Pasuruan

East Java There are a handful of courses in Surabaya, whose three million people make it Indonesia's second-biggest city, but for much more enjoyable golfing, drive an hour out of town to Pasuruan, home to Finna Golf & Country Club Resort and the Taman Dayu Club.

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From Pasuruan to Tosari, which is a celebrated hill-station and the gateway to the volcanoes of eastern Java, is about twenty-five miles, with an excellent motor road all the way.

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Until half a century ago Pasuruan was counted as one of the four great cities of Java, but with the extension of the railway system throughout the island and the development of the harbor at Surabaya, forty miles away, its importance steadily diminished, though traces of its one-time prosperity are still visible in its fine streets and beautiful houses, most of which, however, are now occupied by Chinese.

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But as suddenly as it came, just as suddenly did the mist lift, revealing the great plain of Pasuruan, a mile below, stretching away, away, until its green was blended with the turquoise of the Java Sea.

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We landed at Pasuruan because it is the port nearest to Bromo, the most famous of the great volcanoes of Eastern Java, but as there is no harbor, only a shallow, unprotected roadstead, it was necessary for the _Negros_ to anchor nearly three miles offshore.

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Until quite recently debarkation at Pasuruan was an extremely uncomfortable and undignified proceeding, the passengers on the infrequent vessels which touch there being carried ashore astride of a rail borne on the shoulders of two natives.

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Governor-General, Count van Limburg Stirum, I landed at Pasuruan, at the eastern extremity of the six-hundred-mile-long island.

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The third species, the violet sugar-cane, called Cana de Batavia, or de Guinea, is certainly indigenous in the island of Java, where it is cultivated in preference in the districts of Japara and Pasuruan.

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The accident took place Saturday afternoon in Pasuruan district when a container truck hit two cars and two motorcycles.

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Sorini Agro Asia, Pasuruan (Pabrik sorbitol terbesar dan pemasok bahan baku pabrik permen).

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