Purwodadi Botanical Garden

Purwodadi botanical garden located at Purwodadi village, Pasuruan – East Java. It’s 24 km to the north from Malang, 30 km to the west from Pasuruan and 65 km to the south from Surabaya.
•    Transportation
Land
There are two terminals as alternative of departure to the Purwodadi Botanical Garden-LIPI. They are Arjosari, for Malang area and Bungurasih, for Surabaya area.

Air
There are two alternative to the Purwodadi Botanical Garden :
1. Abdurrahman Saleh airport in Malang, just service domestic flight
2. Juanda airport in Surabaya, to service domestic and international flight
The transportation are taxi, travel and bus.
Train
There are several station that can be used of tourism, they are Lawang station and Malang Kota Baru station in Malang and also Gubeng and Semut station in Surabaya. In Lawang station, for Bussiness and Executive class just serve Surabaya-Malang or Malang-Surabaya, whereas for economic class serve all of direction in East Java. For tourism from out of east java can be used Malang Kota Baru station, Gubeng and Semut station in Surabaya.

•    Price
Approximately 4000 IDR

•    Profile
Purwodadi Botanical Garden builded up at 30th January 1941 by Dr. L.G.M. Baas Becking. It is a kind of three branch of Indonesian Botanical Garden (Bogor Botanical Garden) that each of them have a specific function. Two kinds again are Cibodas Botanical Garden and Eka Karya Bali Botanical Garden. The management is under responsibility of  LIPI (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia). the wide of Purwodadi Botanical Garden is about 85 ha, its height 300 m dpl with flat until wavy topography and the temperature between 22° - 32°C.
It have several collection of plants and trees such as orchid, palm, bamboo, banana, and others. Until Mei 2009, it save 10.394 plants specimen, consist of 174 familia, 909 genus, and 1.902 species.