senggigi beach

Senggigi beach is a popular tourist attraction in lombok island. This beach near the town of Mataram and not too far from the airport Selaparang in Ampenan. from Mataram us only takes half an hour.

  This beach is famous for its white sand and the surrounding stand-star hotel. The scenery is very charming underwater, and tourists usually do snorkeling because the waves are not too big. Coral reefs towering ketengah cause large waves breaking in the middle.
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kelimutu

  Kelimutu is a volcano. in Indonesia there are many volcanoes. each volcano has its own uniqueness and charm that is different. one of them is kalimutu volcano. This mountain is a popular choice for travelers who want to discover the beauty that is different from the volcano. the beauty of this volcano will never be found elsewhere.

Kelimutu is a combination word of "keli" meaning mountain and the word "quality"which means to boil. According to local belief, the colors on the lake Flores has the meaning of each and have a very powerful natural forces.

Kelimutu is a volcano located on the island of Flores, East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Exact location of this mountain in the Village District pemo kelimutu, Ende. This mountain has three crater lakes on top. The lake is known as the Lake of Three Colors because it has three different colors, namely red, blue, and white. Even so, the colors are always changing over time.

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pangandaran beach

Pangandaran Beach is one of the popular tourist beach in West Java. This beach is located in the Village Pananjung, District Pangandaran with a distance of ± 92 km south of the Ciamis city.
This beach has advantages such as a sloping beach with clear water and the distance between the ups and downs are relatively long to allow us to swim safely. The beach with white sand and sea park with fish and fascinating marine life. In addition, this beach has a rescue team of beach tourism.

Activities

In Pangandaran beach tourists who come to perform such diverse activities: swimming, yachting, fishing, traveling by bicycle, the sailing, jet skiing and others.

Event

Many unique event in Pangandaran, one of which is the International Kite Festival (Pangandaran International Kite Festival) with a variety of supporting activities which we can see in every month of June or July.
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Festival Bau Nyale

The ceremony has become a tradition Bau Nyale local communities that are difficult to be abandoned, because they believe that this ceremony has a dagger that can bring prosperity to those who appreciate them and harm (hazard) for people who underestimated. Nyale is a kind of marine worm that usually lives under the sea water, like in rock holes.
Core event in this festival is to capture Nyale that only appear once a year in some specific locations in the South Coast of Lombok Island. If many Nyale coming out, it signifies the agricultural population will be successful.

Festival Bau Nyale Usually in February / March.
Nyale they’ve caught on the beach, they usually spread into paddy fields for fertility. If lucky, you will get a lot of Nyale which, according to research, Nyale have high protein content and proven capable of removing substances that can kill germs. How to cook Nyale prevalent among people of Lombok is by Nyale wrap with banana leaves and then burn it, which is called Pepes

Nyale always appeared on the South coast of Central Lombok, exactly at 16 points beach that extends as far as tens of kilometers from east to west, such as coastal Kaliantan Beach, Kuta Beach, and Beach Selong Belanak.

History

In ancient times along the South Coast there is the kingdom of Beru Tonjang led by a king who has a beautiful princess named Princess Mandalika. Her beauty was more dazzling princes on the island of Lombok. Since the number of proposal to her and Princess Mandalika can not choose either one of them, the Princess decided to throw themselves into the South Coast and promised to return once a year. In accordance with his word, he returned every year but in the form Nyale.

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Moyo Island

Moyo Island is a world-class tourist attraction in Indonesia. Foreign tourists like LadyDiana and Mick Jagger had a holiday on the island.

Located 2.5 km from the island of Sumbawa and included in Sumbawa Besarregency, West Nusa Tenggara, Moyo Island, including areas managed exclusively forAmanwana Resort. It offers natural beauty and originality make Moyo Island attracted many foreign tourists who seek tranquility in a vacation.

Object Moyo Island tours offered are quite varied including waterfall tours, variousrare birds and the beauty of the underwater course with accommodation supported byinternational standards.

Once the exclusive island of Moyo make tourists should prepare a fee large enoughto enjoy it, so the tourist is rarely visited by domestic tourists.

To reach Moyo Island, you can travel from Bali to Sumbawa large followed by a land route approximately 10-12 minutes to the Air Bari, a coastal village in SumbawaBesar. From Bari Ai trip continued with a speedboat about 15 minutes to the island ofMoyo.

If you do not want to do a flight through Sumbawa, flights can be arranged throughLombok. From Lombok you can travel overland and make the crossing from the Portto Port Tano Khayangan followed by a road trip to Sumbawa Besar. The trip was to take approximately five hours by car.

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Gendang Beleq

Gendang Beleq traditional dance called Lombok. So called because the main instrument used as accompaniment in dance consists of two large drum (beleq) which exceeds the size of the usual drum and dance as well as property. In addition to the drum dance called beleq, this dance dance diesebut kecodak (West Lombok) and dance oncer (Central Lombok).

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