Senin, 02 Januari 2012

tips in indonesia travling


Well, how do I meet, mingle, and mingle with the locals when we walk? Please try the following  
tips:
Break the ice


A smile is a universal language to break the ice. Suggests friendly, friendly and well-intentioned is the beginning of mandatory. After that, Introduce yourself. Try to remember and mention names of people who are properly during the conversation.

When the name is too hard to remember, use the common word such as father, mother, sister or other. Begin a conversation with general questions about the local attractions. For example, what the local specialties, tourist attractions around the area of
​​interest, how to achieve it and so on.

Bring your attitude as if the information provided is very important and new to you even though you already know.
Polite

When interacting with anyone, keep your manners. Moreover, when a stranger who was visiting in an area. Do not until you do something odd or say things that do not deserve. In general, the standard of decency everywhere the same - especially with regard to the attitude or body language.
Topics for discussion

Sometimes it's hard to talk to strangers (in a strange place anyway). Could be you're afraid of talking and offensive. To avoid things like that, choose a common topic of conversation and light. Avoid sensitive topics such as religion, politics, and ethnicity or race.

If the other person initiate such topics, respond with a polite but not enthusiastic. Even if you agree with the thought of the speaker, the topic is sensitive enough to listen only, does not need to be overlaid and extended, much less debated. Besides being easily provoked emotion, such talk will only make the complicated and hot atmosphere. Rather than be friends, you even get in trouble.
Humor

To make the atmosphere warm and not stiff, slip humor into the conversation is the solution. However, you must be very clever to choose the type of humor that will be removed.

Of course humor is sensitive about racial and physical denounced should be avoided. Also do not use humor that is local is only understood by people from your area. As a result you can not understand humor and atmosphere so crisp. You can take a humorous topics that are popular in the media or guessing the light.
Listen

In a conversation, let alone you as a guest in a strange place, never dominate. Be a good listener even if the conversation does not interest you. Remember your goal is always involved in the talks is to be a bridge in order to mingle with local people.

If you are "stuck" in a long and tedious conversation, get out of the situation slowly. Hear me out for a while, then give a plausible reason that you should leave immediately.
Treat

If you've found one or a group of local people who want to make friends for hanging out there, they traktirlah occasional drink or eat. No need of expensive, but enough to show that you want to be friends with them. Also do not overdo it so you do not seem sincere and buy friendship.

Sabtu, 10 Desember 2011

INDONESIA TRAVELING


Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world — after China, India and the USA — and by far the largest in Southeast Asia. Indonesia also has the largest Muslim population in the world.

Indonesia markets itself as Wonderful Indonesia, and the slogan is quite true, although not necessarily always in good ways. Indonesia's tropical forests are the second-largest in the world after Brazil, and are being logged and cut down at the same alarming speed. While the rich shop and party in Jakarta and Bali, after decades of economic mismanagement, 53% of the population earns less than US$2/day. Infrastructure in much of the country remains rudimentary, and travellers off the beaten track (pretty much anywhere outside Bali) will need some patience and flexibility.
The Indonesian people, like any people, can be either friendly or rude to foreigners. Most of the time, though, they are incredibly friendly to foreigners.

Histori

The early, modern history of Indonesia begins in the period from 2500 BCE to 1500 BCE with a wave of light brown-skinned Austronesian immigrants, thought to have originated in Taiwan. This Neolithic group of people, skilled in open-ocean maritime travel and agriculture are believed to have quickly supplanted the existing, less-developed population.
From this point onward, dozens of kingdoms and civilizations flourished and faded in different parts of the archipelago. Some notable kingdoms include Srivijaya (7th-14th century) on Sumatra and Majapahit (1293-c.1500), based in eastern Java but the first to unite the main islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Borneo (now Kalimantan) as well as parts of the Malay Peninsula.
The first Europeans to arrive (after Marco Polo who passed through in the late 1200s) .

There is no one unified Indonesian culture as such, but the Hindu culture of the former Majapahit empire does provide a framework for the cultural traditions of the central islands of Sumatra, Java and Bali. Perhaps the most distinctively "Indonesian" arts are wayang kulit shadow puppetry, where intricately detailed cutouts act out scenes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana and other popular folk stories, and its accompaniment the gamelan orchestra, whose incredibly complex metallic rhythms are the obligatory backdrop to both religious ceremonies and traditional entertainment. Indonesia is culturally intertwined with the Malay, with notable items such as batik cloth and kris daggers, and Arabic culture has also been adopted to some degree thanks to Islam.

Destinations

The following is a limited selection of some of Indonesia's top sights.

   # Baliem Valley — superb trekking into the lands of the Lani, Dani and Yali tribes in remote Papua.

   # Borobudur — one of the largest Buddhist temples in the world located in Central Java province; often combined with a visit to the equally impressive Hindu ruins at  earby Prambanan.

 # Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park — some of the scariest volcanic scenery on the planet and one of the best locations in the world to see sunrise.

   # Bunaken — one of the best scuba diving destinations in Indonesia, if not the world.

  #  Kerinci Seblat National Park — tigers, elephants, monstrous rafflesia flowers and so much more in this huge    expanse of forest in Sumatra.

   # Komodo National Park — home of the Komodo dragon and a hugely important marine ecosystem.

  #  Lake Toba — the largest volcanic lake in the world.

  #  Lombok — popular island to east of Bali with the tiny laid-back Gili Islands, mighty Mount Rinjani and much more.

   # Tana Toraja — highland area of Southern Sulawesi famed for extraordinary funeral rites.