Surabaya Zoo (Kebun Binatang Surabaya)

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.

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Affandi, The Legend of Indonesian Expresionist Painter

Affandi Koesoema (Cirebon, West Java, 1907 - May 23 1990) was a painter known as Maestro Painting Indonesia, probably Indonesia's most famous painters in the international world, thanks to a distinctive him style. In the 1950s he held many solo exhibitions in India, UK, Europe and the United States. A prolific painter, Affandi had painted more than two thousand artwork. Biography Affandi was born in Cirebon in 1907, the son of R. Koesoema, an orderly measuring the sugar factory in Tangerang, Cirebon. In terms of education, it includes a formal education is quite high. For people his generation, his education, MULO, and subsequently graduated from the AMS, including the education obtained only by a handful of country boy. However, his art talent is very strong beat other disciplines in life, and indeed has made his name famous the same as the figures or leaders of other fields. At the age of 26 years, in 1933, Affandi was married to Maryati, a girl born in Bogor. Affandi and M...

Initiation Ceremony (Cuban Talun-East Java, October 2004)

Rite of passage in human beings is what would be experienced by all human beings and society.from a small child into an adult human. Anthropology Department of Airlangga University Surabaya hold events every year to welcome a new family (Kerabat) with a procession that ended with a series of initiation ceremonies. ..led by shaman

Penanggungan Mount Journey with Katamso.

Penanggungan Mountain, Tamiajeng Trawas Mojokerto East Java November, 7-9, 2007 Jolotundo Temple, with super fresh water

Visual Ethnography

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