What fairly describe about East Java province, is coming from Surabaya. Beside, it is the official capital of the province, Surabaya is also the second largest city after Jakarta. Surabaya is known as The City Of Heroes, the word Surabaya is coming from the worn Sura (Suro in Javanese) and Baya (Boyo in Javanese). Suro is kind of shark and Boyo is crocodile in Javanese term.
As a metropolitan city, Surabaya is a multy-ethnic city, where there are numbers of ethnics and tribe inside like: Javanese, Batak, Sunda, Maduranese, Balinese, Bugis and many more. There are also foreign nationalities include Malaysian, Chinese, Indian, Arab and European. As a metropolis city, Surabaya is already growing in most of the field area, including the tourism objects.
There are some section that divided the tourism in Surabaya, which is about the cultural, historical and modern site of tourism.
Sparkling Surabaya is an application that will show you the magnificent of Surabaya with its tourism objects that worth to be visited. This application can be downloaded for free for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.