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Unforgetable Yogyakarta

This is my story of my view when traveling to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Yogyakarta, also Djokjakarta, is the city in southwestern Indonesia, on the island of Java. Yogyakarta is everyone destination, serviced by the Jakarta-Surabaya railway line. The region surrounding Yogyakarta is one of the most fertile areas of Java. Sugarcane, rice, corn, and tobacco are the leading crops. Points of interest include Mount Merapi, active volcano that overlooks the city; palace of the sultan of the former principality of Yogyakarta; and the municipal botanical gardens. Borobudur, famed for the ruins of a magnificent 9th-century Buddhist temple, is easily accessible from Yogyakarta. The distance Yogyakarta to Borobudur is about 30 kilometers. South of Yogyakarta, there is Parangtritis, as the natural beach of this city, with its legend of Nyai Roro Kidul. She was The Queen of South Ocean.

With hundred of university and school, Yogyakarta is also called as Student City beside Culture City. Universitas Gadjah Mada (1949) and the Islamic University of Indonesia (1945) are here. That university is the main destination for student in this country.

Yogyakarta was the capital city of Indonesia. The city served as the provisional national capital till 1950, when it was replaced by Jakarta.

The biggest disaster last in May 2006 when an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale caused widespread destruction in Yogyakarta. The epicenter of the quake was located a short distance to the southwest of the city. In that disaster, more than 5,800 people dead, not less than 20,000 injured, and about 200,000 homeless.