Adventure Trips

Rafting Elo River

CitraElo is an official and professional tourism service provider serving specific-interest tourism and training packages, such as whitewater rafting, outdoor games and management training and riverside restaurant. This company has been operating since 1999.

All services are centered at Base Camp CitraElo, a lovely and cozy site surrounded by paddy fields and river, parted from crowd by a-600-m private access. The base camp can be reached by driving from Mendut Temple (5 min), Borobudur Temple (10 min), Magelang City (20 min) and Yogyakarta City (40 min). Base Camp CitraElo is furnished with facilities, such as main lobby, riverside restaurant, sanitary, bungy tower, bungy pool, open spaces, parking area and internal security.

CitraElo arranges whitewater rafting into safe and comfortable tourism packages that suit most everybody, even those with no swimming ability. CitraElo is committed to preserve its Zero-Accident milestone by providing and assuring the use of international-safety-standard gears and equipment which is compulsory to all participants, and assigning well-trained and experienced RiverGuides to escort the trip.

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The Beauty of Mount Merapi

For you who like the challenge of nature, tourist objects should stop off at this one. Approximately 30 km north of Yogyakarta city you will arrive at Mount Merapi, one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. Exploded more than 37 times, the largest in 1972, killing 3000 people. Even so, the mountain with a height of 2968 meters above sea level offers a panoramic view of nature that are difficult to ignore. Hence, many mount climbers or nature lovers who feel not satisfied if they have not had time to set foot on this mountain.

Currently there are three climbing route to achieve, namely the path Kinahrejo / Kaliadem from the south side, Line Babadan through the western slopes, and Line Selo / Plalangan from the north peak of Merapi. The climb from the north is the recommended route because it has a more gently sloping slopes. Baiku time to do the climb is between the months of June to August. Time interval has entered the dry season and the wind is not too tight.

On the western slopes of Mount Merapi are equipped Babadan Post cave as saving space. From the post that was built in 1930, you can see the morphology of a steep peak of Merapi to the active lava dome. At the time the mountain is active, miscarriages voices sounded clear lava.

On the northern slopes of Merapi are several interesting tourist objects such as a waterfall 50 m high Kayang Village Wonolelo. Eyes water comes from Tuk Sanga (the nine springs) in the hamlet of South Windu slopes of Mount Merbabu. There is also camping arena located above the waterfalls.

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