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Malang New Kawi Guest House: Guest House in Malang That Serves You Well

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When you visit Malang , you’ll need to have a good accommodation. Guest House is another option of accommodation beside having to stay in hotel . Guest house will give you different experience. It is not a hotel, so the services will not wipe out your budget. As a cheap accommodation option , guest house will save you a lot of money. Malang New Kawi Guest House is located at the center of Malang’s culinary spot, on Jalan Kawi, at southern part of Jalan Ijen . If you stay at this guest house , you’ll see an indoor restaurant and outdoor garden that provide Indonesian and Western food. If you love food and love to try a new exotic food, you’ll love it. Malang new Kawi Guest House also gives you a free internet service through its free internet hot spot. Kawi itself is taken from the name of a mountain near Malang, also known as the Sleeping Princes. Come and visit Malang and I’ll make you sure that you’ll never regret it. del.icio.us Tags: Malang , Guest House

Malang as a Flower City

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Malang is known as a flower city . That “was” true. Nowadays, Malang is more known as educational city as there are many universities here. If you want to find flowers, then I recommend Batu . If you have already in Malang, you should visit Batu. There you will find many beautiful flower plantations. Maybe because Batu –as a place where flowers in Malang come from- had been a part of Malang, while Malang is bigger than Batu, then Malang “was” called as a flower city. This is only my assumption then. Now it depends to the Malang’s government and its citizen to reconstruct Malang, whether to let it to be a different kind of city, or go back to what the world has known about it, as a city of flower. As other Indonesian city, Malang also has Aloon-aloon, or Alun-alun in Indonesian, as a place for people to gather and enjoy their time. Alun-alun Malang also serves that function. Do you know how the Malang’s Alun-alun becomes so popular for the Dutch? There is a book entitled “...

Malang Tempoe Doeloe Festival 2010 Schedule

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Here is the Malang Tempoe Doeloe Festival 2010 Schedule: The Malang Tempoe Doeloe Festival will be held from May 20th to 23rd 2010. Officially, this annual Malang Festival starts at 8 up to 24 each day. Opening Ceremony will be held on May 20th 2010 at 18.30 Jalan Ijen is still chosen as the location of this most awaited event. This 2010 Malang Tempoe Doeloe Malang Festival is taking the “Rekonstruksi Budaya Panji” ( Panji’s Culture Reconstruction ) as the theme. There will be about 420 stands available, consist of: -  Traditional Food: 126 stands (30%) -  Traditional snacks and beverages: 120 stands (25%) -  Handy crafts: 63 stands (15%) -  Batik:  42 stand  (10%) -  Traditional Kid’s Toys: 21 stand  (5 %) -  Antiques: 42 stand  (10%) -  Traditional Services: 21 stand  ( 5%) Pre-event: Malang Topeng Carnival For further information, you can contact: INGGIL Foundation, Jl, Gajah Mada 4...