Semarang Sojourn
Australian schools rarely include the cultural centre of Indonesia, Central Java,as a school trip option. Hills Joglo Villa (HJV) Semarang, the finest heritage resort in Central Java, offers your students and staff a pleasant option to visit Central Java and learn at some depth about the rich tapestry of Indonesian society and physical culture. You can find details of our villas at:
www.villajoglo.com
and Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/hillsjoglovillaheritagehotel?fref=ts
HJV also offers the free services of Dr Darrell Kitchener - if requested - to support your teachers or guides. Dr Kitchener worked for 28 years at the Western Australian Museum and has 30 years experience working in Indonesia. He has been Director of Conservation to both WWF Indonesia and The Nature Conservancy Indonesia, and an environmental advisor to USAID projects.
HJV is a group of 10 fully serviced traditional carved teak Joglo houses - six of these are 100 to 350 years old - snuggled into eight hectares of natural setting. They are filled with antique Javanese furniture and equipped with modern toilets air conditioners and the usual hotel facilities. There is easy access to all the Central Java cultural icons (Borobudur, Prambanan, Dieng Plateau), and the cities of Semarang, Jogjakarta and Solo. HJV offers:
* Javanese, oriental and western food served in your antique carved Joglo house or at our beautiful gardens or swimming pool.
* Magnificent Garden Restaurant nestled in natural environment among paddy field at the foot of Mount Ungaran; enjoy your drinks listening to the sounds and sight of village life.
* Gallery with over 2600 catalogued ceramic objects ranging from Indonesian terracotta ware to Vietnamese, Chinese and Thailand imported ceramics from 700 AD.
* Over 100 oil paintings by Indonesian landscape and portrait masters of the naturalistic Indonesian Moi Indie school.
* Extensive paddy fields used by local school children and cruise ship passengers to learn about the fascinating ecology of rice fields.
Heny Kustiarsih
The Director
Contact us at:
Website:
www.villajoglo.com
Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/hillsjoglovillaheritagehotel?fref=ts
Telephone:
+62 81575659340
Email:
djkitchener@yahoo.com
www.villajoglo.com
and Facebook page at:
https://www.facebook.com/hillsjoglovillaheritagehotel?fref=ts
HJV also offers the free services of Dr Darrell Kitchener - if requested - to support your teachers or guides. Dr Kitchener worked for 28 years at the Western Australian Museum and has 30 years experience working in Indonesia. He has been Director of Conservation to both WWF Indonesia and The Nature Conservancy Indonesia, and an environmental advisor to USAID projects.
HJV is a group of 10 fully serviced traditional carved teak Joglo houses - six of these are 100 to 350 years old - snuggled into eight hectares of natural setting. They are filled with antique Javanese furniture and equipped with modern toilets air conditioners and the usual hotel facilities. There is easy access to all the Central Java cultural icons (Borobudur, Prambanan, Dieng Plateau), and the cities of Semarang, Jogjakarta and Solo. HJV offers:
* Javanese, oriental and western food served in your antique carved Joglo house or at our beautiful gardens or swimming pool.
* Magnificent Garden Restaurant nestled in natural environment among paddy field at the foot of Mount Ungaran; enjoy your drinks listening to the sounds and sight of village life.
* Gallery with over 2600 catalogued ceramic objects ranging from Indonesian terracotta ware to Vietnamese, Chinese and Thailand imported ceramics from 700 AD.
* Over 100 oil paintings by Indonesian landscape and portrait masters of the naturalistic Indonesian Moi Indie school.
* Extensive paddy fields used by local school children and cruise ship passengers to learn about the fascinating ecology of rice fields.
Heny Kustiarsih
The Director
Contact us at:
Website:
www.villajoglo.com
Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/hillsjoglovillaheritagehotel?fref=ts
Telephone:
+62 81575659340
Email:
djkitchener@yahoo.com
A Snapshot of the Extensive 7th-18 Century Ceramic Collection
Guests Participating in the Ploughing of Paddy Fields
Javanese Cultural Performances
Inside Joglo Villa No.4
A Bird's Eye View
Indonesia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world with 1,604 species of birds. Java, alone, has more species than Metropolitan France. To illustrate this richness, Hills Joglo Villa recently completed an 85 square metre aviary and stocked it with nine species of non-endangered breeding pairs of Indonesian parrots. The selection of these species was carried out in discussion with the local Semarang Conservation Authority, Badan Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam (BKSDA). This aviary has proven popular with vistors to HJV and has allowed many foreigners, in particular guests from cruise ships visiting Semarang, to gain an appreciation of this biodiversity. Perhaps the most beautiful bird at HJV is the Javanese Parrot, or Betet Jawa. Many visitors are surprised to see a species of parrot so far to the east of the Wallace Biogeographic Line. HJV hopes to work with BKSDA to breed up Betet Jawa and re-introduce it locally. Recently a wild African Love Bird bird landed on this aviary and allowed itself to be captured by hand. This is a bit disturbing as it is not the first introduced captive bird that has been seen flying around the HJV environs.
Hills Joglo Villa Aviary
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Hills Joglo Villa, Ungaran, Indonesia
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Fact Sheets
Joglo: Traditional House of Java
| villa joglo.pdf |
Gardens: Important to Javanese Wildlife
| villa gardens.pdf |
Rice Fields
| rice fields.pdf |
Forest Walks: Curug Benowo Tourism Reserve
| forest walk.pdf |
Sriwijaya: The Great Indonesian Maratime Empire of C7-11
| sriwijaya.pdf |
Akwan: Semarang Post-Impressionist Painter
| akwan.pdf |
Indonesian Moi Indie Paintings
| moi indie paintings.pdf |
