Laid-back Cirebon proves that two rival cultures can mingle harmoniously. Located at the border between West Java and Central Java, about 3 hours by train east of Jakarta, the city has a culture and language that reflect a mix of Sundanese and Javanese. One theory suggests that its name comes from the Javanese word caruban, for ‘mixing'. However, according to a more popular theory, the city of 250,000 people was named after the shellfish liv