Camplong Beach

TOURIST COTTAGE AND CAMPLONG BEACH
Camplong Tourist cottage and Beach are located in Dharma Camplong Village. Further east just 62 km from Bangkalan. Camplong beach is a good place to stop over on your journey in Madusa Island through south road. The Kind of tourism with many facilities given both children amusement places and accommodation in front of inn/cottage along the edge of the beach. Camplong fishing village with colorful sailing boat can be added into your tour. Camplong cottage in this area is recommended to stay at. The distance of the tourist cottage and Camplong Beach from the Regency Capital is about 8 km with roads in good condition. It is a very suitable place for transiting or resting because it is precisely located near the main street to Kamal-Sumenep. When you come to this resort you are able not only to rest but also to enjoy delicious Madurese ‘rujak’ easily found there. There are also provided with other facilities such as children amusement places and swimming pools.

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TYPICAL DANCE OF PAMEKASAN

1. TOPENG GETAK DANCE
It’s a reflection of King Baladewa’s movement with strong character, stiff, open minded and straight in revealing every problem is identical Madurese character.

2. RHONDING DANCE
A unify of drama, movement, music art and a piece of joke illustrates a story of a man who pretending to be an obedient Dutch soldier but as a matter of fact opposing the Dutch government.

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THE ETERNAL FLAME

This tourism object is located at Larangan Tokol village, Tlanakan district, about 4 km of Pamekasan city. It’s very beautiful especially during the night. This place has a big sulphur spring and has many natural flame sources that often are beneficial for national sport events. It is a hilly area with beautiful scenery and surrounded by a fertile fruit producing area.

This tourism object is ever used to flame the fire of PON that held in 10 November Surabaya stadiums. The west side of this place is a hot water pool, about 100 m by foot. The western of this place there is Ki Muko grave. It was said that his stick can make the beautiful fire by stuck to the ground.

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Adipura Park

Adipura Park is located in the heart of the city, faced to the Great Mosque. Adipura Park is surrounded with various kinds of plantations. It is a place for taking a rest in the evening, suitable for family recreation, and enjoy regional foods like Bakso, Fried Rice, Fried Noddle, Sate and Kaldu. In the morning at about 6.00 am till 8.00 am, it is usually full of young people or youth to take a walk around, especially on holiday and Sunday.

Adipura Park is kind of city tour in Sumenep that is Sumenep gardens directly opposite the great mosque. The visitors can spend their tired day here with enjoy the fresh and the green tree around the park. There many merchants here, such as; merchants of foods, toys, accessories, etc.

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JUMIANG BEACH

With its typical landscape, waves dashing against the cliffs add to the beauty of the scene especially at morning. It’s located in Pademawu district, about 12 km south east of Pamekasan. This beach has a beautiful beach with sand and else where it has a high coral cliff on which shady trees grow. It is a nice place to rest and enjoy the scenery. This beach also closes to fisherman village and also as fishing area, because the waves not too big and the wind blows continually.

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Kalianget Port

Kalianget Port connects the islands in Sumenep regency. It is located in Kalianget district, Sumenep regency. Kalianget Port is divided into two parts, on the south side is the Port used for general activity. This Port is used for people who want to cross to Poteran island and the other islands such as Kangean, Sapeken, Masalembu and surrounding islands. Beside that the Very also crosses to Jangkar Port in Situbondo. So if one wants to go to Bali from Sumenep, he can take Very from Kalianget Port to cross to Jangkar Port in Situbondo, which needs more than four hours, and then go on his trip by bus from Situbondo to Banyuwangi and crossing the Bali strait.

The Kalianget Port on the north is specially used by PT. GARAM for sending its salt product to other cities and islands in Indonesia.
If you enjoy marine tourism, try to visit Kalianget Port. You will find many marine activities here. This port used as sea transportation to the Islands belong to Sumenep Islands. If you want to visit Talango Island for having pilgrimage tour in Asta Yusuf grave, you will get the sea transportation in Kalianget Port.

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Fort Sumenep

The Dutch built about 34 forts in Java including those on the islands of Nusa Kambangan and Madura. The Dutch built a number of forts as part of an overall system and resources as well as their political enemies. One of East Java forts is Fort Sumenep built during 18 th century.

This Dutch fort is situated in Kalimo'ok village, Sumenep regency, on the southeast side of Madura about 200 meters north of Marengan river. It is located quiet far from the Kalianget Port as well as the city center, about 3 km from the coast and 7 km from Sumenep palace. This fort was built in 1785 and had a square ground plan with 2500 m2 in large, 150 m in length, 100 m in width and four bastions. At that time, this fort was also equipped with four cannons and housed 25 to 30 European soldiers under the command of a lieutenant. An English source mentioned that in 1811 fort Sumenep was in bad shape, its location was badly chosen, so that in fact it was only use as a depot.

Fort Sumenep was built of bricks and has a square ground plan with two entrances, one on the north side and the other on the south side. On each corner is a bastion. The walls are 5 m thick. One bastion is connected each other with 5 m width of rampart. The surviving segment of the fort include its surrounding wall, two gateways, a jail house and a magazine in the interior.

Now, this fort is converted into a holding ground of the Small Animal Husbandry Development Project. With its new function, on the inside as well as outside of the fort a number of buildings for animal stables and guard houses have been built. Outside the fort, on the west side is Dutch cemetery dating from 1933.

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The Great Mosque

Sumenep Great Mosque is listed in the center of the city. It is stayed in front of Taman Adipura (Adipura Park). It is one of the oldest of the ten mosques in Indonesia. The influence of Islamic, China and Europe style make this building unique and interested, these can be seen on its beautiful and unique gate.

The Mosque was built by Tumenggung Arya Noto Kusumo I who known as Panembahan Sumolo in the year of 1763. The society around always take care the Mosque well.
The visitors always complete their journey to Sumenep with visit this unique Mosque

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Asta Tinggi is a Royal Cemetery located in Kebunagung village on the northwest side of Sumenep city, about two and half kilometers away. Asta Tinggi has two main buildings. The first is on the west side where one can find an old pendopo and three grave dooms. It is a simple pendopo used for holding a meeting in the time ago. While the dooms is placed for grave. The first doom located on the west and content of Prince Pulang Jiwo grave. The second doom located on the north, is a grave of Prince Jimat and the last that listed on the east content the grave of Bindoro Saod and the queen Raden Ayu Tirtonegoro. This old building was built in 1750 in the reign of Bindoro Saod whose titled as Raden Tumenggung Tirtonegoro.

The second building placed on the north side is greater. The entrance is a big and beautiful gate. About 2 meters after it, there is an inscription written in Arabic letter. This building has one great and interesting doom content of the grave of Arya Noto Kusumo I and his descendants. It has Islamic, China and Europe style. It was built in the year of 1763 by Aryo Noto Kusumo I.

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Lombang beach

About 30 km in northwest side of Sumenep, there is a beautiful Lombang beach. It is located in Lombang village, Batang – Batang district. There are many spruce fir farmers that sell their spruce fir bonsai trees. Obviously, Lombang beach bordered by thousands of natural spruce fir (casuarinas) that make the beach feels fresh. This Casuarinas Equisetifolia (Cemara Udang) is naturally growth along Lombang beach and it is very famous in the world, because Casuarinas Equisetifolia can live only in Indonesia and China, so that it feels calm and comfortable.

Lombang beach is interesting tourism object to be promoted to all Indonesia area, even to the world. The position of Lombang beach in south sea of Java Island can facilitated the visitors to see the beautiful sunrise. The other facility around Lombang beach is foods and beverage merchants, such as; Rujak and young coconut ice. The beach is very clean and has clear water with interesting small heap of white sand.

Today, there it had built a transportation facility that connects Lombang beach and Slopeng beach with lime mountain scenery. To reach Lombang beach using public transportation from Bangkal bus station (Sumanep) to Legung village (Batang-Batang). From Legung village, continue to Lombang beach, about 5 km by becak (pedicab). If you using your car through Sumenep – Lombang, you can reach about 30 minutes, through:
1. Sumenep - Gapura - Batang Batang - Legung - Lombang
2. Sumenep - Gapura - Batang-batang - Candi - Lombang
3. Sumenep - Gapura - Longos - Candi - Batang-batang

This Lombang beach tourism object will crowd and splendor in people party or public festival that held a week before Feast holiday.

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Slopeng Beach

Slopeng Beach is a tourism object located about 21 kilometers to the north from the center of Sumenep town. It is located in Slopeng village, Dasuk district. The beauty of this natural tourism object is seen from the cluster of the mountains. Slopeng beach has clean white sand, the beautiful natural scene, the coconut tree, and siwalan tree on the left and right side.

There are sand hill and fisherman canoes here. There are many foreign tourists and domestic visit here, both in holiday or weekend. You can also learn about the characteristic of society around who have the unique characteristic. This tourism is a big potency of Sumenep and Madura government, because the crowded visitors always fill this tourism object.

On Sunday, domestic and foreign tourists crowd this place, while on holidays like "ketupatan", there is a traditional ceremony called "ketupatan event", which presents the traditional art attraction and traditional game competition.

Besides its beautiful nature, Slopeng beach is also the right place to be the arena of water sports activities such as: sailing competition, and water skiing. The tourists can also enjoy the young coconut water and siwalan fruit (ta'al in Madurese language), which become the typical traditional food to be offered.
The tourism facilities in Slopeng Beach are:
1. Resting Place
2. Outdoor stage
3. Hall
4. Bath Room

To reach Slopeng beach, you can reach through coast direction: Lombang – Legung – Slopeng. Or through Sumenep – Slopeng route, which has good road and has many transportation service along the beach.

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Museum & Keraton Sumenep

One hundred meters eastern of Adipura Park is the location of Museum and Keraton (Palace) Sumenep. The old building on the right side of the road is a place for keeping a gold carriage, a gift from Queen of England to Sumenep King. Beside that, it is also used to keep other inheritance, like; old chairs, old table and the other inheritance.

Sumenep Royal Palace (Keraton) is listed in front of Museum. This palace was built in 1762 in the reign of Tumengung Arya Nata Kusumo I. It consists of Gate, Pendopo, Palace itself, old Palace and Sare Park. The Gate is located in the left side of the palace. It is a great gate with Europe style. It is popular called Labang Mesem (Smiling Gate), an entrance way to the palace complex.

Pendopo ( a meeting hall ) is a hall placed in the center of palace complex used for holding a meeting. It is a simple but unique building completed with beautiful style. The building that related pendopo to the palace called Mandiyoso. It is a building about 25 meters long from the palace to the Pendopo.
Sumenep Palace consist of two floors. The first floor has four rooms. Two of them on the right side and the others on the left. The second floor is a a place for keeping the princesses when they would come to a marriage.

On the right side of the palace there is also an old building named Kantor Koneng. In the last time, it was a palace of Bindoro Saod before he handed to his successor. Now on, it is functioned to keep many kinds of old weapons used in long ago, old traditional ceremony tools, old bracelets and rings of people in the long time and the others. On the back of Kantor Koneng there is a building functioned as museum to. It is used for keep the remnants of Sumenep Royal Palace, the uniform of king, some old chairs and beds, and the new one is a skeleton of hawk found on the Kalianget shore in 1977.
On the left side of Pendopo is Sare Park. It is a park with a small swimming pool of which the water come out from base. In the last time, it was used specially for the princesses.

source : SUMENEP TOURISM

Kuta Lombok

Kuta Lombok, about 60km south east of Mataram on the coast is a sleepy surfing resort. To get here, again drive southeast of Mataram along Jl. Tgh Faisal and off to Praya and drive through Penujak. The trip shouldn't take much more than an hour as the road is in excellent condition. A number of resorts along the beach offer bungalow style accommodation and more spacious rooms. Anda Cottages and Restaurant has a peaceful garden setting and clean rooms to offer. The restaurant has a good selection local and international cuisine and serves splendid pizza. The main beach at Kuta is nice place to be during a high tide. The best beaches are near Mawan and Selong Blanak, to get there you need your own car or rent a motorbike. One can take a drive by the loop road through Mawai, Keling, Mangkung, Sengkol and back to Kuta. Despite the road being rough and steep at places. Finally in while in Lombok, one shouldn’t miss out on the interesting artifacts featured in the Museum Nusa Tenggara Barat, Mayura Water Palace and Pura Meru making your Lombok trips a memorable affair.

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Mataram

Mataram in Lombok is the first town in the real sense of the term, which displays a tint of heavy traffic and is simultaneously an open city with lots of space. You can arrive at Mataram through Tiara Mas bus services dropping you off at Mandalika terminal for the rest of the journey you can avail of the Bemo. The hotels like Shanti Puri (JI make accommodation in Mataram easy. Maktal), JI Pancha Usha and JI Pejanggik. You will get post offices and Banks etc in Ampenan and Mataram. The banks of BCA Bank and Bank Danamon have branches on JI. Sriwijiya. You will find cheap Internet services at JI. Pancha Usaha. Mataram Mall is a large supermarket to go shopping. The Suharti Sate House on JI provides the taste of the land as you look for a place to eat. A bemo ride around the city is the best way of domestic conveyance in Mataram.

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Kuta Beach

Kuta Beach displays a splendid show of white sand and turquoise sea, and is still an under developed region despite the plans for 5star hotels and resorts. This beach mostly comes alive with Nyale fishing festival in February and March and August as well, and it remains quiet and marooned the rest of the year. Several hotels like Kuta Indah Hotel and Segara Anak Cottages provide with money changing facilities. Regarding budget hotels it’s customary to consider the safety and privacy issues. Share a nice leisurely time with your family as you go for surfing activities in the beaches of Kuta. In the postal agency of Wisma Segara Anak you can also book your tickets for Perama Shuttle Buses. For accommodations, check out the best hotels in the island like, Segara Anak, Anda Cottages, Sekar Kuning Bungalows, Putri Mandalika Homestay, Lamancha Homestay, MatahariInn. These hotels mostly provide the regular rooming and lodging facilities and in certain cases one can bargain for discount prices. You can try out the Rinjani Agung Beach Bungalows and Café Riviera for local cuisine and good quality sea food. Few other hotels in Kuta are, The Novotel Coralia, Tastura Boutique Resort, Kuta Indah Hotel and Restaurant, Cockato Kuta-Bungalows and Restaurants, Pondok Sekar Kuning Cottages & Restaurants.

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Gili

Gili Islands being a popular destination in Indonesia is located to the northwestern part of Lombok features 3 mini coral-fringed islands namely Gili Air, Gili Meno, and Gili Trawangan. All these islands have splendid white sandy beaches, clear water and coral reefs displaying the playful colored fishes as a key source of attraction. They are just the perfect place for snorkeling and trying out other ventures and sports. Gili Trawangan being the largest among the 3 islands boasts of the most number of visitors and is reputed as the party island. Each island has shops, hotels and similar agencies to help you go for money change. The travel agency of Perama has its branch in Gili Trawangan and has minor outlets in Gili Air and Gili Meno. These islands have failed to initiate the facilities of police and patrolling. Crime reporting is made either in the Island of Kepala or in the police station of the mainland. The southwest hills of Trawangan offer a nice spot for sunset viewing, and Gili Meno’s Bird Park is for bird watchers. In Gili Trawangan you can try out the Blue Marlin agency & in Gili Air you can approach the Reefseekers.

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Lombok

The island of Lombok nestled in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia, falls to the East of Bali Island and due to its increasing popularity, Lombok is now becoming easier to access for tourists either by air or by sea. Lombok with its equatorial climate and colorful multi-ethnic cultural ambience and a wide variety of tourist sites and attractions nowadays is becoming a better choice for a holiday getaway compared to the other regular choices of tourist destinations.

Tourism in Lombok as one whole agency serves its guests to make their stay in Lombok a memorable affair. If you want to reach Lombok by air then the flights operating for this purpose are Merpati, Air Mark, Lion Air, Garuda, Silk Air, and the airport at your service are Selaparang Airport. These flights mostly operate from Mataram, Sumbawa, Surabaya, Jakarta and Yogyakarta, and the nearby hotels are Hotel Lombok, Raya, Mataram, Hotel Shahid Legi, Mataram. In case of reaching Lombok by sea one can comfortably avail of the ferry rides operating from Lombok’s Lembar Harbor.

The other regular ferries operate between Poto, Tano, Sumbawa, and Labuhan Lombok while the Modern passenger catamarans render a faster service from Bali. Mabua Express operates regularly between Benoa and Lembar harbor, while Bounty Cruises travel between Benoa Harbor, Senggigi and Gili Meno. One can contact Pelni agency for bookings on boat rides in Indonesia and Lombok etc.The various tourist sites in Lombok consist of Senggigi, Gili Islands, Rinjani National Park, Kuta & South Lombok, Mataram, Tetabatu, Sukarara, Penujak, Kuta Lombok.

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Senggigi

Senggigi the most developed area for promotion of tourism draws a good comparison with Bali’s Kuta, and set over numerous glamorous bays, this place offers its guests with the right ingredients of restaurants, bars, discotheques, and grand hotel accommodations for tourists to stay. Normally one finds all sorts of accommodation facilities in Senggigi starting from 5 star hotels to cheap and budget hotels.

Few of the prominent names in this realm are, The Mascot Beach Cottages, Raja’s Bungalows, Ray Hotel, Sonya Homestay, Lina Hotel, Hotel Elen, Batu Bolong Cottages, Atithi Sanggraha Beach Bungalows and lastly Pondok Stiti Hawa. These hotels mostly offer you with the regular amenities and room facilities Inclusive of all these most of these hotels come with restaurants serving the best international cuisine and also the regular local gourmets. Not only international cuisine, Senggigi equally specializes in restaurants offering local delectable.

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Tetebatu

Tetebatu in Lombok is a town on the lower slopes of Mt Rinjani. Once you are headed from Mataram to JI. Penjanggik to Pomotong and finally a drive to Rungkang and Kotaraja and you are in Tetebatu. While in Tetebatu one need not look too much for accommodation as the hotels like, Soedjono, and Green Orry provide you with the best of the rooming amenities and grand restaurants, great food and the extra perks like swimming pool and superiorly spacious rooms. The restaurant in Soedjono offering quality food is always at your service as food service in Tetebatu is limited. Senaru on the Northern of Rinjani is a more popular base for trekking. The other attraction in Tetebatu is Air Tejun Jukat, which is a large waterfall. Tobacco hanging and drying houses and the ‘monkey forest’ are other two major attractions in the area.

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Rinjani National Park

Rinjani National Park in the Mt Rinjani is a part of the forested slopes on Rinjani which is also the second largest volcano peak in Indonesia. The locals of Lombok mostly treat the volcanic site as a sacred place and Segara Anak is considered to be a pilgrimage and the hot springs here are famous. Around 20 villages surround Rinjani National Park while Senaru and Sembalun provide the main access to the national park from north and east. The community based activities are focused on the Rinjani trek center as it personifies the partnership of the national park, tourism industry, and the local communities amalgamated so as to maintain and protect the Rinjani environment. For bookings and information one can check out the travel agencies in Lombok.

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Sambal Matah is one of typical sauce from Bali

Sanbal Matah is one of the favorite sauces for Balinese, especially for the one who likes spicy food. Balinese food is kind of spicy food compare than other food in Indonesia.

Sambal Matah has a very tempting taste for Balinese. It is normally served to accompany grilled chicken as they match each other. Whenever we talk about grilled chicken (ayam panggang) it is automatically appear in mind of Balinese people to have it together with Sambal Matah.

Sambal Matah is very easy to prepare and takes 5 minutes until its ready to eat. Sambal Matah means fresh chili sauce that is made of chili pepper, shallot, lemon grass, shrimp paste, and dash of coconut oil. All the ingredients sliced and chopped together and then mixed and added a dash of coconut oil.

In all the cooking lesson will be mentioned the typical sambal from Bali is Sambal Matah. Cooking lesson is also one of the ways to experience real Bali from the culinary side.

Cooking lesson normally cost you around thirty dollars per person, where you will learn about the spices and herbs that Balinese normally add in the cooking. At the end of the lesson you will have a chance to try what you have cooked and find out whether the Balinese food is fit you taste and also to know if you good in cooking or not.

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Local Bali Food

Bali–> Food is not just suckling pig and rice alone.When you are going on a holiday in Bali you don’t have to worry about eating rice three times a day like the Balinese local people do. With the influence of expatriates in Bali you can buy about anything now, even typical products from your own country.Restaurants, owned by foreigners, offer a large selection of top cuisine that will have you mouth water by the time you finish checking out the menu. Dishes from every corner of the world are presented, some mixed with an Indonesian or Balinese touch in order to create a sensational new twist.

Fortunately the authentic traditional Balinese and Indonesian food is still very much present on the menu in every restaurant, whether it’s owned by foreigners or by the Balinese themselves. But I must admit; the best places for Bali food are the places where you’ll find the Balinese crowd eating as well. So in this case: do as the locals do. For the real die hard cultural experience you can stroll over to any corner of the street where you will find someone selling all kinds of dishes on the spot. In the wooden crate tied on to the back of his bike, or in the little restaurant on wheels the seller manages to create a real feast with various types of dishes and rice.

You can either eat it on the spot or have it wrapped up in banana leave for you to take home. You will mostly find these food sellers early in the morning, when the Balinese grab a bite just before work starts or around lunch time along any main road and even on Kuta and Legian beach. But if this is somewhat too much for you (which I totally understand…you don’t want to get the famous “Bali Belly” on your holiday) there are other options as well. There are food Warungs (little Indonesian shops) that sell local delights at a local price. And to stay on the safe side, there are even Warungs where the menu is in English, so these are the places where it can get really crowded with tourists.

In these types of restaurants you can either choose from the menu or walk over to the counter where dozens of dishes are displayed ranging from fish-, chicken-, and pork dishes, tofu and tempe prepared in all kinds of styles and vegetables that are often cooked in a creamy coconut sauce that is just great with white rice or nasi goreng (fried rice). You can try everything you want because at the end you will pay for each dish separately. So you can decide yourself how much you want…or can resist. Great places to try this warung-way of eating are in Warung Makan in Poppies II Kuta and in Warung Ocha at Jalan Raya Seminyak.

These local Bali restaurants are influenced by the other Indonesian islands as well. So besides Bali food you can also discover dishes from the other islands as well.

A real Balinese dish is the Satay Lilit, which is mainly made out of snapper filet, prawns, coconut and various kinds of herbs. Many restaurants offer this dish so when you see it on the menu it is definitely worth the try.

Another typical Balinese dish you’ll often find on the menu is Bebek Betutu which is roasted duck in banana leaves. Many restaurants offer this on their menu however it takes a couple of hours to prepare so it is better to order it a day in advance.

But if you happen to be in Ubud head over to ‘Dirty Duck’ which serves this dish every day as it is their specialty.

But what I think is the most famous Balinese dish is Babi Guling, which is roasted suckling pig prepared together with a long list of spices. If you talk with any Balinese about food they are likely to ask if you have tasted Babi Guling already.

If this is not the case yet they will immediately recommend you to go to Ibu Oka in Ubud. She is definitely the most famous person who makes this dish. So go for it…

I could just go on and on about the Indonesian and Balinese food. Just as its culture their cuisine is just as rich. So while spending time in Bali you should definitely grab the opportunity to try their delicious food. “Selamat Makan”

source : Travelhouseuk’s Travel Blog

Wedding Destination in Bali

To hold your precious wedding ceremony in the paradise island of Bali can be a good choice. With its exquisite natural beauties, rich culture, excellent accommodations and wedding facilities as well as many exciting indoor and outdoor activities, Bali provides endless choices of venues, styles, and activities to enliven your wedding ceremony. You can set up your wedding ceremony on the beach with beautiful sunsets as background, or high above the cliff overlooking the vast Indian Ocean or amidst Bali’s lush emerald-green rice terraces, or on the shore of lake with the background of majestic mountain and temple or maybe simply on a lovely garden under clear blue skies and warm tropical breezes.

Bali offers varieties of outdoor venues for a romantic wedding ceremony. For the couple who want a quiet affair with a few close friends and family, Bali has dozen of artistically-designed chapels which are set up on strategic spots with premium quality views.

A wedding in Bali can also be automatically incorporated into the wedding trip, a honeymoon on the island of God right after your wedding ceremony. There is a lot to see and do in Bali. Enjoying the beauties of the island such as the beautifull nature and sunset Tanah Lot Tourism Object, majestic Mount Agung, beautiful lakes of Bedugul area, spectacular cliffs of Uluwatu, quiet hideaway in Pemuteran and Amed or throbbing nightlife and white sand beaches of Kuta; or you can organize outdoor activities such as white water rafting, mountain biking, bungee jumping, elephant trekking, bird watching, etc.

As for accommodation, Bali offers wide range of hotel and villa, from budget to the fabulous 5 star resorts of the Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Hilton and Novotel, and also some of the most luxurious and beautiful private villas in the world. In short, Bali is a perfect place for your wedding and honeymoon, all in one package.

source : tanahlot.net

Giant Kites Show

Playing kite is very popular in younger generation, because of the power and sense of friendship in which be formed kite player group (sekaa layangan). Now days, playing kite is expending, children and younger boy played this kite as hobbies, besides as culture preservation. The meaning of playing kite full of religious valve and society life of Balinese people, and this can we see from the symbol of "Sang Hyang Rare Angon" as the god of wind. It made a special interesting for the tourist, as an attraction to Tanah Lot especially and Bali generally. Regarding of the "Tanah Lot Kites festival 2007" we are honored to invite you to visit this event and spend memorable three days to enjoy the festival with Tanah Lot temple backgrounds one of famous destination in the islands of paradise, Bali.

The theme of Tanah Lot Kites Festival 2007 is "Flying for Peace" and with new brand "Giant Kites Show", and this festival will take place three days.

Tanah Lot Kites Festival will be opened with artistic performance "Okokan and Tektekan 1500" dancer that will showed by 1500 dancer.

Registration Kites : August 14^th to September 20^th, 2007

Day / Date : September 28^th to September 30^th, 2007
Venue : Tanah Lot Bali

The type of kites, as follow :

Bebean

It have the form of fish, as a symbol of property, in which fish is important for our life either for ceremony or daily needed for our meal, and there are abundant in our surrounding either at the sea, river, on the lake even the rice field.

Janggan

It’s a special kite, with a long tail about 200m and it has a special colour : red, black, white (Tri Datu), in Hindu religions as a symbol of “Benawang Nala/Naga Besuki “ which is mean “ the equilibrium of the universe”.

Pecukan

This kite has form like a carved, as a symbol of positive and negative ( good and bad ) but they should be needed each other and together making unity forever.

New Creation

It has a special form, which is adjust to the owner to developing their idea, creativity, and innovation

source : tanahlot.net

"Ngaben Massal" at Beraban Village

Ngaben is one of devoting ceremony that's called "Pitra Yadnya". Ngaben is ceremony based on the trust on Hindu people with aim to return the elements that creating the harsh body of human being to its provenance. There is two steps of Ngaben :

1. Returning the harsh body of human being it's called "Stula Sarira" to five elements that's called "Panca Maha Butha"

2. Returning the elements which implied soul (in Bali referred as Atma) that stayed in the harsh body of human being to its provenance that is Panca Maha Butha (in Hindu people referred as Memukur)

Ngaben can be done at the moment of someone die or after someone have been buried. Such as at Beraban village, Ngaben Massal will be held on September 7^th, 2007.

This ceremony can be follow by entire society at Beraban village who wants to participate. Based on that situation, this ceremony called "Ngaben Massal" because followed by entire society that is coming from entire Beraban Village. Below are the activities during the ceremony take place :

Pemuput (Leader of Ceremony) : Ida Pedanda Putra Gede Keniten Griya Taman Blayu

Genah (Place) : Bale Wantilan Serba Guna, Beraban Village

Activities :

A. Ngaben : September 7^th, 2007

B. Nyekah : September 19^th, 2007

C. Nebusin : September 22^th, 2007

D. Ngantukan : September 23^th, 2007

Details Ceremony :

No	Activities	Date	Leader of Ceremony
1	Ngaturang Pekeling Pengabenan Lan Nyekah	August 15th, 2007	Committee and Society
2	Ngawitin Mekarya Wewangunan	August 16th, 2007	Pemangku Trikahyangan
3	Ngambe Wewangunan	August 21th, 2007	Pemangku
4	Ngawit Nyamuh Lan Metanding	August 22th, 2007	Dayu Tukang, Penyerati
5	Ngungkab Lawang	September 2nd, 2007	Griya Siwa
6	Ngajum Pengadegan Sawo	September 3rd, 2007	Pemangku, Penyerati
7	Mintonin Pengadegan Sawo, Nebusin ke Pura Dalem Lan Prajapati, Ngentenin	September 4th, 2007	Ida Pedanda, Pemangku, Griya Siwa
8	Pebersihan, Ngeringkes, Narpana Saji, Nunas Toya Penembak	September 6th, 2007	Ida Pedanda, Pemangku, Penyerati
9	Pelebon ke Setra	September 7th, 2007	Banjar Adat Pasti, Ida Pedanda Siwa
10	Nglamiji lan Mecaru ring Bangsal muah Mecaru ring Kantor Desa	September 10th, 2007	Pemangku Trikahyangan
11	Mekekelud ring Bangsal, Nebusin ring Campuan	September 14th, 2007	Committee, Pemangku
12	Nunas Nama, Ngangget Don Bingin	September 17th, 2007	Ida Pedanda, Pemangku, Committee
13	Ngajum Puspalingga	September 18th, 2007	Pemangku
14	Puspalingga tedun ke Beji Tabah, Pucak Upacara Nyekah, Nganyut ke Segara	September 19th, 2007	Pemangku, Ida Pedanda, Committee
15	Nebusin ke Segara Nyanyi	September 22th, 2007	Pemangku, Committee, Society

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Mepamit Ngelinggihan ring Merajan suang-suang

September 23th, 2007

Pemangku, Committee, Society

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