Purwodadi Botanical Garden, A Conservation as well Tourism Spot

TIMESINDONESIA, JAKARTA – Purwodadi Botanical Garden is a tourism destination offers joyful experience while educate the visitors about the extraordinary diversity of plant life and be grateful for the chance to see rare and endangered of several species.

It is located on Jalan Raya Surabaya - Malang KM 65, or precisely on Jalan Kebunasri, Purwodadi, East Java. The distance is about 24 km from the city center of Malang, 30 km from Pasuruan, and about 65 km from the city center of Surabaya.

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Overall, the Purwodadi Botanical Garden has an area of ​​around 85 hectares which has been divided into several areas dominated by conservation areas. This place has thousands of collections of plants, including rare and hundreds of years old plants that only exist in Indonesia. The wealth of flora owned by the Purwodadi Botanical Garden includes legumes, orchid plants, ferns, and medicinal plants.

To support tourism activities, the management of Purwodadi Botanical Garden also built several facilities, such as a children's bathing pool, camping ground, and facilities for out bond activities. For entry tickets, the domestic tourists cost only IDR. 10,000, while a foreign tourist is at IDR. 16,000.

Quoted from Indonesia.com, Purwodadi Botanical Garden was founded on January 30, 1941 by Dr. Lourens Gerhard on the initiative of a Dutch researcher named Dr. Dirk Fok van Slooten. The construction of this botanical garden is inseparable from the establishment of Bogor botanical garden, Indonesia.

Therefore, the main purpose of establishing Purwodadi Botanical Garden is also as an effort to advance the research of Indonesia's plantation crops.

 "The ticket price is cheap, the place is also convenient. The trees are shady, so make the air cool. It's really fresh here, so it's not boring even though it's here for the third time, "said Ana, a visitor.

For those who want to travel while learning about the types of plants can plan to visit this place, Purwodadi Botanical Garden. (*)

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