4 Interesting Festivals To Visit In Jawa Tengah

SINDORO SUMBING FESTIVAL

May - July 2020 | Wonosobo Regency and Temanggung Regency

Sindoro Sumbing Festival is a cultural festival in which Wonosobo and Temanggung people collaborated, this festival was held in several locations in several weeks. In addition to various cultural events, in the Sindoro Sumbing Festival, there is also a traditional giant balloon festival, a culinary festival, and workshops. It will make this festival more rousing. The reason why the name of the festival is Sindoro Sumbing is that there are Mount Sindoro and Sumbing which can easily see from Wonosobo and Temanggung.

 

BOROBUDUR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

10-12 July 2020 | Borobudur, Magelang Regency

Borobudur International Festival is an annual event that shows art from 35 regencies or cities in Jawa Tengah, provinces in Indonesia, and overseas. It will become a memorable experience by watching this festival which shows a lot of art and the splendor of the Borobudur temple. BIF was also enlivened with tourism exhibitions, handicrafts/SMEs, and tasteful culinary festivals.

 

SOLO BATIK CARNIVAL

17-19 July 2020 | Surakarta City

Surakarta City or Solo City is known as a cultural city that has a cultural heritage in the form of batik. Batik has an amazing potency that has been presented in carnival costumes with batik nuances. This carnival was held at Slamet Riyadi Street until Surakarta Mayor's Office. This event is very awesome, everyone who watches this festival will be interested and fascinated because the carnival participants looked stunning in batik costumes that were full of creativity and colorful.

 

JAMU AND CULINARY FESTIVAL

Jawa Tengah is known as a province of a thousand temples, besides that, it is also known as a traditional medicine production center, namely jamu. The potency of jamu which spread across 35 regencies/cities has been promoted through Jamu and Culinary Festival since 2011. This festival is gonna be more fun and lively because there is also a lot of appetizing culinary booths and entertainment from well-known bands/musicians.  

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