Malang the tourism city

Malang, one of the cleanest and coolest cities in East Java has, without any doubt, been famous since a long time ago. Historical remnants are scattered around Malang Regency showing that it has played important role in many eras. Malang Regency his between 112° 17′ 10,90″ and 112° 57′ 00,00″ east longitude and extending from 7° 44′ 55 11 up to 8° 26′ 35.45″ south latitude.
Boundary: The Regency borders on Blitar and Kediri Regencies in the West, Jombang, Mojokerto and Pasuruan in the North, Probolinggo and Lumajang Regencies in the East and Indonesian Ocean in the South.
Malang Regency has 7 Districts, 1 Administrative Town, 35 Sub Districts, 16 Ward Administrative Units and 390 Urban Villages.
Malang, which is noted as one of the most fascinating towns in East Java, lies 90 kms away to the south from Surabaya, the capital city of the province. It is really a nice place to stay. Malang has now become the educational, industrial, cultural as well as tourist centre.
A large number of schools, ranging from elementary and secondary schools to universities, indicate the town as an outstanding centre of education.
Thousands of students from all over East Java and even those from other provinces flock to the town to study either in private or public schools.
In the mean time, a wide range of companies – some of which are the big Bentoel cigarette company which is quite popular among the ASEAN countries as well as European countries, Penamas cigarette company, coconut oil factory, ‘Topeng’ or Mask handicraft at the villages of Jabung and Kedungmonggo have become a familiar landmark in Malang Regency, showing evidently that the city is really an industrial centre.
As a centre of tourism, Malang has a lot of places of interest which are classified into local, regional, national and international standards, including traditional dance performances such as Tari Topeng (Mask dance), Jaran Pegon, Tari Beskalan (Beskalan Dance), etc.
Malang is known with its beautiful beaches. There are many tourists who always visit Malang’s beaches in holiday. The beaches are Ngliyep beach, Balekambang beach, and Sendang Biru beach.
Then the foreign tourists are commonly interesting to Malang’s temples that save the historical value of the past Kingdom in Malang regency, they are; Singosari temple, Jago temple, Kidal temple, etc. Beside that, Malang still has a lot of tourism objects that will attract you to visit it. Coban Rondo waterfall, Wonosari tea plantation, Wendit pool, mount Kawi, mount Bromo panorama, Coban Pelangi waterfall, Karangkates recreation park, and the others, are Malang’s interesting places that presents their nature scenery.

Also visit Malang City Tour that offers its interesting places such as; City Hall, Monument Juang’45, bird and flowers market, senaputra park, kayu tangan complex, City Square, Senaputra Park, etc.

Many years ago before Malang became the second biggest city in East Java, Malang used to be the centre of government of the Kanjuruhan and Singosari Kingdom.
Here are some names of places that could support the history of Malang Birth Day.

1. Kanjuruhan, written in the inscription 760 AD, now has changed into Kajuron (a place near Dinoyo).
2. Balandit, written in the inscription 929 AD, now has changed into Belandit (a place in the eastern part of Singosari ).
3. Turryan, written in the inscription 929 AD, now has changed into Turen (a place in the southeast of Malang).
4. Panawijyan, written in the inscription in 943 AD, now has changed to Polowijen, the name of a Ward Administrative unit in Malang Municipality.
5. Hantang, written in the inscription 1135 AD, now has changed into Ngantang (45 kms west of Malang).
6. Katinden, written in the inscription on 1395 AD, now still uses that name up to the present time.
(15 kms north of Malang).
7. Mandaragiri, written in the Javanese History Book “Negarakertagama”, is the name of a hill that is now known as “Mandaraka”, belonging to Singosari Sub District. (+ 9 kms north of Malang).

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