Archive for February, 2007
Kehen Temple is one of ancients temples in Bali where were housed three old bronze-made manuscripts. This temple is worshipped by the people around of the village. The ceremony takes place on ‘Buda Kliwon Shinta’ where Ngusaba ceremony is held one in a three years period, which is fall on ‘Purnama Kelima’ around November This place can be reached by any mode of transports through a well keptashalted road, or a short walk from Sasana Budaya Giri Kusuma Cultural Hall. The word “Kehen is drived from ‘Keren”meaning flame. Formerly, it was known as “Hyang Api’ Kehen Temple is located on the southern slope of Bangli Hill about 2 kms from the town. It is really an historical temple worth visiting with a long plight of steps pointing down to the south.
February 27th, 2007
Pucak Penulisan Temple is situated at 1745 meters above sea level about 3 kms from Kintamani, or 30 kms from the capital town of Bangli regency, on the east side of the road leading to Denpasar or Singaraja. Based on the old-Balinese manuscripts, it was told that Bukit Penulisan is also called Bukit Tunggal since its location is separated from the chain of mountains, stretching along from west to east, dividing Bali island into 2 parts, the northern and southern Bali.
Around IX century on the peak of this Bukit Penulisan, the temple of Tegeh Koripan was constructed which is commonly called Pura Pucak Penulisan because it is located at the peak of Penulisan Hill. The temple of Puncak Penulisan, beside its location on a hill, composed of several terraces, even up to 11 terraces. These terraces reveal the continuation of the pyramidal from of cultural aspects of the megalithic age.
Its is also a complexes respectively called Pura Danu and Pura Taman Danu, located on the third called Pura Ratu Penyarikan, located on the 4th terrace also on the west part of the temple. The 4th complex, Pura Ratu Daha Tua, is located at the west side on the 1611 terrace. The last or the fifth complex is Pura Panarajon situated on the eastside of the peak. This complex is the highest one compared to the four former complexes. Inside of this temple complex, visitors can find stone made statues and are believed to be derived from olden Balinese period as the remains of the megalithic culture.
Source : www.banglitourism.banglikab.go.id
February 27th, 2007
Bali Beach Villas at Tejakula is an environmentally- and culturally-sensitive vacation property, located on beautiful black sand beaches with stunning views of Gunung (Mount) Batur and Gunung Rinjani. The beach is generally wide and gently sloping—perfect for walking or simply relaxing in the surf. The climate, while tropical, is drier and has more days of sunshine than the southern parts of the island, which are more heavily populated and crowded with tourists.
The nearby ancient village of Tejakula is known as the cultural center of the north part of the island because of the variety the arts and dance practiced there. During your stay you may wander through the village, meeting the warm & friendly local people in the marketplace, and observing skilled artisans at work. Unlike the cities and villages in the south, Tejakula has been little touched by tourism and still retains the flavor of the Bali of times past.
Bali, unlike other islands of the Indonesian archipelago, practices a form of Hinduism that shapes the daily lives of its people, and provides you with many opportunities for observing ceremony and religious rites. Our guests are welcome to enjoy this rich heritage of cultural traditions.
We invite you to stay with us in one of our serenely beautiful seaside villas, experience the local Balinese culture and its authentic cuisine…..and relax and enjoy the exceptional service of our warm and friendly staff. Don’t miss the opportunity to give yourself and your loved ones the vacation of a lifetime….at Bali Beach Villas at Tejakula.
Source: balibeachrentals.com
February 26th, 2007
Spending a nice holiday on the island of Paradise is full of
endless experience. This tiny island has so many treasures and
challenging adventure to explore. See the unique rice terraces
in Tegalalang or Jatiluwih with its serenity and beauty on the
rice fields. Or follow and inhale fresh air along the rapid on
the river with a wide choice of different rapid. Another
activity you will enjoy is an original “shopping adventure”
to hunt souvenirs and the like in the art market.
One of art markets that are already popular among visitors is
Sukawati art market. Sukawati road-facing market located in
the Gianyar Regency has a strategic position as it is passed
through during the tour to some destinations to the east.
Sukawati art market is close to the village of Celuk, the
center of gold & silversmiths. You can drop in after watching
barong and kris dance performance in the morning. It can be
accessed through bemo transport, tour bus or taxi.
It is just like a myriad of art shops that offers wide range
of products. Simply one stop-shopping. Many items sold in Kuta
or other areas originate from here and are considerably
cheaper if bought here. One outlet may provide more than one
item, like garments, souvenirs, paintings (unframed),
basketry, colorful kites and so on.
Buying giveaways to commemorate the holiday has to be a must.
So take advantage the holiday time to find out something
memorable on the art market of Sukawati. This market is very
unique as it is already open in the early morning and visited
by both domestic and foreign visitors. It is very close to
other destinations in the Gianyar Regency.
A good place to explore the shopping experience in a natural
way, get in touch with common people and see how the locals go
about the art of negotiation. Yes, shopping is also an art of
experience. On the one hand, you may enjoy many kinds of art
products all in one spot. It reflects the diversity of local
art and crafts and the creativity of its people.
You will get a new experience in the ‘art of buying’. You must
bargain the price eventhough the vendor offers you a “morning
price.” Meaning especially low, to start off the trading day
with a few sales already and make the day a successful one.
It does not mean you have to accept it as it is, it’s
not a fixed price. If you are good at bargaining you will get
the best price you can afford and the vendor keeps “smiling
and thanking you”. If they don’t smile anymore, you know his
cost is higher than your offer. Good at bargaining is a bit
more than insisting on a price. You need to provide a logical
reason why your offer is so low and still should be accepted.
Source: www.bali1.com
February 20th, 2007
Bali’s best-known Bali Aga village (pop. 600) nestles under a precipitous crater wall on the eastern shore of Lake Batur. You can walk to Trunyan from Buahan or travel by boat across the lake from Toya Bungkah, taking a motorized boat or canoe from Kedisan. Boats seating seven people leave when full from Kedisan’s pier and cost Rp5100 per person; charter boats cost Rp36,000-43,000 for a maximum of seven people.
The Bali Aga are the island’s oldest inhabitants, aboriginals who lived here long before the Majapahit invasion in the 14th century. The first direct evidence of Indic influence on Bali dates from an early copper plate, inscribed A.D. 882-914, referring to the founding of a temple to Batara Da Tonta in Trunyan. His title, Batara, indicates that the Bali Aga’s most important ancestor figure was incorporated into the Hindu religion.
Legend has it the village was established on the spot where an ancient taru menyan tree stood-thus the town’s name. It is said that in ancient times the lake goddess Dewi Danu was lured down from heaven by the lovely scent of this tree. The taru menyan is the lair of underworld spirits distracted only by corpses, which may explain the people’s practice of neither burying nor cremating the dead.
Today Trunyan is a real tourist trap, and you may not get to experience much more than villagers clamoring for money. Still, the setting is spectacular-green mountain backdrop and deep blue lake, mist-shrouded Gunung Batur rising up dramatically on the other side. A path from Trunyan zigzags up the inside face of the crater wall on the southeast slope of Gunung Abang.
Culturally and ethnically outside the mainstream, Trunyan provides evidence of how Bali’s earliest people lived. The inbred inhabitants are mostly fishermen, their harsh expressions mirroring a harsh life. Women wearing warm red kain pound padi in giant stone mortars. Although they plant cabbage, onions, and corn in plots near the lakeshore, the Bali Aga have no rice fields. Since ancient times they’ve relied on begging to supplement their meager diet. Much of the village-houses, walls, alleyways-has been cut crudely out of volcanic rock. Without trees and gardens, their homes present a bleak impression, unlike any other village on Bali. Modern Indonesia is now making heavy inroads, with the construction of new brick, concrete, and zinc-roofed buildings. Except for a massive 1,100-year-old milkwood tree in the center of the village, there’s little sense any longer of Trunyan being an old village. The few traditional architectural oddities include special boys’ and girls’ clubhouses (bale truna and bale daha), a pavilion where married women meet (bale loh), and a great wooden ferris wheel put in motion during ceremonial occasions. The giant contraption is revolved by foot power. Trunyan’s bale agung, where married men sit in council, is one of the largest traditional buildings on Bali.
In contrast to the Bali Aga village of Tengenan with its numerous craftspeople, old interesting buildings, and streets where you are free to stroll and look, visitors to Trunyan are not made to feel welcome. Except for the temple, which seems to take up half the village, you don’t really see the ancient ways of the Bali Aga, and there are a lot of hustlers around. A guide will attach himself to you and expect a fee of at least Rp5000. Most visitors just get out of the boat, pay Rp5000 for stepping ashore, go up to a temple (also Rp5000) which Westerners are not allowed to enter, then march right back down to the boat again for a trip to the cemetery (another Rp5000) in Kuburan which is around a rocky point a little north of Trunyan and only accessible by boat.
Source : www.pinehbalitours.com
February 20th, 2007
After Agung, Batur is the most sacred mountain on Bali. Most often the mountain’s only sign of life is an occasional wisp of smoke that drifts across its lava-blackened slopes. But when this 1,717-meter volcano erupts, it glows red, bellows, and throws out rocks and showers of volcanic debris. If you arrive in Penelokan at night, you’ll awaken to an unforgettable sight. The next morning, the mist will lift from the shining lake and roll across the crater like a mammoth white and gray curtain. When the weather is clear there are also spectacular views of Gunung Batur’s smoking cone.
Sitting in the middle of an old volcanic basin inside a gigantic caldera, smoldering Gunung Batur rises 686 meters above Lake Batur. The crescent-shaped lake takes up about one-third of the basin’s total area. Measuring 13.8 km by 11 km, this is one of the largest and most beautiful calderas in the world. The crater’s outer walls, about 30,000 years old, range from 1,267 meters to 2,153 meters above sea level. There are actually two calderas; the floor of one lies 120-300 meters lower than the floor of the other. Plan on a full day to explore both of them.
Like Krakatoa, Batur was initially formed in the shape of a sharply pointed cone over 3,500 meters above sea level. A terrific explosion blew the point off the cone, atomized a large portion of the volcano, and collapsed the bulk of the mountain into the magma chamber which was emptied by the initial cataclysm.
Before the present caldera was born, Penelokan and Kintamani lay on the western slope of the “first” Gunung Batur. Now Penelokan and Kintamani are spread out along the top of the caldera’s outer crater rim. The present younger, smaller volcano—of the effusive rather than explosive type—gradually grew out of the crater floor over a period of hundreds of thousands of years.
Batur erupted in 1917, destroying 65,000 homes, 2,500 temples, and 1,372 people. Its last major eruption was in 1926, when the village below was covered in lava. In 1959 a crack in the lakebed emitted poisonous gases, coloring the water green and killing all the fish. There was further activity in 1963 during the Gunung Agung catastrophe, when lava spilled down Batur’s southeastern flank. The lava flows from those eruptions can still be seen beside the lake. In August 1994, one of Batur’s lower peaks began belching smoke and debris. In Kedisan you could hear the mountain rumble, and from any vantage point the volcano glowed red. Climbers were prohibited from ascending the peak and people all over Bali complained of throat ailments, coughing, and congestion—Batur belched NO3 and sulphuric acid up to 450 times a day.
You can attempt the climb from many different directions. As a rule, always take the widest, most obvious and worn path, not necessarily the most direct.
The easiest approach is from the northwest, beginning at Toya Mampeh. This climb, by way of the volcano’s back door, can also begin from the west at Kintamani. Guides here ask Rp500,000 for one to two people plus around Rp50,000 for each additional person. If you start on the path from Puri Astina at 06:30, you can climb the volcano, rest in the hot springs, and grab a bemo back to Kintamani by Rp50,000 or 60,000. You can also hire horses in Kintamani, more difficult to arrange in Penelokan, Kedisan, or Toya Bungkah.
It’s also possible to ascend the volcano directly from Kedisan, though this is an unrelentingly steep climb. Simply walk 20 minutes out of town in the direction of the mountain and follow signs on the left directing you to the trail. Don’t be alarmed when the trail branches off; they all lead to the same place. Just keep walking uphill.
You can also start from the northeast. Drive or walk seven km on the good road west from Toya Bungkah to Toya Mampeh; on the way climb up through the lava fields on the volcano’s northern side, a product of a 1974 eruption. This new track, circling the base of Gunung Batur, allows vehicles to ascend to within a 30-minute walk of the mountain’s largest and highest crater, Batur I. To get there from Toya Bungkah, take the road northeast toward Songan, then turn left after about three km. Follow this road for about two km to a track on the left, which then climbs another two km to a parking area at Serongga.
One of two “tourist” approaches starts from Pura Jati. In this lakeside village, about three km southwest of Toya Bungkah, a big sign marks the start of the trail. Two shadeless hours up and 1.5 hours down. Or go up from Pura Jati but descend via Toya Bungkah, passing through a beautiful pine forest. As your reward, soak in the air panas in Toya Bungkah.
The hike from Toya Bungkah is the most popular. If you start at 04:00, you’ll make it to the peak of Gunung Batur in time for the sunrise. The climbs from Toya Bungkah and Pura Jati end in exactly the same spot, so ascend one way and descend the other. From Penelokan take a bemo to Toya Bungkah (Rp50,000) or the boat from Kedisan. From Toya Bungkah, walk the gully with the rocky entrance behind the WC on the other side of Under the Volcano’s parking lot (follow the sign). The path veers to the left; just keep going up. Half the climb is through a man-made eucalyptus forest. A group of locals—men with sodas in a bucket and would-be boy guides—will follow any tourist who takes this path. Sometimes they block the trail with plywood barriers, hoping to confuse you or force you to hire them. Ignore this behavior. Take the same trail down. Runoffs may lead to cliff edges and deadends and you may have to backtrack.
Source : www.pinehbalitours.com
February 19th, 2007
Ubud is a remarkable town in the middle of the island of Bali. For more than a century, it has been the island’s preeminent centre for fine arts, dance and music. While it once was a haven for scruffy backpackers, cosmic seekers, artists and bohemians, Ubud is now a hot spot for literati, glitterati, art collectors and connoisseurs. Famous names walk its busy sidewalks everyday. Elegant five star hotels and sprawling mansions now stand on its outskirts, overlooking the most prized views in Bali. Nonetheless, Ubud is still popular with backpackers, mystics and all the finest fringe elements of global society. Ubud is not “ruined”. Its character is too strong to be destroyed. It still draws people who add something; people who are actively involved in art, nature, anthropology, music, dance, architecture, environmentalism, “alternative modalities,” and more.
Ubud is arguably the best place to use as a base if you’re visiting Bali; if you’re looking for culture, comfort, nature and inspiration. Ubud is surrounded by most of the things that bring people to Bali — scenic rice fields, small villages, art and craft communities, ancient temples, palaces, rivers, cheap accommodation and unique luxury hotels. And it’s central location makes it easy to get from Ubud to the mountains, beaches, and major towns.
Why peruse these web pages?
The real Ubud is under the surface. There are plenty of interesting things on the main streets, but most of the magic of Ubud is hidden away. In the backstreets, backwaters, courtyards and cafes. In people’s hearts, minds, and dreams. This part of the Bali web site was built to show you how to go behind the facade and find the real Ubud, and the real Bali, without having to spend all your time searching for it. There’s no point in repeating what’s in the guidebooks, so we’ve tried not to. If you’re interested in Ubud, there are at least a dozen guidebooks on Bali available and they all provide information on Ubud. Use this web site before you go to guidebooks, to find out what makes Ubud so special. Then use it after the guidebooks for up-to-date information, news and features about our extra ordinary town.
Source : www.indo.com
February 16th, 2007
Bali Beats Out Macau and Singapore for World-wide Gathering of Professional Tourism Guides. In tough competition with Macau and Singapore, Bali reigned victorious to be selected as the host of the 13th World Federation of Tourist Guides Association (WFTGA) conference scheduled for January 2009.
Bali was selected by direct vote among delegates from 27 countries attending the 12th WFTGA held in late January 2007 in Cairo, Egypt. In the final vote to select the next conference venue, the 27 countries eligible to vote cast 14 votes for Bali, 8 votes for Macau and 5 votes for Singapore.
Organizers of the coming WFGTA conference in Bali are anticipating 400 delegates to attend.
The Chairman of the Bali Guide Association (HPI), Nyoman Kandia, told the Indonesian-language Bali Post that while the Singapore and Macau bid received substantial financial and personnel assistance in presenting and delivering their bid, the Bali bid managed to prevail with only a modest subsidy from the Government to cover registrations fees in Cairo for the Bali delegates.
Kandia called on all components of the local tourism industry in Bali to support HPI in its role as hosts for the 2009 WFTGA event.
Source : tourismindonesia.com
February 15th, 2007
When dreaming of fishing favorite fishing sport, many angler turn their thoughts to exotic tropical locations. But Ena Fishing Discovery shows that successful and memorable game fishing trip are closer than most anglers think. Much of our attention is directed towards the big high profile fish we chase - the billfish, tuna and marlin.
Join Ena Fishing Discovery on Bali Fishing with BBQ in Nusa Penida island. After a hard days fishing return to the local island around Nusa Penida, enjoy BBQ and coconut drink with local people even you didn’t catch any fish, it will be provided. This trip is highly recommended to the angler who would like to get away from it all and experience the ultimate fishing adventure.
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Bali island is a tropical island and the ocean in the East to South Of Bali, which is rich of many variation of fishes such as: Spanish Mackerel, Wahoo, Dolpin Fish (Mahi - Mahi), Tuna, King Fish, Sail Fish, Barracuda, etc and offers exciting fishing location in Bali, Indonesia.
Sumber : http://www.enafishing.com/
February 14th, 2007
Situated at a shore about 5 kilometers to the south Semarapura town. This environment is really interesting for its splendid view with a scenic rice fields at the background. While far the distance the peak of mount Agung with the stretch of turbulent wave of the ocean off shore cracks the silence to the visitors. This temple is functioned to beg for the wealth of crops. The festival is held every year on the fifth Purnama (full moon) day. Klotok temple is also highly important for its involment to the great ceremonies in Besakih Mother Temple. ?Melasti? ceremony often takes place here. Where pratimas (a Pratima is kind of ritual tool regarded as sacred) and the others a brought to Klotok beach several days before the New Caka Year (the day of quietness). When the ceremony held here, a great many worshipers overwhelm the environment of the temple.
Source :www.klungkungtourism.com
February 12th, 2007
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