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Bali, one of the thousands of islands constructing the Indonesian Archipelago, has long been renowned as a leading tourist destination in South Pasific or even in the World for its exotic and vibrant art and culture, natural beauties and the hospitality of the people.

Many names have been given to this small island, such as: "Island of thousand temples", "Morning of the World" and many others.

It covers an extent of 5, 632,86 square kilometers consisted of mountain range stretches from the West tip to the East with Mt. Agung as the highest peak. About 70% of the whole extent is agricultural ground while the other 22% consists of forest and only about 8% is left uncultivated.

The people mainly live on agriculture with rice as staple crop, while the others are: coconut, coffee, clove, vanilla, maize, etc.

Bali is also known for its wide variety of tropical fruit like: mango, mandarin citroes, banana, salak, the thornyskUled, grape and many others.

Along with the development of tourism small scale and home industry like handicrafts are also flourishing, offering more job opportunities to the people.

Hinduism is adhered by almost 95% of its population of about 3 millions, specifically blend with Budhism and the Anchestor worship to make it inseparable from everyday life and no opportunity is missed to worship God in an unending series of ceremonies stretches from birth up to after death.

Everyday life of the Balinese merges with social duties and religious obligations while the art reflects an unnoticed integration of environment, religion and community in which individual is apart.

Bali has such a mild and agreeable climate the whole year-round, with average temperature of the day in coastal areas varies from about 28°C (82 F) during May-July to about 30"C (86 F) in March October, while the most pleasant weather is between May to September.

English is widely understood, along with the rapid development of tourism, particularly in major tourist resorts while French, Japanese and other foreign languages are also spoken instead of English.

With regard to the efforts in maintaining and preserving the local culture, the Government has decided to develop such a tourism based on the every aspect of local culture that harmonically woven together with ages-old tradition inspired by Hinduism as major religion.