Tembi Tourism Village

Location

Tembi Village is located in Timbulharjo, Sewon District, Bantul, about 8 km to the South of the Kraton of Yogyakarta.

Access

To get to Tembi Village, take any bus bound for Parangtritis beach from Jl. Parangtritis and get off at kilometre 8.4 on the highway, Tembi is 400 m east of here along a side road.

Overview

Tembi Village history is started from Katemben, a place where the king's children of Majapahit age was playing. Accorded to the story, if a tourist staying at Tembi Village more than seven days he or she will success like the king's children. 

Tembi’s people still keeps their Javanese culture well. Most of them are farmers but some of them also work as craftmen. Handicraft products from Tembi tourism village are very unique and become the most attractive side of Tembi where visitors can find it only in Tembi.  In this village also visitors can see directly the activities of the citizens of this village, mudal of farming, raising up to the traditional arts activity in this village. 

Attractions

This village offers visitors the local people’s daily life such as farming, planting rice, cultivating the rice fields with buffalo, other cultural activities and also handicrafts. 

In addition, in this village there are also cultural house which occupies an area of Tembi 3000 meters square and was established starting in 2007. Buildings are designed with this Java architecture was originally functioned as a center of culture and art. In this place there are many collections of art and cultural objects, ranging from the pavilion building is filled with a set of Javanese gamelan, gallery or museum space, to the library. The museum collection has reached thousands more, from the art equipment, traditional weapons, tools kids games, batik equipment, to kitchen appliances are all ethnically Javanese. 

Accomodations and Facilities

This village prepare some inns. Visitors can stay at D'Omah, near Bamboo Pendopo or stay together at local's resident. All of the buildings have the same limasan shape. If visitors want to get complete facilities , they can choose at D'Omah but if they want to mingle with local people they better choose at local's home.