Colourful of Serpong, The Fastest Growing City in Indonesia

Serpong devided three zones of development, namely BSD City, Alam Sutera and Gading Serpong now changed and devided into Paramount Serpong and Summarecon Serpong

Look Like "Summer" in Serpong

The Explosion of Kota Sejuta Ruko (Million of Shop Houses)

Universitas Media Nusantara (UMN)

European Style of Building in Serpong

The Fast Growing Land between Serpong and Karawaci

The Boulevard of Paramunt and Summarecon Serpong a.k.a Gading Serpong

Shop Houses and more in Serpong

Dutch Style of Shop Houses in Serpong

Nice Dome

Moskwa Dome Style

When you look at this, don"t say that this is in Moskow but in Serpong

Another Dome Style in Serpong

Alicante

Il Lago, In Italiano il lago means the lake, this does not have a name, what a pity huh?

Gate to greet you in BSD City

Froggy, A Tower of Education in BSD City

Just another summer in BSD City

Clock Tower in Alam Sutera, a different type of copy of Charles De Gaulle Etoile in Paris

One of a newly shopping Mall@Alam Sutera

Bali, Island of Paradise

Balai Banjar in Sangeh

Barong

Ritual Parade at the village

a village on the way to Ubud after Galungan (Hinduism Holiday)

Colored towers at a temple in Bedugul

Two Main Mountain in Bali Mount Batur and Mount Agung from downhill of Bedugul

Gapura (gate) at Temple Bedugul

Cultural parade

Ubud

Geger Beach

Typical of Terrace Paddy Field in Bali

Spot of Pray

Bedugul Temple and Lake

A View of Geger Beach from Sekar Nusa Villas

The Golden Sands of Geger Beach

Parade

Part of Giant Unfinished Statue of Wisnu at Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK)

Haed of Garuda in GWK

Frangipanni Flowers easily found in Bali

A Temple at Geger Beach

Strawberry fruit cultivated in Bedugul

Welcoming Flowers

Balinese Cow

Daddy and his child playing sands

Golden Sands

The Kite

Geger Beach

The boat

All photos by Sonny Sulaksono, all rights reserved

Kudus, Central Java, Indonesia - City of Kreteks (Clove Cigaretts)

Mount Muria (1604 M) northern of Kudus

There are three peaks of the mountain, this part showed the west and the middle peak of the mountain

near Rahtawu Village, Gebog District, Kudus Regency

One of the speciality of Kudus culinary, Lentog invented and only sold around Tanjung Village but now easy to find around the city

Lentog -- A simple and traditional culinary, rice boiled and covered in banana leaves known as lontong blended with raw jackfruit in coconut milk combined with taufu and soya cakes (tempe), more delicious added with fried onion and chilies, wanna try come to Kudus

Soto Kudus now becoming one of the various Indonesian food, there are two kinds of Soto (Indonesian traditional soup), chicken (soto ayam) and Javanese buffalo (soto kerbau or soto kebo), taste good not only for breakfast but also for lunch and even dinner)

Soto Kudus Jatmi, one of the famous soto stall in Kudus at Panjunan area, Jl. Wahid Hasyim, Kudus, the stall is also available in Grogol, West Jakarta with the similar taste, because the water imported originally from Kudus according to the seller

Culinary Center known as Taman Bojana, provided various kinds of soto as well as other traditional culinary as Pindang -- a dark colored soup mixed with melinjo leaves and served with chicken or Javanese buffalo

A crowded street around city center known as Alun-Alun (square) of Kudus
with Masjid Agung as the background

A Giant Screen, Videotron at Alun Alun, Simpang 7, Kudus

An ancient mosque built by Sunan Kudus, typically similar to Hindu temple in Bali, a symbol of religious tolerance during the early Islam era in Kudus

Kudus Minaret Mosque

A Chinese Temple

A second shopping mall in Kudus, Mal Kudus with exclusively tenant Ramayana Dept. Store and Kentucky Fried Chicken

Front View of Mal Kudus (Kudus Mall) headed to Alun-Alun Simpang 7 Square

Kudus now is more global and modern with Kudus Extension Mall, the latest shopping Mall inside of Kudus' Identity Monument complex which connected by a bridge with the old Plasa Kudus (Kudus Plaza)

Alfresco dining out of a new chain restaurant, Solaria outside of Kudus Extension Mall (KEM)

Exterior of Kudus Extension Mall

KEM

A synergy between The Kudus' Identity Monument and KEM

An urban living not only enjoyable by big cities in Indonesia but now also in a small town like Kudus after opening Hypermart the main tenant of KEM

A sophisticated and modern market now available in Kudus brings the local people are able to enjoy the standard living of the other Indonesian cities

Something to remember -- Author's childhood house in Pucangkerep I/130 Kudus

 All Photographs by Sonny Sulaksono copyrights reserved