Imogiri Pine Forest : Hidden Beauty in South Yogyakarta

Imogiri Pine Forest is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Yogyakarta. Destinations begun to attract local teens at the beginning of this year, and since then this destination has attracted a lot of travelers, both travelers from Yogyakarta or from outside Yogyakarta. As the name implies, Imogiri Pine Forest is located in the southern part of Yogyakarta, precisely in Imogiri.

Imogiri Pine Forest offers exotic beauty of hundreds of towering pine tree. This forest will become famous reddish brown color of the soil, the air is fresh, cool wind, and the sun peeking in between tree clawing the sky. Renowned for its romantic scenery, the forest became one spot of interest as a place to take pictures. Many photographers, both amateur and professional, to make this place as a destination for the photoshoot. Users of social media were competing to come to this place to take pictures and upload to their account.

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Imogiri Pine Forest

Imogiri Pine Forest or people know also as Mangunan Pine Forest is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Yogyakarta. It began to attract local teens at the beginning of 2016, and since then this destination has attracted a lot of travelers, both from Yogyakarta or from outside Yogyakarta. As the name implies, Imogiri Pine Forest is located in the southern part of Yogyakarta, precisely in Mangunan, Imogiri, Dlingo, Bantul, Yogyakarta.

Imogiri Pine Forest offers exotic beauty of hundreds of towering pine tree. The romantic sensation of reddish brown soil, fresh air, cool wind, and the sun peeking between the tree branches will make you startled for a while. Many travellers interested to take pictures of this beautiful natural scenery. Many photographers, both amateur and professional, make this place as a destination for the photo shooting. Users of social media were competing to come to this place to take pictures and upload to their account.

Interested to see it with your own eyes? Imogiri Pine Forest is a 45-minute journey by car or motorbike from the city center. We recommend that you visit Imogiri Pine Forest with Pamitran Tours in the morning, when the sun is most flattering look. No charge admission.

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Popular Destination of Imogiri Pine Forest Yogyakarta

For the pine forest itself, the area is not only one. There are at least three most visited pine forest area, such as below:

Pinus Asri

Pinus Asri is the first pine forest destination in Imogiri, Mangunan. This place is famous for the tree house and wooden bridge. Traveller comes here to take the best picture they can. Don’t forget also to visit Nature Stage which located near this Pinus Asri.

Puncak Becici

Puncak Becici is also very popular moreover since Barack Obama came to this place as one of destinations to visit in Yogyakarta. Becici is the place to hammocking, and find sweet relieve in the peak of this hill. Puncak Becici, quite the same as Pinus Asri is the next place to visit in Mangunan.

Seribu Batu Songgo Langit

Seribu Batu Songgo Langit, rather different with the two before, is famous for the object of hobbit house. The beautiful hobbit houses are inside this area and usually become a background of photo. Unfortunately the hobbit house cannot be opened because the building is not a whole house.

Activities in Imogiri Pine Forest

Sightseeing

The first activity is sightseeing the area of the pine forest. You can get knowledge about the Merkusii pine that in the Imogiri pine forest.

Photography

For those who like photography can satisfy the will to get the best theme for the photo. Imogiri pine forest of course gives you different view from other natural scenery.

Hammocking

To relax yourself from the hot day of Jogja, you can enjoy the day in the pine forest with hammocking. To rent the hammock you only need to pay Rp 10.000 to Rp 20.000.

Camping

Suitable for the adventurer, Imogiri pine forest offers you place for camping. But you need to bring your own tent. To camp here there is different entrance fee. You need to pay for about Rp 20.000.

Other Destinations around Imogiri Pine Forest

Mangunan Fruit Garden

Mangunan Fruit Garden has been in Mangunan before other object such as the pine forest is popular. This fruit garden then reconstructed to make it as beautiful as the other newest tourist object. In this garden you will see many fruit plants and also beautiful scenery of hills and river. The stall owned by the local around Mangunan always be the best that served hot mendoan (fried flour tempeh).

Lintang Sewu Hill

Lintang Sewu is a perfect place to seek sunset. The wooden bridge in Lintang Sewu will give you exotic scenery when the skies turn to purplish orange and the sun rather reddish. The area of Lintang Sewu filled with garden and unique spot.

Panguk Kediwung Hill

The beautiful sunrise in Imogiri Mangunan is also favorite. Hills in Mangunan are known as the best place to seek sunrise. One of the best can be seen in Panguk Kediwung Hill where the sunrise view will blend perfectly with wavy thick fog.

Pintu Langit Dahromo

As if you are invited by the angels to peek the heaven, Pintu Langit Dahromo will give you different sensation. When the senja comes, the view will be very magnificent. The spot of white door and stairs that heading toward the sky in front is the icon of this place. Some called it as the heaven’s door.

Lepo Waterfall

If you are bored to see the line of pine forest, try visit Lepo waterfall. This hidden waterfall is not high and has natural pool perfect to soak yourself after exploring the pine forest. Lepo is indeed desired to refresh one from the hot day. Kids can play safely with the water in Lepo.

Night in Imogiri

Pinus Pengger

The pine forest in Imogiri is not only can be visited at morning or afternoon, Pinus Pengger is the proof that the pine forest is opened until night. In Pinus Pengger you will see the view of city’s sparkling light of Yogyakarta. Some of the spot is also good to take picture even in the night.

Imogiri Pine Forest Address

The pine forest is in Dlingo Village, Mangunan, Bantul, Yogyakarta. It is before you reach Gunungkidul. The access is easy and has been guide in various tourist attractions around it. For the best option to go to Mangunan, we recommend you go with Pamitran Tours. You can use Jogja Mangunan tour package or else by renting our car plus driver. For you who have already known the way to Imogiri Mangunan can rent our motorbike. Using motorbike to go to pine forest and around is pretty fun and efficient.

Imogiri Pine Forest Entrance Fee

The entrance fee to Mangunan pine Forest is cheap only about Rp 2.500 until Rp 5.000. For the parking fee you will need to pay Rp 3.000 for motorbike and car Rp 10.000.

Imogiri Pine Forest Opening Hours

The imogiri pine forest opening hours is from 6 a.m to 5.30 p.m. For other place to see sunrise and sunset has its own schedule. Some open from 3 a.m in the morning until 9 p.m at night.

Yogyakarta never ending asia. The city Yogyakarta is the main heart from a very interested region. In this district there is so much to find. It is easy to fill up a whole week full with activities / sightseeing in this district.

In the main city center the Sultan is standing central and shows that Yogyakarta is indeed a unique city, as it is the only city where the Sultan still has so much influence. He is even the general of DIY (Daearah Istimewa Yogyakarta / Special Province of Yogyakarta), and you definitely see that back inside town. The Sultan always had a very special role in Yogyakarta and even till now he is still very popular under the inhabitants. Interested places where you can find the more history about Yogyakarta as a Sultan city are Kraton (Sultan Palace), Taman Sari (Waterpalace), Museum Sunobudoyo in the city centre, Makam Imogiri (Sultans Graveyard) in Imogiri and Museum Ullen Sentalu near by the Merapi.

Yogyakarta City Centre has many history and interesting architecture. Next to the Kraton and Taman Sari which are already mentioned, you can find many old colonial buildings which are still in use. If not used as museum such as Benteng Vredeburg it is used as office buildings, for example the main post office or Bank Indonesia.

The main attraction for the Indonesian tourist is Malioboro street. It is a real meeting point where all Indonesians tourists are going for buying their souvenirs. They start making their picture in front of the Malioboro sign at the beginning at the street and then walk all the way down to the end of the street where you can find the well know “pasar Bringharjo”. This is a big market where traditional food, house equipment, body products and clothes are sold. One of Yogyakarta’s biggest export product is Batik. On this market it is possible for everyone to find batik as you can find here batik in many price categories. For a real high quality batik, which is produced on the real traditional way (which is not a mass production), you better can go to one of the many Batik shops you can find all over Yogyakarta.

Back to Malioboro area. Next to souvenirs you can find in this area also the second biggest export product of Yogyakarta: Bakpia. Bakpia is a small round baked “cookie”, traditionally filled with mung beans. In the last years many new companies started to make this popular snack from Yogyakarta, which had as a result that new tastes where invented. By producing new tastes they try to win the hearts of their clients as the competition in this business became really big. One of the new tastes next to the traditional mug been, cheese or chocolate is green tea.

As Malioboro area became such a big meeting place, resulted that around this area you can find many hotels / hostels in different price classes. Keep in mind that it is a really crowded tourist area to stay over. Yogyakarta has many hotels in also in different more quit areas.

Yogyakarta is divided in the north and the south by the railway. The south part of Yogyakarta is known as the more traditional area where you can find more artistic people and is “less” developed as the North part. The Northern part is more known as the student area as you can find here the biggest universities of Yogyakarta. The reason why we say that this part is “more” developed is because here you can find the malls, the cinema’s, the modern clothing shops and also the nightlife such as disco’s and karaoke bars.

Actually you cannot say that Yogyakarta is split up in the north and the south part,  because it exist of 4 regencies; Bantul, Gunung Kidul, Kulon Progo and Sleman Regency. Each regency has its own interesting places which are worth to visit. Unfortunately many tourists just stay in Yogyakarta for visiting the main highlights of this area such as the Borobudur temple, Prambanan Temple, Kraton and Taman Sari, but it has so much more to offer. Next to the 4 regencies, Yogyakarta is also located so strategically, that it is easy to make day trips outside these 4 regencies to for example Solo (which is Yogyakarta’s sister city), Dieng, Pacitan or Semarang.

Yogyakarta has for every person something to offer; colonial history, interesting architecture, exotic temples, stunning viewpoints, beautiful nature, adventure activities, relaxing beaches and much more.