REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANJARNEGARA - Dieng may not as familiar as Yogyakarta for tourists. But the village offers beautiful scenery as it lays and surrounded by gorgeous mountainous, especially Mount Sumbing and Mount Sindoro. The beauty earns Dieng a nikcname as "House of Gods".
Dieng is surrounded by Visitors can enjoy a tour package 'Live in Rural Tourism Dieng Kulon' organized by Tourism Awareness Group ‘Dieng Pandawa.’ Chairman of Dieng Pandawa, Alif Faozi said the tourist arrivals in Dieng continued to increase from year to year.
"We know that from homestays occupancy rates in 'Highlands Tourism Region Dieng' that reached 90 percent in a week," he said on Monday. Dieng Kulon had 67 homestay units.
Dieng tourist package is divided into two, one day tour and two day tour. The material presented in the form of cultural tourism and cultural arts to recognize Dieng, outbound agro with plantations and cattles, learning batik wood, culinary tours, mountain tracking at Pangonan Hill and Lake Semurup, enjoy the sunrise at Sikunir, as well as geothermal education tourism.
Faozi added the tourists could have direct dialogue with indigenous people and Dieng society. Dieng also provided educational tour such as the introduction of geothermal which managed by PT Geo Dipa Energy (GDE) Unit Dieng.