A feel of the village adjacent to the feel of a metropolitan city can be found at Kampung Sosrokusuman. Adjacent buildings, familiarity between residents and small shops downtown-style village just adjacent to the luxury of Malioboro Mall. Located in the heart of Yogyakarta, Sosrokusuman village has long been a haven of tourists visiting the resort town in Indonesia.
This village stretches to the south of Malioboro Mall to Hotel Pearl. A simple gate the curved upper part can be a sign that you have entered the territory of this village. To enter the territory of this village, you can skip the second alley. The first alley located right next to Malioboro Mall while in the second alley can be found if it goes south again.
Right at the first alley gate, you will find small shops selling food. There rames rice seller, pecel, Kupat know until the chicken soup. Delicacies that can be enjoyed by just spending less than $ 5000.00, including drink. Opened a number of retail local residents also easy to find so do not bother if you want to look for their daily needs during the tour.
Stepping into the village that connects Jalan Jalan Mataram Malioboro with this, you will find a range of accommodation is generally shaped flights. Rental rate is quite affordable accommodation, mostly less than Rp 250,000 per night. However, the atmosphere of accommodation is quite interesting, like an inn at the end of the second alley that provides a place to relax outdoors with comfortable wooden chairs and a small cafe.
Until the end of the first alley, turn right if you will find some souvenir stalls of Yogyakarta. Variety of typical snacks, both traditional and modern can be found at the kiosk. For example, geplak (sweets made of sugar mixed with grated coconut with attractive color), tape ketan (fermented glutinous green colored), ting-ting (caramelized sugar mixed with butter), bakpia to various kinds of brownies.
If you want a souvenir in the form of souvenirs, you can go to the second alley. One of the houses in the alley selling interesting crafts, such as wax color, the puppets of wood and so on. At the front there is also the first alley stalls selling t-shirts, caps and bandanas at affordable prices. The design is also quite interesting, there are T-shirts bearing the picture of Borobudur and Yogyakarta or colored bandana with the edges given motif.
In Sosrokusuman, you can also meet with an activist deer puppet (wayang that kind of art is one of the fibers originally written in Surakarta for the development of Islam), which is Ledjar Subroto. Deer puppet characters he created has now been immortalized in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah and explore foreign countries, like Holland, Germany, America, Japan, and Australia. Various deer puppet performances ever held in many countries were involved Ledjar as konseptornya. In fact, deer puppet developed by the man from Bondowoso has become the curriculum in many countries and are used to instill manners.
Another art form that can be enjoyed in Sosrokusuman the mural that is in some parts of the walls of the alley. Art it certainly gives the feel is different than other villages. If still not satisfied with enjoying the mural in the village, you can also see another mural on the north Malioboro Mall. How, Sosrokusuman not just a strategic place to begin the tour is not it?
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