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When visiting Yogyakarta City, it seems imperfect without bringing bakpia home. Bakpia (especially Bakpia Pathok) was wide known as the typical food souvenir of that city. It becomes one of the must souvenir icons and the top ranked Yogyakarta’s souvenirs list.

Bakpia is a kind of small round-shaped Indonesian pastries made of wheat flour dough and vegetable oil for its skin, stuffed with the filling consists of mung beans, refined sugar, and salt. Mung bean is a usual filling stuffed in original bakpia, but there’re some other fillings of bakpia such as chocolate, durian, and cheese. With its typical aroma, Bakpia is sweet and tender.  They are commercially packaged in small boxes and sold at many food shops in Yogyakarta.

It’s not difficult to find bakpia in Yogyakarta. As a popular typical food, bakpia is sold at many food shops in Yogyakarta City. But the popular center of bakpia industry is Pathok, an area in the west side of Malioboro Avenue. The houses at the area along Jl. KS Tubun produce homemade bakpia. Various Bakpia Pathok are differing in the label of their package. They are labeled by the house number as the brand, for example Bakpia Pathok 25, 38, 67, 75, 99, 175, etc. From time to time, the competition among the producers becomes stricter. The producers have to perform their best quality and try the new creation of bakpia.

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There’re so many tourism objects in Yogyakarta. But if you want to relax with family while enjoying the sweetness of salak fruit in a leafy garden, Turi Agrotourism is the right choice that will answer your desire. The sweetness taste of salak pondoh fruit is well-known over the whole archipelago.

Turi Agrotourism (27 ha wide area) is the plantation complex of salak pondoh  which is located at Kampung gadung, Bangunkerto Village, Turi, Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta. The plantation complex is combined with kid’s playground, fishing area, swimming pool, and facility for boating in the pond. Turi Agrotourism allows you to enjoy walking around the wide salak pondoh garden while picking the fruit yourself.

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Selarong Cave is a historical heritage located at about 14 km from the south of Yogyakarta City. It was used as the headquarters of Pangeran Diponegoro’s guerrilla in the past (about 1825 – 1830) to struggle against the Netherlands colonialism. Now the cave is a tourism object that has the noble historical values, especially to construct the patriotic spirit of Indonesian youth generation and general society.

Selarong Cave is a beautiful tour object area located at Dukuh Kembang Putihan, Pajangan, Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The area has a beautiful landscape, and the location is suitable as camping ground. The location of Selarong cave area is on the hilltop which is planted by apple guava or ‘jambu kluthuk’ and manilkara or ‘sawo kecik’ trees. The fruits are the characteristic feature of this tour object. Currently, the Bantul Regency Government is developing Selarong Cave area for the longan agro tourism object.

There is guardhouse as the facility for enjoying the panorama around the cave. The visitors can enjoy the panorama of valley which is spread out beautifully. The visitors can buy apple guava fruit that has a characteristic aroma as the souvenir. There is also the wood handicrafts center, where the visitors can find the local handicrafts products, such as statues, masks, etc; and watch the making process directly. In certain moments, the attraction/event tourism is held in this area.