Holiday with Natural View in Bogor Botanical Garden

In indonesia someting special holiday  the garden Bogor Botanical Gardens (KRB) or Bogor Botanical Gardens is a large research farm located in the city of Bogor, West Java Province, Indonesia.Extensive botanical garden is about 80 acres and has 15,000 species of tree and plant collections. Bogor Botanical Garden is visited by many visitors from various backgrounds, ranging from children, teens, families, tourists and even from abroad. Bogor Botanical Gardens is one-one of the oldest Botanical Gardens in Asia and has its own beauty. Bogor Botanical Gardens is a place for educational activities as well as recreation. Contained in the Bogor Botanical Gardens animal museum ( natural history museum), library, Bogor Palace, a collection of orchid garden, a center of research and development biology, as well as a collection of thousands of species of tropical plants are grouped according to type, for example the family of palms, bamboo, or ginger and also there old trees that are rare and hundreds of years old. History of the Botanical Garden Bogor Botanical Gardens, at the beginning was part of Samida (artificial artificial forest or park) that has existed in the reign of Sri Baduga Maharaja (King Siliwangi, 1474-1513) of the Kingdom of Sunda, as it is written in the inscription Batutulis. Artificial forest is made with the intent to preserve the environment, which is used as a place to nurture the seeds of the rare wood. Forests are then abandoned after the Sunda kingdom conquered by the Sultanate of Banten, and finally in the mid-18th century to the Governor-General van der Capellen build a vacation home in one-on-one corner of this artificial forest. In the early 1800s, the Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles (who inhabited the Bogor Palace at that time) interested in making Bogor Palace yard into a beautiful garden, later assisted by the botanist, Bogor Palace yard turned into an English-style garden classic. This is the beginning of the formation of the Botanical Garden as it is now.

W. Kent, who helped build Kew Garden in London is one-one that involved designing the park. In 1814, Olivia Raffles (wife of Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles) died, and was buried in Batavia, later immortalized by the establishment of the Monument Lady Raffles, known also as the First Lady of Java, a monument to him was established at the Bogor Botanical Gardens. The initial idea began with the establishment of the Botanical Gardens is a biologist Abner. Abner wrote a letter to the Governor-General GAGPh. van der Capellen, which it declared its intention to request a piece of land to be used as a garden of useful plants, as the place of teacher education, and become a collection of plants for the development of other gardens. Prof. Karl Georg Caspar Reinwardt is one scientist in botany and chemistry (German) who later moved to the Netherlands, interested in investigating a wide range of plants used for treatment and collect all of these plants disebuah Bogor botanical garden in the city, which at that time called Buitenzorg (Dutch : do not worry). Reinwardt also a pioneer in the field of making herbarium and became known as a founder of the Herbarium Bogoriense. On 18 May 1817, the Botanical Garden was officially opened under the name s'Lands Plantentuinte Buitenzorg. Bogor Botanical Gardens was founded by the Governor-General Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der Capellen. Implementation of plantation development is led by prof. Karl Georg Caspar Reinwardt assisted by James Hooper and W. Kent (of the famous Kew Gardens in Richmond, UK). After it became the center of Bogor and agricultural and horticultural development in Indonesia. At that time an estimated 900 living plants were planted in this garden. The first area is used as a botanical garden is the soil around the former presidential palace in Bogor and Samida. In 1822, Reinwardt returned to the Netherlands and its position was replaced by Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume. Dr. Carl Ludwig Blume and then take inventory of the collection of plants that grow in the garden and also compiled the first catalog of the garden, were recorded as many as 912 species (species) of plants.  Johannes Elias Teysmann (1831), an expert in the palace gardens Governor-General Johannes van den Bosch, assisted by Karl Justus Haßkarl, he made arrangements with a group planting of crops according to a collection of tribes (families). Johannes Elias Teysmann was replaced by Dr. Carel Christiaan Rudolph Herman Scheffer in 1867 became director, and then continued by prof. Dr. Melchior Treub. Establishment of the Botanical Garden is the initial development of science in Indonesia, and here was born a few other scientific institutions, such as the Bibliotheca Bogoriensis (1842), Herbarium Bogoriense (1844), Cibodas Botanical Garden (1860), Laboratory Treub (1884), and Museum and Laboratory of Zoology (1894). On May 30, 1868, the Botanical Garden was officially separated the management is with the Bogor Palace yard. At first the garden was only used as an experimental garden for crops that will be introduced to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). But on further development is used also as a forum for research scientists of that era (1880-1905). Bogor Botanical Gardens is always experienced significant development, Prof. Ir. Koestono Setijowirjo (1949) is the first Indonesian leader who served an international research institute. Bogor Botanical Gardens in the course of its history has many names and nicknames, such as: s'Lands Plantentuin, Syokubutzuer (Japanese occupation era), Botanical Garden of Buitenzorg, Botanical Garden of Indonesia, Gede Garden, Garden SOUL MATES, Garden tete. Pull the Bogor Botanical Gardens Carrion flower (Amorphophalus titanum) These flowers bloom at the time will come near, will issue a stinging smell of carrion. Higher interest rates can reach as high as 4 meters with a diameter of about 1.5 meters and is the world's largest plant compound interest.

Trees Lychee (Litchi Chinenis)
The oldest tree in the Botanical Garden is the Tree Lychee from China. This tree was planted in 1823, is located near the lake Bogor Botanical Gardens. Not far from the lake and there is a statue of the Mermaid Statue Hand of God, which is a duplicate of the statue is in Copenhagen and Stockholm. Frangipani flower Fragnant Fragnant Frangipani flowers, roots always come out of the ground. Lily flower Java Bogor Botanical Gardens has a collection of Java lily that has been rare.

King of Trees
This tree is native of Borneo. The tree called the King because the King in Kalimantan like to collect these trees, which can use to attract bees and made honey. Palm Bogor Botanical Gardens has a collection of the oldest palm trees in Southeast Asia that still lives today.

Bat Houses
There are huge old trees, which became the house where a bat hanging. What to Carry Supplies Use long sleeves to tour the Botanical Garden, the point to protect the skin from the sun and to protect themselves from mosquito bites. Bring a hat, drinking water, snacks. How to Achieve Bogor Botanical Gardens Bogor Botanical Gardens is located amid the bustling city of Bogor, so it is not difficult to find. From Jakarta (± 63 km towards the Bogor Botanical Gardens):

-By bus to Terminal Baranangsiang-Bogor, followed by riding public transportation to the Botanical Garden and get off at the door near the IPB Bogor Botanical Gardens.
-By train to Bogor station, followed by the Free-ride public transportation department Sukasari towards the Bogor Botanical Gardens and down the door of a market near Bogor. Time to visit the Botanical Garden
Began to open from 8 am to 5 pm. The main gate is located on the south, the other doors that only open on Sundays and holidays . On Sundays, holidays and long holidays, crowded the Bogor Botanical Gardens.

Information:
On June 1, 2006 (± at 20:00 to 20:30 GMT), storms and high winds, resulting in as many as 124 trees uprooted in the Bogor Botanical Gardens, among many trees over 100 years old.