Bedugul and Beratan Lake Tour is one of Bali Tour Packages to visit places of interest in the regency of Tabanan like Beratan Lake, Ulun Danu Temple, Transitional fruit and vegetable market and Taman Ayun Temple
Bedugul and Beratan Lake Tour is one of Bali Tour Packages to visit places of interest in the regency of Tabanan like Beratan Lake, Ulun Danu Temple, Transitional fruit and vegetable market and Taman Ayun Temple. Bedugul is the name of place located in mountain area encircled by the cold temperature and natural environment with beautiful panorama of Beratan Lake. Your tour is arranged within 8 hours departs from your hotel lobby. The tour is very exciting to visit the tourist destinations in Bali with our professional speaking guide and full air-conditioning car for your enjoyable and comfortable journey. On the way of your tour, the Indonesia lunch menu is served at local restaurant with breathtaking view of rice terrace to complete the tour to be your memorable one.
BERATAN LAKE Beratan Lake is a beautiful wide lake encircled by the cool temperature and blanketed by fog especially in the evening. The water is clear and calm with beautiful Mountain as backdrop view that make you will forbear staying there. There are plenty of traditional boats standby at the lakeside which is used by fisherman and found local people are fishing to add the beauty of this place.
ULUN DANU TEMPLE Ulun Danu Temple is a famous temple located in the lakeside of Beratan and owns the beautiful panorama with Beratan Lake and mountain as a backdrop view. When the lake water is going up, this temple is looked like adrift above water because the water encircles it. It is situated in the cool area and mountain with breathtaking view and many tourist visits this place every day in particular on the day time.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE TRADITIONAL MARKET It is a traditional market to sell the fresh vegetable and fruit that is very famous and many visited by tourist especially by local tourist. It is one of the tourist destinations in Bali presenting unique local community activities by serving the variety of agricultural product like fresh vegetables, fruit, corn, peanut, union, tomato etc. This market is opened from 7:00 am and closed at 18:00.
TAMAN AYUN TEMPLE Taman Ayun Temple is a big temple located in Mengwi District and Badung regency. It is one of the heritance from the empire of Mengwi with beautiful temple building and the big fishpond surrounds it. This Temple owns the building boosting high and joins with others with beautiful decoration and it is designed by Balinese architecture. Please visit http://santorinibalitours.com/index.php?m=destination&de …
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October 27th, 2008
Dicky Christanto, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar
The Bali Administration will allocate Rp 3.5 billion (US$368,421) out of the province’s annual budget to renovate houses of the island’s poorest residents, Bali Governor Made Mangku Pastika said Saturday.
The fund will be taken from the province’s annual budget next year.
The aim of the program is to improve low-income families’ housing conditions throughout the island.
“It is so the poor can live in proper living quarters like the ones we have here,”Pastika told reporters during the administration’s second public hearing at the provincial legislative compound.
It is the second time that Pastika has held a public meeting, known as an open house, with the island’s residents, intellectuals and informal leaders. He uses the monthly unscripted meetings to gain unfiltered opinions directly from the public.
According to early calculations by the public works agency, he said, the fund would be sufficient to finance the renovation of 300 houses. Up to Rp 10 million will be allocated to renovate each house.
Officials are currently conducting a survey to identify the recipients of the fund, Pastika added.
“We are still waiting for the survey’s result to determine how much will be given to each household.”
The local administration will also launch a major public health program early next year, Pastika said. The initiative will target 6,000 patients from 500 out of 700 villages throughout the island. The initiative will include free medical checkups and treatment.
“I have ordered officials from the public health agency to improve their records on who deserves the free medication,”Pastika said.
Pastika said the health initiative would also include free of charge cataract surgery.
“We estimate that around 1,000 people will have the eye surgery.”
Under the program, the administration will renovate existing health centers in lower-income regions, Pastika said. The administration plans to renovate three community healthcare centers in Gerokgak district in Buleleng regency, Kintamani district in Bangli regency and Kubu district in Karangasem regency.
According to the Bali Statistics Agency, there were at least 147,044 low-income households on the resort island in 2006, with most residing in Karangasem, Buleleng and Bangli.
“We need to improve health facilities so people with serious diseases have access to better treatment and medication.”
Around Rp 2 million will be allocated from the 2009 provincial budget for the program, Pastika said.
The administration will ask other parties, such as public health NGOs, to participate in the program, local administration spokesman Nyoman Puasha Aryana told The Jakarta Post.
“We will also ask the other parties such as NGOs and residents to help improve their daily health management system through this program.”
Komang Gede, a public health activist from Karangasem who attended the hearing, however, criticized the plan, saying it was likely to fail.
“I doubt the effectiveness of this program as there will be at least 1,000 people coming to a single place at once,”he told the Post.
“It will be just another crowded mass medication program. So how do you expect that these people will receive proper medication and medical diagnosis through this kind of program?”
Source: The Jakarta Post
October 27th, 2008