SPECIAL FOOD OF BATU
Cincao
Cincao is food material that usually used for make ice, kolak, etc. The producer of Cincao is located in Tlekung village, Junrejo district. In rainy season, the producer able to produce 60 tins a day. In dry season it able to produce 200 tins with 20 liter for 1 tin.
Apple Vinegar of Wukir Sari
Known as Apple city, Batu use Apple to make vinegar. The women in Temas village, Batu district try to produce vinegar, using Apple as main material. The fresh vinegar with Apple aroma, titled Wukir Sari. This vinegar has certificate of Health Department of Batu city.
Dodol Apple
Dodol Apel is the special food of Batu city. This cake is made in Bumiaji village, Bumiaji district. The special characteristic of Dodol Apel is made of original Apple fruit. The producer has able to produce 600 – 700 box in 15 days. The cake has distributed to many shop in Batu and also to other cities, such as Malang and East Kalimantan.
If you visit Batu, you can buy this Dodol Apple for souvenir for your family.
White Oyster Mushroom
Oyster Mushroom looks like skin shell that has high protein (19-35%), higher than rice and milk. Beside that, this Mushroom consists of (7,4-27,6%) fiber and low fat. The plantation of white Oyster Mushroom is located in Pesanggrahan village, Batu district and Sumbergondo village, Bumiaji district. This is health food and able to solve your health problem. There are many people like to consume this mushroom, especially for hotels in Batu and Malang. Beside white color, the Oyster Mushroom is also available in brown and yellow color. The Oyster Mushroom is able to produce 10 – 15 kg a day.
Apple Chips
The other special food of Batu is Apple chips that made of Apple fruit. This snack has known by many tourists who had visit Batu city. It is very delicious snack which suitable for souvenirs.
Beside Apple as the main material, Batu city also present another chips that made of potatoes, nangka, banana, cassava, tempe, etc.
Those chips are the main product of Batu.
Apple Beverage
The other Apple metamorphosis is Apple beverage. There are many home industries in Batu that produce this Apple beverage, one of beverage product with Apple taste. They able to produce 70 boxes, 1 box consist of 24 bottles, in a day.
This product has health certificate from Health Department of Batu Government. Try to buy Apple beverage from Batu city and tasted its original and fresh taste of Apple. For the retailers or distributors who want to sell this product are welcomed.
source by www.eastjava.com
The potency, which able to be enjoyed by the tourists in Aer Mata cemetery is the unique carving at the wall side in each dome, and grave warangka that so exquisite and artistic. In 1975, the carve arts in grave complex of Aer Mata get the artistic champion titled carved omission of ancient Asian selenium. It give in the artistic of carved Angkor World in Cambodia which known as one of 7 omission miracles (ancient) world. Carve dome wall and warangka made from alabaster to symbolize the association phonetic symbol and reconciliation between the believers in Madura at 16 to 18 century ago. The configuration of building architecture art was started from consecutive admission doorstep, fence circled, and 3 domes of grave of king. It is the ancient vision culture pledge. Building physical of this grave has done without using cement gluten, except brick heap with natural technique insulator.
Pangelengan Hollow, is bank hollow in the hill wall of north side. It is nicely, this hollow is extent of granite rock / onyx, so that it is very fit for rest place, and enjoy the beautiful of natural lake and extent of wide rice field in foothills.
Based on 2000, the total population of Yogyakarta special Region amounted to 3.311.812. Yogyakarta Municipality that has 461,800 inhabitants spread over 32,50 kilometers or the average population density is thus over 14,200 persons per square kilometer. The least densely populated districts is in Gunung Kidul regency which has 720.643 inhabitants and cover 1,485 square kilometers or the density rate is 485 persons per square kilometer. Since a very long time ago the Provincial territory of Yogyakarta Special Region and its surrounding has been decently populated.
The culture Yogyakarta province with its status as a special region lies in the Southern part of Central Java, in the heartland of Javanese culture. As the former capital and the center of several kingdoms in the past, this region and its people are very rich in a variety of cultures. It is widely known from to historical records that the civilization, art and culture had developed well in the center of those kingdoms respectively in the Ancient Mataram Kingdom (8th - 10th Century) era, the second Mataram Kingdom (17th - 18th Century) and Sultanate Ngayogyokarto from the mid of 18th Century up today.
It should be noted that the cultural heritage from the past includes the magnificent temples, the ruins of palaces and monasteries, the various kind of traditions, cultural events, traditional folk and performing arts, architecture and other traditional activities. It is important to note that this is all part of the living culture of Yogyakarta, color of daily activities of live and the local inhabitants behavior, particularly the Javanese community with its traditional way of life and customs. Therefore, because of its culture richness and heritage, Yogyakarta has long been known as the cradle of Javanese culture.
The other legendary name for Yogyakarta City, among the elders as well as the youth generation that is the City of Art and Culture. Traditional and modern exhibition are held almost every day and night about the art of theater, pantomime, music, classic and contemporary dances, poems, etc. Those are flow in the heart of the city. Even more, there are abundant of cultural ceremony, such as Sekaten, Gunungan, Labuhan, Malioboro Fair, etc, which make the city has high value of tradition, art, and culture. 
