Java

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• Incredible beaches Carita and Anyer: white sand and swaying palms with the ominous smoking cone of Anak Krakatau looming on the horizon.
   
• Anak Krakatau (the famous volcano which erupted on the 26 August 1883).
   
• Ujung Kulon National park: this park covers the southwest point of Java. Here on the densely forested peninsula, live the last Javanese rhinos. There are also monitor lizards (smaller cousins to the Komodo Dragon), grey macaques, peacocks, rhinoceros, banteng cattle, leopards and unique Javan crocodiles.
   
• Taman Safari - Bogor: a well-tended African style wildlife park, which may be traversed in your own transport or by park bus.
   
• Kebun Raya Cibodas: a high altitude branch of the Bogor botanic Gardens.
   
• Gede Pangrango National Park: on slopes of the volcanoes of the same names with unique tropical mountain flora and native mountain forests.
   
• Borobudur Temple: the world largest Buddhist monument situated on a hill on the Kedu Plain, 42 km to the west of Yogyakarta, is the best known of the hundreds of stone monuments from the early classic period of Javanese civilization. Built between 780-850, it was restored between 1975-1984.
   
• Mount Bromo: sheer green cliff faces enclose a black sea of sand (laut pasir). Four small peaks rise from the center of the floor of the caldera three of these are lushly overgrown, the fourth and the best known, mount Bromo is a smoldering mound of ash and ciders.