In Yogyakarta, a small city in the mid of Java Island becoming very famous as a place where produce bakpia. Bakpia is meal made of green beans and flavors. The color is brown and white. There's no certain data about how it was came. But, mostly people believe its combination of Chinese and Javanese culture. 

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Making batik on a sheet of cloth is common, but by the craftmen in krebet, small village in pajangan district, bantul,batik is developed further using  wood as the media. Krebet Wood Painting Tourism Village is located at Sendangsari Village, Pajangan subdistrict, Bantul. 

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The Snake Fruit (Salacca zalacca, syn.  S. edulis, Calamus zalacca) tree is native to the Indonesian island of Java and Sumatra where it grows wild. It is given this name because its fruit has skin which looks scaly like a snake’s skin. It is a palm tree in the Arecaceae family and is related to the date palm. It is a very short-stemmed palm, with leaves up to 6 m long; each leaf has a 2 m long spiny petiole and numerous leaflets.However it has a shallow root system and although it loves humidity and rain, it is not tolerant of floods. Salak means tree bark, and the dark brown scaly skin of the snake fruit or salak is similar to the colour of bark.

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The availability of some traditional foods in yogyakarta plays an important role for attracting the tourism.Gudeg,geplak, yangko, bakpia are alredy well known  for the foreigners, but other traditional foods are available and one of them is kipo.Kipo is traditional food which comes from Kotagede-region in Yogyakarta.It is believe that kipo has alredy exist from the time of ancient Mataram kingdom until now. At that time kipo was served as snack foods for the king and His  family, so kipo was an exclusive food and could predict the level of family who consumed it.

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Geplak is a  sweet snack  made by combining equal parts of sugar and coarsely  grated coconut, with the coco-piquant sweet taste of the dish being the major attractive feature.Normally citrus leaves, waluh fruit, and rice flour are also added to the sweet.in equal amounts, Geplak often colored brightly.this snack is mainly produced in Bantul Regency ( Region of Yogyakarta). 

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