Beaches from the cinema advertising, life-volcanoes and giant temples: natural wonders and spectacular monuments attract tourists to Bali. Less appealing are against animal markets - and illegally offered fossils from the time of Homo Erectus.
 Surakarta - The staging begins at 5:30 clock in the morning. Nor is deep black night on the Penanjakan. The 2700-meter-high mountain on the Indonesian island of Java is something like the auditorium for an idea that every morning at the same time takes its beginning. On a platform gather people from all over the world to banish to the stage to stare, every day another scene picture. The stage, those are the three like pearls on a string strung volcanoes Bromo, Batok and Mahameru.
Left of the audience is the big headlights. He says the sun and is not yet switched on. Below, far away, lies somewhere in the tropical Indonesia under a dark cloud cover. Up here it is eight degrees cold, and the idea warms, the flying dealer for a few hours lined Mietjacke to have diminished.
The rising sun blot lush with the paint: The spectrum ranges on the horizon of black and gray on dark blue, light blue, yellow and pink to Whitish. The silhouettes of the volcanoes are now visible. The nearly 3,700-meter-high Mahameru, also called Semeru, dominated the other. A perfect cone, rising from the smoke - it must look like a volcano.
Volcanoes en masse, which are active, erupt and unhappiness about the people bring belong to the more populous island of Java as well as the temple of all major religions. In addition, tropical hardwoods, which grow to the sky, from the beaches as cinema advertising, bad roads and truck drivers who like before a hairpin curve on the lane change.
150,000 SMS for one euro
On the way to Solo City rattle of hundreds of moped riders around - and urge people everywhere: at bus stops, on the few traffic lights in the small cafes and bars by the wayside. Obviously, all the 130 million inhabitants of Java's straight off to somewhere.
Anyone who does not speak and gesticulates wildly, devotes itself to the domestic national sport: An SMS will cost to send only 0.1 rupiah. One euro is roughly the equivalent of 15,400 rupiah. As can be electronically communicate much, even if an Indonesian, on average just 80 euros a month earned.
Many move on from Solo City, as the city of Surakarta people with their 600,000 inhabitants call. The former residence is a commercial metropolis, in particular with gedealt is what brings money: rice, sugar cane, Gamelan musical instruments, batik and fashion something that is so only in very few places in the earth. Because solo in the river are skeletons from the period of Homo Erectus dug, the more than 1.6 million years old are also numerous fossils, such as the origin of the crocodile. Although the river under special protection, but finds some of the original land in certain markets.
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The visitor magnet secures vielköpfigen Hanafi and his family livelihood. The Muslim government is proud of the Buddhist Borobudur - it has the excavations with about 25 million U.S. dollars (20 million euros) supports and considers the temple complex as a national cultural heritage. "The same attitude can be found not far from here in Prambanan," said Hanafi.
They see the tapering of the main temple black from a distance as the ancient skyline of a city where there is a huge explosion must have. Felsquader big lie scattered debris such as parts of the intact buildings, walls are hidden behind scaffolding.
Everywhere emsige figures crouch on the floor and try to rock the great puzzle to solve. The largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia is located about 12 km east of the city of Yogyakarta, is also Unesco World Heritage and has a double burden to bear.
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