BOGOR NAN HIJAU, BASAH AIR HUJAN, SELALU DALAMKENANGAN

Hujan rintik yang kemudian berubah menjadi curahan hujan yang deras menyapu kota Bogor adalah merupakan pemandangan yang biasa pada keseharian kota kecil yang terletak 60 km di selatan Jakarta ini, karenanya Bogor dikenal juga sebagai sebuah kota yang selalu dirundung hujan.


Istana Presiden dan Kebun Raya adalah suatu harmoni yang indah sejak beberapa abad silam, perpaduan keduanya merupakan panorama cantik yang mewarnai suasana hening, dingin dan hijau kota Bogor hingga saat ini.
Warna hijaunya bukan saja merupakan lukisan indah dari barisan pohon yang rindang disepanjang tepi jalan, tapi ramainya angkutan umum berwarna hijau yang memenuhi hampir setiap sudut jalan jalan kota Bogor, memperlihatkan irama tarian dari nuansa kehidupan kota lama dalam sebuah bingkai ragam budaya Nusantara.
Meskipun iklim yang menebar suasana sejuk sudah tidak terjaga, namun senyum manis kota kecil ini tidak mengurangi kenangan orang meluangkan waktu menginjakkan kakinya ke kota Bogor untuk berlibur dan menikmati panorama keindahan kota yang merupakan pusat pendidikan yang telah dibangun sejak abad ke 19, dimana kota Bogor pada zaman itu dikenal dengan sebutan BUITENZORG bagi siapa saja yang mengenal sejarahnya.

BOGOR A RAIN CITY, THE RAIN FALL EVEN IN A SUMMER

THE RAIN FALL EVEN IN A SUMMER, SO BOGOR IS CALLED A RAIN CITY

In this city, the rain fall even in the summer, that is why the peoples call the city as a Rain City. Above all, there are many places to visit for out door activities, Mount Climbing, Hiking and beach recreation.Curug Cilember is welknown for hiking and climbing in Bogor, Curug mean waterfalls, Cilember is a name of a place situated at Mega Mendung Puncak,A Hill and Mountain Resort on the way to Bandung.
Bogor is a sub district of West Java Province, located 60 km south of Jakarta, the town has grown around 18^th century, is famous for its Botanical Garden(Kebun Raya) which covers area of 110 hectares founded in 1817 was conceived by British Governor Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, it is “a museum” of more than 15,000 plants species from towering trees to an orchid house. Here still stands the original “Hevea Braziliensis” rubber tree brought from Brazil around the middle of the 19^th century, and the world’s largest flower “Rafflesia” which is named after the British colonial administrator Sir Thomas Raffles who died in 1826.

The Bogor Presidential Palace was built by the Dutch Governor General in 1745 originally and restored in 1832, it lied inside the Botanical Garden area.

MADAGASCAR, NAMIBIA, SOLOMON AND BOGOR ADVENTURE

The picture above is a view at GUNUNG MAS TEA PLANTATION, located at Puncak Pass, Bogor, the men are my fellow friends when they are visit Indonesia (from left to right) : Biarmann Marcelin from Antananarivo Madagascar, Siegfried Khaiseb from Namibia, Samson from Haniora Solomon Island and the last one is Mamisoa Hasimbola from Antananarivo Madagascar

Please come and visit Bogor if you have a chance to Indonesia.

A GREEN VIEW OF BOGOR’S PUNCAK PASS RESORT

On the way to Bandung passes through a beautiful panorama of hills and mountains, a holiday resort called Puncak, meaning “summit”, is a cool air resort offering outstanding views of dense rainforest and manicured tea plantations, it was a good place for breathe taking, a walking through tea gardens which popular as a tea walk activities for Jakartans who's fill their weekend to take a walk between tea plantation in a mountain climate ambience, riding a horse, mount climbing and watching the farmer cutting the tea leafes at the slope of a mountains, enjoy a hot spring and visit Safari Parks and enjoying to watch the wild life in a natural way .