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City in Central Java, Indonesia
Photo: Ruth Onduko, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Salatiga is a town in Central Java, Indonesia. It is known for its cool weather and the Merbabu volcano. It is also the site of the annual Festival Mata Air, a festival highlighting the importance of sustainable use of Central Java's water resources.
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Pancasila Square
You might be able to visit a night market or a carnival at certain times.
Love Hill
Offers a view of the Rawa Pening lake. This place is often visited by young couples, hence the name. There is a playground for children, and you can ride a boat around the lake for Rp30,000 per half an hour.
A temple that is said to have been a meditation place for Brawijaya V, king of Majapahit.
This Catholic church was built in 1935.
A Hindu temple.
An inscription written with Ancient Javanese Script that is believed to be the origin of Salatiga
You can camp, swim at the swimming pool with the beautiful view of the town and Lake Rawa Pening, and take a field trip of the coffee, tea and clove plantations, as well as a dairy farm. You can learn how to plant crops, make organic fertilizers, and get milk from cows.
Atlantic Dreamland is an amusement park that offers attractions like water boom, water toys, bom-bom car, softplay, flying fox, circular track, mini coaster, carousel, water roller, 4D theater, and ATV.
Horse riding school, where the horses live outside all year round in herds, eat locally-available grasses and hay, go barefoot, and are ridden without bit, spurs or other means of force.
A theme park located just 8 km from Salatiga on the road to Semarang. It has 25 rides with the theme of the legend of the people of Central Java, including a Ferris wheel. It also has a science center.
A long menu of pizza, pasta, Mexican, steak, chicken, Chinese and Indonesian dishes, but the kitchen seems to cope. Friendly service, and a choice of 'spaces' to sit in, including the garden.
A restaurant with a view of rice fields and Mount Merbabu, offering traditional dishes, especially ribs.
Sitinggil Javanese Restaurant Muncul
Traditional Javanese farm to table cuisine in our traditional Javanese restaurant suitable for in-house and external guests. Event space available with a rice field and mountain view (Telomoyo, Merbabu and everything in between), for a minimum of 15 guests. Choice of venues to sit including 150-year-old traditional Javanese house, garden and 6-person lesehan-style (low table) Joglo. Fresh, eco-orientated, authentic rural Central Java.
This dessert is one of the most popular dishes in Salatiga. Ronde sekoteng jago is made of 9 different ingredients which consist of ginger, sugar, ronde (sticky rice ball filled with crushed peanut), dried fruits, sagu delima (tapioca pearl), kolang-kaling (sugar palm fruit), and seaweed. That variety of ingredients makes ronde sekoteng jago a unique, delicious and popular choice.
Sate Sapi Suruh is a popular street food vendor in Salatiga. Sate Sapi Suruh serves skewered beef grilled over a charcoal fire until tender. These satay are served with their specialty peanut sauce and lontong/ketupat (Rice wrapped banana leaf and steamed).
Its location is very strategic that even people from outside Salatiga can quite easily locate this place. A portion of Bakso Sari Roso ABC contains just several beef bakso but, despite its simplicity, the flavor it presents is loved by locals and visitors alike.
Bakpao Luber is a Chinese steamed bun filled with various fillings. Bakpao luber offers lots of bakpao fillings, but most people choose chocolate and cheese as their favorite.
The difference between soto esto and other soto is that other soto places have clear soup, but soto esto uses coconut milk that makes it distinctly yellowish in color. A portion of soto esto contains rice, with Soto Esto’s signature soup, in combination with shredded chicken and bean sprouts, then sprinkled with chopped celery leaves.
Singkong Keju D-9 is cassava that is seasoned using spices and mixed with cheese with various flavour varieties, making it a great quality and delicious product that many people outside Salatiga come to buy Singkong Keju D-9.
Try the local Salatiga dish, tumpang koyor, a beefy dish.
A 2-star hotel with WiFi and breakfast.
Sitinggil is in a village, just up from Rawa Pening Lake. Famous for natural water springs, it's a thriving agricultural hub, backed by rice fields and mountains (Telomoyo to Merbabu and everything in between). The property has a 150-year-old traditional Javanese home, with a casual farm-to-table lunchtime restaurant, and simple rooms for guests (shared bathrooms). There is also a campsite (hot water shower), eco-huts in the jungle out the back, and a modern house to the side that sleeps up to 8.
A 4-star hotel with a swimming pool.
Artisan textiles created with natural dyes. Leaves are pinned onto the cloth, and then simmered to leave an imprint of the leaf on the cloth, in shades of strong purple, and soft greens, yellows, browns and pinks. Call first, this is a home-based industry.
Sapu Upcycle is part of a community of artists and activists that upcycles waste materials into valuable products. They work with bus and truck inner tubes, canvas from former army tents, shipping container webbing straps and circuit boards from mobile phones to make bags, wallets, pouches and jewellery.
Buy food souvenirs from Salatiga including the famous enting-enting gepuk, a peanut snack.
Traditional Indonesian cookies kue kering like nastar and kastengel.
Saga is short for “Snack Salatiga” which was inaugurated by the Mayor of Salatiga. Favorite foods are available such as enting-enting gepuk, kripik paru (lung chips), abon (meat floss), kecap (sweet soy sauce), dendeng (beef jerky), and others.
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Using your smartphone, you can now easily hail a GoJek or Grab in Salatiga. It is worth investing in a local SIM card with data so you can use the apps.
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