. Bring your own bottle so it can be refilled.

7. Bring your own shopping bags to reduce plastic waste.

8. Disposing of waste in place.

9. Take a tourist spot that offers a more 'green' or have environmental programs.

10. Encourage the tourism industry for social responsibility. A study showed that many foreign tourists who are willing to pay more from their vacation activities that help others, environmentally friendly and conserve the local culture.

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Various water sports in Tanjung Lesung

Not only are pampered with a view of the beautiful white sand beaches, tourists Lesung Cape Coast, Pandeglang, Banten can also enjoy various water sports like jet skiing, banana boats or snorkelling.

"Here the wide spot for water sports, snorkelling, skiing, relatively safe here anyway," said Manager of Beach Club, Cape Dimples, Benny Roza encountered on the coast of Cape Dimples on Friday (11/06/2010).

Tourists can exercise by trying to drive a jet ski to sea to pay Rp 200,000 for 20 minutes with or without a guide. To try the banana boat, will be charged Rp 70,000 per person.

For visitors who want to peek at the beauty of marine parks Tanjung Dimples, snorkelling facilities can be rented for Rp 25,000 to Rp 75,000 per hour. Or snorkelling underwater for Rp 300,000 per person.

There is also a sunset boat trip, travel by boat to the middle of the sea to watch the sun set at Rp 70,000 per person, or try paddling kayaks to pay Rp 30,000 per person.

There are still adventures to Mount Krakatoa package worth USD 5.5 million per trip by speed boat, maximum of eight people. And a trip to Ujung Kulon, a maximum of eight people for Rp 600,000. As well as water sports and other road trip. Want to try?

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The park is crowded in the winter

in downtown Pretoria, South Africa, that afternoon, Tuesday (08/06/2010), could be examples of gardens bustling with visitors in winter.

No seat is empty. Who did not goto the bench pick sprawled on the grass or perched at the foot of the statue of Paul Kruger Stephanus Johannes, who had become president of South Africa for the region when it was called the Transvaal.

Interestingly, in plain view can be called 99 percent of visitors to the park's black citizens. While the big statue that stands in the middle of the garden is the embodiment of the man who, like the Boer generally-regarded black people are no better than animals.

In the book of Paul Kruger, who printed in 1900, Prescott Holmes describes how the Kruger insult against blacks. "They're not human, they are just creatures. They have no soul more than the monkeys, "he growled when reminded that blacks are the spiritual man as well as whites.

Condescending attitude like that does not hesitate to show when a missionary, Moffat, came to the farm. Moffat, who was asked to hold the family worship service, ask the host why the slaves who became housekeeper had not been consulted.

Kruger answer, "Go away to the mountains and call the baboon (monkeys of Africa and Asia are included in the family Cercopithecidae) if you want to create a congregation like that or wait, I've got. My children, call the dogs are sprawled in front of the door and they will come! "

Unlike the Boer War I, when the Boer War II broke out in 1899, Kruger negotiation skills are no longer magical. He exiled himself to Europe and after the move finally settled at Clarens, Switzerland, until his death in 1904. His name was immortalized in one street in the town of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

However, after 105 years appears the voices opposing the use of the name of Paul Kruger on the grounds that racist attitudes can not be tolerated. Mid-2009 was finally the city of St. Gallen officials decided to rename the street Krugerstrasse be Duerrenmattstrasse taken from an author's name as well as the Swiss playwright, Friedrich Duerrenmatt.

Told Reuters, Theo Buff, St. Gallen planning officials, claiming that the main pressure came from the left-wing groups and groups antirasis. The inauguration of this road name was even attended by South African diplomats.

Conversely, in the name of Paul Kruger of South Africa, better known by the nickname Kruger Oom-fixed enshrined. The name of the Kruger National Park which covers nearly 20,000 square kilometers, for example, taken from Oom Kruger, the president proclaimed the establishment of national parks. Likewise with the coin currency of South Africa, Krugerrand, still memampangkan face on one side. Pipe company is still giving the name of one product, "Oom Paul", which has a specific shape with a big bowl full of bends. (Kruger is known as a smoker without stopping).

On Church Street, Pretoria, home-first occupies with his wife, Maria du Plessis (died a few years after marriage) and his second wife, Gezina du Plessis-now a museum called The Kruger House. Almost nothing has changed on this Kruger Oom house if we compare with the photograph that was published by Holmes in his book.

Original form

The house with wide veranda and decorated with two lion statues that have a low fence, a very different view of the house in Pretoria in general are high fenced and barred the meeting, complete with alarms and surveillance cameras. Carpets, curtains, paper, and walls are all still retained in its original form.

In Pretoria, the home Oom Kruger was the first electrified. Likewise, when the incoming telephone lines in 1891, this house is also the first to enjoy it. In fact, the Anglo-Boer War, telegraph lines are also installed here.

Kruger's house can not be called profound. Both Uncle and Aunt Gezina Kruger (call to his wife) each have a living room. However, two workspaces Kruger fairly petite. One was even measuring approximately 2.5 x 2.5 meters.

Two bedrooms, except the master bedroom, measuring only about 2.5 meters x 3 meters. The couple, who had seven daughters and nine men, was just entering the Kruger House after most of the children married and left home.

Boer hero

In the eyes of the Boers (white Dutch or German descent, mostly as farmers in South Africa), Paul Kruger is a hero. It was he who negotiated with the British during the Boer War I and ended with the return of the independence of the Transvaal.

Kruger profile closely matches the general description of the Boer. Strong, tough, and knows no surrender. German immigrant grandfather from Berlin, the Jacobus Krueger, came to South Africa as a soldier of the VOC, the Dutch trading company.

Paul Kruger education was very limited. All his life he had studied for three months under the guidance of Tielman Roos. More life lessons drawn from the field. At 16, Uncle Kruger has been allowed to set the region that will be working on his own farm. He also chose the Magaliesberg area, while her father, Casper Kruger, the area now known as Rustenburg.

No wonder, with a mediocre education, he became the most adamant that "the earth is flat". It should be understandable also because throughout his life are read only one book, the Bible.

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