Backpacker To Indonesia

Kandangan Ketupat Kandangan is name of a town between Banjarmasin and Loksado. It takes about 3 hours from Banjarmasin to get there. Since there is a special cuisine from Kandangan which the material is ketupat, then it is called Kandangan Ketupat. There’s a recommended ketupat stall in a small town which is the last town before Loksado, named Kaganangan. It’s located on the road side which connected Kandangan and Barabai. The stall is stand together with other ketupat stalls.

Carica Papaya Carica, or often called mountain papaya, is a fruit that was brought by colonial government of The Netherland while the second world war was going on. The interesting thing is that this fruit is only successfully cultivated in Dieng plateau and a small part of Bali. However, the original fruit came from Andes plateau, South America. Carica is really easy to grow in Dieng. Therefore, people in Dieng generally grow this tree, together with other vegetable plants.The tree looks like a usual papaya tree, only, it has more branches.