Three themes through Java Indonesia volcano under the philosophy of existence

Mysterious country we this generation person yearning in childhood than in Western Europe and North America, but the other two places, one is the Yelang Kingdom, is a Java, the former is characterized by closed land of idyllic beauty, the latter to far away and not to refer to. And this once remote Java island, although now often become the Chinese toBali IslandThe springboard, but still in people's impression is very fuzzy. Interview group has selected three angles: Volcano exploration,IndonesiaThe quintessence of Chinese culture and Chinese society, a carpet of panoramic scanning on the island of java.

Game player: easy, tourism satellite TV host location, once three times across the island of Java

"From Bali Island to the island of Java, although separated by only a small channel, a one-hour time difference. This one hour away is heaven to earth in the distance, from this moment on, you have to adjust their psychological expectations."

Game player: Marry and Angela,TravelingThe world famous couples, in 2010 around the island of Java

"Bali Island is suitable for lovers, the island of Java for backpackers, there is no romance, there are cultural and civic life the best thickness, lost in the Java town of narrow roadway, although you may finally really can not find a way out."

Game player: Liu Shuo, scientific squirrel members, have alone through more than 70 countries, 2009 travel Java

"Go to the island of Java free? You can not, must wait for the dry season, it is best to avoid western Java, car travel is safe, to the big tourism city is good, or not to go to the small city."

Game player: sailing, a doctor of anthropology, in 2005-2008 5 times to the Java survey

"Java for crossing, Bali is suitable for residence, if do not have enough patience, advise you to go to the Bali Island sun, Java island cultural diversity takes a stand to discover."

The Java

Topic 1: Volcano belief, capturing Java sentient beings

Volcano in Java, like a set of complex mystical belief, this belief has millions of believers in Java, beyond all expectations influences the way the history and custom java. The top of the volcano eruption from sage and pilgrims, that political change and social unrest. Can say, the Indonesian volcano is a melting pot of cultures, mysticism, Islam, and other religions coexist in modern life, or blend with each other, or be quite distinct from each other. We choose the volcano as a cross section of society history of Java, java to view the social living breathing.

Bandung, capsize volcano, the mountain picnic lovers.

Mysticism, hidden in the shadows of the volcano

The road from Thoreau to Yogyakarta, Mo Rabbi volcano smoke very attract sb.'s attention, it is the surrounding scenery pleasant green, can see some broken homes and farms, new homes are being rebuilt, and between, a piece of tranquil, it is hard to imagine that a few months before the outbreak of the doomsday. In Indonesia, the past 500 years, 140000 people have been killed in the volcano disaster. With Java hundreds of volcano is in "geographical minefield" in the middle. Indonesian volcano respect for God, even God frequently attack, but many people ignore the warning, feel at ease and justified to continue living in the volcano. The mysticism is the market in the Java islanders. Yogyakarta city 100 kilometers from the volcano is still, volcano products and crafts with the roadside stalls, pavement, buildings, public facilities can be clearly identified in association with the volcano.

Mora than the volcano is a born killer. It above the forest and field nearly 3000 meters, is one of the world's most active volcano, the most dangerous. Morabit is a Flaming Mountains "in the local language. In 1930, an eruption which killed more than 1300 people. When we were in Yogyakarta although the volcano activity smoothly, but a local disaster map warned, "the surrounding area even on weekdays, often by the volcano clastic flow, lava flows, rockfalls, debris spewing gas and hot."

But for many of the local people, volcano eruption is rather than a threat, as it is a gift. Volcano ash can fertilize the soil, Java, farmers to harvest three crops of rice season. On the way from Yogyakarta to Mo Rabbi volcano, large tracts of farmland, will be closely around the volcano. Heard Mo Rabbi volcano guardian of the story in our way, the resident of a volcano guardian, in the eyes of the local people are saints, this job be handed down from age to age, its successor, is said to be able to receive salaries from Yogyakarta where the Sultan monthly. But their duty is to need a moment not to live in the mountains, protecting the residents and tourists, this kind of behavior in any other place, may seem like Dutch act, but not in java. It is said that in 1996,HollandHikers in the volcano was lost, the volcano guardian with his predictions. The thick fog, the wounded traveler was found in the ravine.