Exotic Water Three Pain (Rejenu)

Kudus Town has a variety of attractions that can be enjoyed by both locals and foreign tourists. Some existing attractions such as nature tourism, educational and religious. One of the most popular attractions in the Kudus City is the Water Three Pain (Air Tiga Rasa).

This tourist attraction is located in the mountains of Muria, about 7 km above Monthel waterfall tourism . Along the road leading to this very interesting sights. We can enjoy the cool and fresh air for both sides of the road because there are many plants and trees that shade. In addition, there is also a stream that flows into Monthel waterfall tourism, where the water is still clear and fresh.

Although the road to these places is climb, but we will not feel tired because of the freshness of air there. Besides we can walk through the path to get there, we can also use the motorbike taxi. If we use a motorcycle taxi service, we will pass the direction of Japan and then climbed a path that was paved by people around the site. So we do not take a long time from the bus parking lot in Colo. to arrive at the Three Pain Water (Air Tiga Rasa) attractions. We only took about 10 minutes by bike.
when we got there, we can see a forest that is still lush with big trees, so it can add a cool atmosphere around it. We also enjoy the sound of birds chirping which is still natural.
To quench your thirst after a little tiring journey, we can enjoy the water in three wells with different taste in all three wells. There's a sprite taste, salt and natural.
Beside we enjoy drinking the tasty water there, we also can enjoy special food there that is well-known as Pecel Pakis. We can meet it in the stalls beside the road towards Pain Three water wells (Sumur Air Tiga Rasa).

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Monthel Waterfall

One of natural attractions offered in Kudus District located on the slopes of Mount Muria, namely Monthel waterfall. 25-meter-high waterfall is still an area with natural tourist attraction and the Tomb of Sunan Muria Colo.

Montel waterfall tourism is one of the nearby natural attractions located in Kudus regency. This tour is located in the northern cemetery of Sunan Muria. With a gap of about 1.5 km from the guesthouse Colo, and a height of 50 m, this tour made natural tourist destination in the tourists who come to visit Kudus. Most of the visitors are those who visit the cemetery of Sunan Muria.
To reach these places we must walk through a path with a distance of about 1.5 km to cross the coffee plantations on the slopes of Mount Muria in 30 minutes. For who can't be strong to walk, can take advantage of a motorcycle taxi service is ready to deliver more quickly through a better path. You can enjoy the freshness of cold water and beautiful scenery around this waterfall. In addition, visitors also can take a bath or play in the fresh mountain spring water Muria, accompanied by the sound of birds and various other forest animals. But I think the run will be even better. In addition to healthy weight, by walking, we also can enjoy the beautiful natural panorama over toward a waterfall is Montel. Even if you are lucky we will get a bonus which is to meet with the monkeys who were natives Montel.

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Cigarette Museum in Kudus

The Museum had been launched and opened in 1906 was the brainchild of the governor of Central Java at that time, H. Supardjo Roestam in order to save and presents a collection of objects associated with the development of clove cigarette company in Kudus city.
It is Located in the village of Getas Pejaten No. 155, Kecamatan Jati, Kudus Regency, Central Java Province, the Museum which stands on an area of 2 hectares is quite beautiful and majestic. Interior Museum is filled with statues and a variety of cigarette making equipment. The statues are slick and other ornaments of fruit works of selected artists from Kudus City can also be seen in this museum.

Until recently, the Museum Kretek cigarettes are the largest museums in Indonesia. To commemorate the great figure who had been instrumental in the cigarette industry in Kudus, museum managers perpetuating their figures through the paintings on display at the museum wall.
Inside the Museum Kretek is stored various equipment and machinery manufacture traditional clove cigarettes and cigarette smoking klobot and means of promotion at the time. In general, there are five large collection of cigarette production equipment at this museum: a collection of mill clove (clove glondong chopper tool), a collection of rolling tobacco (tobacco analyst tools), a collection krondo (a tool to separate the tobacco stems are rough and smooth), and collections tobacco chopper tools.
In addition visitors can also view photos of the track documentation and history of the Holy cigarettes can also be observed dioramas depicting the production process both traditional (by hand without tools and the production of hand cigarette rollers that produce cigarettes and cigarette klobot) and cigarette production process filter with modern machinery.
Also on the left side a little to the front of the museum was established traditional house of Kudus, though not as good and complete as Kudus traditional house owned dozens of residents. And now this Museums clove is also equipped with a playground for children.

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Kudus Minaret

Kudus is one of district in Central Java province, although it is small town but has many tourism objects, both natural attractions and religion tourism. In Kudus, there are natural attractions like MOnthel waterfalls in Colo Area , where the temperature is very cool because there lies on the mountain region and There is also a park that is called "Taman Krida" In Wergu Area. Beside that there are some museums like Cigarette museum and archaeological museum in Pati Ayam. There was also the religious tourism. This is because Kudus has two Wali who spread Islam in Kudus, they are Sunan Kudus and Sunan Muria, so many people doing the Pilgrimage to the tomb of those Sunans. One of the Sunan who his tomb located in the area of Minaret, he is Sunan Kudus.

Kudus Minaret is an old building made of red brick-shaped tower that is the result of acculturation of the Hindu-Javanese culture and Islam. The minaret is not a Hindu temple but a former building of the tower which was built in the days of status as guardian / the transition period from the end of the Majapahit Kingdom era to switch to the Islamic Kingdom of Demak.
The construction and architectural style of the minaret is similar to the temples of East Java, the Majapahit era until such Singosari temple towers resembling Jago Kulkul in Bali. Kudus Minaret became the symbol "tolerant Islam" which means Sunan Kudus disseminate Islam in Kudus by respecting the Hindu-Javanese who embraced the local community. Kudus Minaret is a tower that used to put a drum and used to inform the public about prayer time.
When the minaret was built?
It is estimated that the minaret is derived from 16th century, was built by Sheikh Ja'far Shodiq (Sunan Kudus, one of Wali Songo). On the roof of the tower mast there is a candrasengkala which reads "Gapura rusak ewahing jagad". According to Prof. DR RM Soetjipto Wirjosoepano, candrasengkala shows Gapuro (6), Rusak (0), Ewah (6) and Jagad (1) which in the Javanesse language is read from the back so that a meaningful 1609. Kudus Minaret was built in 1609 or 1685 AD Java.

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