Education Park - Tanjung Puri

Tanjung puri is the cozy park for everyone who wants to spend their time not only in weekend but also weekday. It is a soothing place in Sidoarjo precisely in jalan lingkar timur, bluru kidul. Many people come to this place like the students and parents who bring their children because tanjung puri not only known as beautiful park. Some of them don’t know that this place also be discovered as education park. When we just stand or see this park from the front of area, there is nothing special spot about education. If you already entered the park, believe that you will be surprised because there are several places that used as learning space. Before you visit this park, make sure that you know about four unexpected things of tanjung puri.

First, the location of this park is hidden because this place almost far away from Sidoarjo city and many people doesn’t know about this park. Sometimes, this place become desolate because only local people in that area who often visited there. For your information that before became a wonderful park, tanjung puri was place of landfills amounted to 2 hectares that full of various rubbish. Many disgusting items which smelly and dirty but DKP Pemkab Sidoarjo changed all negative stigma from other people about this place. They tried harder to modify this place be a beautiful park in Juny 2014 and all of scrap heap was clean because they planted several of plants.

Second, this great place has some beautiful spot that really Instagram-able especially for young people because there are many facilities were built like pendapa, joglo house, gazebo, Islamic prayer room, and fishpond also some place of bird’s cage. Then, this park has two spots of high place and it’s awesome because people can see anything of this space. Moreover, tanjung puri is not just a park that can be enjoyed by its beauty, but everyone can study in this place. There is a space of waste treatment plants in the corner of tanjung puri that often used by students to learn and make observation about plants. They are also be able to learn about how to processing waste into compost and study hydroponic plants.

Third, everybody can come in this place free but they must pay Rp.2.000 for parking and only with low prices everyone can enjoy the nature of this beautiful park. Well, tanjung puri always opens every day and this place has operational time start from 07.00 AM – 09.00 PM in weekday. In Saturday and Sunday open from 07.00 AM – 11.00 PM because there are a lot of people come in this park every weekend. The abundance of lush trees and cool atmosphere make people feel comfortable in this place. Honestly, tanjung puri looks more beautiful when visited at night because there are many colorful lights which decorate this park. The light surrounds the trees and several place that make this park more amazing.

Furthermore, for people who living in Sidoarjo can visit this wonderful park by cars or motorbikes although this wonderful park rather difficult to find but you can search the route with Google maps. The other option that if you don’t want to bother looking for this place, you can open your gadget and download application through Grab or Gojek because it will help you to be easy to arrive at this park. In other hand, if you are from out of the towns better go to Sidoarjo using train then get off at the station precisely in area of Lemahputro. After that, you can order online drivers to take you at tanjung puri.

Overall, tanjung puri is the great choice to be visited by everyone from various walks of life start from youths until adults. Through this place we’re not only enjoy the nature or the beauty of this park but we also can learn anything that connected with education. For instance, we can study about hydroponic plants and learn about how to make compost that will be useful for our environment. Although tanjung puri provide many dump but there are still some people who throw out the trash around this park. So, we should keep this park clean and don’t forget to always throw garbage in the trash can and also take care all of the facilities of tanjung puri.