When Go to Mangunan Fruit Garden (Bantul, Yogyakarta)

Mangunan Fruit Garden

Yogyakarta is a very nice city for travelling, Yogyakarta has many tourism places, One of them is nature tourism Mangunan Fruit Garden. Mangunan Fruit Garden is a mountainous area that is used for the cultivation of various kinds of fruits. This garden is located in Mangunan Village, Dlingo District, Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta with a height of about 150-200 meters above sea level. The altitude makes this region has cool air and thousand mountain views.

Sunrise View

The visitors can enjoy a very beautiful spot of the Fruit Garden Mangunan which is Parangritis Beach in the south, views of Bantul City in the west and the beauty of the very steep Oya river. Monkey populations that are also found in this location can become one of the tourism potentials.

The visitors Mangunan Fruit Garden can observe a variety of fruits arranged neatly according to the conditions of the hill slopes of Mangunan hill such as durian, mango, rambutan, watery guava, orange, hamlet, and mangosteen, there are also other fruits which are relative small amount such as matoa, longan, guava, jackfruit and starfruit. Mangunan Fruit Garden have many kind of plants there are teak, king grass plants, living fences form likes snake fruit, magium, pine, to increase the coolness and then the visitors can also see the process of breeding cows.

besides that, this place also offers outbound facilities such as flying fox, rocking bridge, campsite, lodging, reflying, meeting room, children's swimming pool, plant nursery learning land, learning to make fertilizer, parking lot, entrance window, toilet, room versatile and hawkers selling various snacks and drinks. However, with the facilities offered for the entrance fee, visitors only need to pay a levy of Rp. 5,000.00 and free for parking fees.

The best time to visit the Mangunan Fruit Garden is in the morning and evening. In the morning, visitors can enjoy the view of the sunrise and see a line of the mountains covered by clouds with cool morning dew on leaves of the trees. Then in the afternoon, visitors can enjoy the sunset view above the mountains.

The Mountains covered by the fog in the morning

In addition, the route to the location is quite good with the condition of the paved road with curves and sharp inclines typical of mountain areas.

This is route from Giwangan Terminal, if you want going to Mangunan Fruit Garden :

From the Giwangan terminal continue south past the East Imogiri road
From East Imogiri road go straight until the T-junction
From the T-junction turn left ( to east ) until you find a T-junction with a signboard. Where is the Mangunan Fruit Garden turns right ( to south ).
From T-junction continue to follow the next signposts. After the last sign you can find the Mangunan Fruit Garden

If you want come here, please contact the Agriculture and Forestry Office of Bantul Regency on the East Ring Road, Manding, Bantul, Yogyakarta at (0274) 6460182/6460236.