Semeru, or Mount Semeru (Indonesian: Gunung Semeru), is a volcano located in East Java, Indonesia. It is the highest mountain on the island of Java. The stratovolcano is also known as Mahameru, meaning 'The Great Mountain. The name derived from Hindu-Buddhist mythical mountain of Meru or Sumeru, the abode of gods.
Only an hour's walk from the Bamboo Denn (Monumen Bambu runcing) one of most complete zoos in Southeast Asia, Specializing in exotic birds and nocturnal animals. Go early to watch them feed the animals. On sundays, sit and feast your eyes on the women in their dazzling native dress. Eat Gado-gado under trees of swinging monkeys. There are 500 species of animals including mongolian bears. See the aviary (with its great collection of pheasants) and cassowaries (world's largest fligtless bird). The nocturama houses slow lorries, marvelous flying squirrels and flying cats. The Dolphinarium features the freshwater Mahakam River Dolphins from Borneo. The hoofed and ruminant enclosures for the rare chinese wapiti, the babirusa and the anoa (dwarf buffalo). There are 18 komodo dragons devouring raw meat in the sand bed enclosure. In the Reptilium see King Cobras. The canopy dwellers exhibit, with its proboscis monkeys, black-crested macques from Sulawesi and pig-tailed monkeys, is one of the best. The Sea acquarium is also a must.
.From .Sangiran Museum-Central Java
Sangiran Museum and Early Man Site is actually an archaeological excavation site located in the island of Java in Indonesia. The site covers a area of about 48 square kilometer and it is only 15 km away from north of Surakarta in the Bengawan Solo River valley. Excavation in the area began in the year 1934, when renowned anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald commenced his examination of the site. In the succeeding years, excavations in the area unearthed fossils of some of the first known human ancestors, Pithecanthropus erectus, which is also dubbed as the “Java Man”. Excavations in the area continued till 1941 and during these years, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were discovered. All these fossils add up to almost half of all the world's known hominid fossils.
Sangiran Museum and Early Man Site is actually an archaeological excavation site located in the island of Java in Indonesia. The site covers a area of about 48 square kilometer and it is only 15 km away from north of Surakarta in the Bengawan Solo River valley. Excavation in the area began in the year 1934, when renowned anthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald commenced his examination of the site. In the succeeding years, excavations in the area unearthed fossils of some of the first known human ancestors, Pithecanthropus erectus, which is also dubbed as the “Java Man”. Excavations in the area continued till 1941 and during these years, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were discovered. All these fossils add up to almost half of all the world's known hominid fossils.
