NOT SURE IF THIS IS SOLO CITY OR IT'S SURAKARTA CITY?

February 5th, 2012. Me, Ahmad Bastomi, and Adnan Rachmawan, as always, were traveling in Solo City. Wait! Were we really in Solo City or Surakarta?  It had no difference. Some called this city as "Solo" and others called "Surakarta". Surakarta is located in Central Java. Klaten, Boyolali, and Karangayar are its neighbors. Surakarta has strong culture of Java and is a part of Mataram kingdom. The city is good and we like the public transportation. Many big streets here that congestion is almost impossible to happen.
We went to Surakarta from Yogyakarta by train, "Prambanan Express" was name. We spent Rp 10.000,00 to buy the ticket. We arrived there via "Stasiun Balapan". That was one very crowded night. It was because there was a Sekaten Fair in city square. We didn't have a chance to photograph anything for it's crowded as hell. People attended the fair with their family, engagement, or someone else. There was a big mosque called "Masjid Agung" near the city square. But, it's not as clean as I imagine, the bathrooms were dark and very nasty. Nothing was interesting here.

"Sekaten Fair" was not our main destination. State University of Surakarta and "Serabi Notosuman" were the place we wanted to visit. As a student, we were interesting to pay a visit to the biggest university in Surakarta. And we think, State University of Surakarta was the real green campus. There were a lot of trees here, made fresh the air in the morning. People usually did jogging here in Sunday morning. There was a big pool there, but it's too dirty to drink :)  Well, Visiting to this university was an unforgettable moment for us.

Before we went home, we bought a typical food of Surakarta, that is "Serabi Notosuman".

That's all what we did there during our traveling program. We are going to travel somewhere and post the story to this blog so you can read our unforgettable trip.