Solo

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Solo the short name for Surakarta, is a major city in Central Java, Indonesia. Together with Yogyakarta, these two cities are heirs of the Mataram kingdom that was split in 1755.

	solo Travel Guide : 1 Understand 2 Get in 2.1 By plane 2.2 By bus 2.3 By train 3 Get around 3.1 By taxi 3.2 By horse cart 4 See 5 Do 6 Buy 7 Eat 8 Drink 9 Sleep 9.1 Mid-range 10 Contact 11 Get out 12 External links

Understand

Solo lies some 100 kilometers south of Semarang and some 60 kilometers east of Yogyakarta. As the 'twin' sister of Yogyakarta, this city looks much like the later. But because Solo is not a provincial capital, this city has preserved much of its Javanese character. This also means that Solo is less touristical than Yogyakarta

Today's Solo is a bustling economic center of some 800,000 (with the suburbs). It is in close proximity to the temples of Prambanan. The town is a center of art and education, offers some good shopping and has some range of tourist facilities.

Get in

By plane

Solo's Adisumarmo International Airport (SOC), 10 km north of town, is a small airport. There are 8 flights a day to Jakarta. The "international" part of the name comes from Silk Air's direct services to Singapore. Malaysia's low cost airline Air Asia now flies daily to Kuala Lumpur.

By bus

The main bus station is actually not in Solo city itself, but in Kartasura, some 12 kilometers west of the center. There are regular services throughout the island, including Jakarta (10 hours) and Surabaya (5 hours).

There is however also a bus terminal in the city itself in Terminal Tirtonadi.

By train

Express trains to Jakarta take around 9 hours in contrast with the ordinary trains which take around 16 hours. Express trains to Surabaya take around 4 hours. The central station is the Stasiun Balapan. The express train's ticket to Jakarta costs about Rp. 200,000.

Get around

By taxi

By horse cart

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Mid-range

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