Visit Jogja TOURISM VILLAGE

It is actually the best chance for you to enjoy natural daily life in village directly, staying some nights together with villagers and local communities in friendly situation and comfortable atmosphere with your family or close friends for getting pleasure

It is likely important define two meaning relating to it, that is, if the guest tent to spend nights in the villages, it is called Tourism Village ( Desa Wisata ), with 16 different locations. And if they just make visits at glace without staying there, then it is called Village Tours ( Wisata Desa ), being served in 19 other site

In general, those thirty-five villages situated around Jogjakarta are willing to develop and promote their special potentials, such as handicraft and home industries and small scales like batik, bamboo, dried leaves, manual knittings, ceramics, coconut sugar, also shrimp breeding, goat and cow breedings. For relaxion, including: enjoying panoramic vewes around Merapi volcano ( still active ) and surrounding wood for fishing in rivers

While, various village communities actively manage several excellent training and educations units for agricultural works ( with local methods ), traditional dances, Javanese instruments, leather puppets, puppeteers, human drama, and batik making. Possibly herding ducks or goats, working in rice field or fruits gardens or cooking village food

For sports enthusiasts, adventuring in nature like hiking, mounteneering, canoeing, rafting and eyeling through villages for more pleasure. For this purpose, your groups are accompanied by several experienced guides

In certain time, village organization are able to manage local cultures, being prepared for performances, such as children games, regular ritual events, gejog lesung ( beating wooden logs ), jathilan (tranced-horse dance), kerawitan (singing mild Javanese songs) and traditional dances