The greenish shady trees, the long stretch on the beautiful nature scenery, the local hospitality, and the comfortable rural environment are becoming the first intention once you come to Kelor Tourism Village.
Sleman Regency is well known for its tourism villages which offer nature tour package and also local culture hospitality as their main tourist attraction. There are some of tourism village that even became the pioneer in developing tourism village in Yogyakarta.
Realizing the potencies of their village, the local people especially the ones who lived in Merapi slope area compete to establish their village. Other than presenting the local culture of their village, the villagers can also get certain income from this promising business. This also happens in Kelor tourism village.
Administratively, Kelor tourism village is located in Kelor, Bangunkerto, Turi, Sleman, Yogyakarta. The majority of local people of this village work as farmer and breeder. They cultivate also some kind of mushroom. Most of the villagers has salak garden which means the visitors who came to this village can buy salak as much as they want from the local people.
Not only enjoying the rural life in this village and get involved directly in the local activities, the visitors can also have some nature activities. Kelor villages provide many facilities like camping ground area for those who want to enjoy the nature directly, outbound arena that provides several supporting challenging facilities and flying fox.
There is also joglo that’s usually used to present the original culture of Yogyakarta and also used as homestay. The visitors can also visit other tourism village that’s located in the slope of Merapi Mount like Pentingsari tourism village, Brayut Tourism Village, and Srowolan Tourism Village.
One more thing that you shouldn’t miss once you came to Kelor Village is playing and having fun in the river. Here you can enjoy freely the beauty of the clean Gendol river with its crystal clear and refreshing water while having the beauty of the birdsong. This phenomenon could become rare experience if we see the river condition in the city area that’s polluted by many kinds of waste. Here you can enjoy freely playing on the water or washing your face only and having relaxed in the river area. You can also do river tracing.
