Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Taman Bunga Nusantara Puncak Indonesia

Taman Bunga Nusantara or National Flowers Park is a thematic garden located at Luwuk Sukaresmi Village, Cipanas-Cianjur. It perched high on the famous Puncak area, covered a total area of 35 acres. It was founded on September 10, 1995.  This park is a beautiful place to get away from Jakarta's congestion!

 Labyrinth Garden. Dont get lost in it!
This park is the Indonesia's first flower park that have various collections of plants and flowers, arranged in a harmonious and beautiful shapes. It also has many collections of beautiful and fresh flowers, ranging from plants to flowers from Indonesia as well as from all over the world. It also has a special cultivation house of orchids. There are estimated 2,000 species of orchids are being cultivated in this place.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park

The Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park is a 240 hectares private cultural park on the Bukit Peninsula at the southern end of the island of Bali in Indonesia, 20 minutes from Ngurah Rai International Airport. It is also one of tourist destinations when visiting Pura Luhur Uluwatu or Nusa Dua (a must visit sites in Bali) since the park as is not very far from that area.

Garuda Wisnu Kencana
Currently, the park is not yet completed since the dimensions were so huge, one can easily understand why such a delay from the original schedule. I think it would be even more magical once the redevelopment finished.  Garuda Wisnu Kencana was an ambitious project started to create the world's largest statue. Designed by Nyoman Nuarta, the statue of Lord Vishnu (Wisnu as they say in Bali) sitting astride on the mythical bird Garuda was to be about 150 meters tall with Garuda's wingspan being 64 meters.