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Cibodas Botanical Garden ( Indonesian: Kebun Raya Cibodas, KRC) is a 84.99 hectares (210.0 acres) botanical garden on the slopes of Mount Gede, located in the Cibodas subdistrict of West Java, Indonesia. [ 1 ] It was operated by the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), which now has been transformed into the National Research and Innovation ...
The Bogor Botanical Gardens (Indonesian: Kebun Raya Bogor) is a botanical garden located in Bogor, Indonesia, 60 km south of central Jakarta. It is currently operated by the National Research and Innovation Agency. The garden is located in the city center and adjoin the presidential palace compound of Istana Bogor. It covers an area of 87 ...
Cipanas (Indonesian pronunciation: [tʃipanas]) is a town in Cipanas district, in the northern part of the Cianjur Regency, West Java, Indonesia. [1] It is situated in the valley of Mount Gede, 86 kilometres (53 mi) south-east of the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta. The name of the town means "hot water" or "hot spring" in Sundanese (ci ...
Cibodas Botanical Garden, Cianjur, West Java. Purwodadi Botanical Garden, Pasuruan, East Java. Bali Botanic Garden, Bedugul, Bali. All 4 of the above Botanic Gardens are under Indonesian Institute of Science .
Puncak (Old Dutch: Poentjak) is the name of a pass on the Indonesian island of Java, between Bogor and Bandung. The highland, being cooler than Jakarta, is a popular resort area for the inhabitants of Jakarta who are looking for cooler air. Many Swiss-type chalets were built around Puncak during the pre- World War II colonial period.
Other gardens were constructed in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden, 1808), Sri Lanka (Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya, 1821 and on a site dating back to 1371), Indonesia (Bogor Botanical Gardens, 1817 and Kebun Raya Cibodas, 1852), and Singapore (Singapore Botanical Gardens, 1822). These had a profound effect on the economy of the ...
Lithograph of the palace in 1889. Interior of the palace in 1921, depicting the main hall of the palace Interior of the palace in 1921. The original colonial building on the site of Istana Bogor was a mansion named Buitenzorg, meaning "without a care" in Dutch (also Sans Souci, meaning "without a care" in French), which dated back to 1745 as a country retreat for the Dutch governors to escape ...
Li Wenwen won the women’s +81 kilogram division on Sunday to give China five gold medals in weightlifting at the Paris Olympics. Li was the runaway winner by lifting a total of 309 kilograms ...