Activities in Solo
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Bicycle Tours
Bicycle Tours to sites outside the city limits are a perennial favourite in Solo. A full-day tour takes you through beautiful countryside to 15 destinations, including stops to watch batik production, gamelan making, and tofu, arak (colourless, distilled palm wine) and rice-cracker processing. Warung Baru, Istana Griya, Mama Homestay, Westerners and Miki tours all offer such tours.
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Meditation
Traditionally, Solo is well known as a meditation centre, but the number of courses offered have been dwindling of late. The tourist office still lists a couple of places on its books for interested parties, though.
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Westerners
Bicycle tours (from 75,000Rp) to sites around the city are popular in Solo, taking in gamelan and batik-making, arak and rice-cracker processing. Westerners offer such trips.
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Sriwedari Amusement Park
Solo’s Sriwedari Amusement Park has fair rides and sideshow stalls. Nightly wayang orang performances (and other cultural shows) are held here.
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Miki Tours
Run tours to Candi Sukuh, Gunung Merapi and Gunung Lawu. Prices depend on numbers, but a day trip for two people with a car and guide starts at around 500,000Rp.
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Batik Course - Mama Homestay
The eponymous Mama offers a one-day introductory batik course (you supply the T-shirt), although she is getting old these days and her English is limited.
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